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Travel Namibia and Botswan-AH! Adventure Travel with Nancy Dorrans

Travel Namibia and Botswan-AH! Adventure Travel with Nancy Dorrans

By Nancy Dorrans In the spring of 2017, a small Adventure Marketplace group began an almost three-week journey...

Fixing Climate Critical to Protect Us from New Infectious Diseases

Fixing Climate Critical to Protect Us from New Infectious Diseases

We’re All in this TogetherClimate Solutions Beyond Your Backyard As we begin to recover from Covid, fixi...

How Affordable Health Care Can Fix the Worker Shortage

How Affordable Health Care Can Fix the Worker Shortage

By Dr. Oren Gersten The big economic news story of the last month has been the worker shortage. As people beco...

Rethinking Food and Wine: Starting with Unusual Sake Pairings

Rethinking Food and Wine: Starting with Unusual Sake Pairings

By Layne V. Witherell It is time to move away from the mundane and take two steps into the miraculous. The pho...

Analysis: Portland Charter Commission faces far-reaching issues

Analysis: Portland Charter Commission faces far-reaching issues

Political enthusiasm may be too great for the charter commission to take a narrow view of their role By Tony Z...

Neighborhood News

Random Thoughts on Gardening, Face Masks, and Portland's Property Revaluation

Random Thoughts on Gardening, Face Masks, and Portland’s Property Revaluation

June 22, 2021 2:35 pm
Portland Police Investigating Another West End Attack

Portland Police Investigating Another West End Attack

June 10, 2021 10:29 am
Analysis: Portland Charter Commission faces far-reaching issues

Analysis: Portland Charter Commission faces far-reaching issues

June 4, 2021 5:20 am
Alerts: Attack in West End; High rate of bike thefts

Alerts: Attack in West End; High rate of bike thefts

June 4, 2021 4:00 am
Build Back Better: Reiche Community Center

Build Back Better: Reiche Community Center

May 4, 2021 11:59 am
The West End News Garden Survival Guide

The West End News Garden Survival Guide

April 30, 2021 5:00 am
Metro Hits Pause on New Bus Routes

Metro Hits Pause on New Bus Routes

April 30, 2021 4:30 am
Harbor View Park Gets Ready for the Summer Of 2021

Harbor View Park Gets Ready for the Summer Of 2021

April 14, 2021 12:35 pm
Lead in Portland's Soils - Free tests for gardeners

Lead in Portland’s Soils – Free tests for gardeners

April 12, 2021 1:34 pm
Letters to the Editor - Weighing in on Metro Route 8

Letters to the Editor – Weighing in on Metro Route 8

April 3, 2021 1:08 pm
Metro Proposes to Replace Route 8 with New Circulator that Goes Around West End

Metro Proposes to Replace Route 8 with New Circulator that Goes Around West End

April 2, 2021 6:00 am
Save the 8 - METRO proposes changes to the Peninsula Loop

Save the 8 – METRO proposes changes to the Peninsula Loop

April 2, 2021 5:30 am

Business & Community

2 Ways to Support Local Business this Summer

2 Ways to Support Local Business this Summer

June 4, 2021 4:30 am
Eric Kalala: Interview with entrepreneur/owner of Chez Castel

Eric Kalala: Interview with entrepreneur/owner of Chez Castel

June 4, 2021 4:26 am
What are you looking for - locally! - to celebrate spring

What are you looking for – locally! – to celebrate spring

May 4, 2021 2:25 pm
Adilah Muhammad: The Third Space and Maine’s Black Cultural Infrastructure

Adilah Muhammad: The Third Space and Maine’s Black Cultural Infrastructure

May 4, 2021 12:33 pm
Bigger Isn’t Always Better: The success of the independent pharmacy

Bigger Isn’t Always Better: The success of the independent pharmacy

April 12, 2021 1:22 pm
Kasandra Thach: Ending youth incarceration and making sure that everyone knows that they have leadership skills and power within them

Kasandra Thach: Ending youth incarceration and making sure that everyone knows that they have leadership skills and power within them

April 6, 2021 6:16 am

Health and Wellness

Surviving Cancer: What's next? - By the cancer care team at Northern Light Mercy

Surviving Cancer: What’s next? – By the cancer care team at Northern Light Mercy

June 4, 2021 4:44 am
The power of healing plants by Dr. Oren Gersten

The power of healing plants by Dr. Oren Gersten

May 4, 2021 1:28 pm
Let's make this National Nurses Week like no other

Let’s make this National Nurses Week like no other

April 30, 2021 3:30 am
Top 5 Healthiest Beverages According to Dr. Oren Gersten

Top 5 Healthiest Beverages According to Dr. Oren Gersten

April 8, 2021 1:14 pm
Screening for Colon Cancer - Who should get screened

Screening for Colon Cancer – Who should get screened

April 2, 2021 5:00 am
Knee Pain and Osteoarthritis

Knee Pain and Osteoarthritis

March 8, 2021 6:30 am

Climate Justice

Fixing Climate Critical to Protect Us from New Infectious Diseases

Fixing Climate Critical to Protect Us from New Infectious Diseases

June 21, 2021 11:35 am
Everything Must Change - Bright Ideas No. 24

Everything Must Change – Bright Ideas No. 24

June 18, 2021 12:39 pm
An Ongoing David Vs. Goliath Struggle Against Big Oil and for Clear Skies

An Ongoing David Vs. Goliath Struggle Against Big Oil and for Clear Skies

June 4, 2021 5:00 am
New Systems for Working Together - Bright Ideas No. 23

New Systems for Working Together – Bright Ideas No. 23

May 6, 2021 2:04 pm
Citizens’ Climate Lobby and effective climate communication will help combat your climate despair

Citizens’ Climate Lobby and effective climate communication will help combat your climate despair

May 6, 2021 1:28 pm
Climate Solutions Beyond Your Backyard: The Biden Climate Plan

Climate Solutions Beyond Your Backyard: The Biden Climate Plan

April 15, 2021 1:17 pm

Food & Travel

Travel Namibia and Botswan-AH! Adventure Travel with Nancy Dorrans

Travel Namibia and Botswan-AH! Adventure Travel with Nancy Dorrans

June 23, 2021 9:17 am
Rethinking Food and Wine: Starting with Unusual Sake Pairings

Rethinking Food and Wine: Starting with Unusual Sake Pairings

June 7, 2021 2:17 pm
Exploring the Val d'Orcia on Foot with Nancy Dorrans

Exploring the Val d’Orcia on Foot with Nancy Dorrans

May 10, 2021 12:29 pm
WINE DIRECT TO YOUR DOOR

WINE DIRECT TO YOUR DOOR

April 30, 2021 4:10 am
CELEBRITY WINES: A Deep Dive into Two Popular Offerings

CELEBRITY WINES: A Deep Dive into Two Popular Offerings

April 13, 2021 1:31 pm
Thoughts on food and wine after 20 years in Portland

Thoughts on food and wine after 20 years in Portland

March 18, 2021 1:44 pm

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