Keith Shortall
Keith Shortall is MPBN's News and Public Affairs Director. He grew up in Thomaston, Maine and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1982, majoring in philosophy. He began his career in commercial broadcasting in Portland, before moving to MPBN in 1989. Keith's interests include music (if you consider drummers to be musicians), and theater.
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In the middle of a Maine winter, a super insulated house keeps its family warm. There's no furnace — just a small heat pump. The same heat pump is used to cool the home in the summer months.
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After a decade of research, a couple from Maine has published a book of seafaring folk songs rarely heard in the last 80 years. (This story originally aired on All Things Considered on Feb. 16, 2022.)
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After a decade of research, a couple from Maine has just published a book of seafaring folk songs rarely heard in the last 80 years. -
You may have noticed a few more “help wanted” signs in business storefronts in Maine this summer. Some employers are reporting it’s hard to find skilled... -
Maine is reporting a record number of overdose deaths in 2015. -
It’s Thursday, and that means we talk Maine politics. In this week’s edition of Across the Aisle, Cynthia Dill, an attorney with the Portland firm of Tr...
