The City Council’s City Manager Search Committee is seeking public input. Its consultant, Municipal Resources, Inc., has developed a survey to help the committee better understand what... Read more
What’s the hubbub about the Portland Complex (58 Fore Street) and rezoning the Eastern waterfront? If developers CPB2 get what they want, new zoning would allow them to build a bustling wate... Read more
Submitted by Nils Werner We’ve all seen the bumper sticker: “61% did not vote for Governor Lepage”. While that margin shrank in 2014, the Governor once again failed to secure more than 50% o... Read more
By Asher Platts I recently attended a lecture by economist Dr. Richard Wolff at the University of Southern Maine (USM). He was there to talk about marxist economics, the rejection of the fal... Read more
Imagine a 32′ lobster boat anchoring itself directly in the path of a huge steam ship with 40,000 pounds of Appalachian coal. That is the story of environmental activists Ken Ward and... Read more
By Adam Marletta Do not be swayed by the class-baiting corporate news pundits, or the vitriolic poor-bashing letters to the editor in your local newspaper. The recent disclosure that 13 indi... Read more
Submitted by Michael Anthony The summer of ’87, just a few months after I was born, my grandmother wrapped herself in a garbage bag and laid down on the steps of City Hall to protest t... Read more
Newsflash… Portland declared marijuana legal. Yet, after the first year of being legal, the number of marijuana citations in the city actually went up. In fact, citations increased by... Read more
by Leo Knighton Tallarico March opens up a major portal of change. As this portal opens, intensified winds of change will bring world events that will reshape our human condition on Earth. P... Read more
Class Dismissed
By Adam Marletta The recent outcry over three South Portland high school students’ attempts to educate their fellow students of their constitutional rights by encouraging them to stan... Read more