Maine Craft in a Time of Corona An Interview with a Maine Craft Artist By Rosanne Graef My usual summer-time habit is to get ahead of a year’s worth of holidays, birthdays, and one-off gift-... Read more
By Tony Zeli Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, interest in local foods was burgeoning. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture interest in local food in Maine has seen a steady incr... Read more
By Mary Alice Scott It feels a little strange (actually, it feels very strange) to be moving towards “normal” operations right now. Between a global pandemic, important and long overdue conv... Read more
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life The Watched Pot By Rosanne Graef Although often attributed to Ben Franklin, the proverb “A watched pot never boils” didn’t appear in Poor Rich... Read more
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life Keep on Keepin’ On – With Some New Twists By Rosanne Graef After another month of holing up, hunkering down, and watching my husband’s c... Read more
Tara Treichel of SeaMade Every month Peloton Labs founder Liz Trice interviews a Peloton member for the West End News. This month Liz caught up with Tara Triechel, the owner of SeaMade, a Ma... Read more
Who owns Health Care? Part 2: The insurers and the large health systems By Dr. Oren Gersten In a Capitalist society the idea of ownership is central. Goods and services are bought and sold.... Read more
By Mary Alice Scott As businesses begin to carefully re-open, the challenges they face are immense. Portland Buy Local overwhelmingly represents micro-businesses. Two-thirds of our membershi... Read more
The Healers: Who owns health care part 3
Who owns health care? Part 3: The Healers By Dr. Oren Gersten Ancient Healers Healing has always been a part of human existence. Somewhere early in human evolution we learned that we could a... Read more