Pot buffers, Buck-Twenty-Five Tree and a new sheriff’s office way too close to Auto Row. Yup, another Street Talk and probing insights on current events.
Mark LaFlamme
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Mark LaFlamme: Objectivity is a journalist’s job
Street Talk: I know that I’m supposed to stick to objective facts in my reporting the same way I know that I’m not supposed to take that extra packet of cat food without paying for it at the grocery store.
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Mark LaFlamme: Don’t forget to power wash your cat after every meal
Talk of the Town: There was a time when I was living directly above a Sam’s on Main Street in Lewiston and all I ate for three years straight was pizza and steak subs.
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Mark LaFlamme: Speaker’s is closed, and Lewiston will never be the same
Street Talk: For nearly four decades, the downtown business has been tucked into its little space on Spruce Street, a buzzing beehive of a place where locals picked up hot food and groceries while also catching up on neighborhood gossip.
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Mark LaFlamme: Winter’s confusing overtime rules
Talk of the Town: Taking aim at falling lizards, January, football overtime rules, the laws on cleaning cast iron pans and so much more.
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Mark LaFlamme: Rumors, half truths and speculation are part of the job
Street Talk: A lot of rumors have absolutely no basis in reality, and yet they still have value.
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Mark LaFlamme: Swearing about the cold in German
Talk of the Town: An unusual tour of Deutschland featuring boots, Greene sand, Reddy Kilowatt, heroes, late-night accidents and so much mehr. Want some schnitzel with that?
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Street Talk: What is the ghastliest news of all?
For me, the most dreadful stories of them all are those where, in the glow of the police and ambulance lights, the pain is only just beginning.
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Mark LaFlamme: Dead batteries and bruised tailbones
Talk of the Town: ‘I’m getting a lot of spam lately that begins with ‘Hello, dear.’ ‘
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Mark LaFlamme: Why Maine instead of Florida?
‘Why?’ I asked the feckless remains of my splintered shovel. ‘Why in the name of all things holy does anyone stay in Maine knowing what the winters are like?’