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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PublishedFebruary 25, 2024
Clarence Page: On Trump’s befuddling hold on the GOP and the fizzling of the ‘Never Trump’ movement
The current presidential campaign is becoming a grand drama of dueling versions of reality, with us, the voters, sitting in the jury box, hoping to witness some semblance of justice.
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PublishedFebruary 25, 2024
Cal Thomas: The new American antisemitism
In the aftermath of “from the river to the sea” anti-Israel protests on many college campuses and in the streets comes a perfectly timed book by Johns Hopkins University Professor Benjamin Ginsberg, titled “The New American Anti-Semitism: The Left, The Right, and the Jews.”
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PublishedFebruary 25, 2024
Austin Bay: Putin’s war on Ukraine begins its 21st year
Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine began in 2004 with a covert attempt to subvert Ukraine’s 2004 national election and install a Putin puppet. Putin failed. Suddenly, the Russian despot had a czarist nightmare on his border — a food-exporting Slavic state with democratic aspirations and high-tech expertise.
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PublishedFebruary 25, 2024
Editorial cartoon for Sunday, Feb. 25
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2024
Dave Griffiths: Offering Trump and Biden the same scrutiny
The headline on a letter from Glenn Chateauvert, published Feb. 20, says Joe Biden deserves as much scrutiny as Donald Trump. Fair enough. Did Biden slam Russian President Vladimir Putin for ordering what amounted to the execution of dissident Alexei Navalny? Yes. Did Trump even utter the genocidal strongman’s name when asked about the assassination? […]
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2024
Janice Bordeau: Transgender people deserve safe, respected life, not dehumanization
I’m responding to the article published Feb. 19, “GOP elevates anti-trans rhetoric; Candidates using messaging as a rallying call to Christian conservatives.” Today, “Christian” is often used to promote hate and division. If you’re not straight, white, protestant and conservative, you’re the enemy. “Christ” is love. “Love thy neighbor,” not love those you approve of. […]
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2024
Rich Lowry: Russia is a civilizational adversary
Ukraine’s desire to be a sovereign state of its own and, in particular, to align itself with the hated West is intolerable for Putin. He’s explained at great length why he believes Ukraine has no legitimacy as an independent nation, and his model of a neo-tsarism where elections are fake and opposition leaders die in Arctic prisons would be threatened by a Ukraine that successfully embraced a version of the Western model.
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2024
Editorial cartoon for Saturday, Feb. 24
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2024
Bob Neal: The Countryman: What Nancy Reagan got right, sorta
In this age of individualism, just saying no at the start may help a lot of us avoid another addiction, this one to the blue glow of the computer, or “device,” as techies call it. Unlike many addictive drugs, the blue light is legal. And it may be as addictive as opioids.
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2024
Maine on Main Flea Market opening March 7
The is in the warehouse section of the EllieAnna Gift Shop at 785 Main St. in Lewiston.
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