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We Need Public Funding for Cultured Meat Research
By Jon Hochschartner Jon Hochschartner is the author of a number of books about animal-rights history. He thin...

The Banality of Segregation: Why Zoning Matters
Reader Opinion By Zack Barowitz Until recently, there has not been much conversation about how land policy is...

Health Insurance, What Is It Good For?
By Dr. Oren Gersten Insurance is a card in your pocket, health care is a relationship with a doctor you know a...

What’s Wrong with Camping?
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life What’s Wrong with Camping? By Rosanne Graef Homelessness is no...

Doctors and patients unite! Time to change health care.
By Dr. Oren Gersten As a doctor who has dedicated a career to primary care and public health I have more than...

Charter Commission: Time to Fix the Mayor
Editorial by Publisher-Editor Tony Zeli In 2015, I asked a newly elected Mayor Ethan Strimling how he was goin...

The Healers: Who owns health care part 3
Who owns health care? Part 3: The Healers By Dr. Oren Gersten Ancient Healers Healing has always been a part o...

The insurers and the large health systems
Who owns Health Care? Part 2: The insurers and the large health systems By Dr. Oren Gersten In a Capitalist so...

The Health Care Brain Trust
Who owns health care? Part 1: The health care brain trust By Dr. Oren Gersten Humans have always and will alwa...

The Risks Of 5G Technology May Outweigh The Benefits
Around the world, many cities are demanding that the installation of 5g cellphone towers be paused. Residents...

Opioid Response Summit
By: Lizzy Handschy, Co-Executive Director Portland Overdose Prevention Society On Monday, July 15th over one t...

Where is the Shelter Relocation Going?
By Zack Barowitz One thing that everyone can agree upon is that the Oxford Street Emergency Shelter is overcro...

Bogus “Russiagate” Story Finally Implodes
by Adam Marletta Robert Mueller’s long-awaited investigation is finally over and for Democrats it is like waki...

The Democrats are Also Climate Change Deniers
The Portland Phoenix made an excellent selection with their “Tweet of the Week,” for the Feb. 28, 2019 issue....

Trump’s New Cold War
by Adam Marletta Trump is afraid of the socialist movement. He should be. A scourge is haunting the Trump Whit...

Of Referenda, Moratoria & Fable
LA VIDA LOCAL: IRREGULAR NOTES ON WEST END LIFE By Rosanne Graef Ready for another round of the battle for the...

Enough is Enough…
Authorized by Title XIX of the Social Security Act, Medicaid was signed into law in 1965 alongside Medicare. A...

Corporate Media: The Real Enemy of the People
By Adam Marletta On Aug. 16, 350 daily newspapers banded together to denounce Donald Trump’s ongoing wa...

Capitalism, Not Individual Behavior or “Human Nature,” Caused Climate Change
By Adam Marletta Two recent letters to the editor in the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram il...

All Out to Oppose Brett Kavanaugh and a Feminist Dystopia
By Adam Marletta Regular readers of this column do not need me to tell them that Brett Kavanaugh, Donal...

The Socialist Insurgent: Three Takeaways from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Primary Victory
by Adam Marletta Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s recent defeat of ten-term Democratic Party establishment in...

It is Happening Here: Reunite Families, Deport Trump
By Adam Marletta My mother developed polio as a child. It left her paralyzed from the waist down. She i...

Chamber Has It Wrong on Paid Sick Time
By Tony Zeli, Publisher & Editor It’s time to set the record straight. In a May 21st special to the Press...

Solidarity with Palestine
by Adam Marletta Israel’s May 14 assault on peaceful Palestinian protesters is the latest escalat...

A Win for Labor in “Trump Country”
By Adam Marletta The successful teachers strike in West Virginia that resulted in a five percent pay in...

Solidarity with Parkland Student Activists
By Adam Marletta The activism of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students in the wake o...

Tilting at Russian Windmills
By Adam Marletta If the left is serious about resisting not just Donald Trump, but the entire racist, m...

… As the War Machine Keeps Turning
By Adam Marletta The latest round of Congressional budget negotiations — which seem to have become a routine f...

The Perils of Ultra-Leftism
By Adam Marletta Last weekend’s Women’s Marches, while nowhere near the size and magnitude of la...

