SOUTH PARIS — RaeAnn Richards, owner of Simply Soft Waxing Skincare Massage Reiki, won three trophies and cash prizes at a waxing and skincare competition held March 6-9 in Atlanta, Georgia. At the event — called The #1 International Event for Beauty Professionals — Richards received first place in the leg waxing competition and second […]
Alex Lear
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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Clarence Page: Don’t let ‘reverse discrimination’ reverse our national progress
There’s nothing simple about our racial, gender and other conflicts, but finding solutions together despite our petty differences has served us well in the past and it still can work again, if we can build faith in each other.
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Rich Lowry: Yes to English as the official language
No language has ever been as ubiquitous, and the U.S. government is now giving it its official due.
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Scott Cole: Trump’s tragic address to Congress
On March 4 I watched the tragedy of President Trump addressing Congress. He was his typical self, which ranged from entertaining to enraging to lunacy to mendacity. Members of Congress also demonstrated a variety of dubious behaviors. The event was surreal. Curious, I stayed up to see what the Democratic response might be. Sen. Elissa […]
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Susan Estrich: The Democrats looked silly
The Democratic Party that I grew up with was the party of working-class Americans who play by the rules and expect government to work for them. We lost those voters, and we need to get them back. Pink suits won’t do it.
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Kyle Gray: Golden has some explaining to do
When I received a newsletter last week from Rep. Jared Golden titled “For Democracy, Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast,” composed entirely of finger-wagging and scolding Democrats, I had to double-check: yep, we did, in fact, send Golden to D.C. to fight for us. You could be forgiven for thinking we’d elected Austin Theriault, […]
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Wendy Munsell: Rep. Libby was unfairly censured
Last week my House representative, Laurel Libby, was unfairly censured. This attack on her right to free speech was a blatant abuse of power on the part of the Democrats in Augusta, and I hope they rescind the censure soon. Although Rep. Libby’s opponents have gone to great lengths to silence her, I don’t believe […]
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Cal Thomas: The president’s speech to Congress — and America
It was a good night for Trump and Republicans. All the Democrats and their media allies could do is look like they were attending a funeral. They have nothing else to show the country except policy failures from the last four years.
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Austin Bay: Ukraine’s collision of truths
Ukraine has suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties, dead and wounded. Its military faces manpower shortages. Frankly, brave Ukraine confronts military and economic exhaustion.