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Maine

Diversity cometh this way

September 13, 2022February 18, 2009 by shay subscriber

Just a quickie today since I am off to conduct a training and feeling a tad under the weather. Portland is Maine’s largest city at roughly 65,000 inhabitants which really tells you how small this state is with a mere 1.5 million folks in a space that is as large as the other 5 New …

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Categories Current Events, Maine Tags diversity in Maine, James Craig

Living in Maine as a Black person

May 6, 2020February 9, 2009 by shay subscriber

Next month will mark 7 years that I have been in Maine, some days I feel like I should get some sort of badge for surviving that long but generally when I feel that way its just an off day. The truth is that once you get over the initial culture shock, Maine is not …

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Categories Current Events, Maine, Racial and Cultural Tags Blacks in Maine, Ephriam Bennett Maine, Maine crime 2 Comments

Hardy Mainers? I think not

May 23, 2017January 7, 2009 by shay subscriber

Today we have yet another snow storm, of course being that it is winter time and winter in Maine, I expect snow.  Problem is any time it snows it seems like everything in this damn state shuts down and frankly I am tired of it, look I come from Chicago so I am used to …

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Categories Maine, Random babble Tags hardy Mainers, Maine winters
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