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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PublishedApril 6, 2024
Sarah Gibson: More funding needed for treating those with brain disorders
I write again as the mother of an adult son with schizophrenia. I first wrote (“Schizophrenics need proper treatment,” Jan. 19) when he was about to become homeless and hurt himself or someone else in his unmedicated psychotic state. Through heroic police intervention he was finally hospitalized and, after three long years, admitted to a […]
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PublishedApril 6, 2024
Bob Neal: The Countryman: The search for meaning and membership
Reams of research show that we have become more isolated and, thus, more alienated from our culture. Out here in the boondocks, our basic culture may even be one of alienation.
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PublishedApril 6, 2024
Malory Shaughnessy and Betsy Sweet: Maine must fund mental health care: An urgent call for action
The need for investment in Maine’s mental health care system is clear and urgent. We urge the governor and the Legislature to act now by funding the Maine Resiliency package of bills and prioritizing the mental health and well-being of all Mainers.
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PublishedApril 6, 2024
Editorial cartoon for Saturday, April 6
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PublishedApril 5, 2024
Jon St. Laurent: Food, not bombs, Mr. President
President Biden can’t have it both ways; milquetoast calls for a ceasefire in Netanyahu’s Gazan genocide and imminent mass slaughter of refugee civilians taking refuge in the overcrowded city of Rafah, all the while spiriting weapons of mass destruction off to Israel in an act of overt hypocrisy. The Biden administration’s latest arms package includes […]
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PublishedApril 5, 2024
Chief Kenneth Charles: Kudos for Farmington’s new early child care center
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 […]
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PublishedApril 5, 2024
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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PublishedApril 5, 2024
Editorial cartoon for Friday, April 5
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PublishedApril 5, 2024
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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PublishedApril 4, 2024
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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