The city of Portland announced today that Danielle West-Chuhta has been picked as its first woman corporation counsel, a job that’s essentially the city’s top attorney. West-Chuhta is well-known in Portland, as she’s been on the city’s legal team since … Continue reading
Portland Mayor Michael Brennan was joined by Police Chief Michael Sauschuck and school Superintendent Emmanuel Caulk this morning at a news conference to renew calls for federal gun control. The news conference also coincided with the release of a video … Continue reading
The city of Portland announced Tuesday that two firefighters involved in a controversial October 2011 accident while using the department fireboat will see their suspensions reduced. That is the result of legal arbitration to resolve a dispute between the city … Continue reading
It’s only the second year of the University of Maine School of Law’s annual Justice for Women lectures, but the school is already attracting some of the world’s top names in that arena. Last year, Unity Dow, the first woman … Continue reading
When the Tuesday night earthquake hit, I was among many Maine reporters a small handful of miles away from its Hollis epicenter covering a police standoff with an armed man near the Dayton-Lyman border. Because the suspect in that case … Continue reading
This week I’ve been working on a story about women and girls in Maine being targeted by traffickers in this country’s sex slave trade. It’s a scary topic, for sure, and most everyone I talked to about it believes it’s … Continue reading
Earlier this week, we ran a story about how General Motors is recalling 38,000 Chevy Impala police cars. According to the AP, Impala police cruisers from model year 2008 through 2012 were found to have a weakness in their front … Continue reading
The highly anticipated Aug. 4 concert on the Eastern Promenade by the hit British folk rock band Mumford & Sons promises to attract about 15,000 people to the hill, which, even considering how popular a walking and fetch-playing site as … Continue reading
Gary Wood, who has led the city of Portland’s legal team for two decades, announced he will retire from the job Sept. 14. Wood was hired in 1991, and plans to spend more time in the Maine outdoors in his … Continue reading
As readers of this blog know, I try to make note of it when Portland or the institutions therein appear on a Top 10 or “best of” list published by a nationwide organization or publication. Most of the time, the … Continue reading
