BRUNSWICK — Norway Savings Bank has appointed Penny Anderson assistant vice president and market manager for its two branches in Brunswick and its Topsham branch. Anderson joined the bank team in 2020 as a personal banker for the Midcoast market, bringing 17 years of banking and leadership experience to the bank. The Lisbon Falls resident […]
Alex Lear
Staff Writer
Alex Lear is a lifelong Mainer who has spent 25 years in journalism -- the first 20 as a reporter for newspapers in Damariscotta and Falmouth, then as Opinions section editor for the Sun Journal and now a digital producer with the Maine Trust for Local News. His long-running “Learics” column won first place in the Maine Press Association’s 2023 Better Newspaper Contest. He and his wife Lauren are kept young by their 9-year-old daughter Alaina. Send feedback and suggestions to Alex.
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Rich Lowry: Sorry, everyone — Oswald still acted alone
We thought we were citizens of a decent, open society, when the truth, or so they believe, is that we live in the plot of an Oliver Stone movie.
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Austin Bay: Biden’s ‘different picture’ ploy put freedom at risk
Beltway corruption has real-world negatives that are not perception. They create a deadly vulnerability that puts America and the Free World at risk.
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Cal Thomas: The CrowdStrike warning
If an unintended software glitch can produce such havoc, how much more damage, danger and destruction could totalitarian states like Iran, North Korea, Russia and China do should they choose to do so?
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Kyle Gray: A democratic or authoritarian scheme?
Congressman Jared Golden recently said this upcoming election “should not be misleadingly portrayed as a struggle between democracy or authoritarianism,” and that assertions to the contrary are “hyperbolic threats.” I put it to the congressman to answer the following for his constituents: what are we to call a scheme whereby a sitting president — under […]
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Ellen Field: Contrasting Biden and Trump
Donald Trump is a financial criminal who abuses women and constantly lies. Declining mentally, he praised fictional killer Hannibal Lector, said stealth bombers are literally invisible, that injecting bleach might cure COVID, and that he’d rather be electrocuted than killed by a shark. His speeches have always been designed to rile people up (Jan. 6, […]
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Barbara McAllister: Lewiston fortunate to have Sen. Rotundo
The Lewiston community is fortunate to have Peggy Rotundo willing to lend her experience, expertise and tireless work ethic to Senate District 21. Among her numerous recent accomplishments, she supported expansion of the paid apprenticeship program and free community college tuition for 2024 and 2025 high school graduates. Peggy has always been a strong supporter […]
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Froma Harrop: Harris must reach into her law and order past
The right-wing opposition will smear her as a Californian and all that implies. But as district attorney for San Francisco and then California’s attorney general, she was tough on criminal defendants to the point that progressives targeted her.
