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Green light for Maine’s biggest dispensary company

Marijuana Watch
It'll be a while before Portlanders with doctor's orders for medical marijuana have a local dispensary, but Northeast Patients Group may open its first facility in Thomaston in the next couple of weeks.

By: JEFF INGLIS | August 31, 2011

Declare yourself

Press releases
The 8000-plus-word play-by-play of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, written by freelancer Nicholas Schmidle and published in the New Yorker recently, is a fascinating read, with lots of juicy details (example: the plan was always to kill bin Laden, not capture him) delivered in the rapid-fire pace of a military thriller novel.

By: JEFF INGLIS | August 24, 2011

AG’s office: ‘If I had it, I wouldn’t give it to you’

Stonewalling
For someone whose government job is to handle media inquiries, Brenda Kielty, special assistant to and spokeswoman for Maine Attorney General William Schneider (a Republican), sure says some strange things on the record.

By: JEFF INGLIS | August 10, 2011

Calling MaineToday in Honduras

Offshoring
Maine's largest daily-newspaper group has outsourced its circulation customer-service work to Honduras, letting five Maine-based employees go, reassigning another, and allowing one to retire early.

By: JEFF INGLIS | August 03, 2011

Where’s the drumbeat?

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Last week's news was dominated by a larger-than-life figure whose cartoonishly confident self-image was battered by revelations that high-level staffers were engaging in questionable practices while trying to get their jobs done.

By: JEFF INGLIS | July 27, 2011

Shaking up Salt

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A school that has quietly drawn to Portland, trained, and set loose around Maine a large number of journalists and other young creative professionals is entering a new phase, and not a decade too soon.

By: JEFF INGLIS | July 13, 2011

Do you accept this fee?

Maine ATMs pack a wallop on your wallet
How much do you spend in ATM fees? Maine consumers are paying more — by one estimate, the average per-transaction charge has risen from $1.50 in 2006 to $2.35 last year.

By: JEFF INGLIS | June 22, 2011

Business-led Haiti-aid group shuts down

Seeking relief
What happens when lawyers, public-relations experts, bankers and accountants, construction contractors, insurance brokers, and manufacturers join forces to get involved in emergency disaster relief in one of the most underdeveloped countries in the Western Hemisphere? Much less than they hoped, it turns out.

By: JEFF INGLIS | June 22, 2011

Resurgam

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Two years after ceasing production for lack of funding, Portland-based LibertyNewsTV is back in action.

By: JEFF INGLIS | June 01, 2011

Doing Harmon

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He won't thank me for pointing this out, but Portland Press Herald columnist MD Harmon is a liberal's best friend.

By: JEFF INGLIS | May 04, 2011

This trickle-down stinks

Commentary
True free-market capitalism has lasted 30 years — barely half as long as its arch-enemy, Soviet communism.

By: JEFF INGLIS | April 06, 2011

Build on each other

Press releases
Why is that when one Maine news outlet breaks a big story, the others spend more energy trying to copy it, rather than extend it? Take the most recent example, the labor mural dispute.

By: JEFF INGLIS | April 06, 2011

A look at Portland's graffiti history

City walls
Back in the early '90s, Eli Cayer had just finished art school in Boston and headed to Maine, where he continued creating street art.

By: JEFF INGLIS | April 05, 2011

Internet service falling into place

Broadband update
The details needed to understand where and how to best improve Maine's high-speed Internet connectivity are finally within reach.

By: JEFF INGLIS | March 16, 2011

Buy Local 'survey' is questionable

Fuzzy math
Heaven knows I like the idea of the Portland Buy Local campaign, so it pains me to say that I found the recently released results of an area business survey just a bit too self-congratulatory.

By: JEFF INGLIS | March 16, 2011

Review: A Marine's Guide to Fishing

A snapshot of a returned veteran's life
On the one-year anniversary of a life-changing incident on a foreign battleground, a Marine (Matthew Pennington) begins to take up his old life again.

By: JEFF INGLIS | March 09, 2011

Why parenthood is a bad model for government

Diagnosing democracy
Political theory has, for centuries, come down to an analogy of anatomy, or of family: the head of the government is the head of the body politic, or the head of the household.

By: JEFF INGLIS | March 09, 2011

War on the average Joe

Press releases
Right now, Maine can afford to pay its state employees' pensions for the next 10 years with no additional investment — without any sort of supplement, not even workers' biweekly paycheck deductions.

By: JEFF INGLIS | March 09, 2011

Prison torture coverage, expanded

Also of note
Longtime Portland Phoenix contributing writer Lance Tapley's investigation of the Maine State Prison and the state's corrections system as a whole have reached a yet wider audience with the publication of an essay by Tapley in The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse.

By: JEFF INGLIS | March 09, 2011

Pingree visits Guantanamo, advocates closure

Gitmo state of mind
Last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Congress that keeping President Obama's promise to close the notorious military prison for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would be difficult because of opposition from members of Congress. Maine 1st District Representative Chellie Pingree, however, is among those who support closing the base.

By: JEFF INGLIS | February 23, 2011

So you thought you were special

Literati
Reading Hannah Holmes's work is enlightening and entertaining — even when it's at its most depressing.

By: JEFF INGLIS | February 16, 2011

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