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 18, 2014
Bill Nemitz: A post-ordeal debriefing, in the words of nurse Hickox
The health care worker, who never had Ebola, has moved to Freeport, is looking for a job, gets both praise and criticism, and hopes to return to Africa someday.
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PublishedNovember 13, 2014
Election’s outcome redefines the ‘two Maines’
It’s no longer north versus south, or rich versus poor. It’s now officially urban versus rural.
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PublishedOctober 12, 2014
Bill Nemitz: Freeport’s response to Ebola false alarm a healthy sign
While much of the U.S. is in a fever over the virus, we seem to be taking the threat in stride.
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PublishedOctober 5, 2014
Bill Nemitz: Mill closing turns debates into tests of crisis reaction
The bad news in Bucksport forces the three candidates for governor to get specific this week about dealing with an economic shock wave.
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PublishedSeptember 28, 2014
Bill Nemitz: In Gov. LePage, we see spitting image of liar
He repeatedly uses fiction as his weapon of choice when faced with a world that isn’t quite as terrible as he wants us to believe.
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PublishedSeptember 28, 2014
Bill Nemitz: In Gov. LePage, we see spitting image of liar
He repeatedly uses fiction as his weapon of choice when faced with a world that isn’t quite as terrible as he wants us to believe.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2014
Bill Nemitz: A Labor Day colored by workers’ wins and worries
At last, a Labor Day that means more than just the long weekend when we squeeze the last precious drops out of summer. If your mind doesn’t touch down on the plight of working people sometime Monday, then you haven’t been paying attention. Last week, the 40-day standoff between Market Basket supermarket workers and a […]
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PublishedJune 26, 2014
LePage blames messenger for his own message on Social Security
After lumping the entitlement in with welfare programs, LePage gets a jolt from the third rail of politics – and calls out the Press Herald.
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PublishedMay 7, 2014
Bill Nemitz: Just how much fraud will that EBT photo stop?
Many times between now and Election Day, Gov. LePage will stand before his adoring supporters and proclaim, ‘Folks, let me tell you what I’m doing to de-fraud Maine’s welfare system.’
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PublishedApril 30, 2014
Bill Nemitz: Oh, say I can see by solar-powered light
Talk about a light-bulb moment . . .
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