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PopularMayor Snyder’s Electioneering Email Violates City Policy
by Kate Sykes | Oct 9, 2021 | News
For at least the last ten months, subscribers to Portland Mayor Kate Snyder’s monthly email...
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LatestWhy We Must Pass Question B: A Tenant’s Story
by Erica Snyder-Drummond | Oct 28, 2022 | Opinion
The true story of a Portlander who had to leave the neighborhood they called home when their old apartment was converted to a short-term rental. After weeks of searching while living with their partner, they managed to find a cramped one-bedroom apartment across town while their former home sits mostly vacant. Question B is out best shot at reducing housing insecurity in Portland.
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Behind the Scenes with Livable Portland Campaign
by Maine Mural Podcast | Oct 8, 2022 | News, Podcast
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A Survey of Political Demands in DSA
by Aaron Berger | Jan 10, 2023 | Opinion
Disclaimer: This essay is part of a current string of DSA-focused articles we are offering in the...
Read MoreWhy We Must Pass Question B: A Tenant’s Story
by Erica Snyder-Drummond | Oct 28, 2022 | Opinion
The true story of a Portlander who had to leave the neighborhood they called home when their old apartment was converted to a short-term rental.
After weeks of searching while living with their partner, they managed to find a cramped one-bedroom apartment across town while their former home sits mostly vacant. Question B is out best shot at reducing housing insecurity in Portland.
YES on Question D – Portland’s Workers Deserve It
by Pine and Roses Editorial Collective | Oct 11, 2022 | Editorials, Opinion
There are a number of questions on this year’s municipal ballot for Portland voters to decide....
Read MoreBehind the Scenes with Livable Portland Campaign
by Maine Mural Podcast | Oct 8, 2022 | News, Podcast
In January, 2022, the member run, member funded Maine chapter of Democratic Socialists of America...
Read MoreAnnouncing the Maine DSA Campaign for a Livable Portland
by Maine DSA Local Campaign Committee | Jun 2, 2022 | News
Maine DSA’s Campaign for a Livable Portland filed paperwork with the City of Portland to pursue four citizen initiatives for November 2022. These referenda are a bid to make the city that we love and reside in livable: not only for business owners, not only for landlords, developers, and seasonal residents, not only for the 1%, not only for tourists. Portland must be livable for Portland’s workers, Portland’s tenants, Portland’s families and Portland’s most vulnerable— the entire working class that calls Portland home.
Read MoreMIAC ‘shadow report’ raises questions about surveillance, targeting of vulnerable Mainers
by Dan Neumann | Apr 1, 2022 | News
The following was authored by Dan Neumann and originally published in the Maine Beacon. It is...
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