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Millennials and Housing
by Luke deNatale and Tony Zeli In the third and final part of our series on millennials living in Maine we exa...

West End Homicide Investigated
POLICE BEAT Originally published February, 28th. Last updated March 3rd, 2017. West End Homicide Victim Ident...

New Comprehensive Plan Released for Review
Review the New Comprehensive Plan The City’s Department of Planning and Urban Development released a final dra...

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WENA Board has new leaders ready to grow the neighborhood association
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Meme writers walk off the job. What are progressive orgs to do?
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Strong Pesticide Ordinance for Portland
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Reiche Brackett Street Ramp Set for Removal
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Students Help the Spotted Turtle
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Animal Production – The Amos Farm
The Amos Farm ANIMAL PRODUCTION by Christian Torp, Master Gardner The increasing consumption of animal protein...

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Resistance and Class Struggle in the Age of Trump
By Adam Marletta If there is any solace to be found in the coming administration of Donald Trump—small though...

Post-Election Solace and the Light in Others
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Experiential Language Classes Connect Immigrants to Community
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Leo predicts challenges ahead for Trump, USA
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Reiche gets an elevator and other improvements
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Rosanne’s Winter Sidewalk Report suggests updates to city code
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Spiritual Side: Take Time to Reflect and Meditate
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Keep It Local this Holiday Shopping Season
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Cold Feelings for Americold and Economic Development Department
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Portland will not deport millions
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Maine Election Results How Did Portland Vote? Everyone knows Portland is a liberal pocket in Maine. But how do...

Portland City Council Election Shake-Up
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Development will be the top story for the West End in 2017
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The Uglification of the Jewel by the Sea
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GIVING FOOD AT THANKSGIVING
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Pesticide Ordinance Draft Offers Disappointing First Read
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Jill Stein and the Tradition of the Protest Candidate
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South Portland Pesticide Ordinance, What It Means For Portland
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Fall Lawn Care Tips that Benefit Casco Bay
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Millennial Food Insecurity
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Food (In)Security and Clean Drinking Water
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Rescued Food and Wayside Food Programs
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The Locker Project and Food at Schools
The Locker Project Is Making It Normal to Take Food Home from School by Tony Zeli “Mother, they have grapes an...

Maine Harvest Bucks
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Food Waste? Not For Our Pigs!
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Craft Show 2016 Pictures
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Portland Fine Craft Show
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Pesticide Ordinance Update
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Water Safety Matters
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St. Luke’s Structure and Soul
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Soap Bubble Laundromat Sues Landlord
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Open Letter to Senator George Mitchell
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Max Slabotzky, Holocaust Survivor Part II
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India Street Clinic Budget Hearing
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Irregular Notes on West End Life: You Never Know Who You’ll Meet
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Congress Square Park Kicks Off 2016 Season
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Naloxone: Saving Lives or Enticing Addicts
Addiction specialist takes a look at the uncharted territory of increased access to overdose medication naloxo...

Single-Payer Health Care and the India Street Controversy
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India Street Clinic — The Angel We All Know
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Eclipses and Retrogrades – Astrological Forecast for April 2016
Perspectives from the Sky – April 2016 Eclipses and Retrogrades: Sitting Between Life’s Chapters b...

How Liberals Created Donald Trump
By Adam Marletta With Donald Trump inching ever closer to securing the Republican nomination, Americans — libe...

Democrats Crack Down on Nonexistent Welfare Fraud
by Adam Marletta Leave it to the Democrats to profoundly misread voter sentiment in an election year. Less tha...

Two Parties Don’t Speak for Millennials
The two major political parties cannot speak for millennials No matter the outcome of this “Super Tuesday”, I...

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by Adam Marletta A curious contradiction has emerged between the rivaling supporters of presidential ca...

