News
Portland city departments face cuts under ‘drastically different’ budget proposal
Portland City Manager Jon Jennings has proposed cutting 65 jobs and requiring virtually all departments to cut their budgets by at least 5 percent...
Arts & Living
On Screen: ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’ is equal parts history, heroism,...
The legendary late U.S. Rep. John Lewis was 15 years old when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. inspired him to “get in...
On Music: New owner hopes to honor, continue Geno’s legacy
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. Is necessity the same as desperation? Because that’s what the music biz is feeling, and it’s...
Viewpoint
Politics & Other Mistakes: The microbes march on
The U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins and her Democratic challenger, Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, is a complex biological organism,...
Miserable & Magical: The walls are closing in
I don’t know if it’s because of COVID-19 or because I’m getting older, but I am very much over apartment life. Being cooped up...
Another Viewpoint: Rethinking Maine’s bicentennial: The stories we tell and the power they hold
Every day on my way to school growing up, I passed by the Blockhouse in New Gloucester. I still remember the story I was...
A View from the Hill: On the trail of Portland’s public art
A few weeks ago a small crowd gathered under a great catalpa tree in a lush, peaceful corner of Deering Oaks Park in Portland,...