Elaine Appleton Grant
@elaineagrant.bsky.social
Journalist in Maine. Former NPR member station reporter, showrunner, host. Storytelling nerd. Newsletter on writing craft across platforms. soundjudgment.substack.com
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#Maine has long been one of the most food-insecure states in New England and directors are saying ensuring people are fed is becoming even more challenging. To read more from @elaineagrant.bsky.social for free, click the link below.
Maine’s food pantries stare down volunteer shortage
At Neighbor’s Cupboard in Winterport, funding cuts aren’t the biggest challenge. It's keeping volunteers, especially as they get older.
themainemonitor.org
September 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
#Maine has long been one of the most food-insecure states in New England and directors are saying ensuring people are fed is becoming even more challenging. To read more from @elaineagrant.bsky.social for free, click the link below.
Reposted by Elaine Appleton Grant
@elaineagrant.bsky.social shares her story on Neighbor's Cupboard, a #foodpantry in Winterport #Maine. Neighbor's Cupboard is facing a #volunteer shortage at a time when Maine food pantries are already facing diminishing food supplies and an increase in demand.
themainemonitor.org/food-pantrie...
themainemonitor.org/food-pantrie...
September 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
@elaineagrant.bsky.social shares her story on Neighbor's Cupboard, a #foodpantry in Winterport #Maine. Neighbor's Cupboard is facing a #volunteer shortage at a time when Maine food pantries are already facing diminishing food supplies and an increase in demand.
themainemonitor.org/food-pantrie...
themainemonitor.org/food-pantrie...
It's out! My story focuses on increasing demand, diminishing supply, and a hidden but very real problem -- the volunteers who run the nation's emergency food network are old. They're dedicated, warm, compassionate -- and aging out.
We are partnering with @inn.org, and other outlets, to bring a series about what #foodinsecurity looks like in rural areas and how they are responding to rising costs and aid cuts. @elaineagrant.bsky.social's story on a #foodpantry in rural #Maine will be available to read on our website Sunday.
New RNN collaboration examines food insecurity in rural communities - INN News
Sowing Resilience, INN's Rural News Network's latest collaboration, depicts what food insecurity looks like in U.S. rural communities.
news.inn.org
September 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It's out! My story focuses on increasing demand, diminishing supply, and a hidden but very real problem -- the volunteers who run the nation's emergency food network are old. They're dedicated, warm, compassionate -- and aging out.
This weekend is the community holiday in midcoast Maine otherwise known as the Common Ground Fair. It's a wonderful phenomenon that makes you grateful for community spirit, organic farming, environmental goodness, great art draft horses, and, I hear, super-cute goats.
#Maine #gardening
#Maine #gardening
September 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This weekend is the community holiday in midcoast Maine otherwise known as the Common Ground Fair. It's a wonderful phenomenon that makes you grateful for community spirit, organic farming, environmental goodness, great art draft horses, and, I hear, super-cute goats.
#Maine #gardening
#Maine #gardening
Reposted by Elaine Appleton Grant
Thank you so much to everyone who came out to talk with us and the @midcoastvillager.bsky.social! If you haven't been able to join us on our Listening Tour to share your thoughts on how we serve you, you still can! Check out our Facebook page to see our next stops.
Photos courtesy of John Blodgett.
Photos courtesy of John Blodgett.
August 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Thank you so much to everyone who came out to talk with us and the @midcoastvillager.bsky.social! If you haven't been able to join us on our Listening Tour to share your thoughts on how we serve you, you still can! Check out our Facebook page to see our next stops.
Photos courtesy of John Blodgett.
Photos courtesy of John Blodgett.
What a great listening session led by @themainemonitor.org and @midcoastvillager.bsky.social in Belfast, Maine the other night!
Thank you so much to everyone who came out to talk with us and the @midcoastvillager.bsky.social! If you haven't been able to join us on our Listening Tour to share your thoughts on how we serve you, you still can! Check out our Facebook page to see our next stops.
Photos courtesy of John Blodgett.
Photos courtesy of John Blodgett.
August 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
What a great listening session led by @themainemonitor.org and @midcoastvillager.bsky.social in Belfast, Maine the other night!
One way to help resist authoritarianism is to be more deliberate about how we use language and whether it matches our intent — not just what we mean, but how the public understands it.
