Bill Nemitz has worked as a journalist in Maine since 1977, when he became a reporter for the Morning Sentinel in Waterville after graduating from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He moved to Portland in 1983, working first as a reporter for the Evening Express and later as a city editor and assistant managing editor/sports for the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. He began writing his column in 1995. While focusing on Maine people and issues, his work has taken him three times to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan, where he was embedded with members of the Maine Army National Guard and the Army Reserve; to Belfast, Northern Ireland, for the 1998 referendum on the Good Friday Peace Accord; to Manhattan for the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks; to the Gulf Coast for the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; and to Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. Nemitz is a past president of the Maine Press Association and for many years taught journalism part-time at St. Joseph's College of Maine in Standish. He also served for eight years, including three as chairman, on the board of trustees for the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland. In 2004, the Maine Press Association named Nemitz Maine Journalist of the Year for his reporting on the Maine Army National Guard’s 133rd Engineer Battalion in Iraq. In 2007, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the New England Newspaper Association. In 2015, Nemitz was inducted into the Maine Press Association Hall of Fame. Nemitz lives in Buxton with his wife, Andrea. They have five children and four grandchildren.
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PublishedNovember 1, 2020
Bill Nemitz: It’s almost here – a banner day for the USA
As it has throughout our history, the political pendulum is moving as we vote.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2020
Bill Nemitz: Brooks Pentecostal Church, trying to climb out of a crisis, digs deeper
The pastor at the center of Waldo County’s COVID-19 outbreak finally apologized – or did he?
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PublishedOctober 25, 2020
Bill Nemitz: This is what teen democracy looks like
Just when Maine needs them most, high schoolers rise to the occasion as election workers.
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PublishedOctober 14, 2020
Bill Nemitz: The day the ‘news’ descended on the tiny town of Harrison
With video cameras rolling, ‘Hoosier News Now’ turned a peaceful day into a pain in the backside.
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PublishedOctober 4, 2020
Bill Nemitz: With Trump’s diagnosis comes a moment of clarity
Mainers now have a chance to bridge the COVID-19 divide.
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PublishedOctober 2, 2020
Bill Nemitz: It’s time to shove back against ‘push polls’
Assuming the perpetrators can be found.
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PublishedSeptember 27, 2020
Bill Nemitz: Drowning in political ads? Try this democracy preserver
Stand With Maine powers on in its quest to control campaign spending by way of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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PublishedSeptember 17, 2020
Bill Nemitz: As the fools in Washington speak, the guns in Maine multiply
Trump administration official Michael Caputo needs a time out. So do Mainers who are frantically stocking up on firearms.
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2020
Bill Nemitz: It’s now official – Donald Trump owns Maine Sen. Susan Collins
The Republican incumbent’s refusal to answer ‘the question’ betrays her fear of a president gone rogue.
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PublishedSeptember 6, 2020
Bill Nemitz: True grit – from public housing to a scholarship that bears her name
Local housing authorities, normally associated with putting a roof over low-income Mainers’ heads, help ‘break the cycle of poverty’ by way of a college education.
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