Joey Brunelle for Portland

Why many of Portland’s neighborhood leaders are supporting Joey Brunelle for City Council.

I want to bring a public financing clean elections program to Portland to prevent special interests, wealthy donors, and kingmakers from…

Why I support a South Portland-style pesticide ordinance that requires organic land care.

Campaign spending in Portland City Council races is out of control. It’s up to candidates to fix it.

I am a descendant of the kind of people that President Trump wants to keep out of the United States.

We set out to show a better way of campaigning and governing. We lost the election, but we’re just getting started.

So I’ve been trying to figure what the disconnect is between the City of Portland and those of us in Portland’s LGBTQ community.

Last night I went to a meeting organized by a coalition of community organizations to discuss Portland’s housing crisis.

This week, a consulting firm selected by City Manager Jon Jennings released its report investigating police conduct during the George Floyd…

An in-depth look at who funded city council and school board candidates in Portland, Maine in 2018.

An in-depth look at who funded city council and school board candidates in Portland, Maine in 2018.

An in-depth look at who funded city council and school board candidates in Portland, Maine in 2018.

This case serves as a clear wake-up call to how out-of-date and self-destructive Portland’s current zoning and transportation policies are.

Building a “mega-shelter” in Nason’s Corner could repeat many of the mistakes of Bayside, and not make for better outcomes.

The inside story of how polling was weaponized in a small-town city council election.

Public hearings and votes to sell land in Bayside to developers, first reading of senior tax relief program and LED streetlight conversion…

Mystery meetings for the Nominations Committee and the MLK Recognition Task Force, then a panel discussion and public hearing on a new…

Impact fees for tax-exempt non-profits and for new developments, public hearings for the two citizens’ initiatives, votes on the cold…

Citizen initiatives make it onto the ballot, a ban on tiny houses, selling land for the Wex headquarters, a presentation on the $16 million…

Just pesticides — again.

The City Council is on vacation this week, but the Planning Board meets Tuesday to discuss the Maine Med expansion and proposed Rufus…

A public airing of grievances between the Mayor, the City Manager, and the Council, plus selling City-owned waterfront land to Wex.

The final vote on the Camelot Farm zone change, continued discussion of TIF reform, panel discussion on pesticides.