Landlord Gregory Nisbet is the owner of the Noyes Street multi-unit that caught fire last November, killing six young people. Tenants of one of his other properties located at 188 Dartmouth... Read more
On January 12th, the City unveiled “Fix It! Portland.”, a mobile app for Portlanders to report quality of life concerns. Fix It! Portland allows citizens to report a variety of issues, such... Read more
The Portland Police Departments’s credit union recently merged with TruChoice Federal Credit Union. In September, the police department’s credit union announced that a former emp... 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
According to a new report recently issued by the Research and Statistics Unit of the Bureau of Labor Standards, 19 Maine workers died from occupational or work-related injuries in 2013. That... Read more
The City offers numerous cross-country skiing, ice skating, sledding, snowshoeing and snowboarding opportunities. Grooming operations at Riverside Golf Course have been completed and seven k... Read more
The Congress Square Redesign Study Group met on Thursday, January 8th, in a joint meeting with the Land Bank and Parks Commissions. Both Commissions voted unanimously to recommend the City m... Read more
Chipotle and Dunkin’ Donuts will anchor a new shopping plaza on Marginal Way in the Bayside neighborhood. Construction is slated to start in May. The location is familiar to most as the form... Read more
After the deadly fire on Noyes Street in November, the City Manager set up a task force to review fire and code inspections and enforcement. On Monday, January 5th, the task force entered it... Read more
Your Job is a Prison
“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