New2Maine.com

Whilst at lunch with us, reader SteveG mentioned that he’d been reading the blog of another new Mainer, a college professor and his wife who recently moved out to Portland from Santa Barbara, California. He goes by Ickenham, though I’m not certain whether that’s his real name or not. His wife’s name is Watoosa, so you never know.

Anyway, I took a look at his blog, The Monocle, and decided I’d try to get in touch with him. Unfortunately, Blogger doesn’t seem to include a “contact the author” link (like mine, here), so I had to leave a comment and ask him to contact me. We’ll see what happens. I do hope he writes, as I think She and I might get along with them fairly well. I even noticed that they’re Episcopalians, as She and I are, so perhaps we could do a bit of church shopping together.

As a blogger about Maine, I try to spend some time checking out other Maine-related blogs and websites to get an idea of what Mainers are publishing on the ‘net. Here are a few that I’ve found to be interesting reading. Please note that these are opinion sites rather than MSM news sites. If you’re interested in Southern Maine newspaper coverage, take a look at www.mainetoday.com. And these are definitely not tourism or destination sites. I’ve started on a separate post for those.

• www.maine.com – This one definitely leans a little far left for my tastes, but it seems to provide a good overview of issues on the hearts and minds of Mainers
• maine.indymedia.org – An independent media outlet focusing on Maine issues and events. This seems to be pretty up-to-date, but the website could stand an overhaul, imho.
• www.mainwebreport.com – A good blog about Maine issues. I believe this is left-leaning as well, but if so, it’s balanced enough to make it hard(er than maine.com) to tell.

For the record I do not necessarily share the political views expressed on the sites above. New2Maine.com is not, however, a political blog, so I will refrain from discussing my personal political stances here as much as possible. Just know that I find the above sites informative. That doesn’t mean I agree with them…