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Index

Middle class flight

  • Housing imbalance may hurt city
  • Portland real estate sales by price (graph)
  • No jobs, but sense of adventure leads honeymooners to Maine
  • Family wanted to stay put, but couldn't afford to do so
  • Couple seeks urban version of 'the way life should be'
  • New condos rise in saturated market
  • 1866—The year when fire forced city to rebuild
  • William and Jaye Gorham on affordable housing in Portland (audio-slideshow)
  • Reader comments

A white professional class

  • City lacks diversity in key jobs
  • Student ethnicity in Portland public schools (chart)
  • Portland's changing demographics (chart)
  • Lack of minorities a critical problem in health care jobs
  • Woman hopes to fill void in Maine's legal community
  • Rebecca Hershey on attending law school and her challenges (audio-slideshow)
  • Reader comments

A leadership void

  • The city seems to be drifting - concern for lack of direction
  • City's history and its neighborhoods (with map)
  • Angus King on the evolution of leadership in Portland (audio-slideshow)
  • The city's next leaders - Pattenaude, the Barbers, Odokara, Szanton, Baxter, Scott.
  • Reader comments

Young, happy, broke

  • Living paycheck to paycheck
  • Kudos for Portland in Top Ten lists (list)
  • April and Matt on national franchises and local flavor (audio-slideshow)
  • The Group at 252 State Street on living and playing in Portland (audio-slideshow)
  • New arrivals help to offset flight of young Mainers
  • On second thought, more teens staying put
  • Reader comments

Winds of change

  • Problems different for long-time residents, newcomers
  • Ronald Ward's goal: To link City Hall, big business
  • Downtown retailer Mary Allen Lindemann thinking 'local first'
  • Neighborhood coalition branching out statewide
  • Christina Feller on anchors of neighborhoods (audio-slideshow)
  • Reader comments


Editor Scott Hersey
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Scott HerseyScott Hersey, 45, is editor of MaineToday.com, where he's been since March 2003. He previously worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Chicago and he was one of of the original content producers for New Jersey Online. He lives in South Portland with his wife, Linda Fullerton, a Portland Press Herald editor, and their 8-year-old daughter. Hersey supervised online content development for this project and acted as main project liaison with the newspaper staff.

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Managing Editor Eric Conrad
Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
Eric Conrad, 44, is our managing editor. He came to Portland in December 1995 from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he was a reporter for six years. He previously worked as a reporter in Harrisburg, Pa. and Shamokin, Pa. He lives in Cape Elizabeth.

Senior Designer Wendy Clark
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Wendy ClarkWendy Clark has been designing for MaineToday.com since its inception in 1995. Before that she worked as an artist and web artist at newspapers and magazines in southern New England. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in Graphic Design. Clark designed the Flash pieces and HTML pages for this project and adapted visual content from the print series for integration with this online presentation. She also took the photograph used on the main page.

Graphic artist Alfred Wood
Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
Alfred Wood, 45, has been a graphic artist at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram for eight years. He is married with two children and lives on Peaks Island, where he and his family are renovating a 100 plus year old house and building a studio. A University of Maine graduate, Wood had his own design/illustration business. He enjoys problem solving and finding new ways to contribute to the visual side of journalism.

Content Producer Carl Natale
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Carl NataleCarl V. Natale is a content producer at MaineToday.com with a background is newspaper editing and design. He is responsible for the news and business sections - which includes planning projects such as this one. Natale recorded all voices for this project and took many of the photos.

Reporter Kelley Bouchard
Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
Kelley BouchardKelley Bouchard is a Lewiston native and University of Maine graduate. She worked at Massachusetts newspapers for more than a decade before coming to the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram in 1998. She writes about the city of Portland, focusing on municipal government, economic development and neighborhood issues.

Reporter Trevor Maxwell
Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
Trevor Maxwell, 28, is a general assignment reporter. He came to Portland in March 2005. Trevor has worked for newspapers in Maine, Iowa, Oregon and Massachusetts. He is a native Mainer and lives with his wife and daughter in Windham.

Reporter Ed Murphy
Edward MurphyEdward D. Murphy, 48, is a business writer. He has been with the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram for 20 years. He previously worked as a reporter in Charleston, S.C. and Washington, D.C. He lives in Cape Elizabeth.

Photographer John Ewing
Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
John EwingJohn Ewing, of Portland, has worked at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram for 23 years. He previously worked at newspapers in Biddeford and New Haven, Conn.

Photographer Gordon Chibroski
Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
Gordon ChibroskiGordon Chibroski has been a photographer at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram for 27 years. Before moving to Maine, he taught art at the Montana State School for the Deaf and Blind and photography at the University of Great Falls (Montana), his alma mater. Chibroski and his family live in Falmouth.

Photographer Derek Davis
Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
Derek Davis, 32, lives in Scarborough with his wife and two children. He graduated from the University of New England in 1997. He was a staff photographer at The Journal News in White Plains, N.Y., for five years before joining the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram in July 2004.

Photographer Herb Swanson
Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
Herb SwansonHerb Swanson has been a photographer at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram for 11 years. He also worked at the Anchorage Times and Foster's Daily Democrat in Dover, NH, and for the Associated Press and Agence France Press wire services.

Photographer Shawn Patrick Ouellette
Shawn Patrick OuletteShawn Patrick Ouellette has worked for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram since 2002. Previously, he worked at the Miami Herald as an intern and at the Biddeford Journal Tribune. He lives in Saco with his wife and two daughters.

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