Portland’s minimum wage experiment helped prove arguments on both sides of...
Many of you around Portland may have seen a recent article by the Christian Science Monitor passing through your social media news feeds over the last day or so. The national publication dropped into...
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Portland spends $15,000 for less than 3 percent of voters to approve the...
Portland Public Schools central offices on Cumberland Avenue. (BDN photo by Seth Koenig) Every May, Portland opens up polling places across the city so voters can weigh in on the school budget. The...
View ArticlePortland named the best small city in America ‘to spend the weekend’
The food, travel and culture website Thrillist.com has been kind to Maine. Last year, it named the Old Port one of the country’s best drinking neighborhoods, it put Portland on its list of the most...
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Portland podcaster reaches the big time, gets picked up by top network
Megan Tan (Ben Severance photo) I first spoke to Megan Tan almost exactly a year ago, at Hilltop Coffee. She’d started her podcast, “Millennial,” about five months earlier and was four episodes in, but...
View ArticleSay goodbye to split fingernails. Mainers are reinventing the keychain
Hallelujah. Zootility Tools out of Portland wants to remake the keychain. You know, the little spiraled metal ring that you have to sacrifice a fingernail to every time you want to put a new key on?...
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3 reasons to be optimistic about Portland’s top choice for superintendent
Portland Public Schools central offices on Cumberland Avenue. (BDN photo by Seth Koenig) Xavier Botana is the presumptive nominee to become the next superintendent of schools in Portland. The district...
View ArticleThe 10 cities in America that love Portland the most
With the summer tourism season about to kick off, the Portland Convention + Visitors Bureau delivered an interesting presentation Tuesday night to the City Council’s Economic Development Committee. The...
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Portland has picked a Philly design team to overhaul Congress Square. Here...
The city of Portland announced this afternoon the selection of Philadelphia-based WRT as its design team to lead a potentially ambitious overhaul of Congress Square. It’s the latest news in the...
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7 times Portland public art has made the news for reasons other than being...
News that some Portland city councilors and their constituents were lukewarm, at best, about a street lamp sculpture being proposed for Woodfords Corner makes me think about the times when pieces in...
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That time David Ortiz admitted he didn’t know where Maine is
Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz (BDN photo by Troy R. Bennett) Over his long career, retiring Boston slugger David Ortiz has established himself as a hero among baseball fans throughout Red Sox...
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