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
Adam Marletta As we continue our societal shift from a print-based culture which emphasizes the importance of reading, fact-based reporting, and critical thinking, to one dominated by images... Read more
“The Portland City Council will postpone its vote on the municipal budget, which was scheduled to take place during tonight’s [May 18th] Council meeting at 7:00 PM. […]The Counci... Read more
Adam Marletta The blanket condemnation of the rioting in Baltimore, coupled with white America’s tone-deaf silence on the mounting police killings of unarmed black Americans reveals a... Read more
Career Opportunities
Adam Marletta I recently completed a temporary job stint at Purdy Powers & Company, an accounting firm on Middle Street. I was hired as a front-desk administrative assistant. The job was... Read more