Let me put this as diplomatically as I can: Maine’s Democratic leaders ought to have their heads examined.
Bill Nemitz
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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Bill Nemitz: Visit to ramp shows LePage really governs state of denial
I hereby nominate Gov. LePage for the first annual Hiroo Onoda Award.
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Bill Nemitz: Sen. Collins hardly a profile in courage during shutdown stalemate
Maybe she thought we weren’t looking.
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Ayla case reminiscent of Knowles’ trials
Justice delayed, however painful, is better than no justice at all may be the lesson learned from the death of Eva Marie Knowles, who died in 1979 at 19-months-old, and whose killer was never brought to justice.
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Bill Nemitz: I had ‘no choice’ but to jail victim, Maine DA says
We begin today with the obvious: Throwing the victim of a violent assault in the slammer isn’t likely to go over too well in the court of public opinion.
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Bill Nemitz: Republican knives out for LePage
Dear Governor LePage, do you hear that sound?
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Bill Nemitz: LePage win on Medicaid could be short-lived
Maybe it’s too soon, the temperature outside pushing 90 degrees and all, to talk about January . . .
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Obscenity, ignorance, cowardice and shame surrounding LePage
There’s nothing funny about Gov. LePage’s “Vaseline” remarks this week.
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Zumba madam shows tears, no contrition
It was the moment all of Maine — and the rest of the world, for that matter — had been waiting for: Alexis Wright, aka the Kennebunk Zumba Madam, finally taking full and unequivocal responsibility for evading income taxes, fraudulently collecting welfare benefits and, oh yes, having sex with well over 140 men who paid dearly for an hour of her precious time. Well, it didn’t happen.
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Hospitals’ bystander syndrome
Maine hospitals are in the midst of a political battle over how the state will pay its Medicaid reimbursements, and are in turn being held hostage by the LePage administration.