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Breakdowns and Breakthroughs: March Astrological Forecast
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Michael and Me: The Frustrating Brilliance of Michael Moore
By Adam Marletta Few liberal figures are as simultaneously brilliant and frustrating as Michael Moore....

Bernie Sanders: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Truth
By Adam Marletta Famed consumer advocate and erstwhile presidential candidate, Ralph Nader, offered a scathing...

Bernie Sanders Bait and Switch
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The Feels
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Eric Poulin: De-radicalizing the Radical
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Interview with Mayor Ethan Strimling
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By Adam Marletta Seven years after Wall Street’s debauched binge of speculator fraud wiped out 40 percen...

Astrology Predicts the 2016 Primary
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Forget Elections, Let’s Build a Revolutionary Movement
By Adam Marletta Historian, Howard Zinn once wrote, “If the gods had intended us to vote they would have given...

Food Initiative and Mayor Strimling
Food Initiative at a Crossroads: Will New Mayor Support the Group Started by Brennan? by Jeremy Bloom *UPDATE:...

Obama’s Legacy: Saving Capitalism From Itself
by Adam Marletta Following President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address last week, the courtiers...

Five Great Resolutions for Entrepreneurs
by Marilyn Miller “Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progre...

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Not Enough to Condemn Donald Trump, Let’s Beat Him by Wells Lyons Fear has set the stage for the preside...

Thompsons Point Opening
by Emilia Scheemaker It’s hard to miss the construction going on at Deering Oaks Park. Backhoes and excavators...

Pingree Moves to Reduce Food Waste
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree is tackling an issue that has long gone overlooked; food waste. On December 7th,...

I Hereby Resolve
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life Today’s Topic: I Hereby Resolve by Rosanne Graef, Past P...

NEWSY MUSINGS: January 2016
by Jenny Anastasoff Our esteemed publisher has deemed me the Local Newshound in the masthead, which may be o...

Pharma Bro Goes to Jail
by Asher Platts Martin Shkreli finally goes to jail! Photos of the “Pharma Bro’s” perp walk populated many of...

The Democratic Party: Where Impeachment is Always “Off The Table”
Adam Marletta A group of Maine legislators will introduce articles of impeachment for Gov. Paul LePage on Thur...

The Empire Triumphant: On Mass Culture and Star Wars
Adam Marletta What would we do without local NPR-affiliate, the Maine Public Broadcasting Network (MPBN...

Perspectives from the Sky – Astrological Forecast for January 2016
by Leo Knighton Tallarico It should be obvious to all who are tuned in, that our world is going through huge t...

Dickensian Days Are Here Again: An Homage to Charles Dickens
Adam Marletta Charles Dickens, whose classic holiday tale, A Christmas Carol is ubiquitous on televisio...

Death of the Fourth Estate
Adam Marletta A massive crowd of close to 1,000 people gathered in Monument Square to decry racism and Islamop...

A History of Violence
Adam Marletta There is a darkly humorous scene in David Cronenberg’s excellent 2005 film, A Histo...

La Vida Local: A West End Christmas
La Vida Local Irregular Notes on West End Life by Rosanne Graef, Past President – WENA Today’s Topic: A...

Perspectives from the Sky – Astrological Forecast for December 2015
by Leo Knighton Tallarico In the global picture, there were many explosive events that shook up our world in N...

Why I Am a Socialist
Adam Marletta The reports of socialism’s death, to paraphrase Mark Twain, have been greatly exagg...

The Warmonger Song-and-Dance Routine
Adam Marletta Here we go again. Another frightening terrorist attack followed by renewed calls for more...

CONDESCENDING COUNCILORS – State and High Street Conversion Highlights City Divide
State and High Streets used to be two-way roads. In the 1970s, during a period of urban planning that created...

Surveying the Damage: A Post-Election Postmortem
Adam Marletta In light of the recent election, I think the city of Portland should finally qualify for...

