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Congress is wrecked

Olympia Snowe and Tom Allen explain what's really wrong and how to fix it
We know Congress is broken. Really broken. Health care, immigration, civil rights. But many of us on the outside don't know just how badly broken it is, and we have only vague spectator ideas of how to fix it. What we do know is what we want, which is real action from Congress toward solving the problems our country faces.

By: JEFF INGLIS | June 13, 2013

Sit down — or stand up — and paddle offshore

Get off the beach
For sea kayakers, salvation is here, and there are no more excuses. Portland Paddle opened its hatches last weekend, right at the East End Beach.

By: JEFF INGLIS | June 07, 2013

Back to basics

Press releases
The past week's events in Augusta provide a teachable moment for Maine's elected officials and the public at large, on the topic of free speech.

By: JEFF INGLIS | May 30, 2013

Watch your backs, useless people

Poll numbers
Poll numbers

By: JEFF INGLIS | May 16, 2013

Laptop program change sets schools back 10 years

Learning works
The webinar started with a five-minute effort to ensure the screen-and-audio sharing technology was actually working, punctuated by uncertainty about which representatives of which companies would be making remarks. Not an auspicious start.

By: JEFF INGLIS | May 09, 2013

Can I get a witness?

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Remember when public appearances by elected officials were things daily-newspaper reporters went to? Times have changed.

By: JEFF INGLIS | May 03, 2013

North Pond Hermit's secret: meditation?

Mind power
Mind power

By: JEFF INGLIS | April 17, 2013

On Walls and Laws

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Press Releases

By: JEFF INGLIS | April 04, 2013

Underground downtown: Looking beneath the streets

For years, many people have heard rumors about secret spaces beneath our feet on the Portland peninsula.

By: JEFF INGLIS | March 13, 2013

Chavez dies; will poor be cold?

Fuel Price Watch
Last week, a man whose determination to embarrass the American government extended to helping US citizens when their own government wouldn't died, reportedly suffering a heart attack.

By: JEFF INGLIS | March 13, 2013

Cold feet, hot heads on guns

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Last month, the Bangor Daily News lost its courage after an initially outstanding statewide public-records request for information on who holds permits to carry concealed weapons in Maine.

By: JEFF INGLIS | March 07, 2013

Phoenix reporting lauded in Columbia Journalism Review

By: JEFF INGLIS | March 04, 2013

Things you can do with root and bulb vegetables — other than eating them

Tendrils
Take the onion skin, the super-thin, transparent layer (often between two of the thicker, outermost layers) and place the onion skin over a mild burn, scrape, or cut.

By: JEFF INGLIS | February 13, 2013

Drinking games

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It's February, and time to cut loose on a ranting bender.

By: JEFF INGLIS | February 06, 2013

USM prof: Teaching is about spirit, not data

The turning of souls
Making an impassioned plea for humanistic considerations to remain paramount in our societal discussion about education and its continual improvement, University of Southern Maine philosophy professor Jeremiah Conway follows his own advice.

By: JEFF INGLIS | January 23, 2013

Building a hub for food

Behind the scenes with a community project to feed bellies and souls
Exploding out of the mind of Portland idea-man Eli Cayer, 39, and with financial backing from his Urban Farm Fermentory, is the conversion of a former East Bayside taxi garage into a home for food processors and preparers right on the Portland peninsula.

By: JEFF INGLIS | January 09, 2013

Gov-speak

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Governor Paul LePage famously (and perhaps in jest) threatened to punch MPBN reporter AJ Higgins in the face, back during the 2010 gubernatorial campaign.

By: JEFF INGLIS | January 09, 2013

Blown away

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I am, I admit, a frequent critic of the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram — not because I dislike the paper, but rather due to my recognition of the importance of a vibrant, strong, active daily newspaper is to Maine and its largest city, and because I badly want the PPH to be that paper.

By: JEFF INGLIS | December 14, 2012

Give the gift of telling debt it’s busted

Break down the shakedown
While you're out spending your hard-earned dollars on gifts for yourself and others at holiday and year-end sales, remember that money has to come from somewhere.

By: JEFF INGLIS | December 05, 2012

Subscriptions to arts organizations are good for the community and for you

Gifts for the entire year
Some gifts you open and are all excited about, but then you find, a few weeks or months later, that you have forgotten you even got it — and you've never used it.

By: JEFF INGLIS | December 05, 2012

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