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
Adam Marletta Everything one needs to know about Portlanders’ current struggle for a living wage is contained in the lead sentence of a recent Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegr... Read more
Adam Marletta This year marks ten years since I graduated from college. It is a rather startling thought. Since that time I have had a number of disparate jobs–most of wh... Read more
Adam Marletta “It takes a scary kind of illness/To design a place like this for pay,” Jello Biafra proclaims on the Dead Kennedy’s “This Could Be Anywhere,” a s... Read more
Adam Marletta On Monday, June 1, at midnight, the civil-rights eroding, post-9/11 legislation known as The Patriot Act, finally died a quiet death when the U.S. Senate failed to garner enoug... Read more
by Sam Pelletier Tommy stumbles out of bed at 12:45 p.m. and retrieves his EBT card from atop his antique mahogany dresser. He walks down into the basement; past the golf clubs, past the sno... Read more
Corporations Are the Real Welfare Queens
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