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Opioid Response Summit

Posted By: Editoron: August 05, 2019In: Cause Blog, Commentary, Featured, Our ReadersNo Comments

By: Lizzy Handschy, Co-Executive Director Portland Overdose Prevention Society On Monday, July 15th over one thousand people gathered for the state’s first-ever Opioid Response Summit. For m... Read more

Where is the Shelter Relocation Going?

Posted By: Editoron: April 08, 2019In: Cause Blog, CommentaryNo Comments

By Zack Barowitz One thing that everyone can agree upon is that the Oxford Street Emergency Shelter is overcrowded and inadequate for both people experiencing homelessness and the neighborho... Read more

Bogus “Russiagate” Story Finally Implodes

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: April 01, 2019In: Commentary, UncategorizedNo Comments

by Adam Marletta Robert Mueller’s long-awaited investigation is finally over and for Democrats it is like waking up to a stocking full of coal on Christmas Day. That is because the decidedly... Read more

The Democrats are Also Climate Change Deniers

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: March 17, 2019In: Cause Blog, Commentary, CommentaryNo Comments

The Portland Phoenix made an excellent selection with their “Tweet of the Week,” for the Feb. 28, 2019 issue. In it, Eric Holthaus, a meteorologist and staff writer for Grist, tweets: There... Read more

Trump’s New Cold War

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: February 26, 2019In: Cause Blog, Commentary, CommentaryNo Comments

by Adam Marletta Trump is afraid of the socialist movement. He should be. A scourge is haunting the Trump White House: The scourge of communism. How else to explain Donald Trump’s recent (an... Read more

Of Referenda, Moratoria & Fable

Posted By: Rosanne Graefon: January 08, 2019In: Commentary, La Vida LocalNo Comments

LA VIDA LOCAL: IRREGULAR NOTES ON WEST END LIFE By Rosanne Graef Ready for another round of the battle for the Peninsula, brought to you by the City of Portland? After the fights over Midtow... Read more

Enough is Enough…

Posted By: Christian Torpon: September 06, 2018In: Cause Blog, CommentaryNo Comments

Authorized by Title XIX of the Social Security Act, Medicaid was signed into law in 1965 alongside Medicare. All states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories have Medicaid prog... Read more

Corporate Media: The Real Enemy of the People

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: August 20, 2018In: Cause Blog, Commentary, UncategorizedNo Comments

By Adam Marletta On Aug. 16, 350 daily newspapers banded together to denounce Donald Trump’s ongoing war on the press, which he has derided as perpetuating “fake news,” and as the “en... Read more

Capitalism, Not Individual Behavior or “Human Nature,” Caused Climate Change

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: August 12, 2018In: CommentaryNo Comments

By Adam Marletta Two recent letters to the editor in the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram illustrate the limits of the conventional thinking on climate change and how we ca... Read more

All Out to Oppose Brett Kavanaugh and a Feminist Dystopia

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: July 30, 2018In: Cause Blog, CommentaryNo Comments

By Adam Marletta Regular readers of this column do not need me to tell them that Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, would be an appalling disaster for wome... Read more

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