The weekly Maine Times newspaper focused on feature-length articles and reportage about Maine's arts communities, from October 1968 - through 2002.
Portland Public Library's collection in the Portland Room includes the complete Maine Times on microfilm, as well as the Maine Times Index- which accompanies indexed entries in the Maine News Index.

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Submissions from 2000

Editorial lamenting the downward spiral of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alli, Douglas Rooks

Editorial lamenting the fact that media-savvy Gov. Angus King, who is so gifted, Douglas Rooks

Editorial lamenting the town of Carthage's losses resulting from the bankruptcy, Douglas Rooks

Editorial noting a current controversy concerning a request to install an underg, Douglas Rooks

Editorial noting that just 17 percent of voters cast ballots in Maine's 2000 pre, Douglas Rooks

Editorial noting that only Aroostook County has a county charter. All other Mai, Douglas Rooks

Editorial noting the rash of bomb threats in Maine's schools and urging communit, Douglas Rooks

Editorial noting the resistance to the spreading of sludge demonstrated by resid, Douglas Rooks

Editorial on legislative pay hikes that anger taxpayers, and legislative pay com, Douglas Rooks

Editorial on recent complaints about those who own and misuse All Terrain Vehicl, Douglas Rooks

Editorial on the relationship between the state's fixed debt limit and the fundi, Douglas Rooks

Editorial on this year's short session of the Legislature, which the author char, Douglas Rooks

Editorial questioning the wisdom of a Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlif, Douglas Rooks

Editorial suggesting that the bankruptcy filing of Stone & Webster, primary cont, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging Gov. Angus King and Education Commissioner Duke Albanese to cal, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging Gov. Angus King and the Legislature to examine Maine Education, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging Gov. Angus King to press ahead with plans to replace the 160-ye, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging loggers and truckers to band together and form a united front,, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging Maine education officials to allow townspeople, and not bureauc, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging Maine lawmakers to replace the private Maine Education Services, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging Maine officials to press the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to p, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging Maine's hospitals and health-care professionals to focus their, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging Maine's Republican U.S. senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Coll, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging Maine's state insurance superintendent Al Iuppa to reject the s, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging Maine's U.S. senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to suppor, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging Portland activists who are unhappy with the compromise gay and, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging the Department of Education to view teachers as responsible adu, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging the Legislature to pass LD 2375, a bill sponsored by state sena, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging the Legislature to reject a bill that would re-legalize smoking, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging the Legislature to repeal a law that requires all Maine school, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging the Legislature to restore guidelines and competition to the st, Douglas Rooks

Editorial urging the Penobscot Tribe to contribute fairly to Baxter State Park's, Douglas Rooks

"Maine Interview" piece with U.S. Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine. Since joining, Douglas Rooks

"Other Voices" piece by the former editor of Maine Times, adding his own perspec, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece about James Orr, a valued advisor to former governor John M, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece analyzing Gov. Angus King's recently announced supplemental, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece criticizing members of the Legislature's Taxation Committee, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece deploring a recent insurance industry trend to declare as u, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece focusing on this week's cover story about David Crook, the, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece in support of adding the Atlantic salmon to the endangered, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece lamenting Gov. Angus King's veto of a legislative bill that, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece lamenting the Stowell family's loss of their mill, their bu, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece noting that the current rise in health-care costs are large, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece on ads placed in campus newspapers at the University of Mai, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece on Gov. Angus King's $50 million proposal to give all seven, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece on Maine Education Services and the need to reform the way, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece on mass transit with reference to the planned return of pas, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece on newspapers trending toward significant investments in on, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece on state and federal attempts to lower the cost of prescrip, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece on the particular and heroic resistance Mainers displayed i, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece on the Sprawl & Development series which begins in the Main, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece urging the Legislature to repeal a law that requires all Ma, Douglas Rooks

"Perspectives" piece urging the U.S. Postal Service to give serious consideratio, Douglas Rooks

"Books & the Arts" piece on "Tower: Faith, Vertigo, and Amateur Construction,", Bill Roorbach

"Books & the Arts" piece on a Mad Horse Theatre Company production of playwright, Andrew D. Russell

"Books & the Arts" piece on a Penobscot Theatre Company production of playwright, Catherine Russell

