Episode Description
Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired July 27, 2026
WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM
Producer & Host: Richard Rudolph, PhD.
Today's program is an interview of Joey Brunnele who is a candidate for the at-large Portland City Council seat being vacated by April Fournier who is moving onto the Maine State Legislature. Joey has been involved in a number of issues over the past decade and currently serves as the chair of the Citizen Police Review Board. The show focused on three different issues that he has written and spoken about recently. The first is the killing of John Sebastian Guerro - an innocent 26 year old man in Biddeford who was killed by an ICE agent. Joey pointed out this was not an accident. "It is the predictable result of Donald Trump hiring a bunch of untrained yahoos and white nationalists into ICE and quadrupling its budget." Joey also talked about how Portland has to hold the cruise industry accountable regarding burning heavy fuel oil which is the dirtiest and cheapest fuel and what can be done about it. He also talked about the proposed plan to build a 10 megawatt gas-fired power plant to provide electricity and heat to a major redevelopment project on Portland's Waterfront. As a member of the Portland Climate Action team, Joey talked about why he is opposed to the project, Building new fossil fuel burning generators will set the city back on its target to reduce 80% of its emissions by 2050. The proposal is also a major deviation from a master plan for the one billion dollar housing, retail and hotel development project on a 10 acre site of the Portland Company that was approved 10 years ago.
WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM
Producer & Host: Richard Rudolph, PhD.
Today's program is an interview of Joey Brunnele who is a candidate for the at-large Portland City Council seat being vacated by April Fournier who is moving onto the Maine State Legislature. Joey has been involved in a number of issues over the past decade and currently serves as the chair of the Citizen Police Review Board. The show focused on three different issues that he has written and spoken about recently. The first is the killing of John Sebastian Guerro - an innocent 26 year old man in Biddeford who was killed by an ICE agent. Joey pointed out this was not an accident. "It is the predictable result of Donald Trump hiring a bunch of untrained yahoos and white nationalists into ICE and quadrupling its budget." Joey also talked about how Portland has to hold the cruise industry accountable regarding burning heavy fuel oil which is the dirtiest and cheapest fuel and what can be done about it. He also talked about the proposed plan to build a 10 megawatt gas-fired power plant to provide electricity and heat to a major redevelopment project on Portland's Waterfront. As a member of the Portland Climate Action team, Joey talked about why he is opposed to the project, Building new fossil fuel burning generators will set the city back on its target to reduce 80% of its emissions by 2050. The proposal is also a major deviation from a master plan for the one billion dollar housing, retail and hotel development project on a 10 acre site of the Portland Company that was approved 10 years ago.