On December 11th, the Finance Committee of the City Council held a public hearing on raising the minimum wage to $9.50 per hour. At the hearing, businesses and lobbyists opposed the raise, w... Read more
As I write this on December 16, 2014, we have just passed another Uranus square Pluto exact aspect on December 15th. This is the 6th of 7 exact squares between Uranus and and Pluto from 2012... Read more
On December 16th, local nonprofit Green Initiatives Education Fund held a press conference with Food and Water Watch to call on Mainers to oppose a bill that has been called the “Denying Ame... Read more
A couple of months ago there was meeting put on by our local NAACP chapter at the Portland Public Library to respond to the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri, where a white police officer shot to... Read more
Construction Crew Brings Potential Bomb to the Police On the afternoon of December 11th, a local construction crew found what appeared to be a bomb on the job. They brought the suspicious it... Read more
Noor Ibrahim, 27 years old of South Portland, was arrested by Portland police this morning after crashing his car into several parked vehicles on Oxford Street. Before police arrived, a citi... Read more
The Portland Well (Wellness Resource Center) in the Woodbury Campus Center is collecting items for USM students displaced by the Noyes Street Fire. For more information, or to make arrangeme... Read more
On Wednesday, December 10th, member-owners, local farmers, and Mayor Michael Brennan cut the ribbon on the Portland Food Co-op’s full-service market. Open to the public seven days a week, th... Read more
The day before the big Thanksgiving Day game, amidst allegations of racial insensitivity, Deering High School football coach Matt Riddell quit. Allegations from a student’s parents rea... Read more
Fear Of a Black Planet
If there is any hope to be found in the recent police killings–and subsequent exoneration of the officers involved–of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, it has been illustrate... Read more