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Opinion: Our Nation\u27s Doorsteps
No full textEditorial urging Mainers to welcome refugees and asylum seekers, deploring the racist and dehumanizing rhetoric being aimed at them in person and online
Access to Justice
No full textPhotos and blurb noting Steve Rowe as the 2023 recipient of the Hon. Edmund S. Muskie Access to Justice Award
Farmers Markets
No full textParagraph noting the work of local farmers at Cultivating Community\u27s farms, Liberation Farms, and New Roots. Lists farmers markets and farm stands where produce from these farms is available
The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center...
No full textCaptioned photos and a paragraph noting a celebration held by The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center
Good Things from Maine: Micro Managing
No full textA very brief account of Maine Micro Artisans, a retail space for Maine micro-entrepreneurs to sell their wares and develop a customer base. Notes the expansion of the project to include a presence in the Bangor Mall
Good Things from Maine: Reading Rainbow
No full textSnippets noting Setting, Theme, and Rec[ommended title] describe three new Maine bookstores: Back Cove Books in Portland, Anodyne in Searsport, and Grump and Sunshine in Belfast
Maine Homes: Home is Where the Art Is
No full textA brief description of Art Acre, a home-gallery mash-up situated in the Southwest Harbor dwelling of Bowen and Christine Swersey. Explains how the Swerseys and their friends Frank Relle and Romy Leonides, all artists, shared the home during the coronavirus pandemic and have now chosen to show the art that they created during that time in the house itself
Speaker Talbot Ross Discusses Big Issues: An Interview with Jean D. Hakuzimana
No full textExcerpts from an interview with Rachel Talbot Ross, Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives. Ross discusses systemic racism as well as the state\u27s housing crisis and how both chambers are coming together to address the crisis. She also speaks about what is being done for immigrants and about the need for African Americans and recent African immigrants to learn from each other
Somali Bantu Community Association
No full textBrief report about the Somali Bantu Community Association (SBCA) in Lewiston. The SBCA is planning to build a goat barn and a corn house at Liberation Farms. The new offices at 222 Pine Street are busy with programming, including licensing training for childcare providers, basket weaving classes, and a homeowner\u27s class, among other programs
2023 Cloudy Forecast: Burdensome Regulations Spur Gloomy Outlook Among Lobstermen
No full textKristan Porter of the Maine Lobstermen\u27s Association reflects on proposed new regulations aimed at protecting the right whale and the current and potential effects these regulations could have on the lobstering industry. [One segment of 2023 Cloudy Forecast, abstracted separately.