William Hessian and John “Sighless” Supinski have spent the last two months playing demo nights in every game store in greater Portland area, calling game stores across the count... Read more
UPDATE: As of December 22nd, Team Robots made their Kickstarter goal, raising $22,310 from 192 donors. They now have enough money to produce their first set of 5000 games. A success party wi... Read more
Portland Council’s Transportation Committee Requests Draft Ordinance to Regulate Uber Members of the Portland City Council’s Transportation, Sustainability and Energy Committee held its fina... Read more
This fall a West End organization, Side x Side, in partnership with the University of Southern Maine and Youth in Action, a West End nonprofit, accomplished something that has never been don... Read more
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
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