Mark Gongloff’s Bloomberg opinion piece (“Natural disasters are the new normal,” May 15) painted a powerful picture of the growing costs to our entire society from weather-related disasters that are accelerating with planetary warming, which continues unabated due to continued burning of fossil fuels. The true costs of burning fossil fuels have not been reflected […]
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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Clarence Page: Justice dies when politicians turn vigilantism into a campaign stunt
New York’s justice system must decide whether Daniel Penny was criminally “reckless” or just trying to help. The system needs to seek justice, not just revenge.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Froma Harrop: America needs both parties to secure the border
Democrats have started, and Republicans are invited.
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Austin Bay: South Korea bets arsenal ships will give North Korea and China second thoughts
Take a very large but comparatively inexpensive civilian commercial ship. … Now pack the ship with vertical launchers and several hundred long- and mid-range missiles capable of destroying enemy shore targets and perhaps enemy surface ships. Add short-range air and missile defense weapons and presto, enormous sea mobile firepower bang for the buck.
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Cal Thomas: Biden vs. Coolidge at Howard
These two commencement addresses at Howard University — one from President Biden, the other from President Coolidge — sound as if they could have been reversed. Biden’s speech might have been more fitting in 1924 and Coolidge’s in 2023. One was full of praise and optimism about the future and the value of African Americans; the other was depressing and invoked a false indictment of America from a president who ought to know better.
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Rich Lowry: Daniel Penny wasn’t a vigilante
What progressives are doing is taking praise for someone who stepped up in a difficult circumstance and twisting it into something perverse, dangerous and racist.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
David Bouffard: Maine should be haven for embracing life, not promoting death
LD 1619, An Act to Improve Maine’s Reproductive Privacy Laws, “… removes the criminal penalties for performing an abortion …” and is bad public policy that ought not to pass. When society doesn’t value life from conception, it also doesn’t value life once it’s born. After all, what’s the difference between a baby living in […]
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Bob Neal: The Countryman: More than just a building with a bell
A lot more dies when a church closes than just a house in which a few people pray every week.