A Maine native and Colby College graduate, Alex has been covering coastal communities since 2001. He lives in the Portland area with his wife Lauren, 4-year-old daughter Alaina, and 7-year-old bulldog Walter. He has released four CDs of original music and does occasional research work for Marvel Comics' collected editions.
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PublishedOctober 13, 2024
Jim Wellehan: Campbell offers ‘a better world for Maine’
Dan Campbell has coached and helped young people all his life, at Edward Little High School, St. Dominic Academy, and the University of Maine at Farmington. Dan has also worked constantly for the homeless, where the need is enormous. He’s spent his life working for both the young and the needy. I will vote for […]
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PublishedOctober 13, 2024
David Andrews: Support Question 3, keep Maine history alive
State referendum Question 3 reads: “Do you favor a $10,000,000 bond issue to restore historic buildings owned by governmental and nonprofit organizations, with funds being issued contingent on a 25% local match requirement from either private or nonprofit sources?” As a member of the board of directors of the nonprofit Poland Spring Preservation Society, I […]
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PublishedOctober 13, 2024
Clarence Page: Called upon to lie for Trump, JD Vance stumbled
For most of the night, the more polished and media savvy Sen. JD Vance seemed to be winning the debate, in my view. But when Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz challenged him to say who won the 2020 election, Vance’s discomfort with his running mate’s growing web of half-truths, fabrications and outright lies seemed to show itself.
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PublishedOctober 13, 2024
James Richter: Golden truly puts ‘people over politics’
I’m supporting U.S. Rep. Jared Golden for Congress. Rep. Austin Theriault promises he will put “people over politics,” but he voted against family leave, raising the minimum wage, and favored a “right to work” bill that would weaken labor unions. So what people is he talking about? He has made a big deal of $50,000 […]
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PublishedOctober 13, 2024
Dave Adams: Rep. Libby upholds the U.S. Constitution
Over 40 years ago, in Marine Corps boot camp, I swore an oath that doesn’t expire. To support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I still, enthusiastically, honor that oath today. The only candidate for state representative of Auburn and Minot who deserves my vote is Laurel […]
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PublishedOctober 13, 2024
Froma Harrop: Warming comes for Florida’s economy
Florida is no stranger to the occasional big “blow,” but climate change may have completely rewritten the meteorological future, and it’s not sunny.
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PublishedOctober 13, 2024
Rich Lowry: The travesty of the CBP One app
Launched in 2020, CBP One was intended as a good-government, time-saving tool to manage the legitimate flow of people and goods at the border, but it’s now been twisted to launder illegal immigrants into the country.
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PublishedOctober 13, 2024
Austin Bay: Helene’s Appalachian hell another FEMA failure?
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s latest display of inadequate planning and operational clumsiness suggests providing robust, seamless communications systems and coordinating air operations may be the most materially productive and politically wise use of the Department of Defense in natural disaster response.
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PublishedOctober 13, 2024
Cal Thomas: Harris on ’60 Minutes’
Her answers are not likely to help her with the few voters who say they are still “undecided.”
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PublishedOctober 13, 2024
Ronald Lebel: What Maine voters need to know about Maine Democrats
Commonsense Mainers should think long and hard about whether this is the direction we should move our state.
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