LA VIDA LOCAL: IRREGULAR NOTES ON WEST END LIFE By Rosanne Graef For 41 years, Maine has been blessed by the billboard law that bans off-premises billboards. Its passage resulted in the remo... Read more
Whitley Marshall, an American Red Cross blood drive supervisor and co-director of the Barefoot Truth Dance Company, will represent Orr’s Island in the Mrs. Maine-America pageant. Together wi... Read more
By Mary Alice Scott, PBL Executive Director A healthy, local business community makes Portland stand out from other coastal towns, gives residents access to a diverse array of products and s... Read more
By Adam Marletta On Aug. 16, 350 daily newspapers banded together to denounce Donald Trump’s ongoing war on the press, which he has derided as perpetuating “fake news,” and as the “en... Read more
By Cameron Autry In June Rosemont Market & Bakery teamed up with Reiche Elementary School to present a new community mural at the bakery’s West End location. Students of the Reiche Schoo... Read more
By Adam Marletta Two recent letters to the editor in the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram illustrate the limits of the conventional thinking on climate change and how we ca... Read more
Benefits of Buying a Home in the Summer By Tom Landry The most popular time to list a home in Maine is spring. I start getting calls from sellers in early March as the days lengthen and the... Read more
Protecting Land Along the Appalachian Trail – Peloton Posts
Every Month PelotonLabs founder Liz Trice catches up with a Peloton member. This month Liz talks with Mark Cheever and his dog Benton. Mark is a Development & Programs Consultant for the... Read more
By Adam Marletta Regular readers of this column do not need me to tell them that Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, would be an appalling disaster for wome... Read more



Enough is Enough…
Authorized by Title XIX of the Social Security Act, Medicaid was signed into law in 1965 alongside Medicare. All states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories have Medicaid prog... Read more