If Maine’s environmental integrity wasn’t at stake I would be laughing in my Moxie. I mean, the whole New England Clean Energy Connect debacle is just a perverted comedy of errors. Back room deals about Maine public lands – check. No need to involve the legislators because clear-cutting public lands doesn’t qualify as a significant […]
2021
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Columnist’s attack on his own race was uncalled for
I appreciate efforts by the editorial staff of the Maine Sunday Telegram to not allow baseless racist accusations to get published. But apparently, it is OK to throw your own race under the bus using baseless analogies and altering historical facts. Is that why columnist Bill Nemitz was allowed to have his column printed (“In […]
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Portland landlords, tenants feeling the pinch
Tax hikes and a rent control ordinance could combine to make the city’s housing even less affordable.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ director Malcolm D. Lee has never been afraid to give the people what they want
On first consideration, Malcolm D. Lee directing the second film in the Space Jam franchise makes about as much sense as anything in “Space Jam” makes sense. In the first movie, Looney Tunes characters recruit Michael Jordan to help them win a basketball game against a group of evil aliens intent on forcing the Tunes […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Need to explain, or understand, the United States today? Read this history
‘How the South Won the Civil War’ brilliantly explains today’s news by looking at yesterday’s.
Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Recipes
DIY cordials are simple to make, but patience is key
Save money, and supply yourself with delicious homemade gifts or an ingredient for your own household drinks.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Insight: Wildfires exhibit wild behavior
Fire tornados, fire induced windstorms and ‘dry lightning’ create new challenges in bone dry western forests.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-sellers: ‘We Will Rock Our Classmates,’ ‘Crying in H Mart’
The top 10 best-selling hardcover and paperback books in fiction and nonfiction at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
A true story of gay bullying turns preachy in the Mark Wahlberg movie ‘Joe Bell’
Based on a true story about the bullying of a gay teenager and its tragic consequences, the drama “Joe Bell” has a message to deliver. That message, which is good and necessary – urgent even – isn’t simply the point of this well-meaning movie. It’s the whole plot, which follows the teenager’s father, played by […]
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A son’s grieving tribute to greatness
Rodrigo Garcia’s ‘Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes’ takes readers into the private grieving for a public man.