Spend Saturday afternoon hearing stories at the Maine Irish Heritage Center.
2025
Posted inPortland Forecaster, The Forecaster
Portland philosophy professor compiles 18 years of pop culture analysis
Based on a philosophy blog that he has been running for 18 years, USM philosophy professor Jason Read’s new book “Unemployed Negativity” contemplates popular culture and what it says about us all.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Opinion: Maine Right to Repair law is worth celebrating, defending
Efforts to gut the popular measure must be thwarted.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Opinion: Tariffs a no-win situation for the American consumer
We should be focused on helping American businesses to be more competitive instead.
Posted inDo This, Food, Leslie Bridgers, Maine
Happy hour-maxxing: An Old Port bar crawl that gets you more for less
Follow this five-stop route for food and drink specials that will fill you up and then some for under $45.
Posted inLetters
Letter: Gardening coverage should not be pruned
Reading the editor’s note on Page 2 of the Food & Dining section in the Jan. 5 paper indicating there would be changes to the section in 2025, brought me hope that you would begin featuring more gardening articles or bring back a full gardening section. But, to my dismay, that was not the case. […]
Posted inDo This
Throwback photos: Winter in Portland in the ’50s and ’60s
Mainers braved many harsh winters decades ago.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Bipartisan tax break for retirees on the chopping block
A tax deduction on pension income won bipartisan support three years ago, but is now at the center of a partisan battle over tax increases in the proposed two year-budget.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
How the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came home to Maine
‘Final First Edition’ is a brisk, stylish, cheeky-but-reverent portrait of fandom as organizing life principle.
Posted inLetters
Letter: When it comes to research, go by the book
Give me an encyclopedia over social media any day.