Elizabeth Peavey

2 weeks ago | thebollard.com | Elizabeth Peavey |Jessie Banhazl |Sara Hogan |Chris Busby

Joe Soley in his Old Port corner store a few years ago. photo/John DuncanJoe Soley enters the That’s My Dump! Hall of Fame “The root disease that afflicts the world at the present day is the supremacy of the commercial point of view. … The commercial mind is neither benevolent nor malevolent — as little as science is. It seems at times to be beneficent; at other times it seems to be almost fiendish — as in the case of the atrocities perpetrated on the Congo.

2 weeks ago | thebollard.com | Elizabeth Peavey |Chris Busby |Jessie Banhazl |Sara Hogan

photo/Jessie BanhazlWard McGovernAge: 66Hometown: Brooklyn, NYBar of Choice: Sacred Profane, BiddefordDrink of Choice: Dark LagerIt’s hard for a craft brewery to stand out in Maine, but that hasn’t been a problem for Sacred Profane. Since opening in Biddeford in 2022, the beer company has made a name for itself with its delicious Czech-inspired light and dark lagers, and the quality service and unpretentious atmosphere at its “tankpubs” in Biddeford and on Thompson’s Point in Portland.

1 month ago | thebollard.com | Elizabeth Peavey |Al Diamon |Leo Hylton |Samuel James

How the fuck we got here Have you been asking yourself reflexively every 15 minutes how the fuck we got here? Well, it’s actually pretty simple. This country is covered in a nationwide web of racist voter laws and racist voter maps that not only smother the Black vote, but wildly overvalue Republican votes. Without that advantage, our last Republican president would’ve been Dwight Eisenhower. This white supremacist advantage distorts all of our national political systems.

1 month ago | thebollard.com | Elizabeth Peavey |Samuel James |Al Diamon |Leo Hylton

Maine still needs parole“Most testimony presented by criminal justice professionals, victim advocates, and victims feels that parole should be re-established in Maine.” — Dr. Arthur Jones, renowned criminal justice and parole expertThe Maine Legislature’s last session was painful. It was the first time in my life that I engaged in political processes in any meaningful way. At 32 years of age, I poured my heart, mind and soul into the push to reestablish parole in Maine.

1 month ago | thebollard.com | Elizabeth Peavey |Samuel James |Al Diamon |Leo Hylton

The touch of strangersI came home from Brooklyn for the holidays and spent New Year’s Eve watching a ball drop in my new home on a shitty TV in my old home. Times Square is a horrible scene in the best of times: headache-inducing neon lights blazing day and night; the zombified, mutilated corpse of Elmo trying to corner you aboard a double-decker tour bus. On New Year’s, the horrors only multiply. Thousands of tourists and drunkards shout and blast vuvuzelas, cough and shove you.