La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life – Blaze Orange, Crows and Snowshoes
by Rosanne Graef, Past President – WENA Today’s Topic: Blaze Orange, Crows and Snowshoes Ahhh, November,...

Confronting the War Machine at Bath Iron Works
Adam Marletta BATH- As trick-or-treaters and Halloween celebrants scrambled for last minute cost...

Perspectives from the Sky – Astrological Forecast for November 2015
by Leo Knighton Tallarico We enter November with the clocks turned back an hour, giving the impression of dark...

The Big Problem With Small Business
Adam Marletta Something unthinkable happened during the recent Democratic debate in Las Vegas: Hillary...

Musings on the Mayor’s Race
Adam Marletta Four years after Portlanders chose Michael Brennan as the city’s first popularly el...

La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life – Your Neighborhood Footprint?
by Rosanne Graef, Past President – WENA Today’s Topic: Your Neighborhood Footprint? It’s Wednesday. What...

Perspectives from the Sky: Astrological Forecast for October 2015
by Leo Knighton Tallarico As I am away on a Pilgrimage through southern France’s Mary Magdalene and Cath...

Do It Big
by Sam Pelletier This year, in Portland, we’re voting on a minimum wage of 15 dollars per hour. Their initiati...

Corporations Are the Real Welfare Queens
Adam Marletta Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald’s failed attempt to establish a public list of the state...

Iran’s Phantom Nuclear Threat
Adam Marletta The much debated Iran nuclear deal is such an absurd bit of kabuki theater, it cal...

Rejecting the Practical (A Response to My Critics)
Adam Marletta I knew I was rattling a proverbial hornet’s nest when I took on Sen. Bernie Sanders...

Craft Brewing: Even for the Old-timers, It’s All About the New
by Tony Zeli To celebrate the craft brewers of Portland, we want to share their story. We reached out to many,...

Newsy Musings – Losing Videoport
by Jenny Anastasoff Good day, West End News readers. I may know some of you from Facebook, or the West End Nei...

La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life – Make More Than a Fashion Statement
by Rosanne Graef, Past President – WENA Today’s Topic: Make More Than a Fashion Statement It’s almost ti...

Perspectives from the Sky – Astrological Forecast for September 2015
by Leo Knighton Tallarico As we enter September 2015 we are already feeling the winds of the Eclipse Season. W...

Career Opportunities
Adam Marletta I recently completed a temporary job stint at Purdy Powers & Company, an accounting firm on...

Liberal Hit Piece Volume II: Super Blunt
by Sam Pelletier Truths can be unpleasant. Your parents had sex. Entitlements might not be there for you. Lega...

La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life – Recycling, Part 1
by Rosanne Graef, Past President – WENA Recycling – What’s Really the Problem? Have you ever looke...

Demanding a Living Wage
Adam Marletta Everything one needs to know about Portlanders’ current struggle for a living wage is cont...

Perspectives from the Sky – Astrological Forecast for August 2015
by Leo Knighton Tallarico August begins with an important planetary shift. Saturn, considered the hand of time...

And Now, a Word From Our Sponsor…
Adam Marletta This year marks ten years since I graduated from college. It is a rather startling...

Words of Advice: Don’t Flush Grease!
Has fat, oil and grease got your city’s sewer system feeling a little sluggish? The EPA has the answer for you...

Beyond Gay Marriage: A Call For a Radical LGBT Movement
Adam Marletta And just like that everything changed. The Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-se...

Guys, Just Fund the General Assistance
by Sam Pelletier Let me first clarify the situation as I write this. Firstly, the Portland City Council voted...

Perspectives from the Sky – July 2015
by Leo Knighton Tallarico A very powerful Spring Season 2015 passed at Summer Solstice on June 21st. And for m...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: DAVE MARSHALL WILL NOT SEEK REELECTION
After nine years on City Council, and much recent speculation as to his future plans, Councilor Dave Marshall...