"Books & the Arts" piece on a Penobscot Theatre Company production of playwright, Catherine Russell

"Books & the Arts" piece on a Portland Stage Company production of playwright At, Catherine Russell

"Books & the Arts" piece on Charles Dickens and his enduring story of lifetimes, Catherine Russell

"Books & the Arts" piece on "Lend Me a Tenor," a stage performance by The Public, Catherine Russell

"Books & the Arts" piece on Lillian Hellman's "The Children's Hour," which is be, Catherine Russell

"Books & the Arts" piece on playwright Giles Havergal's adaptation of Graham Gre, Catherine Russell

"Books & the Arts" piece on playwright Tina Howe's "Pride's Crossing," which is, Catherine Russell

"Books & the Arts" piece on Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," which is being, Catherine Russell

"Books & the Arts" piece on "The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged)," whic, Catherine Russell

"Books & the Arts" piece on the Maine Student Writing Awards, a statewide compet, Catherine Russell

"Books & the Arts" piece on the reading preferences of several prominent Mainers, Catherine Russell

"Books & the Arts" piece on the state of the arts. With special focus on what a, Catherine Russell

"Cover Story" piece on the Eastern Maine Children's Museum in Bangor. It was co, Catherine Russell

"Cover Story" piece on the growing importance of the Maine film industry to the, Catherine Russell

"Feature Story" piece on "Belfast, Maine," a four-hour long documentary film mad, Catherine Russell

"In Addition" profile of Cathi Di Cocoa, who started catering to film crews in 1, Catherine Russell

"Maine Course" review of Bangor's New Moon Cafe, which is located 21 Main Street, Catherine Russell

"Maine Interview" piece with Connie Baxter Marlow, the great-great-granddaughter, Catherine Russell

"Maine Interview" piece with Jackson Gillman, who this year celebrates the 10th, Catherine Russell

"Maine Interview" piece with Jean Chalmers of Rockland, an attorney specializing, Catherine Russell

"Maine Interview" piece with William Atherton, David Dukes and Jack Willis, who, Catherine Russell

"Maine Interview" with singer Don McLean of "American Pie" fame, who was in the, Catherine Russell

"State of the Arts" piece noting the good news and the bad on the Maine theater, Catherine Russell

Theater review of playwright Donald Margulies' "Collected Stories," which is bei, Catherine Russell

Theater review of playwright Tom Dudzick's "Over the Tavern," which is being per, Catherine Russell

"Other Voices" piece by Alison Smith, co-chairwoman of Maine Citizens for Clean, Alison Smith

"Books & the Arts" piece on a Penobscot Theatre Company production of an adaptat, Mary Snell

"Books & the Arts" piece on a Portland Stage Company production of playwright Pa, Mary Snell

"Books & the Arts" piece on Christmas season performances, including productions, Mary Snell

"Books & the Arts" piece on "First Pulse," a gathering of drummers and new wave, Mary Snell

"Books & the Arts" piece on "Manny's War," a documentary film about the World Wa, Mary Snell

"Books & the Arts" piece on Roy Rogosian, the new producing artistic director of, Mary Snell

"Books & the Arts" piece on the three largest theaters in Maine: Penobscot Thea, Mary Snell

"Books & the Arts" piece on "The Will Rogers Follies," which was recently presen, Mary Snell

"Maine Stage" piece containing insight in some recent history of the Portland Pl, Mary Snell

"Cover Story" piece on five state legislative races, exploring the issues, the f, Staff

"Books & the Arts" piece on "My Only Story," a novel written by Monica Wood, a n, Haines Sprunt Tate

"Books & the Arts" piece on "Natural Things: Collected Poems 1969-1998" written, Haines Sprunt Tate

"Books & the Arts" piece on "Sweeping the Sky," a poetry chapbook written by Rob, Haines Sprunt Tate

"Books & the Arts" piece on "The Bluestone Walk," the second collection of poems, Haines Sprunt Tate

"Books & the Arts" piece on the North Atlantic Blues Festival, which will be hel, Haines Sprunt Tate

"Maine Books" piece with a long review of "Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered L, Haines Sprunt Tate

"Books & the Arts" piece on "Surrealism: The World Within," an art exhibit feat, Jim Thatcher

"Other Voices" piece by state senator Sharon Treat, D-Gardiner, critical of Gov, Christina Tree