Notes From a S!#@hole Country
By Adam Marletta One year into Donald Trump’s nightmarish presidency the United States governmen...

Let’s Bury the Myth: Black Voters ARE Feeling the Bern
By Adam Marletta It is time to bury the pernicious myth that African Americans do not support Bernie Sanders,...

The Year in Resistance
By Adam Marletta The entry for Friday, December 29 in my Grumpy Cat 2017 office calendar reads, “This year is...

In God We Rust: Musings on the Alabama Senate Election
By Adam Marletta Republican U.S. Senate candidate and alleged pedophile, Roy Moore, literally rode out of town...

Resist the GOP’s Tax Heist!
By Adam Marletta Is the Republican Party actively trying to commit suicide? On the surface, this certainly see...

The Great American Stick-Up
By Adam Marletta Regular readers of this column do not need me to tell them the Republicans’ tax plan, which p...

November Spawned a Monster
One year after Trump’s stunning electoral victory, the left remains paralyzed in a state of shock. By Ad...

Beyond “Toxic Masculinity”
How Women’s Oppression is Inextricably Linked to Capitalism By Adam Marletta The widespread allegations...

Evict the Landlord! Vote “Yes” on Rent Control
By Adam Marletta Portland is becoming as expensive to live in — and potentially as “bougie” — as my hom...

Leadership – The Story of 2018
THE STORY OF 2018 LEADERSHIP by Tony Zeli A BLUNT INSTRUMENT There is a battle raging at the ballot box betwee...

Capitalism IS the Crisis
By Adam Marletta After a summer-long hiatus, West End News readers can relax: I am back with more long-winded...

All or None – Vote to Fix All 4 Schools
by Tony Zeli In the summer of 2016, the School Board voted in favor of a $70.6 million bond to fix four aging...

Forget Vegan: Raising Rabbits
Raising Rabbits Good for the Environment by Christian Torp “if you eat meat, you kill animals, but you also ki...

Rebuild All 4 Schools? Make An Informed Choice
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life Rebuild All 4 Schools? Make An Informed Choice by Rosanne Grae...

Development and Procedural Failures in Portland
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life Are Portlanders Being Had? by Rosanne Graef When it comes to...

WEN Supports Pesticide Ban
Express Yourself: Let Your Councilors Know How You Feel About Pesticide Use in Portland Portland City Council...

Trump to Planet Earth: Drop Dead!
By Adam Marletta In a recent conversation with Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman, Professor Noam Chomsky outlined t...

Opium – What’s in a Name
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life Opium – What’s in a Name? by Rosanne Graef Outrage, incr...

Impeach The Entire System, Starting With Trump
By Adam Marletta One of the biggest challenges of activism in the Trump era is just keeping up with the consta...

The Failure of Identity Politics and the Case for Solidarity
By Adam Marletta I maintain that one of the greatest obstacles to developing a mass, diverse working-class mov...

Pesticide Ordinance is a Must!
Eager for Action on Pesticide Ordinance by Bridget Chase CORRECTION Councilor Spencer Thibodeau is a real esta...

RCV Rescues Maine Democracy. Sorta… Maybe… Perhaps…
A Whole New Day by Sam Pelletier When looking for good news, one needs look no further than the referendums pa...

The Fire This Time – A Look at the James Baldwin Biopic
By Adam Marletta Author, Chris Hedges, in a recent column for Truthdig, calls Raoul Peck’s Academy Award-nomin...

Beating Back the Trump Attack
By Adam Marletta Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later: I have been reported to the FBI. Apparently, a...

Americold Not Acting Neighborly – Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor Americold Not Acting Neighborly Americold’s request to alter zoning restrictions on the w...

Meme writers walk off the job. What are progressive orgs to do?
The War of Words What happens when the meme writers strike? by Sam Pelletier Negotiations Fail Salary negotiat...

Strong Pesticide Ordinance for Portland
Yes We Can! A Strong Pesticide Ordinance for Portland by Bridget Chase In January, Portland’s Pesticide and Fe...

Comedian Sam Pelletier asks, ‘What’s the matter with Calais?’
What’s the Matter with Calais? by Sam Pelletier After almost two months it’s probably not a bad dream. T...

