If you have never listened to T. Boone Pickens, you will likely be pleasantly surprised.

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Yes, that’s Mr. Kevin Donoghue, Portland City Councilor learning first hand the business of taxi service. Kevin is a car-free resident, bike-advocate and Portland’s youngest elected city official. Since taking office in 2007 Kevin has been leading the charge of re-connecting street grids and expanding public transportation options for greater Portland.
Sally snapped this photo of [...]

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Cocoa Tea’s new song “Barack Obama”

Interview with Cocoa Tea about his song “Barack Obama”

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Amnesty International was in Downtown Portland for the last two days, featuring a Guantanamo Bay Cell. The Cell is a protest of the human rights violations of the United States in Guantanamo. The US Administration, being the smart cookies they are, uses this Cuban base to operate outside of the law of the United States.

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Meet Justin Alfond
Democratic Candidate for State Senate District 8
May 15th from 7-8:30 pm
253 Congress Street
(home of Port City Studios and Eli Phant)
Peter Eiermann, Sally Struever & Nolan Thompson invite you to join us for a meet and greet with Justin Alfond- former Director of the League of Young Voters, and currently a candidate for State [...]

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The New York Times had the following piece on the former mayor of Providence, Vincent Cianci. After serving four and a half years for racketeering, Buddy is now back; live on the air at WPRO 630. Four hours a day, five days a week, the story continues…
Read the article here
Image Source: New York [...]

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This Thursday at 2pm at Maine Green Building Supply, the City of Portland will hold a press event regarding the release of the Sustainable Portland Taskforce Report and Brochure (Port City Studios did the editing and design for the brochure). From the Press Advisory:
This Thursday, the Sustainable Portland Taskforce will release its Sustainable Portland Report. [...]

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Over a hundred people attended a recent transportation planning session organized by the City of Portland’s Transportation Committee. The committee recently launched a Peninsula Transit Study to evaluate potential methods and benefits of expanding and optimizing a transportation system for the Portland Peninsula that emphasizes public and human powered transit as a preferred feasible alternative [...]

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There was a busy scene in the Obama campaign office on Westminster Street, Friday night. With 11-days until the RI primary, there is no time to sleep. I am sure the Clinton and McCain offices were just as busy – but they weren’t across the street from my bar.

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The Associated Press and New York Times covered a great story about a federal judges attempt to shut down an on-line site which allows anybody to post documents; mainly un-told stories, leaks, and private information for all the world to see. WikiLeaks describes itself as a web-tool that is developing an uncensorable system for untraceable [...]

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On December 17th, the City Council in Missoula Montana voted to approve an ordinance allowing city residents to keep chickens, with a 8 to 4 vote. The video below documents the controversy that raged in the City leading up to the contentious vote. I especially love the shots of the chickens in front of what [...]

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Thursday, February 21, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Ocean Gateway Marine Passenger Terminal
Commercial Street, next to the Maine State Pier and Casco Bay Ferry Terminal
The City of Portland invites the public to attend a public forum on transportation and public transit. The feedback received at this meeting will help shape the City’s Peninsula Transit Study. The [...]

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This was posted in honor of Bush’s last State of the Union Address. For those of you  that don’t read HTML the / = end.
Via: Madison Street Art Collection on Flickr

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The Library of Congress joined the Flickr network last week as part of a campaign to make LOC materials more accessible. Two groups of photos were added to the new LOC account, 1600 color images of the 1930s-40s and 1500 images of news in the 1910s.

As you know the LOC is the national library for [...]

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So it goes – the business as usual attitude, which has dominated Providence for the past 50 years has proven once again to be so entrenched that even a public RFP process can be corrupted to benefit the wealthy and connected. In this case the winner is - The Carpionato Family.
The Providence Fruit and Produce [...]

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Portland, Maine Mayor Ed Suslovic will announce next week the formation of a new City Committee focused on energy and the environment. The councilors serving on the new committee will most likely be Jim Cohen, Dave Marshall and Mayor Suslovic.
The EEC is going to tackle issues like decreasing the City’s energy costs, installing renewable energy [...]

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Pay up sucker – 5 cents soon for every bottle of water sold in the City. Mayor Daley and the City of Chicago have created a new “Tap Water Delivers” campaign starting in January to be rolled out with the new tax.
The program is aimed at getting people do drink tap water. In my opinion [...]

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If you missed the energy bill debate this summer and didn’t see the few obscure articles about its contents, then you may be surprised to learn of the unlimited loan guarantees that will be offered to large energy corporations. These guarantees will help fund the construction of new Liquid Coal and Nuclear plants. What a [...]

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The New York Times had two good articles this morning that I enjoyed reading. Both messages were about the lack of consumers interest in the products they buy and the way they pay for them. The first story titled, New York Manhole Covers, Forged Barefoot in India by Photo Journalist Adam Huggins had a very [...]

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