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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PublishedAugust 25, 2012
NEMITZ: Elections conduct group meets at opportune time
The Republican-inspired Commission to Study the Conduct of Elections in Maine last week held the first of eight public hearings aimed at ferreting out fraud in Maine’s election system.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2012
BILL NEMITZ: ‘It’s a nobody gets a break kind of thing
Portland attorney Dan Lilley’s phone is ringing off the hook these days. So is fellow Portland barrister Sarah Churchill’s.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2012
NEMITZ: The art of cooking up junk news
Today we examine the art of cooking up your own junk news.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2012
Bill Nemitz: Recipe for junk news calls for a grain of salt
Today we examine the art of cooking up your own junk news. Not familiar with it? Check out Maine’s U.S. Senate race . . .
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PublishedAugust 22, 2012
BILL NEMITZ: Recipe for cooking up junk news
Today we examine the art of cooking up your own junk news.
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PublishedAugust 9, 2012
Bill Nemitz: AG’s retreat escapes ire of Poliquin
Yoga? Dessert contest? Gun lessons? Where is state Treasurer Bruce Poliquin when we need him?
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PublishedAugust 8, 2012
BILL NEMITZ: LePage’s steady stream of verbal mishaps mean job security for press secretary Bennett
I’m not sure what the protocol is for this sort of thing, so I’m just going to go ahead and do it: I hereby proclaim today Adrienne Bennett Appreciation Day.
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PublishedAugust 5, 2012
BILL NEMITZ: Put ‘fear of God’ in child-safety law
It could be inserted right into the gaping cracks in the state’s Child Protection Act — a fitting rebuke to the fancy dancing that surrounded the long and lurid career of the late Rev. Bob Carlson.
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PublishedAugust 5, 2012
BILL NEMITZ: Maine needs an Anti Tiptoe Law
It could be inserted right into the gaping cracks in the state’s Child Protection Act — a fitting rebuke to the fancy dancing that surrounded the long and lurid career of the late Rev. Bob Carlson.
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PublishedJuly 30, 2012
Bill Nemitz: For those suffering from mental illness, advance directive can be important safety net
In Maine law, it’s called an “advance health-care directive.” But in the sometimes unpredictable world of Mark Cadrette, it’s nothing short of a lifeline.
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