Maine’s not the only state experiencing friction between advocates for and against wind power. So is Vermont. Vermont Public Radio wanted to help its listeners understand the broader context of those conflicts, and interviewed Naomi Schalit, senior reporter at the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, about the clash  in Maine between the impact ofMore

John Christie and Naomi Schalit got about seven minutes on the Ken and Mike show this Monday — with Phil Harriman standing in for Mike — to talk really fast and explain everything you ever wanted to know about the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting. You can find the podcast of the interview atMore

The Sun Journal published an editorial based on our stories about the Maine Green Energy Alliance: Energy group wasted money, got little done Let’s imagine you are starting a business,  ABC Consulting. You need 13 employees, including a manager. So you advertise, compare resumes, interview and check references before hiring. Then, on the first dayMore

HALLOWELL, MAINE — As the number of reporters covering Maine state government dropped from twenty in 1989 to fewer than ten today, a wife-and-husband duo, two old-school reporters, stepped up. In 2010, Naomi Schalit, a former reporter and producer at Maine Public Radio, and John Christie, former president and publisher of Central Maine Newspapers, launchedMore

On September 9th, Jack Cashman, chairman of the Maine Public Utilities Commission, called me to apologize for requiring that the Center pay $36,000 to see emails of the commission’s former chairman. It was a surprising and gratifying end to a months-long conflict with the state over the emails, which under Maine law are public documents.More

Confession: Here at the Center, we’re old. (You could call us “veterans,” but as hardbitten reporters, we don’t like euphemisms, so we’ll stick with “old.”) That’s mostly good, because experience is what you need to get the hard stories. But while our collective experience is an asset, we’re well aware that we won’t be around forever.More

A new story, a new series, a new full-time staff member and new contributing writer, new media partners … things are happening at the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting Today’s story on Les Otten, a Republican candidate for governor of Maine, is the third in-depth story published by the Maine Center for Public InterestMore