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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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Cal Thomas: The false god of politics
The Christmas season offers an annual opportunity to push the reset button and consider a better way, a way that will demonstrably produce results that politics cannot.
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Froma Harrop: DeSantis Passes the Kool-Aid … to Republicans
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has earned some recent notoriety for casting doubt on the COVID-19 vaccines and attacking the experts who happen to know about them.
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Rich Lowry: How a Russian composer took over American Christmas
Between the “1812 Overture” and “The Nutcracker,” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has a big hand in celebrations of American holidays — the overture captures and exemplifies the thunderous spirit of national celebration of July 4, and “The Nutcracker” the child-centric magic and joy of the American Christmas.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Marc Jalbert: Frustrated by repetition in local news broadcasts
The local newscasts on TV begin with the anchor’s dissertation of upcoming stories for the telecast. Following that, the anchor begins with the first story, repeating what was said in the intro. Then the story goes on to a reporter who, you guessed it, rehashes the story for the third time. And it doesn’t stop […]
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Jon St. Laurent: Holiday season offers some ‘stupor-hero holiday grifts’
And people thought Melania Trump’s “limited one-time only” Christmas non-fungible token crypto “cobalt blue eyes” stunt exactly one year ago was tacky? Well, her husband Donald Trump’s Dec. 15 “major announcement” of his digital delusional svelte “only $99” superhero NFT trading cards trumps even that holiday grift. These photoshopped delusional heroic renditions of the former […]
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John Wade: Thank Democrats, not Republicans, for recent economic booms
Did President Trump inherit the strong economy that President Obama left behind? Yes, he did. Trump said he inherited the worst economy possible after Obama left office — and he saved our nation and the world from the greatest depression? He also said he was re-elected. I do recall that President George W. Bush and […]