News

Dreaming

Theater eyes armory
The South Portland armory could become home to the Children’s Theatre of Maine and other arts organizations, if a deal floated earlier this month pans out.

By JEFF INGLIS | February 09, 2006

Politics and other mistakes
In an era when “conservative” can mean favoring federal deficits and government intrusion into private lives, and “liberal” has become synonymous with support for states’ rights and opposition to activist judges, terms like “pro-choice” and “pro-life” have drifted into foggy territory.

By AL DIAMON | February 09, 2006

Maine-ufacturing consent - sidebar

By | February 02, 2006

Maine-ufacturing consent

Noam Chomsky himself is filtered by the news
Typical of the exposure given 77-year-old MIT linguistics professor and philosopher Noam Chomsky by most American news media, he was blanked out by the Portland Press Herald , and there was no coverage by the Portland TV news shows or Maine Public Radio.

By LANCE TAPLEY | February 02, 2006

You promised

Show Eder the money
Portland representative John Eder wishes he had more friends in the capitol these days. Since supposedly securing funds last March for an unprecedented “arts incubator” to support the creative economy in Portland, Eder says the state has given him the run-around. Now, the $500,000 he was promised has disappeared.

By SARA DONNELLY | February 01, 2006

Community

Sharing life as a group
A group of young adults, single parents, and families are planning to build a cohousing community, a neighborhood with residents conciously committed to living as a community. With much enthusiasm, around 50 people met January 29 to discuss the possibility of a Belfast village.

By AMY MARTIN | February 01, 2006

Turnover

Escape from Portland's Asylum
The big news on the local live-music front is the new management at the Asylum. Steve Woitasek has been running the city’s most perplexing venue for the past five years or so, but for 2006, Tim Reed has taken over management and booking.

By SAM PFEIFLE | February 01, 2006

Letters to the Portland Editor, February 3, 2006

Readers fire back on Baldacci's re-election plan, MCLF, and Maine's prison reform
Readers fire back on Baldacci's re-election plan, MCLF, and Maine's prison reform

By LETTERS TO THE PORTLAND EDITOR | February 02, 2006

God and Darwin

A teacher's private battle between fact and faith
Julie Raines has been teaching biology at Yarmouth High School for 25 years. She hasn't always taught evolution.

By RICK WORMWOOD | February 02, 2006

The trouble with the truth

Politics and other mistakes
I think I deserve considerable credit for not comparing Governor John Baldacci’s state-of-the-state address to the kind of memoir that wins an endorsement from Oprah’s book club.

By AL DIAMON | February 02, 2006

Bramhall Square (Portland dating column)

Waiting game
Somebody once said something about how the best things in life are worth waiting for. I’d love to know who that was. I hate waiting. As Dan Bern says, “like even for a bus or somethin’.” Yet it seems to be the name of my game.

By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | October 27, 2008

Missing in action

Scenes from Old Port
In the single key hour on Wharf Street — from 12:40 am to 1:40 am — on an unseasonably warm Friday night last week, no cops bothered to show up in uniform.

By JEFF INGLIS & SARA DONNELLY | January 25, 2006

Growing pains

After decades spent partying, is the Old Port — gasp — getting old?
Three years after his nephew was pummeled so hard in the Old Port one night he was sent to the hospital with face fractures, former bar owner Will Gorham, now a city councilor, is leading the charge to clean up Portland’s nightlife.

By SARA DONNELLY | January 25, 2006

Gov. Baldacci faces in-party challenge

Democratic primary
A progressive Maine Democrat has filed papers to unseat Governor John Baldacci, and said he will announce his candicacy later this week or early next.

By JEFF INGLIS | January 25, 2006

People who need people in Maine

Active plans
Nearly 100 Maine social and environmental activists are in the final stages of drafting a strategic plan they hope will bolster their work. The program is designed to bring chronically independent advocacy groups together to craft a state “blueprint” for social change.

By SARA DONNELLY | January 25, 2006

Letters to the Portland editor, January 27, 2006

Sticking it to the Democrats
Sounding off on sounding off.

By LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | January 25, 2006

Twisted

Politics and other mistakes
There’s got to be something more important in Maine to get your knickers knotted up about than the political convolutions currently contorting way too many pairs of skivvies.

By AL DIAMON | January 25, 2006

Sinclair may have violated state law

A union attorney is investigating allegations that Sinclair Broadcast Group failed to obey a Maine law requiring employers to pay workers within eight days of the close of a pay period.

By JEFF INGLIS | January 19, 2006

Frank Fixaris, 1934-2006

The news that Frank Fixaris had died last Friday hit me like a ton of bricks. Though I never actually met him in person, and only chanced to talk with him on the phone during a couple of interviews, I, like many, many people throughout Maine, loved him like a grandfather.

By SAM PFEIFLE | January 18, 2006

Pop goes the new year

Portland dating: Bramhall Square
While some people might have spent New Year’s popping the cork on cold bottles of Cristal, I was sitting on Cowboy’s back, pinning him down with my knees as I popped pimples in the interest of “cleansing” out the bad, and being squeaky-clean for 2006.

By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | January 19, 2006