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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

Talk time

Press releases
The state's largest newspaper company is about to negotiate its contract with its employees. With workers seeking a share of the company's newfound profitability, and owner Richard Connor striving mightily to stay in the black, this could go very smoothly, or be a bloody, destructive battle — with the quality of information available to Mainers hanging in the balance.

By: JEFF INGLIS | February 09, 2011

Marie Moreshead + Ellen Tipper at Blue, January 28

Music seen
The dual CD-release party for Ellen Tipper's The Juggler and Marie Moreshead's self-titled full-length album was a stripped-down affair, which was a relief because Blue was packed to the gills.

By: JEFF INGLIS | February 02, 2011

John Birch Society alive and confused in Maine

Out of the woodwork
The Maine arm of the John Birch Society, founded in 1958 to combat communist influence in government, visited the State House in Augusta last week, calling for legislators to, well, do nothing, as it turns out.

By: JEFF INGLIS | January 26, 2011

A new online program at SMCC puts you to the test

All you can learn
Yes, taking classes online is the wave of the future. And you've figured out that the house always wins: Tuition for those classes is vastly more profitable for universities than the traditional in-person, in-classroom instruction.

By: JEFF INGLIS | January 26, 2011

Stenographers

Press releases
"Stenographers" is an inflammatory word to use to describe journalists, but it's the only accurate way to respond to news coverage of Paul LePage's inauguration as governor.

By: JEFF INGLIS | January 12, 2011

A critical reading of LePage’s inaugural address

Starting points
Governor Paul LePage's inaugural address was fairly short, and was filled with rhetoric much like that from his campaign.

By: JEFF INGLIS | January 12, 2011

SPACE to screen video banned from Smithsonian

Fighting censorship
A video banned from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery last week in the wake of threats from conservative politicians will be on view in the front window of SPACE Gallery (538 Congress St., Portland) this week and next, as part of a nationwide show of solidarity between art galleries and the organizers of the Smithsonian's show.

By: JEFF INGLIS | December 15, 2010

Pay what?

Press releases
How much would you pay to watch TV programs you can already get for free?

By: JEFF INGLIS | December 15, 2010

Gift Guide 2010: Portland nerdcrafters turn old ideas into new items

Maker's mark
Galen Richmond may work in the best tradition of Maine craft artisans, forging functional creations out of everyday materials most might consider junk, but there the comparison stops.

By: JEFF INGLIS | December 10, 2010

Brave the new world

Press releases
Maine is in crisis — big budget shortfalls, lots of people unemployed, a cold winter approaching. And there's this new governor, talking about making life easy for business.

By: JEFF INGLIS | November 16, 2010

County races could use competition

Election prep
All five Cumberland County posts up for election this year have unopposed candidates — and four have incumbents seeking reelection.

By: JEFF INGLIS | October 27, 2010

Quick reminders for last-minute voters

Endorsements
Last week, we issued our endorsements for several races and ballot issues. If you just want a quick handy refresher, here's a list of the Portland Phoenix 's endorsements.

By: JEFF INGLIS | October 27, 2010

Surrender monkeys: On the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert 'Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear' media kerfuffle

Press releases
Most journalism professionals agree that it is appropriate that media organizations should ban reporters from attending certain types of events in the name of objectivity and limiting perceived bias.

By: JEFF INGLIS | October 20, 2010

Maine storyteller heads away for audiences

Tall tales
We here at the Phoenix don't pull this kind of thing often, but this weekend you're missing out. Lewiston native (and Munjoy Hill dweller) Michael Parent has headed 1000 miles southwest from Portland to the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, this weekend.

By: JEFF INGLIS | September 29, 2010

Could it happen here?

Press releases
The news a few years back that the Bush administration had convinced the big telecom companies to allow the authorities to spy on customers without warrants, in the name of fighting terrorism, caused a ruckus.

By: JEFF INGLIS | September 22, 2010

State e-mail retrieval: $36K + 1 year — or free, and right now

Bureaufusion Concratic Dept.
Happily, the estimated $36,000 cost state officials told a reporter it would cost to retrieve certain e-mails sent to or from Kurt Adams when he was chairman of the Maine Public Utilities Commission turns out to have been a gross overstatement.

By: JEFF INGLIS | September 16, 2010

Dueling ideas

Maine's senators on cybersecurity
Both of Maine's senators, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, have backed cybersecurity legislation in hopes of avoiding or averting the catastrophes described in David Scharfenberg's main piece. But their approaches have been different, leading to conflicting bills in the US Senate.

By: JEFF INGLIS | September 01, 2010

Maine breaches

Cybersecurity
When many Mainers think of "cybersecurity," they probably remember the 2008 HANNAFORD SECURITY BREACH , when 4.2 million credit- and debit-card numbers were stolen from shoppers at the grocery chain's stores.

By: JEFF INGLIS | September 01, 2010

FairPoint's struggles continue

Corporate Albatross Dept.
It has been a very long time since our last FairPoint update, but you can rest assured that the North Carolina-based landline provider's downward slide has continued, as the company attempts to restructure its way out of crushing debt through bankruptcy-court protection.

By: JEFF INGLIS | September 01, 2010

Maine's broken e-mail system

Press releases
When Naomi Schalit of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting asked for electronic copies of e-mails between the chairman of the Maine Public Utilities Commission and representatives of companies the PUC dealt with, she did not expect to receive a cost estimate of $10,000 from the state — nor to be required to pay $80 for the privilege of receiving that estimate.

By: JEFF INGLIS | August 26, 2010

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