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re: 33 layoffs coming to Press Herald

Fake Name — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:37:24 GMT

I'm sure the Guild will be cc-ing you on future internal communications!

re: What the #OccupyMaine and #OccupyBangor folk have to say about messaging

Fake Name — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:13:21 GMT

......"there's no one to assassinate"????

re: Updates on #OccupyMaine - winter thoughts, rainy-day blues

Fake Name — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:41:32 GMT

When you're "bummed out" that your protest only has one protester, well, it might be time to re-evaluate your protest.

re: #OccupyMaine announces situation for RockupyMaine on Saturday!

Jeff Inglis — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:23:26 GMT

And look! there's more on their FB page: www.facebook.com/event.php

re: Back from the biggest #OccupyMaine GA yet!

Fake Name — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:33:10 GMT

I would like to further mock this blog post but it's obvious no one is reading it, so what's the point?

re: Back from the biggest #OccupyMaine GA yet!

Fake Name — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:04:25 GMT

This is the kind of award-winning journalism we've come to expect from The Portland Phoenix.

re: Glenn Hurowitz on the tar sands

Fake Name — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:24:08 GMT

Carbon is irrelevant. If you tune in to some part of the “debate”, and the participants are going on about Eevill CO2 and Saving the Planet, turn it off and go elsewhere. It simply means all of those people are liars and/or too ignorant to pound sand.

If the pipeline is not built, another will be, from the tar sands deposits to the Canadian West Coast, completely outside the jurisdiction of the U.S. Government (much to the frustration of the IRS and the other TLAs). It will be cheaper than Keystone-XL; not only will it be shorter, it will be cheaper per linear measure because it will be built under Canadian regulations, which focus on (gasp! choke!) pipeline safety, rather than maximizing saliva generation when kissing environmentalist ass. The oil will be pumped to Vancouver, where it will be loaded on tankers and taken (mostly) to China, where it will be burned to provide power to industry.

The oil will be produced, whether Keystone-XL is built or not.

The oil will be burned, whether Keystone-XL is built or not.

The carbon will enter the atmosphere, whether Keystone-XL is built or not.

So in this particular case, both “anthropogenic global warming” and environmental degradation at the production zone are irrelevant. The carbon dioxide is gonna get into the atmosphere, and the tar sands deposits are gonna get mined, whether Keystone-XL is built or blocked. There are some (minor) issues regarding environmental impact of the pipeline, and those might be worth debate, but Saving the Earth is not an issue in this context, and anybody who starts bloviating, passionately or otherwise, about Global Warming and CO2 emissions is too stupidly self-centered to realize what’s going on and/or deliberately trying to confuse the issue. -Ric Locke

re: More music isn't always better music

Beyette — Fri, 20 May 2011 06:40:55 GMT

you guys give this joke press. alright. alright. that's just alright.

re: Pot legalization bill release set for tomorrow at 10 am

Scott — Thu, 05 May 2011 00:12:49 GMT

Shouldn't this read "Pot RE-legalization bill...?"

Cannabis was legal in the United States from 1776 until the 1930's. This bill would end prohibition, not legalize something totally new.

re: Sussman in print?

Fake Name — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:03:29 GMT

Actually, I'd be upset too if my "fiancee" and I were revealed to be hypocrites in such a public way.

re: Sussman in print?

Fake Name — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:57:53 GMT

"Sussman....is rumored to still be upset at Portland Press Herald coverage last year of Pingree's use of his private jet for transportation".

Why is he upset? Perhaps some award winning journalists could ask him.

re: Sussman in print?

Fake Name — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:24:11 GMT

He has "no intention of starting a newspaper here or anywhere else."? So what is is the point of this post?

re: Press Herald's donation slammed by PPH reporters, Columbia Journalism Review

Lauren Kirchner — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:57:30 GMT

Hey Jeff, thanks for the post about my column. Just wanted to let your readers know that is scheduled to go up on CJR.org towards the end of March. Also that I will include a correction in both the online version and the next print issue to indicate that you and Al Diamon had the story first. Apologies for the mistake. Thanks again!

re: Stephen King takes on JFK assassination

BettyS — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:07:04 GMT

Go Stephen King (speaking in FL on unions, "stone brained" governors and more!): www.youtube.com/watch

re: Budget!!!!

Fake Name — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:08:13 GMT

I thought you guys were "award winning journalists"? Posts like this expose you more as "advocates" than anything else.