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DEIRDRE FULTON
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Lots of hot air
Going Green
Independent US Senate candidate Angus King opened a recent debate at the University of Southern Maine by congratulating Chris Sauer, president and CEO of Maine's Ocean Renewable Power Company, which has started generating electricity for the power grid from its tidal-energy turbine in Cobscook Bay.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| September 19, 2012
Guns on the street
A police story
Around 6 pm on Wednesday evening, I was walking with a friend who was carrying his rifle across Congress Street to my car.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| September 19, 2012
Yes on One? Duh
You’ve heard all the arguments, seen all the evidence. Are you really still against same-sex marriage?
It would be awesome if this was the last thing I ever had to write about the gay-marriage debate.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| September 12, 2012
Does Portland desire a streetcar?
Transit Alternatives
Imagine hopping onto a streetcar downtown and being whisked in the direction of your home, whether that be on the East End or in an off-peninsula neighborhood.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| September 12, 2012
MOFGA fair hosts big-name food and farm revolutionaries
Common Ground
In a frank essay published on her blog a few years back, author, farmer, and Radical Homesteader Shannon Hayes came clean about what she dubbed "a new cadre of women — the Über-Moms. We are the over-educated over-achievers, sidestepping the conventional rat race in favor of an alternative maelstrom."
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| September 05, 2012
Curbside composting
Going Green
It seems like such a no-brainer; it's almost shocking that the curbside compost pick-up idea has taken so long to catch on around here.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| August 29, 2012
Challenging the cinematic norms of gay culture
Film Series
There's no doubt that this fall will bring heated debates about gay rights, as Mainers vote on giving same-sex couples the right to marry.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| August 29, 2012
Reconnecting Portland and Auburn by rail
All Aboard
One of these afternoons, head down to the Grand Trunk building at the bottom of India Street and take a look at the plaque on the wall.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| August 22, 2012
Tar Sands Disaster?
Big oil’s risky plan could have massive environmental impacts on Maine
The activists, clad mostly in black, flowed slowly and silently down Battery Street in Burlington.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| August 15, 2012
What it takes to make films in Maine
Moving Pictures
After being without one for more than six months, the state Department of Economic and Community Development has hired a new director of the Maine Film Office, which works to lure all image-interested folks, from catalog photographers to big-budget movie producers, to the Pine Tree State.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| August 15, 2012
Mainers, Occupiers rally in Vermont
Protest Watch
A boisterous, multi-lingual, angry crowd of about 500 — including a sizeable contingent from Maine — gathered in Burlington, Vermont on Sunday.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| August 01, 2012
This agrarian life
Going Green
Half of all current farmers are expected to retire within this decade, according to the US Department of Agriculture; for every one farmer and rancher under the age of 25, there are five who are 75 or older.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| August 01, 2012
Republicans step up to defend equality
Gay-Marriage Watch
A group of about 20 Maine Republicans announced their support for same-sex marriage at a press conference on Monday, which advocates hope is "another way of showing how people have changed their minds on this issue over the last few years," according to Matt McTighe, the campaign manager for Mainers United for Marriage.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| July 25, 2012
A new campaign works to bring breastfeeding into the open
It’s just food
You're out to dinner, or at the grocery store, or sitting in the movie theater, and you see a woman nursing her baby.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| July 18, 2012
Against deadly drones
Peace Movement
Drone warfare — the use of remote-controlled, unmanned aircraft to carry out air strikes against supposed terrorists — is on the rise and has been over the last few years.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| July 11, 2012
Considering Monica Wood’s heartfelt memoir
Another Maine, another time
It's April, 1963, in Mexico, Maine — a town on the Androscoggin River in the Western part of the state.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| July 03, 2012
Seating Arrangements tackles propriety, love, and whales
Island adventure
Winn Van Meter, the patriarch of the WASP-y New England family portrayed in Maggie Shipstead's debut novel Seating Arrangements, likes things just so.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| July 03, 2012
Portland activist in Palestine
International Relations
Danny Muller, Portland resident and former executive director of Peace Action Maine, first traveled to Palestine in 2003 with Barbara Lubin, founder of the Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA), a California-based non-profit humanitarian aid organization.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| July 03, 2012
Up in the air
Going Green
In late June, Maine senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins voted for our health when they voted against a proposal to block the Environmental Protection Agency's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for power plants.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| July 03, 2012
Open-carry activist takes to the streets
Gun Rights
On a recent sunny morning at Coffee By Design on Congress Street, Norman Hamann is well-armed.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| June 20, 2012
New film deepens 9/11 Truth effort
Still Seeking
More than 50 people turned out on Monday evening to see 9/11: Explosive Evidence — Experts Speak Out , the latest documentary from Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth), the non-profit activist organization that claims Americans don't know the whole truth (or even half of it) about the World Trade Center collapses on September 11, 2001.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| June 13, 2012
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