Like many Sun Journal readers, I read about the murder in Poland over Thanksgiving and felt disappointed that a man like Justin Butterfield could slip through the holes in our social safety net for so long. But I also felt a great sense of loss because I knew Gabe D’Amour — not well, but enough […]
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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Austin Bay: The Tiananmen Tiger stalks the Chinese Communist government
The current demonstrations are the first widespread mass protests against Chinese Communist Party rule since Tiananmen.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Cal Thomas: On turning 80
I’ve been asked when I will retire, but I can’t think of anything that matches or exceeds expressing my opinions and getting paid for them. If good health continues, and with the approval of editors around the country, I shall press on, annoying liberals for as long as I am able.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Froma Harrop: Apple is real. Twitter, not really
Apple sells real stuff, things that need to be recharged. Twitter does not. It’s just an app that the delete button can make disappear.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Rich Lowry: If Trump 1.0 was chaotic, just wait
Getting reelected would be the greatest imaginable vindication. It would be a victory over everyone who condemned his conduct after the 2020 election. It would show that all those politicos who said he needed to moderate his conduct didn’t know what they were talking about. It would be a rebuke to “DeSanctimonious” and “Young Kin” and everyone else people mistakenly forecast could be the future of the GOP.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Why is America like this?
It is the question that haunts every mass shooting. It seems to be asked in the tacit belief that if we could just find a reasonable motive, just suss out a cause, it might provide a way to comprehend the incomprehensible — even suggest a road map to preventing the next one. In America, there is always a next one.
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Jacob Posik: Gov. Mills’ questionable assault on the free press
The people of Maine deserve to know what Gov. Janet Mills tried to do to select members of the press, and how willing established outlets were to give this whole story a good leaving alone.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
James McHugh: Bring broadband internet to rural unserved Mainers
In last month’s election, Gov. Janet Mills garnered over 50,000 more votes than she did in 2018 and secured a second term in office. While there are various factors that contributed to this impressive result for the governor, her administration’s continued attentiveness toward issues impacting our state’s rural communities undoubtedly played a significant role. Gov. […]