As the charter commission race enters election day, last night Portland City Council (which is 100 percent Democrats) voted for a moratorium that prohibits any shelters from being built in the Portland Bayside neighborhood for the next six months. The vote was 6-3 and the Bangor Daily News focused on the locals in the neighborhood pushing for this temporary ban. I am certainly not surprised urban home owning liberals would support such a move , I don’t think it’s the center of this story at all....

This new blog series will focus on discussing James Myalls Twitter threads. James is a visiting policy expert who works for the Maine Center for Economic Policy which is connected to The Democratic Party as well as the shady “grassroots” Maine People’s Alliance. What makes James amusing is like the late Nassau William Senior who was featured in Marx’s Capital James , the lawmakers and other folks he tweets about do stumble into some truths just like Senior stumbling into surplus value....

Its recently came to my attention that Troy Jackson is back on the stump bashing Canadian loggers in the Maine woods, which has been a hobby horse of Jackson’s. Troy has trotted this horse from his first failed run for office as a Republican to his ascent to Democratic State Senate Majority leader. Jackson has found an ally in congressman Jared Golden , both of whom are promoting the idea that Canandians are the enemy of Maine loggers and should be cut off from the Maine woods....