March 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
One way to help resist authoritarianism is to be more deliberate about how we use language and whether it matches our intent — not just what we mean, but how the public understands it.
Reposted by Elaine Appleton Grant
The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
February 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
Reposted by Elaine Appleton Grant
People doing the good work.
We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
lil.law.harvard.edu
February 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
People doing the good work.
Reposted by Elaine Appleton Grant
I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.
February 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.
Reposted by Elaine Appleton Grant
I oversaw global health programs at @USAID.
They reached 100s of millions of people, added 6 extra years to the lifespan of children in partner countries, and were eradicating health threats worldwide.
What insanity and cruelty to break that.
They reached 100s of millions of people, added 6 extra years to the lifespan of children in partner countries, and were eradicating health threats worldwide.
What insanity and cruelty to break that.
February 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I oversaw global health programs at @USAID.
They reached 100s of millions of people, added 6 extra years to the lifespan of children in partner countries, and were eradicating health threats worldwide.
What insanity and cruelty to break that.
They reached 100s of millions of people, added 6 extra years to the lifespan of children in partner countries, and were eradicating health threats worldwide.
What insanity and cruelty to break that.
Reposted by Elaine Appleton Grant
“…bad policy has damaging consequences, whether or not Mr. Trump chooses to admit it. Mr. Trump can’t repeal the laws of economics any more than Joe Biden could on inflation.” - WSJ Editorial Board
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www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Opinion | The Dumbest Trade War Fallout Begins
Canada and Mexico vow retaliation in response to Trump’s tariffs, amid new economic uncertainty.
www.wsj.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
“…bad policy has damaging consequences, whether or not Mr. Trump chooses to admit it. Mr. Trump can’t repeal the laws of economics any more than Joe Biden could on inflation.” - WSJ Editorial Board
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Grateful for the peacefulness of the snow in Maine this very particular morning.
January 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Grateful for the peacefulness of the snow in Maine this very particular morning.
Reposted by Elaine Appleton Grant
Tomorrow noon east-coast time, 9am Pacific: we'll be here to talk about beloved community, power, storytelling, and enter this next era of US history together, heads held high, friends held close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...
January 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Tomorrow noon east-coast time, 9am Pacific: we'll be here to talk about beloved community, power, storytelling, and enter this next era of US history together, heads held high, friends held close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...
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I wonder how I might find the (ex(?)) Googler who made the Google Listen app, the company’s first foray into a podcast app from 2009. Would love to interview them and get their spot in podcast history.
Dare I ask for a repost or two?
Dare I ask for a repost or two?
January 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I wonder how I might find the (ex(?)) Googler who made the Google Listen app, the company’s first foray into a podcast app from 2009. Would love to interview them and get their spot in podcast history.
Dare I ask for a repost or two?
Dare I ask for a repost or two?
Happy holidays - a fun little thing I whipped up to celebrate great storytelling and learn seven easy techniques to bring your work alive - straight from The Night Before Christmas! Turns out that…
December 21, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Happy holidays - a fun little thing I whipped up to celebrate great storytelling and learn seven easy techniques to bring your work alive - straight from The Night Before Christmas! Turns out that…
Reposted by Elaine Appleton Grant
"Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say
'Look!' and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads."
#poetry #poemoftheday
who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say
'Look!' and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads."
#poetry #poemoftheday
October 18, 2024 at 5:34 PM
"Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say
'Look!' and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads."
#poetry #poemoftheday
who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say
'Look!' and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads."
#poetry #poemoftheday
Reporter/producers who created the podcasts Extremely American, about Christian Nationalism, and The Alley: DC's 8th and H case, offer great advice for journalists interviewing reluctant sources. open.substack.com/pub/soundjud...
Don’t get stonewalled: How to interview people who don’t want to talk
It’s one thing to interview friendly sources and guests. But what about those who don’t trust you? Part 1 of a two-part issue on interviewing the reluctant source.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Reporter/producers who created the podcasts Extremely American, about Christian Nationalism, and The Alley: DC's 8th and H case, offer great advice for journalists interviewing reluctant sources. open.substack.com/pub/soundjud...
New here - journalist, pub radio veteran, writer who dissects audio storytelling for a living. Trying my best to figure out how to serve in hard times.
December 5, 2024 at 3:35 AM
New here - journalist, pub radio veteran, writer who dissects audio storytelling for a living. Trying my best to figure out how to serve in hard times.