Lincoln Millstein

MOUNT DESERT, MAY 16, 2026 - In June 2020, I asked a landscape contractor who was planting some ferns on our newly acquired Maine property whether he had gotten any PPP money in the wake of the Covid outbreak, He said his small company of five workers was rejected for a $10,000 grant because none of them received W2 forms. The government tried to correct the W2 requirement with a program using 1099s, but by then Mike the landscaper was spent.

PORTLAND, May 17, 2025 - The cruise ship industry doesn’t even need passengers to cause a major row in a port city. On Monday, May 12, the cruise ship, MSC Meraviglia, which was the sixth largest cruise ship in the world when it was launched in 2017, sailed into Portland unannounced by horn or tug, to make technical repairs. The Quietside Journal is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.