Tag Archives: homelessness

Behind the barriers at a Portland homeless shelter

“If Governor LePage and his minions want to go after Mayor Brennan and his cohorts for financial mismanagement, so be it. But I’ll be damned if I’m gonna watch quietly as the conversation- about homeless shelter occupants in Portland having upwards of 20 thousand dollars in liquid assets– shifts to fodder for the anti-welfare crowd as […]

Unedited videos of Mike Michaud taking questions at Preble Street Resource Center

Last Thursday, Sept. 25, Democratic candidate for Maine Governor and current U.S. Congressman Mike Michaud visited the Preble Street Resource Center and Oxford Street Homeless Shelter in Portland, Maine to take a tour; meet patrons, volunteers, and staff; and field a range of on the spot questions from a diverse audience of marginalized Mainers.   […]

State GOP candidates skip Homeless Voices for Justice forum, which is habitual for Republicans. And that ticks me off.

On Tuesday morning a candidate’s forum was held at the Preble Street Resource Center in Portland. The event was put on by the advocacy group, Homeless Voices for Justice (HVJ). HVJ has several candidates for different level seats slated for appearances at Preble Street in the next month (including Mike Michaud and Eliot Cutler, but […]

Rediscovering Portland’s forgotten road- a journey into ‘Hobo Jungle’

It’s no secret to anybody that Portland, Maine has a homelessness problem. Debates over subjects like panhandler’s rights, drug addiction treatment programs, and asylum for immigrants dominate local discussions from City Hall, to suburban dinner tables, to downtown taverns and diners. But for all the dialogue and rhetoric, for all the endless back and forth […]

Ok, it’s time to post my ‘Faces of Portland’ photo project.

For the past six weeks or so, I’ve been working on a photography project documenting the simple (yet complex) images of people’s faces in downtown Portland. It sort of started out as a way to raise awareness for homelessness, but it quickly morphed into something bigger. See, the more pictures I took the more I […]