An older gentlemen, Paul, reported an audacious scam to the West End News. One evening while walking around the Bayside neighborhood he was approached by a man who wanted to sell him marijua... Read more
A report released January 16th by NOAA and NASA demonstrates that 2014 was the warmest on record. According to the report, during 2014 the average temperature across global land and ocean su... Read more
Governor LePage and Republican lawmakers in Augusta want to push forward on drug-testing for welfare benefits. If the policy makes it through the rule-making process, then it would require d... Read more
by Rosanne Graef, Past President – WENA Today’s Topic: Parking!!! Just to make things clear from the beginning, this article is not about the larger questions of car ownership and the... Read more
“All that time spent going to school,” Jello Biafra sneers on the Dead Kennedy’s punk classic, “At My Job,” “just to end up following rules.” It is... Read more
Metaphorically speaking, sometimes it seems as if there is a thumb in the dike of our current world order, holding back a huge burst of world change. In just one example, the Federal Reserve... Read more
UPDATE: As of December 22nd, Team Robots made their Kickstarter goal, raising $22,310 from 192 donors. They now have enough money to produce their first set of 5000 games. A success party wi... Read more
This fall a West End organization, Side x Side, in partnership with the University of Southern Maine and Youth in Action, a West End nonprofit, accomplished something that has never been don... Read more
As I write this on December 16, 2014, we have just passed another Uranus square Pluto exact aspect on December 15th. This is the 6th of 7 exact squares between Uranus and and Pluto from 2012... Read more
Capitalism is Killing the Planet
A recent anti-tar sands rally in Portland, urging President Barack Obama to veto Congress’ approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline, demonstrated both the dire urgency of climate ch... Read more