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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PublishedJanuary 31, 2018
Maine’s Republican director failed to file income tax returns
Jason Savage, who has been linked to the anonymous right-wing website Maine Examiner, says ‘it’s been an unfortunate personal situation with many factors beyond my control.’
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2018
Bill Nemitz: With no border wall to keep out racists, Jackman learns Maine employers have to weed them out
The possibility of inadvertently putting a racist in a government job probably hasn’t occurred to many who do the hiring, but the Tom Kawczynski case suggests it should.
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PublishedJanuary 21, 2018
Bill Nemitz: What are the rules of the road for marijuana?
Impaired driving on pot looms as one of the most vexing challenges facing policymakers and police alike.
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2018
Bill Nemitz: Debacle in Maine classroom shows trickle-down effect of Trump’s immigrant bashing
Behavior that would have been out of bounds in the pre-Trump world has become acceptable to many people, and it cost a substitute teacher her job.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2018
Bill Nemitz: When it comes to pot, Attorney General Sessions increasingly alone in futile fight
His decision to end an Obama-era policy that had federal authorities look the other way on pot-law enforcement ignores the obvious social movement in the opposite direction.
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PublishedJanuary 7, 2018
Bill Nemitz: Signature gathering all part of Election Day fun
Petition circulators and information distributors are key parts in the civic engagement process.
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PublishedDecember 31, 2017
2017 Mainer of the Year: Sen. Susan Collins
Her swing vote in the U.S. Senate has put her at the epicenter of political power with leverage that the Trump administration must reckon with.
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PublishedDecember 22, 2017
Bill Nemitz: With raised ax in plain sight, Collins went out on a limb
Despite signs that her health care protection bills wouldn’t be voted on by year’s end as promised, she supported tax reform anyway and now critics are saying she was played.
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PublishedNovember 30, 2017
Bill Nemitz: Another target of Republican tax bill: donations to nonprofits
No tax deduction means less incentive to donate, which in turn means less money for the local church, soup kitchen, youth group or myriad other organizations.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2017
Bill Nemitz: 100+ Women Who Care are building community one $50 check at a time
On the southern Maine chapter’s 3rd anniversary, the organization continues to show how easy it can be to raise cash for some of the region’s most pressing social needs.
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