by Adam Marletta Following President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address last week, the courtiers of corporate media have begun the obligatory philosophical bloviating on the pre... Read more
by Marilyn Miller “Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.” Charles Kettering, American inventor and engineer Want to start 2016 off ri... Read more
AMOS FARM Compost Part I Read more
Not Enough to Condemn Donald Trump, Let’s Beat Him by Wells Lyons Fear has set the stage for the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump. Fear of being maimed or killed in a terrorist a... Read more
by Emilia Scheemaker It’s hard to miss the construction going on at Deering Oaks Park. Backhoes and excavators have taken up residence in the park as they work to rebuild the bottom of the p... Read more
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree is tackling an issue that has long gone overlooked; food waste. On December 7th, Pingree introduced a bill in Congress that took aim at reducing the amount of w... Read more
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life Today’s Topic: I Hereby Resolve by Rosanne Graef, Past President – WENA Lose 10 pounds, learn Spanish, get out of debt, floss dail... Read more
by Nancy Dorrans Travel and skiing, have transformed and enriched my life in many ways. Both release me from my routine, and offer a way to use my senses differently with new tastes, people,... Read more
by Jenny Anastasoff Our esteemed publisher has deemed me the Local Newshound in the masthead, which may be overestimating my contributions to this worthy paper. You would think that with m... Read more



Alex Steed Responds to Adam Marletta
I was entertained by Adam Marletta’s response to my column about President’s Obama’s optimistic tone. From my minimal past engagement with Marletta, I can’t say I... Read more