China is no longer just a trading partner with whom we have differences. It’s become a global adversary using trade to dominate militarily as well as economically.
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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Pat LaMarche: When reality is just too awful
If the massacre in Maine had been the first, there might be some understanding of how it happened. If there’d been no Columbine two and a half decades earlier. If no one had shot and killed four people further down Interstate 295 in Bowdoin and Yarmouth, six months earlier. But, not a peaceful year has gone by since the Columbine massacre. Every one of the last 25 years has been cratered with gun violence and the willful destruction of human life.
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Froma Harrop: Christie enters the pantheon of patriots
Chris Christie gave his party a measure of self-respect by going after Trump as a threat to America when most of the other Republican candidates wouldn’t even point out his criminality.
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Hillory Oakes: SJ’s ‘look back’ to 1924 event could have used editor’s note
I always take a moment to read the “Looking Back” column; I usually focus on the “100 Years Ago” entries since they tend to be the most charming, such as an entry a few weeks ago describing a man who showed up at City Hall offering to chop wood to pay his taxes. (His offer […]
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Jim Lysen: Drug use needs public health response
I have lived in Lewiston for 40 years. The last 12 years of my professional career I was the executive director of Community Clinical Services, a federally qualified health center affiliated with St. Mary’s Health System. I was in charge of 23 sites, including five school-based health centers. It was clear then that substance use […]
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In rebuttal: Constance Michaud: ‘Not all Catholics are true Christians’
I write in response to the letter regarding Donald Trump’s evangelicals (“‘Trump’s evangelicals have taken Christ out of Christianity’,” Jan. 13). This letter was well written and accurate until the paragraph that begins with “President Biden is a Christian and member of the Catholic Church.” This is where the difference lies: A true Christian has […]
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Bob Neal: The Countryman: Showmanship vs. leadership
In the larger world of politics and government, we have a long-running trend of people who should be leaders opting instead to be showpeople.
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Lewiston health/hospice organization hires new HR officer
LEWISTON — Sarah Conroy is the new chief human resources officer for Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice. Conroy returns to Maine from the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area where she spent the past seven years working as a human resources business consultant and serving on the Maine State Society of Washington D.C. Foundation, a home away […]