Category: Bob Witkowski
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You Can’t Get Here From Here
Public Transportation Stakeholders Throughout Maine’s Largest Urban Area Have Their Bubbles Burst. I lost. Not a little, a lot! Majorly. Big time. I did not get to University of Southern Maine in Gorham to pick up my desperately needed something-or-another at my campus office and get back to my world-ending meeting in Portland by 3:30pm.…
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I’m A Yankee Doodle Dollar
What is the true price of [celebrating] freedom? Watch Star Wars lately? How ’bout an Indiana Jones film? Maybe a James Bond movie? What reader did not reflexively – without thought – automatically hear the iconic theme music when thinking, even for a second, when read these famous movie references? Seriously, can anyone see a…
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Go ‘O.P.’
Going Off-Peninsula can be an exciting adventure of discovery of Greater Portland for many. For some, venturing much beyond the Old Port or Arts District may be a daunting as wandering too far from Quincy Market in Boston or Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Remembering the famous New Yorker Cover where Fifth Avenue dominates the foreground,…
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Maine’s Melting Pot
With an eclectic mix of arts, culture, and cuisine, Maine’s largest metro area easily combines the people and places that comprise this exciting seaport city. – Robert Witkowski As the largest urban area in the state, Greater Portland always seems to surprise visitors. Many are happily shocked entering this charming, small city after anticipating a…
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Sign Of The Times
In case you hadn’t noticed yet—maybe you haven’t driven back from a Celtics or Bruins game, or haven’t returned from the warmer climates to our south, but Maine is no longer “Open for Business.” Oh, don’t be too upset, after all we are running at almost-zero unemployment and things are rolling pretty smoothly, economically speaking…and…
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Grading on a Curve
“Portland is a very walkable city!” Portland’s Walk Score has it far-and-above most other major metropolitan centers in the country! And it is. Mostly. A lot of the time. Give-or-take nine months of the year. On Peninsula. Walk Score is a scale that gives value to how walkable – or car free – a location…
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