FORE RIVER IN TROUBLE
by Tony Zeli The salt marshes of Upper Fore River are polluted with nitrogen leading to a host of problems for...

The Rent is Always Due
Adam Marletta “It takes a scary kind of illness/To design a place like this for pay,” Jello Biafra...

This Call May Be Monitored
Adam Marletta On Monday, June 1, at midnight, the civil-rights eroding, post-9/11 legislation known as The Pat...

Congress Square Park: Derelict Space to Summer Hot Spot
The Revitalization of Congress Square Park by Tony Zeli There is a new venue in town. Wednesday night concerts...

TREES NEEDED IN WEST END
by Tony Zeli As the debates around the budget demonstrate, resources are scarce in the City. Parks and green s...

LA VIDA LOCAL- IRREGULAR NOTES ON WEST END LIFE: TREES
by Rosanne Graef, Past President – WENA Have you gone to a different city and reported back to your frie...

DEMOCRAT HIT PIECE
by Sam Pelletier Tommy stumbles out of bed at 12:45 p.m. and retrieves his EBT card from atop his antique maho...

PERSPECTIVES FROM THE SKY – June 2015
by Leo Knighton Tallarico The stage has been set from the important planetary aspects earlier this spring. The...

Lost in Translation: Why I Won’t Be Attending Your “Gatsby” Party
Adam Marletta As we continue our societal shift from a print-based culture which emphasizes the importance of...

High Kicks, Laughs and Action: Local Filmmaker Set to Release Miniseries
by Luke deNatale Portland has a burgeoning film scene that is always bringing new filmmakers and genres to the...

Mayor Exercises Powers and Postpones Budget Hearing
“The Portland City Council will postpone its vote on the municipal budget, which was scheduled to take place d...

Baltimore and the Fire Next Time
Adam Marletta The blanket condemnation of the rioting in Baltimore, coupled with white America’s tone-de...

$15 LIFTING WORKERS UP, SHUTTING SMALL BUSINESS DOWN
$7.50… $8.75… $10.10… $15… The stakes keep getting higher for workers and small busine...

When City Council Fails: A Look at the Ballot Initiative Process
“It’s an option of last resort.” -David LaCasse, Friends of Congress Square Park “The referendum is a blunt in...

BULLY PULPIT
by Sam Pelletier Our Governor is once again taking a swing at my home city of Portland by advocating for LD 13...

La Vida Local – Irregular Notes on West End Life: SOUND OFF!
by Rosanne Graef, Past President – WENA This Month’s Topic: Sound Off! Fingernails scraping a chal...

Perspectives From the Sky – Astrological Forecast May 2015
by Leo Knighton Tallarico May 2015 The first half of Spring 2015 has set the stage for continuing important ch...

Obama’s Wars and the Liberals Who Love Them
By Adam Marletta Political bumper stickers are funny things. Drivers who adorn their vehicles with nume...

Perspectives from the Sky – Astrological Forecast for April 2015
by Leo Knighton Tallarico April 2015 continues to bring us important planetary movements that promise big chan...

The Small Business Swindle
By Adam Marletta In the coming days, the Portland Green Independent Committee–the local branch of the Ma...

Words of Advice: Help Choose a City Manager
The City Council’s City Manager Search Committee is seeking public input. Its consultant, Municipal Reso...

Class Dismissed
By Adam Marletta The recent outcry over three South Portland high school students’ attempts to educate...

IRV: A More Democratic Way to Vote
Submitted by Nils Werner We’ve all seen the bumper sticker: “61% did not vote for Governor Lepage”. While that...

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 Mai...

How Portland’s Other Half Lives
By Adam Marletta Do not be swayed by the class-baiting corporate news pundits, or the vitriolic poor-bashing l...

Marijuana Citations Climb Despite “Legal” Status
Newsflash… Portland declared marijuana legal. Yet, after the first year of being legal, the number of ma...