Resistance and Class Struggle in the Age of Trump
By Adam Marletta If there is any solace to be found in the coming administration of Donald Trump—small though...

Solidarity with Standing Rock
By Adam Marletta The extreme state violence unleashed on the indigenous protesters at Standing Rock, North Dak...

Now What? Reckoning with a Trump Presidency and the difficult struggle ahead
by Adam Marletta Warning: This article quotes President-elect Trump directly. Language may be unsuitable for s...

The Folly of Lesser Evilism: The Socialist Case for Jill Stein
Green Party presidential candidate, Dr. Jill Stein, protests outside the Democratic National Convention in Phi...

The Psychosis of Capitalism
by Adam Marletta Capitalism is, at its heart, a form of psychosis. In its relentless pursuit of ever greater a...

The Controlled Demolition of Gary Johnson
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson’s recent gaffes seem too bad to be true. by Sam Pelleti...

Question 3 – Current Maine Resident Says Sandy Hook Shootings Hit Too Close to Home
Letter to the Editor Yes on 3 for Sensible Gun Control In December 2012, I lived at the time in Fairfield, Con...

Hillary Clinton, Not Jill Stein, in 2016
The progressive case for Hillary Clinton over Green Jill Stein by Wells Lyons When I was 18, I thought I had t...

If the Presidential Election has got you down…
A Federated Fantasy The Presidential Election Is a Poor Substitute for Democracy by Autumn Minery & Bryer...

Why Lost Contract is Good News for Bath Iron Works–and the Planet
by Adam Marletta Years ago, back when the nation was still gripped in a post-9/11 atmosphere of “love-i...

Trump Wrong on Islam
Trump Wrong About Islam and Terrorism. And so is Clinton. by Wells Lyons It’s disappointing to see our t...

On Those “Privileged” Third Party Voters
Third Party Voter Takes on the Privileged Argument By Adam Marletta As a routine voter of third party candidat...

Peaceful Protests and the Liberals Who Denounce Them
By Adam Marletta Are you one of the many Portlanders who were annoyed by the recent Black Lives Matter demonst...

Housing is a Fundamental Human Right
A Millennial’s Take on Housing by Bryer Sousa In late April a collaboration between the Portland Tenants...

Debunking Colony Collapse Disorder
READER RESPONDS TO PESTICIDE COVERAGE Debunking Colony Collapse Disorder A reader responds to Bridget Chase...

After Bernie Sanders, it’s Time to Ditch the Democrats
By Adam Marletta And just like that, Bernie Sanders’ “political revolution” has died, not with a bang, but wit...

Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
By Adam Marletta Local Black Lives Matter protesters finally made good on the promise in one of their call-and...

Angus King and the Potomac Two Step
OUR READERS Angus King and the Potomac Two Step I attended a Portland Chamber of Commerce Eggs and Issues on J...

Ben Chipman and Elusive Purity
Ben Chipman and the death of his indie-cred A Satire by Sam Pelletier Local activist and lawmaker Ben Chipman...

Guns, Butter and Empire
By Adam Marletta I feel like I am becoming numb to these increasingly routine mass shootings. It is a horrible...

Open Letter to Senator George Mitchell
Open Letter to Senator George Mitchell by Wells Lyons Dear Senator George Mitchell, I must admit it takes a fa...

When Austerity Attacks
By Adam Marletta The Portland City Council’s recent vote to close the majority of services at the city-run, In...

Bernie’s Big Comedown
Bernie’s Big Comedown: An Independent Run Is Unlikely by Adam Marletta I have read, with no small amount...

Housing Committee Must Act
Housing Committee Must Act to Mitigate the Housing Crisis by Tony Zeli Two contrasting meetings held in mid-Ap...

LePage: Maine’s Shame
How To Take Down Governor LePage by Wells Lyons When Governor LePage can’t seem to go a day without insulting...

Single-Payer Health Care and the India Street Controversy
Closing of India Street Shows Need for Single-Payer Health Care by Adam Marletta On April 21, the Portland Cit...

India Street Clinic — The Angel We All Know
A Reader’s Response to the potential closing of the India Street clinic by Lauren Besanko (Editor’s note...

