Fred Bever
A Columbia University graduate, Fred began his journalism career as a print reporter in Vermont, then came to Maine Public in 2001 as its political reporter, as well as serving as a host for a variety of Maine Public Radio and Maine Public Television programs. Fred later went on to become news director for New England Public Radio in Western Massachusetts and worked as a freelancer for National Public Radio and a number of regional public radio stations, including WBUR in Boston and NHPR in New Hampshire.
Fred formerly was Maine Public Radio’s chief political correspondent from 2001 to 2007 and returned to Maine Public Radio in early 2016 as a news reporter and producer, covering a wide variety of topics across Maine and the region.
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"Maine is becoming a national leader in making sure we tackle climate change and inequality together and making sure we have a worker-centered plan for climate action," says Matt Schlobohm, executive director of the AFL-CIO.
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Longtime Maine State Chamber President Dana Connors announced he will retire as head of the Chamber at the end of 2022 after leading the organization for nearly three decades.
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The Department of Environmental Protection is ending its consideration of the company's proposal for discharging project waste to the bay.
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Maine's Department of Marine Resources is terminating the application for a controversial salmon farm proposed for Frenchman Bay, in the shadow of Acadia National Park.
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American Rivers says federal regulators should take strong action in the Kennebec, Union and Penobscot Rivers to restore vital upstream habitats for endangered Atlantic salmon.
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In the last 8 years, Maine’s aquaculture harvest has more than doubled in volume and in value, and some predict that the state's aquaculture exports could be worth as much as $800 million by 2025.
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GO Lab is retrofitting a former paper mill in Madison to process low-quality byproducts of the state's lumber industry — softwood sawmill chips and timber-harvest detritus that right now are hard to sell. They'll turn it into wood-fiber insulation, called Timber HP. Some 230 million tons worth a year.
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U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona was in southern Maine on Monday on a listening tour guided by Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree.
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In a social media statement WEX says that as Russia's war on Ukraine has continued, with no solution in sight, "we reevaluated our relationship with LukOil, and have decided to discontinue this relationship."
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The trackers will ping a central data base once a minute, but many details about individual boats' movements will be kept confidential.