Congratulations to the new Sweatt-Winter Child Care and Early Education Center at the University of Maine at Farmington. My thanks to Gov. Janet Mills and U.S. Sen. Susan Collins for helping to secure the funding needed for this new state-of-the art center for our youngest learners, as well as a teaching lab for UMF students […]
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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Froma Harrop: For the beneficiaries, losing Obamacare would truly be bad
Happy 14th Anniversary, Obamacare. You have guaranteed 230 million Americans free preventive care. … Most importantly, you have brought the percentage of Americans lacking health coverage to an all-time low.
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Bob Mennealy: Happy to be ‘woke’
The word “woke” is a term used with disdain by right wingers like failed presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. If being caring and compassionate — and embracing diversity, equity and inclusion — makes me “woke,” then I’m 100 percent woke. Bob Mennealy, Lake Worth, Florida
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Clarence Page: Census forms are changing again — because we are
As the Census Bureau tries to keep up with the ways we Americans see ourselves, the boxes they offer us to check can seem silly, cumbersome and even out of touch. But we all need to look in a mirror sometimes, even if only to find out who we are — and how much we have changed.
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Rich Lowry: Colorblindness is America’s most transgressive idea
Once upon a time colorblindness was an uncontroversial idea. It was considered a core American ideal and worth aspiring to, even if we were failing to live up to it. In recent decades, though, it has run into a buzz-saw of opposition. It clashes with the Left’s near-theological commitment to racial preferences, especially on college campuses, and with fashionable new forms of left-wing racialism.
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Brook James: Everyone deserves fair-priced insulin
You have published a few articles from 2022 regarding the rising costs of insulin and price caps, with the help of Sen. Susan Collins, for United States citizens. I am writing you with a focus on Mainers and our need for insulin, as we are no different than the rest of the country’s struggle on […]
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Stan Tetenman: Maine legislators need to pass gun safety bills
There are a number of bills in the Legislature concerning gun safety. It appears that there is no or very little support from Republicans, with the exception of anything to do with mental illness. Sen. Trey Stewart said a couple of weeks ago that now is not the right point in time for the proposed […]
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Cal Thomas: One more try at reducing the debt
Our $34 trillion debt is unsustainable, according to most economists. If we don’t act soon, we will be worse off than we are now.