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Reconnecting Portland and Auburn by rail

All Aboard
One of these afternoons, head down to the Grand Trunk building at the bottom of India Street and take a look at the plaque on the wall.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | August 22, 2012

Tar Sands Disaster?

Big oil’s risky plan could have massive environmental impacts on Maine
The activists, clad mostly in black, flowed slowly and silently down Battery Street in Burlington.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | August 15, 2012

What it takes to make films in Maine

Moving Pictures
After being without one for more than six months, the state Department of Economic and Community Development has hired a new director of the Maine Film Office, which works to lure all image-interested folks, from catalog photographers to big-budget movie producers, to the Pine Tree State.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | August 15, 2012

Mainers, Occupiers rally in Vermont

Protest Watch
A boisterous, multi-lingual, angry crowd of about 500 — including a sizeable contingent from Maine — gathered in Burlington, Vermont on Sunday.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | August 01, 2012

This agrarian life

Going Green
Half of all current farmers are expected to retire within this decade, according to the US Department of Agriculture; for every one farmer and rancher under the age of 25, there are five who are 75 or older.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | August 01, 2012

Republicans step up to defend equality

Gay-Marriage Watch
A group of about 20 Maine Republicans announced their support for same-sex marriage at a press conference on Monday, which advocates hope is "another way of showing how people have changed their minds on this issue over the last few years," according to Matt McTighe, the campaign manager for Mainers United for Marriage.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | July 25, 2012

A new campaign works to bring breastfeeding into the open

It’s just food
You're out to dinner, or at the grocery store, or sitting in the movie theater, and you see a woman nursing her baby.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | July 18, 2012

Against deadly drones

Peace Movement
Drone warfare — the use of remote-controlled, unmanned aircraft to carry out air strikes against supposed terrorists — is on the rise and has been over the last few years.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | July 11, 2012

Considering Monica Wood’s heartfelt memoir

Another Maine, another time
It's April, 1963, in Mexico, Maine — a town on the Androscoggin River in the Western part of the state.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | July 03, 2012

Seating Arrangements tackles propriety, love, and whales

Island adventure
Winn Van Meter, the patriarch of the WASP-y New England family portrayed in Maggie Shipstead's debut novel Seating Arrangements, likes things just so.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | July 03, 2012

Portland activist in Palestine

International Relations
Danny Muller, Portland resident and former executive director of Peace Action Maine, first traveled to Palestine in 2003 with Barbara Lubin, founder of the Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA), a California-based non-profit humanitarian aid organization.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | July 03, 2012

Up in the air

Going Green
In late June, Maine senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins voted for our health when they voted against a proposal to block the Environmental Protection Agency's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for power plants.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | July 03, 2012

Open-carry activist takes to the streets

Gun Rights
On a recent sunny morning at Coffee By Design on Congress Street, Norman Hamann is well-armed.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | June 20, 2012

New film deepens 9/11 Truth effort

Still Seeking
More than 50 people turned out on Monday evening to see 9/11: Explosive Evidence — Experts Speak Out , the latest documentary from Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth), the non-profit activist organization that claims Americans don't know the whole truth (or even half of it) about the World Trade Center collapses on September 11, 2001.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | June 13, 2012

Instant runoff

Going Green
The city is considering a new stormwater fee that would help pay for improvements and maintenance to Portland's old and overburdened wastewater system and in doing so, keep raw sewage, industrial waste, pesticides, oil, and dog crap (some call it a "toxic soup") out of Casco Bay and other local waterways.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | June 06, 2012

Portland’s three Democratic state house primaries

The race to race again
Many Portland Democrats will have local legislative races to vote in during June 12's primary election, in addition to the top-billed US Senate races.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | May 30, 2012

Dar Williams goes Greek

Modern mythology
Like the spinners of ancient myth, singer-songwriter Dar Williams has long used storytelling as a way to interpret the world around her.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | May 30, 2012

Review: The Whole World Waiting

Fifteen immigrant and refugee teenagers tell their stories
They thought America was a glittering land of wealth and fame . . . they were wrong. Fifteen immigrant and refugee teenagers tell their stories of coming to New England and share their perspectives in The Whole World Waiting , a compilation of documentary vignettes lushly shot by David Meiklejohn at locations in and around Portland, Maine.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | May 29, 2012

A new documentary explores immigrant youth and their place in Maine and America

The weight of the world
"Back in the Congo, we heard rumors that America is paradise — where everything is perfect, money flows like water, you can eat as much as you want, whenever you want, you can get anything," says Emmanuel Muya, one of 15 immigrant high school students featured in a new documentary, The Whole World Waiting , which will premiere at SPACE Gallery on Thursday.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | May 23, 2012

The potential of TEDxDirigo

Spreading Ideas
There were several impressive, stick-in-your-mind talks at the TEDxDirigo: Engage conference, held last Saturday at the University of Southern Maine.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | May 23, 2012

The secret world of USM’s Blade Society

Anything but ‘mundane’
It's a Tuesday night at the University of Southern Maine gym and Rob Tupper is leading a small group of fencing students through an exercise that looks like a cross between a line dance and an army drill.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | May 16, 2012

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