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
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
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
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
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
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
Adam Marletta Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald’s failed attempt to establish a public list of the state’s welfare recipients is the latest maneuver in an insidious, decades long w... Read more
Adam Marletta The much debated Iran nuclear deal is such an absurd bit of kabuki theater, it calls to mind one of my favorite scenes from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland... Read more
Adam Marletta I knew I was rattling a proverbial hornet’s nest when I took on Sen. Bernie Sanders in my last column. But then, such is the nature of journalism. The job of a rep... Read more
The Warmonger Song-and-Dance Routine
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