Councilor Dave Marshall has been working with City staff to draft an ordinance to ban at least some pesticide use. “It is my intent to bring an ordinance,” said Councilor Dave Marshall at th... Read more
A “pop-up” park is a temporary park that pops-up seasonally on a closed urban street. Jim Brady, a local businessman involved with the Press Hotel, brought the idea forward after visiting th... Read more
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
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