Abolish Tipping, Pay Restaurant Workers a Living Wage
by Adam Marletta I enjoy eating out in Portland’s exceptional dining scene, and do so frequently. But when it...

Fascism In a Cape
by Adam Marletta The release of the long-awaited superhero-crossover, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice — an...

Diane Russell Slush Fund
What Diane Russell calls a Leadership PAC is little more than a personal slush fund. by Wells Lyons Imagine I...

Naloxone: There are no faceless thugs
Maine needs a more humane drug policy that should include the life-saving drug naloxone. by Rob Korobkin In 20...

The Progressive Bubble
Because it Matters: Getting Out of the Progressive Bubble by Sam Pelletier Much like finger-painting, politics...

How Liberals Created Donald Trump
By Adam Marletta With Donald Trump inching ever closer to securing the Republican nomination, Americans — libe...

Joe’s Smoke Shop: Some Good, Some Bad
Memories of Joe’s Smoke Shop: A Reader’s Response You said to share memories of Joe’s Smoke...

Democrats Crack Down on Nonexistent Welfare Fraud
by Adam Marletta Leave it to the Democrats to profoundly misread voter sentiment in an election year. Less tha...

Sunset on Grant Street
Grant Street Evictions by Rob Korobkin My heart hurt when I read about those tragic evictions on Grant Street....

Two Parties Don’t Speak for Millennials
The two major political parties cannot speak for millennials No matter the outcome of this “Super Tuesday”, I...

To Block Supreme Court Nominee
Republicans Adopt Unconstitutional Strategy To Block Supreme Court Nominee Article 2, Section 2, Clause 2 of t...

Let’s Start a War (Said Bernie One Day)
by Adam Marletta A curious contradiction has emerged between the rivaling supporters of presidential ca...

Evict the Landlord!
On the Portland Housing Crisis By Adam Marletta “On the morning of the first eviction/They carried out t...

What Are Progressives To Do
Progressives, The Real Battleground is not the Democratic Party by Asher Platts This is in response to Bob O...

Michael and Me: The Frustrating Brilliance of Michael Moore
By Adam Marletta Few liberal figures are as simultaneously brilliant and frustrating as Michael Moore....

Special Assistant to the Mayor
Newsy Musings: Special Assistant to the Mayor by Jenny Anastasoff In my previous column, I begged for a good...

Bernie Sanders: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Truth
By Adam Marletta Famed consumer advocate and erstwhile presidential candidate, Ralph Nader, offered a scathing...

LePage’s Words Are Illegal
LePage’s Words Aren’t Just Irresponsible, They’re Illegal by Wells Lyons “I tell ya, everybody in Maine, we ha...

Bernie Sanders Bait and Switch
Bernie Sanders Bait and Switch Why Bernie Can’t Win by Adam Marletta Originally published on August 23,...

The Feels
Comedian Sam Pelletier Has Got the Feels for Bernie Originally published on September 3, 2015. Working within...

It’s (Still) the Economy, Stupid
By Adam Marletta Seven years after Wall Street’s debauched binge of speculator fraud wiped out 40 percen...

Forget Elections, Let’s Build a Revolutionary Movement
By Adam Marletta Historian, Howard Zinn once wrote, “If the gods had intended us to vote they would have given...

Alex Steed Responds to Adam Marletta
I was entertained by Adam Marletta’s response to my column about President’s Obama’s optimis...

Obama’s Legacy: Saving Capitalism From Itself
by Adam Marletta Following President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address last week, the courtiers...

Condemning Donald Trump
Not Enough to Condemn Donald Trump, Let’s Beat Him by Wells Lyons Fear has set the stage for the preside...

Pharma Bro Goes to Jail
by Asher Platts Martin Shkreli finally goes to jail! Photos of the “Pharma Bro’s” perp walk populated many of...

The Democratic Party: Where Impeachment is Always “Off The Table”
Adam Marletta A group of Maine legislators will introduce articles of impeachment for Gov. Paul LePage on Thur...

The Empire Triumphant: On Mass Culture and Star Wars
Adam Marletta What would we do without local NPR-affiliate, the Maine Public Broadcasting Network (MPBN...

