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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PublishedJuly 25, 2012
Bill Nemitz: Justice Michaela Murphy calls out DEP on questionable casino permit
Remember all those promises of a 200-room hotel, a spa, a conference center, an RV park and a “four-season resort” back when Black Bear Entertainment was courting your vote for the Oxford Casino referendum back in 2010?
Well, fuggedaboutit. That stuff is, whaddya call it, dependent on future economic circumstances. -
PublishedJuly 15, 2012
BILL NEMITZ: Milbridge woman gets chance to share story of being raped while in military
It’s been just over a year since Ruth Moore went public — sort of — with her story.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2012
BILL NEMITZ: LePage’s latest comments inspire advice to Summers
Dear Secretary of State Summers,
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PublishedJuly 11, 2012
BILL NEMITZ: Open letter for Governor LePage
So there I was on Saturday, wrapping up a weeklong vacation with the final chapter of a great book, “The Johnstown Flood,” by a great part-time Mainer, David McCullough of Camden.
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PublishedJune 11, 2012
BILL NEMITZ: ‘Certified business friendly’ may make more enemies than cohorts
Picture yourself in a room with 19 other people, none of whom you know.
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PublishedJune 3, 2012
NEMITZ: Change comes at crossroads for Catholics
The year was 1853. Anti-Catholic violence ran so rampant throughout Maine that the Rev. Henry B. Coskery, vicar general of Baltimore, said thanks but no thanks to his appointment as the first Roman Catholic bishop of Portland.
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PublishedMay 27, 2012
BILL NEMITZ: Tough week for Heritage Policy Center
It wasn’t the best of weeks for the Maine Heritage Policy Center.
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PublishedMay 14, 2012
Bad news evolves from good
We first met him in this space on the day before Thanksgiving way back in 1998 — a shy, smiling 9-year-old refugee from Maine’s foster-care circuit whose wildest dreams had just come true: He had a new mom and dad. He had a new home, a new neighborhood, a new school. He had, for the first time in his anything-but-easy young life, an anything-is-possible future.
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PublishedMay 13, 2012
BILL NEMITZ: A tragic finish for a one-time happy ending
We first met him in this space on the day before Thanksgiving way back in 1998 — a shy, smiling 9-year-old refugee from Maine’s foster-care circuit whose wildest dreams had just come true: He had a new mom and dad. He had a new home, a new neighborhood, a new school. He had, for the first time in his anything-but-easy young life, an anything-is-possible future.
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PublishedApril 29, 2012
BILL NEMITZ: Governor and ‘Blazing Saddles’
I’ve got a new nickname for Gov. Paul LePage: Sheriff Bart.
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