Commentary Archives - Page 6 of 10

Death of the Fourth Estate

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: December 13, 2015In: Commentary, Commentary, Featured, UncategorizedNo Comments

Adam Marletta A massive crowd of close to 1,000 people gathered in Monument Square to decry racism and Islamophobia and stand in solidarity with asylum-seekers on Sunday, December 6. The ral... Read more

A History of Violence

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: December 06, 2015In: Commentary, Commentary, Featured, Uncategorized1 Comment

Adam Marletta There is a darkly humorous scene in David Cronenberg’s excellent 2005 film, A History of Violence. Viggo Mortensen‘s Tom Stall reprimands his teenage son, Ja... Read more

Why I Am a Socialist

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: November 30, 2015In: Commentary, Commentary, FeaturedNo Comments

Adam Marletta The reports of socialism’s death, to paraphrase Mark Twain, have been greatly exaggerated. Perhaps you did not get the memo, but Marxism is back. The “spectr... Read more

The Warmonger Song-and-Dance Routine

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: November 22, 2015In: Commentary, Commentary, Featured1 Comment

Adam Marletta Here we go again. Another frightening terrorist attack followed by renewed calls for more war and bombings abroad, and fear-mongering racism at home. The routine has bec... Read more

CONDESCENDING COUNCILORS – State and High Street Conversion Highlights City Divide

Posted By: Tony Zelion: November 17, 2015In: Commentary, Commentary1 Comment

State and High Streets used to be two-way roads. In the 1970s, during a period of urban planning that created traffic corridors like Franklin and Spring Street Arterials, State and High were... Read more

Surveying the Damage: A Post-Election Postmortem

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: November 15, 2015In: Commentary, Commentary, Election 2015, Featured1 Comment

Adam Marletta In light of the recent election, I think the city of Portland should finally qualify for one of those ubiquitous “Certified Business Friendly” signs that gre... Read more

Confronting the War Machine at Bath Iron Works

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: November 02, 2015In: Commentary, Commentary, Featured, Uncategorized2 Comments

Adam Marletta BATH- As trick-or-treaters and Halloween celebrants scrambled for last minute costume ideas, the real fright was at Bath Iron Works, where the lionized shipyard u... Read more

The Big Problem With Small Business

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: October 25, 2015In: Commentary, Commentary, Featured, UncategorizedNo Comments

Adam Marletta Something unthinkable happened during the recent Democratic debate in Las Vegas: Hillary Clinton said something I agree with. During an unprecedented (for a corporate-ow... Read more

Musings on the Mayor’s Race

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: October 19, 2015In: Commentary, Commentary, Election 2015, FeaturedNo Comments

Adam Marletta Four years after Portlanders chose Michael Brennan as the city’s first popularly elected mayor in nearly 100 years, the general consensus from the enlightened Port... Read more

Do It Big

Posted By: Editoron: October 05, 2015In: Comedy, Commentary, Commentary, Election 2015, Featured, News Briefs1 Comment

by Sam Pelletier This year, in Portland, we’re voting on a minimum wage of 15 dollars per hour. Their initiative also significantly raise the wages of tipped workers, who were thoroughly pee... Read more