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Jeff Inglis
Jeff Inglis has been the managing editor of the Portland Phoenix since December 2005. He was also a Portland Phoenix freelance writer - covering theater and doing occasional stories on other topics - from June 2002 to June 2004. His work has been published in weekly, twice-weekly, and daily newspapers as well as monthly magazines and trade journals in Antarctica, New Zealand, Missouri, Vermont, and Maine, and has won him state and regional journalism awards. He holds a history degree from Middlebury College, and a master's degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism, and is an avid traveler and reader. His areas of primary journalistic interest are investigation, analysis, and open-government issues.
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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.
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.
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.
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Two years after ceasing production for lack of funding, Portland-based LibertyNewsTV is back in action.
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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.
Commentary
True free-market capitalism has lasted 30 years — barely half as long as its arch-enemy, Soviet communism.
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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.
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.
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.
Broadband update
The details needed to understand where and how to best improve Maine's high-speed Internet connectivity are finally within reach.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Literati
Reading Hannah Holmes's work is enlightening and entertaining — even when it's at its most depressing.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
