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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PublishedOctober 5, 2012
Bill Nemitz: Mayor should reconsider where ‘trouble always starts’
Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald needs to get out more. Starting with a short trip to Maine’s largest city . . .
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PublishedOctober 5, 2012
BILL NEMITZ: Lewiston mayor’s problems started in … Portland?
Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald needs to get out more. Starting with a short trip south to Maine’s largest municipality.
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PublishedSeptember 28, 2012
BILL NEMITZ: King’s coyness perplexing, but yet so King
Wondering what goes through the mind of U.S. Senate hopeful Angus King as Maine hurtles toward Election Day?
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PublishedSeptember 27, 2012
Bill Nemitz: Why is King playing coy about caucusing?
Ask Erskine Bowles. Or Angus King himself. They both give pretty convincing answers . . .
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2012
BILL NEMITZ: The Maine GOP strikes back
I wrote a column decrying the fact that Maine’s Republican Party, rather than engaging in thoughtful, intelligent debate on who should be Maine’s next U.S. senator, is obsessing on stupid stuff — like whether Angus King got permission to use Google Earth in his recent TV ad, or whether King included the word “authorized” in the ad’s subtext.
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2012
Bill Nemitz: Never look a literary device in the mouth
Boy oh boy, did I mess up last week . . .
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PublishedSeptember 17, 2012
BILL NEMITZ: Lawn signs surplus makes name-recognition overload
One week from Tuesday, six weeks to the day before the Nov. 6 election, Maine’s electoral class of 2012 will be allowed under state law to plunk down their campaign signs alongside highways and byways all over this otherwise picturesque state.
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2012
Bill Nemitz: GOP fires more silly stuff at Angus King
David Sorensen reminds me of the kid who murders both of his parents and then asks the judge for mercy because he’s an orphan . . .
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PublishedSeptember 9, 2012
NEMITZ: Maine atheists seek lobbyist
Rarely does a news release headline jump off the screen like this one that landed last week in my inbox: “Maine Atheists to Organize State Lobbying Group This Month.”
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PublishedAugust 29, 2012
BILL NEMITZ: A lost-and-found story with a great ending and a new beginning
Put yourself in 8-year-old Abbie Jacobson’s place.
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