Not to mention the laidback atmosphere, an inventory of everything from aspirin to wine and a couple of cuties to bag your goodies. It's really an honor to be chosen by CBW readers. Flowery honorable mentions go to D.S. Lillett, I Love Flowers and Minott's. Runners-up were Clay Cafe, Maxwell's and Portland Pottery. In a perfect world, kids would get to have a choice in their learning and not be forced to guzzle down the itinerary of the adult world.
Communication is the fundamental thing.
Joe Michaud, president of both Web pages, said both sites have operated since 1995, and are owned by the Blethen Maine Newspapers. For the second year in a row, readers are still basking in the afterglow of the Portland City Council's 1998 vote to ban smoking in the city's restaurants. Clean-lunged residents who think carcinogens are a bad thing, despite the protest of tobacco industry bigwigs and legislative lobbyists, had even more to celebrate in 1999 when state lawmakers finally showed they had some cojones and banned lighting up the little devils in restaurants across Maine. For proof, one need only see that for the second year in a row, residents also selected Portland's smoking ban as the biggest waste of civic time since paying taxes. Suffice to say, these voters and tobacco titans probably aren't too happy about the new state ban either.