Perspectives from the Sky – Astrological Forecast for March 2015
by Leo Knighton Tallarico March opens up a major portal of change. As this portal opens, intensified winds of...

In Maine Pot is a Homegrown Business
Marijuana is already a successful and legal business in Maine. The current medical marijuana law has been deve...

Legalization in Maine: It’s Different Here
There are several contenders to make Maine the first East Coast state to legalize marijuana. The national Mari...

La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life — KAFFEEKLATSCH!!!
By Rosanne Graef, Past President – WENA Today’s Topic: Kaffeeklatsch!!! Coffee? Tea? Hot Chocolate? You’...

The Winter of Our Discontent
By Adam Marletta “Blow, blow thou winter wind,” Shakespeare wrote in As You Like It. “Thou...

Snuggle Therapy Comes to Portland
Local Reiki master Lea Moon is launching Snuggle You Up offering therapeutic snuggling sessions from her offic...

The Agony and the Austerity of Paul LePage
Do not be fooled by Gov. Paul LePage’s faux-populist rhetoric which he adopted in his recent State of th...

Valentine’s Burlesque for a Cause
Strut on down to Geno’s Rock Club on Valentine’s Day, and for a twelve dollar cover–only ten...

Growing into the Optimal Self
A West End Gym Celebrates Its First Anniversary in the Community “You will grow into yourself,” personal train...

Perspectives from the Sky – Astrological Forecast for February 2015
Expect another big year of change in the world this year. Last spring/summer there was a Cardinal Grand Cross...

350 Maine’s Bob Klotz Responds to Adam Marletta
A letter to Adam Marletta, author of “Capitalism is Killing the Planet” Adam: I’m checking in regarding your r...

Words of Advice – Stay Off the Grass
An older gentlemen, Paul, reported an audacious scam to the West End News. One evening while walking around th...

Capitalism is Killing the Planet
A recent anti-tar sands rally in Portland, urging President Barack Obama to veto Congress’ approv...

Inevitable Tar Sands Apocalypse
A report released January 16th by NOAA and NASA demonstrates that 2014 was the warmest on record. According to...

Your Boss and Your Government Want Your Urine
Governor LePage and Republican lawmakers in Augusta want to push forward on drug-testing for welfare benefits....

La Vida Local – Irregular Notes on West End Life: PARKING
by Rosanne Graef, Past President – WENA Today’s Topic: Parking!!! Just to make things clear from the beg...

Your Job is a Prison
“All that time spent going to school,” Jello Biafra sneers on the Dead Kennedy’s punk classi...

Perspectives from the Sky – January 2015
Metaphorically speaking, sometimes it seems as if there is a thumb in the dike of our current world order, hol...

Local Artist Invents 100-Foot Robot Game
UPDATE: As of December 22nd, Team Robots made their Kickstarter goal, raising $22,310 from 192 donors. They no...

Local Pair of Reiche Parents Win $2 Million Education Grant
This fall a West End organization, Side x Side, in partnership with the University of Southern Maine and Youth...

Perspectives from the Sky – December 2014
As I write this on December 16, 2014, we have just passed another Uranus square Pluto exact aspect on December...

Fear Of a Black Planet
If there is any hope to be found in the recent police killings–and subsequent exoneration of the...

Different Definitions of Racism Create Barriers of Understanding Between Law Enforcement and Community
A couple of months ago there was meeting put on by our local NAACP chapter at the Portland Public Library to r...

La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life – SNOW
This Month’s Topic: SNOW!!! Rosanne Graef, President – WENA Snow Bans Go into effect at 10 p.m. an...

If Elizabeth Warren Runs, So What? – Asher Platts, Guest Commentator
I’m not interested in Elizabeth Warren’s unlikely run for President. Why? She has said she won’t, and that if...

Perspectives from the Sky – November 2014
Astrology, for many of you reading this, is either new to you or seems like superstition or silliness. This is...

