Bill Nemitz has worked as a journalist in Maine since 1977, when he became a reporter for the Morning Sentinel in Waterville after graduating from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He moved to Portland in 1983, working first as a reporter for the Evening Express and later as a city editor and assistant managing editor/sports for the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. He began writing his column in 1995. While focusing on Maine people and issues, his work has taken him three times to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan, where he was embedded with members of the Maine Army National Guard and the Army Reserve; to Belfast, Northern Ireland, for the 1998 referendum on the Good Friday Peace Accord; to Manhattan for the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks; to the Gulf Coast for the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; and to Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. Nemitz is a past president of the Maine Press Association and for many years taught journalism part-time at St. Joseph's College of Maine in Standish. He also served for eight years, including three as chairman, on the board of trustees for the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland. In 2004, the Maine Press Association named Nemitz Maine Journalist of the Year for his reporting on the Maine Army National Guard’s 133rd Engineer Battalion in Iraq. In 2007, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the New England Newspaper Association. In 2015, Nemitz was inducted into the Maine Press Association Hall of Fame. Nemitz lives in Buxton with his wife, Andrea. They have five children and four grandchildren.
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PublishedOctober 5, 2014
Bill Nemitz: Mill closing turns debates into tests of crisis reaction
The bad news in Bucksport forces the three candidates for governor to get specific this week about dealing with an economic shock wave.
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PublishedOctober 3, 2014
Bill Nemitz: What’s scarier than bears? State officials in campaign ads
Uniformed employees aren’t going on TV to inform us, but to frighten us into opposing a ban on baiting.
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PublishedSeptember 28, 2014
Bill Nemitz: In Gov. LePage, we see spitting image of liar
He repeatedly uses fiction as his weapon of choice when faced with a world that isn’t quite as terrible as he wants us to believe.
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PublishedSeptember 26, 2014
Bill Nemitz: Don’t suffer with slow Internet, rural Maine
Small towns elsewhere are building their own high-speed networks to avoid sliding into the digital dark ages.
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PublishedSeptember 21, 2014
Bill Nemitz: Republican mouthpiece owes us all an apology
Then the party should show David Sorensen the door.
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PublishedSeptember 14, 2014
Bill Nemitz: Fleeing energy forum for NASCAR promotion says much about LePage
The governor forgoes an energy discussion to launch a racing initiative that probably won’t help Maine one bit.
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PublishedSeptember 12, 2014
Bill Nemitz: Maine Republican hijinks turn political arena into a playpen
Stealth recordings raise more questions about Republican tactics than Mike Michaud’s suitability to be our next governor.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2014
Bill Nemitz: A Labor Day colored by workers’ wins and worries
At last, a Labor Day that means more than just the long weekend when we squeeze the last precious drops out of summer. If your mind doesn’t touch down on the plight of working people sometime Monday, then you haven’t been paying attention. Last week, the 40-day standoff between Market Basket supermarket workers and a […]
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PublishedAugust 27, 2014
Bill Nemitz: Ads praising LePage’s work on economy a snow job
With the experienced businessman at the helm, Maine’s recovery from recession is trailing the pack.
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PublishedAugust 13, 2014
Bill Nemitz: Young Maine writers gather telling truths
People on the street reveal the biggest regrets of their lives to the young inquisitors.
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