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Acid tongue

Politics and other mistakes
Watch your mouth.

By AL DIAMON | February 04, 2009

Nice to meet you

Diverse city
Hello, I'm Black America, and I just wanted to introduce myself. You'll be seeing a lot of me now that the Obama family is in the White House.

By SHAY STEWART-BOULEY | February 04, 2009

Whatever it is, it isn't new. Things were just as screwed up a decade ago — in the opposite direction
Charlie Colgan couldn't predict a recession if its arrival was signaled by warning lights and sirens.

By AL DIAMON | January 29, 2009

Dirty Harry goes to church: Clint and Catholicism

Reel Life
In Mystic River , Clint Eastwood examined the damage to a close-knit group of Boston friends, years after one of them was sexually abused by a stranger, in a film depicting the power of sexual abuse with Catholic overtones.

By MARY ANN SORRENTINO | February 02, 2009

Dry days are over for PCMH

Booze or bust
It's an all-too-common scene here in Portland: A local music venue is ready to rock, but liquor inspectors (or fire inspectors, or some kind of inspectors) haven't yet signed some important piece of paperwork.

By SAM PFEIFLE | January 28, 2009

Teach a woman to fish...she'll never want to leave

Love letters to Maine
The cluster of small shacks that comprise Jim's Smelt Camp in Bowdoinham look like a tiny shantytown; were that it was so — I would move right in.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | January 29, 2009

Working man blues

Politics and other mistakes
Charlie Webster's war never ends.

By AL DIAMON | January 28, 2009

Turnpike tolls go up - again

Cost of living
As if living in Maine wasn't expensive enough, on Sunday, tolls on the Maine Turnpike will increase for the second time in four years, and a year earlier than originally planned.

By KATRINA BOTELHO + JEFF INGLIS | January 28, 2009

We started nothing

Politics and other mistakes
The first thing you have to understand about how the Maine Legislature works is: It doesn't. And it isn't supposed to.

By AL DIAMON | January 21, 2009

Thoughts on the 36th anniversary of Roe V. Wade

Woman rights
To commemorate that anniversary, the Maine Choice Coalition, along with the Maine Civil Liberties Union, the League of Young Voters, and the Portland Phoenix, are teaming up to screen the film I Had An Abortion at SPACE Gallery on Wednesday, January 28.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | January 21, 2009