It was moving as President Biden with his wife, the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs stood silently to honor the three Army reservists killed in a drone attack in Jordan, as they were brought home. We should remember that then-President Trump declined to attend a parallel ceremony at a World […]
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.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Peg Hoffman: Maine needs more safe, affordable housing
It is past time for the Maine State Legislature to address the housing distress that our renters in Maine are facing with rising rents and the lack of affordable, safe housing. Rent relief would go a long way to relieve that distress. Many Mainers are not eligible for existing federal or state assistance programs, and […]
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Cal Thomas: Limiting lawbreakers is still lawbreaking
Solving the border problem is not complicated, though politicians have made it so, as is usually the case when government is involved.
Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy
Lewiston’s chief assessor elected to international role
LEWISTON — With the backing of 8,000 members of the International Association of Assessing Officers, William “Bill” Healey, Lewiston’s chief assessor, is the organization’s new vice president. Healey is the first assessing officer from Maine to achieve this role in 40 years. “I am profoundly grateful for the honor of being elected. The endorsement and […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Rich Lowry: Kids shouldn’t be on social media at all
The key question is why we are subjecting our children to a vast, real-time experiment in exposure to a radically new medium that evidence suggests is harmful to their emotional and mental health.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Isabella Taylor: Bill would help many Mainers avoid medical debt
Medical debt is a main cause for personal bankruptcy. No one goes to the emergency room with a heart attack or acute appendicitis and calculates whether or not they can pay. Care is care. Health care institutions have the moral — and what we hope to make legal, via L.D. 1955 — obligation to assist […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Bob Mennealy: Missing simpler, peaceful times in Lewiston
At night in bed, pre-sleep, when it’s just me and the Lord, I thank him for allowing me to grow up in a post-World War II middle class Lewiston, Maine, neighborhood that, to me, was taken right out of the pages of the Saturday Evening Post. Back when life was a lot simpler, peaceful and […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Ed Ferreira: U.S. should stop support for Israel attacks on Gaza
In a Jan. 23 open letter, 210 U.S. Congresspeople from both parties accused South Africa of attempting to delegitimize Israel through its “grossly unfounded case, dismissing the legal action as a “meritless attraction,” per The Citizen. We are deeply disappointed that the House member from the Second District of Maine, Jared Golden, signed this letter. […]