Dickensian Days Are Here Again: An Homage to Charles Dickens
Adam Marletta Charles Dickens, whose classic holiday tale, A Christmas Carol is ubiquitous on televisio...

Death of the Fourth Estate
Adam Marletta A massive crowd of close to 1,000 people gathered in Monument Square to decry racism and Islamop...

A History of Violence
Adam Marletta There is a darkly humorous scene in David Cronenberg’s excellent 2005 film, A Histo...

The Lion Sleeps Tonight: The Wage Debate
by Sam Pelletier There’s a video on Youtube that always gets play in a minimum wage debate. A man is sitting i...

Why I Am a Socialist
Adam Marletta The reports of socialism’s death, to paraphrase Mark Twain, have been greatly exagg...

The Warmonger Song-and-Dance Routine
Adam Marletta Here we go again. Another frightening terrorist attack followed by renewed calls for more...

CONDESCENDING COUNCILORS – State and High Street Conversion Highlights City Divide
State and High Streets used to be two-way roads. In the 1970s, during a period of urban planning that created...

Surveying the Damage: A Post-Election Postmortem
Adam Marletta In light of the recent election, I think the city of Portland should finally qualify for...

Confronting the War Machine at Bath Iron Works
Adam Marletta BATH- As trick-or-treaters and Halloween celebrants scrambled for last minute cost...

The Big Problem With Small Business
Adam Marletta Something unthinkable happened during the recent Democratic debate in Las Vegas: Hillary...

Musings on the Mayor’s Race
Adam Marletta Four years after Portlanders chose Michael Brennan as the city’s first popularly el...

Do It Big
by Sam Pelletier This year, in Portland, we’re voting on a minimum wage of 15 dollars per hour. Their initiati...

Corporations Are the Real Welfare Queens
Adam Marletta Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald’s failed attempt to establish a public list of the state...

Iran’s Phantom Nuclear Threat
Adam Marletta The much debated Iran nuclear deal is such an absurd bit of kabuki theater, it cal...

Rejecting the Practical (A Response to My Critics)
Adam Marletta I knew I was rattling a proverbial hornet’s nest when I took on Sen. Bernie Sanders...

Career Opportunities
Adam Marletta I recently completed a temporary job stint at Purdy Powers & Company, an accounting firm on...

Liberal Hit Piece Volume II: Super Blunt
by Sam Pelletier Truths can be unpleasant. Your parents had sex. Entitlements might not be there for you. Lega...

Demanding a Living Wage
Adam Marletta Everything one needs to know about Portlanders’ current struggle for a living wage is cont...

And Now, a Word From Our Sponsor…
Adam Marletta This year marks ten years since I graduated from college. It is a rather startling...

Beyond Gay Marriage: A Call For a Radical LGBT Movement
Adam Marletta And just like that everything changed. The Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-se...

Guys, Just Fund the General Assistance
by Sam Pelletier Let me first clarify the situation as I write this. Firstly, the Portland City Council voted...

The Rent is Always Due
Adam Marletta “It takes a scary kind of illness/To design a place like this for pay,” Jello Biafra...

This Call May Be Monitored
Adam Marletta On Monday, June 1, at midnight, the civil-rights eroding, post-9/11 legislation known as The Pat...

DEMOCRAT HIT PIECE
by Sam Pelletier Tommy stumbles out of bed at 12:45 p.m. and retrieves his EBT card from atop his antique maho...

Lost in Translation: Why I Won’t Be Attending Your “Gatsby” Party
Adam Marletta As we continue our societal shift from a print-based culture which emphasizes the importance of...

Mayor Exercises Powers and Postpones Budget Hearing
“The Portland City Council will postpone its vote on the municipal budget, which was scheduled to take place d...

Baltimore and the Fire Next Time
Adam Marletta The blanket condemnation of the rioting in Baltimore, coupled with white America’s tone-de...

The Cost of Lifting Workers Out of Poverty
Submitted by Asher Platts, The Punk Patriot Why should we have a living wage? What is the cost of lifting work...

Obama’s Wars and the Liberals Who Love Them
By Adam Marletta Political bumper stickers are funny things. Drivers who adorn their vehicles with nume...