Anti-Establishment Candidate Wins School Board Seat
John Eder is a Green Independent, a former Representative for the West End (2002-2006), a politician, a mariju...

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To say the Democrats blew it in the midterm elections would be an understatement. The governor’s race s...

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Who knows why people vote the way they do. There are countless potential reasons for every ballot box decision...

Portland Green Party Candidates Challenge Two-Party System
With voters’ attention focused almost exclusively on the congressional and gubernatorial races, many hav...

Top 3 Conservative Myths about the Minimum Wage
In my inaugural column, on August 22nd, for the newly re-launched The West End News, I addressed the need for...

Beer & Coffee, with Bayside’s Jay York, by Chris Shorr
For about a year now, I’ve followed Bayside resident, Jay York, on Facebook. The local activist has a ph...

Perspectives from the Sky – October 2014
By Leo Knighton Tallarico As we wrote about last issue, our human family is at a major crossroads on the way t...

Paving of Deering Oaks Pond Delayed
The City’s Transportation, Sustainability and Energy Committee will delay a project to replace the bottom of D...

Beer and Coffee… Chris Shorr w/ Shahin Khojastehzad on Bill Murray & Beer Week
Hi folks, some of you may already know me from my column with The Portland Sun, my blog for the Bangor Daily N...

The Ballot Box: Portland Municipal Races Take Shape
All eyes will be on the gubernatorial race this November, but count on some interesting contests at the local...

Ruby Meets the President
My dog Ruby and I were walking toward the Old Port when I noticed a commotion up ahead at the corner of Middle...

Perspectives from the Sky – September 2014
An Astrological Guide for Worldview and Personal Transformation during these Changing Times on Planet Earth By...

Raise My Wage, Please!
There is good news and bad news on the effort to raise the minimum wage in Portland. The good news is that Por...

Congress Square: Time to Speed Up the Process
The concrete plaza in the heart of Portland’s Art District has been scheduled for a facelift for almost a deca...




























































































































































































































































































































































































































Removal of Invasive Trees on Western Prom Concerns Neighbors By Tony Zeli The removal of an invasive species of tree on the Western Promenade caused concern among neighbors who worried it wa... Read more
LAYNE’S WINE GIG FLYING UNDER THE RADAR By Layne V. Witherell Our oddest Sunday brunch experience ever (and we go out almost weekly) occurred a few years ago when we decided at the las... Read more
WEST END PLACES FEATURE Western Cemetery in Need of Love & Attention One could consider the western cemetery the poor relation of the public cemeteries in Portland By Harlan Baker One re... Read more
Whether you were out walking the Western Prom on Christmas Eve morning to catch some views or dashing down I-295 to finish up holiday errands, you might have noticed a tall crane at work on... Read more
PORTLAND WINTER STORM SERVICES All the info you need to survive city life this winter Heading into the winter storm season, the City of Portland would like to remind residents of winter stor... Read more
By Dr. Oren Gersten Infectious disease is at the forefront of people’s minds across the world. Specifically, Covid-19 is an unprecedented global pandemic that is taking lives and causi... Read more
To our fellow Mainers: We are frontline healthcare workers. We are caring, hard-working professionals with families and loved ones we go home to everyday. We are your neighbors, community vo... Read more
By Tony Zeli Throughout the Stay at Home orders, outdoor exercise has remained a viable option for getting out and about. But the state recommends recreating near home. Luckily, more than ni... Read more
Munjoy Hill Development Not Affordable As residents of Munjoy Hill, we feel compelled to clarify the picture of the development at 128R North Street, as described in the article, “Munjoy Hil... Read more
Every month PelotonLabs founder Liz Trice interviews a community member for The West End News. This month Liz caught up with Katie Shorey of Startup Maine and Live & Work in Maine. You h... Read more
The Rule of Nobody
READER OPINION The Rule of Nobody By Zack Barowitz Below, police from twelve law enforcement agencies deploy r...