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Councilors to Decide if Unhoused Should Remain in Dangerous Encampments
Disease, Rats, Fire, and Crime Infiltrate Harborview Park At Monday's meeting, Portland City Councilors will vote to enact a policy to allow camping on most city parks and sidewalks. The news of this proposal resulted from a Freedom of Access request by Enough is...
BREAKING: PORTLAND TO TAKE AFTER-ELECTION ACTION TO ALLOW “CAMPING” IN PUBLIC PARKS
Documents Show Pro-Encampment Councilors Working Behind-the-Scenes to Push Permanent Homeless Encampments Throughout City PORTLAND, Maine - Draft copies of a proposed ordinance to codify permanent homeless encampments by legalizing "camping" in most of Portland's...
“It’s Become Normalized” – Bayside Resident Describes Current Situation in Her Neighborhood
Sarah has lived in Portland’s Bayside neighborhood for more than 20 years. She admits that living near a shelter brings challenges, but that changed shortly before COVID-19 as the Opioid crisis grew, and crimes became more violent and directly impacted her property....
Crime Continues to Escalate as Kid’s Lobster Boat Stolen by Member of the Encampment
Ryan, who operates a third-generation fishing company, described multiple incidents with members of the Fore River and Casco Bay Bridge encampments but one theft that is difficult to imagine – a stolen lobster boat. His son is learning the ropes of the lobstering...
Growing Criminal Activity Impacting Employees and Customers
City Continues to Ignore Pleas for Remedy Enough is Enough interviewed retail workers, businesses, and residents over the last two months in the areas surrounding encampments. Untold stories of assaults, harassment, hard drug use, human waste, and discarded needles...
CITY REPORT SHOWS DSA REFERENDUMS WILL COST PORTLAND TAXPAYERS AT LEAST $6.5 MILLION ANNUALLY
Fiscal impact study shows ballot questions will raise property taxes at least 3.4% PORTLAND - A report released late Thursday by Interim City Manager Danielle West shows the 13 referendum questions on Portland's November ballot will cost taxpayers a minimum of...
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS ABANDON THEIR OWN REFERENDUM
Out-of-state Political Organization Now Rejecting Cruise Ship Ban They Put On the Ballot PORTLAND – The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a multi-million dollar national political organization that is targeting Portland with a series of ill-conceived referendums...
Short-term rental ballot question could complicate life on Portland’s islands
WGME A question headed to Portland voters this fall has some worried short-term rentals will effectively come to an end. Supporters of the ballot initiative say it will help with the affordable housing crisis. The hope is that by restricting short-term rentals, those...
Groups forming on both sides of Portland referendums
Portland Press Herald With the November election less than three months away, groups in Portland are gearing up for high-stakes campaigns and big spending for and against more than a dozen city ballot questions. As of Wednesday, five ballot question committees had...