While we’re all busy just trying to stay alive, there’s speculation that Republican legislators in Maine are staging an attempt to disparage Speaker of the Maine House Sara Gideon in order to score points for Susan Collins. Democratic state legislators have voted twice to return to Augusta to finish work on hundreds of bills, 74% […]
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Letter: Wartime analogy ‘fitting’ for Trump, Balentine
It’s so perfect that when John Balentine gets all snarky with our teachers and belittles their health concerns (“Rise from your foxholes, teachers,” Aug. 12) that he fittingly invoked this as an example: “President Trump fittingly invoked a wartime analogy when he portrayed the fight against the virus as a war against an invisible enemy. […]
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Portland police, firefighters rescue suicidal man from burning shed
Police spent more than 2 hours negotiating with a man suffering a mental health crisis on Parris Street on Friday night before they rescued him from a burning shed.
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Friends of Fort Gorges launches fundraising campaign
PORTLAND — Friends of Fort Gorges has launched a $500,000 “Your Fort” fundraising campaign to help preserve the more than 150-year-old former military fort in Casco Bay. If the group can raise $250,000, the city is offering a $250,000 match grant. The fundraising campaign is the first for the organization, which is “committed to the […]
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Council seeks applicants for racial equity steering committee
PORTLAND — The city is looking for residents who are interested in serving on a racial equity steering committee. The committee will have nine to 13 members with backgrounds in racial equity work who will make recommendations to the City Council on how city government can address institutional racism and inequities. The first focus will […]
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Maine Voices: COVID-battered local businesses need Congress to step up
Lawmakers should forgo time off and work on automatic forgiveness of small PPP loans, commercial rent and mortgage relief and more funding support.
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Old Port merchants say city’s pedestrian-only streets may be driving customers away
The temporary closure to vehicle traffic of 6 Old Port streets was designed to help restaurants create outdoor dining space so they could reopen safely and slow the spread of the coronavirus.
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City Hall encampment ends, but some homeless still have nowhere to go
Portland is still searching for ways to provide basic needs to unsheltered homeless people after a 2-week protest at City Hall disbanded.
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Maine Voices: Yes, there is a way to create affordable homes for ownership in Portland
A Greater Portland Community Land Trust development will provide ‘missing middle’ housing without city subsidies.
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Councilors say Portland must tell residents more about health programs city provides
City spending has come under increased scrutiny amid calls to defund police and shift more money to health and human services.