Looking for meaning helps us understand how our actions are or are not important. Looking for purpose helps us understand how we can fit into the world (and how we can’t).
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 inOp-Eds, Opinion
Froma Harrop: Ah, Nikki. Change your shoes
Nikki Haley is running for the Republican presidential nomination. She is clearly a long shot, but ditching pointy toes for sharper counterattacks would be the way to go.
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Posted inLetters, Opinion
William LaRochelle: Bugliosi vs. Belzer on JFK assassination
After reading of the recent death of comic and conspiracist author Richard Belzer (Sun Journal, Feb. 20), I did a little digging to find out what his take was on the Kennedy assassination. I found all I cared to read in an article he wrote for HuffPost (Aug. 13, 2007), a progressivist website. In it, […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Rich Lowry: Biden’s push to radicalize the federal bureaucracy
In a push for so-called equity so shockingly far-reaching that, not so long ago, a “woke” diversity officer wouldn’t have attempted it at even the most progressive liberal arts college, Biden is pushing to make the federal government a frank instrument of a racialized radicalism.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
In rebuttal: Jon St. Laurent: Late abortions are ‘a rarity overall’ in Maine
I write in rebuttal to Diana O’Brien’s letter, “Maine lawmakers should oppose late-term abortions” (Feb. 15). Ms. O’Brien stated that “There is now a bill legislators are trying to pass, to make it OK to abort a full-term child, with the approval of a qualified medical professional.” In fact, four reproductive related bills — and […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
William Phillips: U.S. ‘can do better’ than supremacists, extremists
At the time of Christ, the world’s population is estimated to have been about 300 million people. We are now approaching 7 billion people. It is hard to argue against the fact that the population growth of humanity (and the attendant stresses of the industrial and technological revolution) has strained the world’s resources, and threatened […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Juliana L’Heureux: Franco-American center should highlight its identity
I have followed and supported the development of the beautiful Franco-American Heritage Center at Saint Mary’s on Cedar Street in Lewiston. I have done so ever since the dedicated group of incorporators began the campaign to renovate this iconic building for the future, by protecting the culture and history. Although there were a few name […]
