Every month PelotonLabs founder Liz Trice interviews a community member for The West End News. This month Liz caught up with Katie Shorey of Startup Maine and Live & Work in Maine. You h... Read more
By Mary Alice Scott Every year, Portland Buy Local produces an annual gift guide to inspire community members to shop locally and support the small businesses that make Portland a unique pla... Read more
Perspectives from the SkyAstrological Forecast for December 2020 Turning a Corner… Into a Dark Tunnel By Leo Knighton Tallarico December and the Winter Solstice bring an end to a quite chall... Read more
The West End News came together with volunteers from the neighborhood over Thanksgiving weekend to create a temporary memorial remembering those we have lost to Covid-19. Hundreds of handwri... Read more
We Need Public Funding for Cultured Meat Research
By Jon Hochschartner Jon Hochschartner is the author of a number of books about animal-rights history. He thinks the first two Strokes albums are pretty much perfect. Visit his website at Ho... Read more
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS BRIEF Munjoy Hill Affordable Housing Eight Munjoy Hill residents, fed up with soaring housing prices, are fighting back with a non-traditional housing development in Portla... Read more
Julian Rowand: Cooperative Housing Builds Equitable Communities Every month PelotonLabs founder Liz Trice interviews a community member for The West End News. This month, to celebrate Nation... Read more
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life What a Pile of Trash! By Rosanne Graef By the time you read this, the 2020 elections will finally be history. But much of the physical detritu... Read more
Reader Opinion By Zack Barowitz Until recently, there has not been much conversation about how land policy is used as an instrument of white supremacy nor the violence and economic harm that... Read more



The Rule of Nobody
READER OPINION The Rule of Nobody By Zack Barowitz Below, police from twelve law enforcement agencies deploy riot equipment and military-style tactics at racial justice demonstrations last J... Read more