MAYOR’S MINIMUM WAGE GUTTED BY FINANCE COMMITTEE
After a public hearing, the Finance Committee of the City Council shredded the Mayor’s minimum wage proposal b...

The Small Business Swindle
By Adam Marletta In the coming days, the Portland Green Independent Committee–the local branch of the Ma...

Class Dismissed
By Adam Marletta The recent outcry over three South Portland high school students’ attempts to educate...

The Sacred Purposelessness of ‘Art for Arts Sake’
By Asher Platts I recently attended a lecture by economist Dr. Richard Wolff at the University of Southern Mai...

How Portland’s Other Half Lives
By Adam Marletta Do not be swayed by the class-baiting corporate news pundits, or the vitriolic poor-bashing l...

The Winter of Our Discontent
By Adam Marletta “Blow, blow thou winter wind,” Shakespeare wrote in As You Like It. “Thou...

The Agony and the Austerity of Paul LePage
Do not be fooled by Gov. Paul LePage’s faux-populist rhetoric which he adopted in his recent State of th...

350 Maine’s Bob Klotz Responds to Adam Marletta
A letter to Adam Marletta, author of “Capitalism is Killing the Planet” Adam: I’m checking in regarding your r...

Capitalism is Killing the Planet
A recent anti-tar sands rally in Portland, urging President Barack Obama to veto Congress’ approv...

Inevitable Tar Sands Apocalypse
A report released January 16th by NOAA and NASA demonstrates that 2014 was the warmest on record. According to...

Your Boss and Your Government Want Your Urine
Governor LePage and Republican lawmakers in Augusta want to push forward on drug-testing for welfare benefits....

Your Job is a Prison
“All that time spent going to school,” Jello Biafra sneers on the Dead Kennedy’s punk classi...

Fear Of a Black Planet
If there is any hope to be found in the recent police killings–and subsequent exoneration of the...

Different Definitions of Racism Create Barriers of Understanding Between Law Enforcement and Community
A couple of months ago there was meeting put on by our local NAACP chapter at the Portland Public Library to r...

If Elizabeth Warren Runs, So What? – Asher Platts, Guest Commentator
I’m not interested in Elizabeth Warren’s unlikely run for President. Why? She has said she won’t, and that if...

Dear Democrats, The Party’s Over
To say the Democrats blew it in the midterm elections would be an understatement. The governor’s race s...

Don’t Blame Cutler: Maine Should Follow Portland’s Lead
Who knows why people vote the way they do. There are countless potential reasons for every ballot box decision...

Portland Green Party Candidates Challenge Two-Party System
With voters’ attention focused almost exclusively on the congressional and gubernatorial races, many hav...

Top 3 Conservative Myths about the Minimum Wage
In my inaugural column, on August 22nd, for the newly re-launched The West End News, I addressed the need for...

Raise My Wage, Please!
There is good news and bad news on the effort to raise the minimum wage in Portland. The good news is that Por...

Congress Square: Time to Speed Up the Process
The concrete plaza in the heart of Portland’s Art District has been scheduled for a facelift for almost a deca...



































































































































































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
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
“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
If there is any hope to be found in the recent police killings–and subsequent exoneration of the officers involved–of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, it has been illustrate... Read more
A couple of months ago there was meeting put on by our local NAACP chapter at the Portland Public Library to respond to the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri, where a white police officer shot to... Read more
I’m not interested in Elizabeth Warren’s unlikely run for President. Why? She has said she won’t, and that if she does, it will be on a Clinton/Warren ticket. Elizabeth Warren isn’t actually... Read more
To say the Democrats blew it in the midterm elections would be an understatement. The governor’s race should have been theirs to win. Instead, not only was Republican Gov. Paul LePage... Read more
Who knows why people vote the way they do. There are countless potential reasons for every ballot box decision. Patterns can be recognized. There are always surprises. But, your guess is as... Read more
With voters’ attention focused almost exclusively on the congressional and gubernatorial races, many have overlooked the equally important campaigns for the state legislature and Portl... Read more
The Rule of Nobody
READER OPINION The Rule of Nobody By Zack Barowitz Below, police from twelve law enforcement agencies deploy r...