By Tony Zeli Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, interest in local foods was burgeoning. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture interest in local food in Maine has seen a steady incr... Read more
TESTING FIRST Some neighborhoods are eligible for free garden soil tests from the Portland Soil Lead Awareness project By Tony Zeli As grocery store shelves empty and cooped up Mainers start... Read more
WEST END PEOPLE Whitley Marshall Advances Compassionate Leadership By Tony Zeli If you could change one thing in the world what would it be? Here is Mrs. Portland’s response: “If Whitley cou... Read more
By Tony Zeli Youth from all across Maine gathered at polling stations on Super Tuesday, March 3rd, to remind voters that while the youth cannot yet vote, the people at the polls can, and the... Read more
WEN FEATURED NONPROFIT C Love Cookie Project, L3C By Tony Zeli What motivates you to buy a cookie? Most likely you’re satisfying a sweet tooth. I get it. I have a sweet tooth, too. But at C... Read more
‘Some things are more important than profit’ By Tony Zeli “If everybody is profiting off it a little bit, then we are all part of the problem. Which is not something that I think a lot... Read more
Sea Change Yoga Sea Change Yoga brings professional trauma-informed yoga instructors to people who don’t have access. Students include incarcerated people, those in recovery from subst... Read more
Portland Buy Local works with national movement to re-envision the local economy movement By Mary Alice Scott, PBL Executive Director Unprecedented growth of Amazon, unrelenting climate chan... Read more
By Tony Zeli We’re well into the season of remote starters and the start and scrape, as we all struggle to warm our cars against the bitter and dangerous cold. But, the Portland Climate Acti... Read more
Charter Commission: Time to Fix the Mayor
Editorial by Publisher-Editor Tony Zeli In 2015, I asked a newly elected Mayor Ethan Strimling how he was going to effectively work with city council. “My job is to turn that body of nine in... Read more