Patrons can find comics and graphic novels in every part of the Portland Public Library. Here are the most popular titles right now by demographic. CHILDREN “Dog Man” series “Wings of Fire” series “Baby-Sitters Club” series TEENS “Lumberjanes” series “Heartstopper” series “Bleach” manga series ADULTS “Monstress” series Any Alison Bechdel memoir Anything in the […]
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Douglas Rooks: Transgender questions don’t justify Trump’s abuse
While the president may have a point about women’s athletics, the vilification of these athletes is uncalled for.
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Letter: Trump doesn’t deserve an apology, but owes plenty of them
President Trump has demanded a “full-throated (whatever that means) apology” from Gov. Janet Mills. Here is a partial list of people more deserving than Mr. Trump of an apology: • Serge Kovaleski, a reporter with a physical disability who, in 2015, was publicly mocked by candidate Trump. • Prominent political rivals, as well as heads […]
Posted inSouth Portland Sentry
Letter: Now is the time to invest in Cape Elizabeth school district staff
Feeling anxious and hopeless regarding our current political climate? Then now is the time to invest in the essential professionals working in our school system. Like other districts around us, Cape is facing a budget shortfall this season (see Sentry article “South Portland to lay off teachers, ed techs, administrators“). But ours is not due […]
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Opinion: Immigrants are our neighbors, not our enemies
How can a country that welcomed 12 million people through Ellis Island be so cruel to today’s newcomers?
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Letter: Freeport lots should be housing, not skatepark
Freeport Town Council and town management are considering converting municipal downtown parking into a skatepark at 0 Depot Street, the Amtrak parking lot. I oppose this departure from priorities taxpayers have identified in Freeport’s Downtown Vision 2020 and drafted 2025 comprehensive plan. If Freeport owns parking lots downtown that it doesn’t need, that’s a housing […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture
Bestsellers: ‘Sunrise on the Reaping,’ ‘Careless People’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Rare new construction on Falmouth Foreside has open design and fine finishing
$1.785 million | 98B Foreside Road, Falmouth
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Netflix, in the White House, with a charming whodunit
Creator Paul William Davies and cast members Uzo Aduba, Susan Kelechi Watson, Ken Marino and Randall Park discuss Netflix’s White House whodunit ‘The Residence.’
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Binnie Kirshenbaum once again blends bleakness with comedy
In her new novel, ‘Counting Backwards,’ a collage artist struggles with the declining health and hallucinations of her scientist husband.