Submitted by Michael Anthony The summer of ’87, just a few months after I was born, my grandmother wrapped herself in a garbage bag and laid down on the steps of City Hall to protest t... Read more
A couple of months ago there was meeting put on by our local NAACP chapter at the Portland Public Library to respond to the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri, where a white police officer shot to... Read more
I’m not interested in Elizabeth Warren’s unlikely run for President. Why? She has said she won’t, and that if she does, it will be on a Clinton/Warren ticket. Elizabeth Warren isn’t actually... Read more
Dear Editor, We need a tenants union in Portland, Maine. There are rumors of threats of city code enforcement cracking down on landlords in response to the tragic Noyse Street fire. This wou... Read more
Vote YES for Decency and Fairness Cruelty towards wildlife and people has no place in Maine. Chasing shy and gentle black bears, through their forest home, with GPS collared hounds and then... Read more
Portland Fire Department stockpiling supplies in “unlikely” event of Ebola outbreak…Animal Refuge League handing out lots of Yes on 1 signs…Steven Scharf at Pat... Read more
Dear Neighbors, It is with both sadness and relief that I write to announce that the Shoestring Theater will no longer present the Annual West End Halloween Parade. After over 30 years direc... Read more
The Sacred Purposelessness of ‘Art for Arts Sake’
By Asher Platts I recently attended a lecture by economist Dr. Richard Wolff at the University of Southern Maine (USM). He was there to talk about marxist economics, the rejection of the fal... Read more