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re: Called out by Tom Friedman

LadyIslander — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:57:08 GMT

Most consumers have not really looked at how much electricity they are using. It is not hard to reduce your bill by 30% by just being aware and turning stuff off and/or unplugging stuff not in active use. You can reduce it even more with a little sacrifice.

re: Called out by Tom Friedman

Islander — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:52:45 GMT

With a little thought it is easy to cut your electric bill. Be aware of what is turned on and turn it off. You can cut your usage by 35% with a little thought and effort. With a little sacrifice you can cut it 50%.

re: Called out by Tom Friedman

Fake Name — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:33:42 GMT

Sure go ahead and play hardball, but don't complain when your electricity bill doubles next year (hint: that's what we use coal for). Of course, Tom Friedman won't mind because he's married to a shopping mall heiress.

re: How smart is GrowSmart?

Christian — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:18:23 GMT

Christian from GrowSmart here -

Until recently, GrowSmart's staff came from all over: Lewiston, Freeport, Durham, and Portland. Our office in downtown Yarmouth made sense then: it was relatively centrally located for our statewide organization. A number of us were able to carpool or (for those of us in Portland) use some combination of METRO's route 7 and a bike for the final 5 miles.

Your line about "figuring out that driving to Portland to Yarmouth costs money" presupposes that the trip between our offices and Portland is the most important one our organization and its workers make. But that makes the mistake of assuming that Portland is the center of the universe (a mistake that people from other parts of the state find extremely annoying, by the way): the question is not how far our office was from Portland, but how close we could be to a geographically diverse constituency.

As of this month, though, all of GrowSmart's remaining staff live in Portland. We still make frequent trips to Augusta, Bangor, Waterville, and elsewhere, but for day-to-day operations, being able to walk to work will be a huge bonus for all of us. And we expect to get a hefty discount on our rent, since we won't need to lease any parking spaces.

The savings will be huge, but there's also a risk that people in other parts of the state will write us off as a Portland organization - the old "two Maines" perception. We plan to work hard to combat that impression by redoubling our grassroots outreach through the summer and fall and doing more work on the local/municipal level for towns and cities all over the state.

re: Calling on Snowe to stand up for healthcare reform

Jeff Inglis — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:53:23 GMT

Former Phoenix scribe Alex Irvine has written a letter to Snowe as well. It's here:

alexirvine.blogspot.com/.../dear-olympia-snowe.html

re: McNaboe on MJ

Deirdre Fulton — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:11:28 GMT

On a related note, everyone should check out Dilly Dilly's MJ Man In the Mirror tribute on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch

re: Maine Supermax inmates on hunger strike

jzurbo77 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:40:17 GMT

1) Give them books and a radio with a news channel (for example NPR)

2) All prisoners must work. Work is great to keep people sane and give them dignity. All able people must earn their living - is that not a law of Nature? I do not get it why taxpayers (victims of crimes) must support their offenders who are idling in prisons? If I would end up in prison I would beg to allow me to work there!

re: Maine Supermax inmates on hunger strike

John Zurbo — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:33:42 GMT

1) Give them books and a radio with a news channel.

2) All prisoners must work. Able ones must earn their living while in prison. Work is great to keep people sane and gives them dignity, even in prison.

re: Maine Supermax inmates on hunger strike

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re: A different take on the Iran election situation

Fake Name — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:23:44 GMT

Wow, don't go out on a limb there! And make sure to get in a dig at those nasty Republicans!

re: Bid farewell to Portland's hip-hop jamz

james c iezzi — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:56:00 GMT

ok i have a big problum now that wred red hot 95 95.9 went off the air my old best friend bob grady who worked there was a dj called bobby g and it was the best station ever now its gone i dont listen to them they are poor

re: Press Herald sold

Fake Name — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:29:59 GMT

Is he a vicious union buster, or just a garden variety union buster?

re: Press Herald sold

Bob — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:49:15 GMT

Good; we don't need those extra papers anyway.

re: Torture panel tomorrow at the First Parish Church

Fake Name — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:46:31 GMT

You know what's torture? Having to sit through a meeting listening to "torture experts".

re: Press Herald sold

Car in Lincolnville — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:44:20 GMT

If Guttman isn't the first change made, Connor is an idiot.