Despite their enmity, both men want and need each other politically, whether that’s what the country is interested in or deserves, or not.
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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Posted inLetters, Opinion
Mark Wood: Clarification needed on county expenditures for unhoused
According to this paper, “Hope for the unhoused: Androscoggin County funds overnight warming shelter” (Jan. 19), our county commissioners unanimously approved $297,680 for a warming center at the Calvary Methodist Church in Lewiston for the next 13 weeks. This center will be available from midnight to 8 a.m., seven days a week, a total of […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Pamela Larouche: Send more specific development questions to Auburn planners
The Auburn Planning Board held a meeting Jan. 3 in which residents of East Auburn presented a petition against further development of their neighborhood. Other Auburn neighborhoods with other residents have submitted other petitions and concerns about Auburn’s radical zoning changes — all to no avail. The Planning Board suggested a survey of East Auburn […]
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Bob Neal: The Countryman: Biden: Two years and counting
Today is the 731st, or middle, day of Biden’s 1,431-day term, an apt day for assessment. The word that comes to mind is mixed.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Rich Lowry: No, you can’t believe ‘the science’
This faux science is not dispassionate but fired by a great moral certainty. It is not open to counter arguments and different interpretations but insists on only one answer to complicated or ambiguous questions. It is not rigorously neutral but aims to achieve cherished political goals.
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Froma Harrop: Egg prices are already cracking
Now, news on the tab for common consumer staples like eggs, gasoline and Thanksgiving turkeys draws attention and allows the creation of easy-to-make visuals. But so many of the headlines on the cost of eggs bang on the percentage rise in price while not mentioning the actual price.
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Rich Lowry: How Chip Roy won the speaker fight
Rep. Chip Roy’s profile and influence grew during the standoff, and he’ll play a key role in the contentions to come.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
In rebuttal: Rudolph Ziehm: A response to two Richards
To rebut Richard Bernard (“Today’s politicians should learn from those of yesterday,” Jan. 14), about the fall of the Roman Empire, it was inevitable that the kind of rule it used was too brutal to survive. Rome’s borders were controlled by mercenaries as well as Romans, and it suffered from incompetent rulers (as in, insane). […]