This November many will vote against candidates they fear will end life as we know it. I think life as we know it will end if such anger means our democratic institutions cease to function. The smarter approach is to elect those who have shown they will do the persistent, hard work to solve problems […]
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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Lee Clement: McLean wouldn’t be soft on crime as tri-county DA
I enthusiastically support Neil McLean as the strongest, most experienced candidate for district attorney in Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin Counties. This is not a position for OJT (on-the-job training). On Day 1, it requires a strong, no-nonsense prosecutor with relevant prosecutorial experience, not just a diploma from a law school. Neil doesn’t believe in being […]
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Kathie Leonard: Gov. Mills has offered ‘calm, strong’ leadership
I strongly support the re-election of Janet Mills for governor. Due to her calm, strong leadership, my company, Auburn Manufacturing, was able to employ our 50-person workforce throughout COVID. When COVID hit, she deemed manufacturers “essential,” assuring that we could maintain operations. We then qualified for federal loans to help us through those toughest months. […]
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Jeremiah and Sara Bartlett: Lee would serve Auburn well as District 89 representative
It is with great pleasure and excitement that we endorse the candidacy of Adam Lee for Maine House District 89. We have both known Adam in various settings — professionally and as a member of our neighborhood. Adam, in all things, listens seriously to complicated topics and works diligently to resolve them. He is a […]
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Joe Voisine: Candidate attack ads seem neverending
It never seems to end, come election time, the money spent on television by “special interests” to get people’s votes on the candidates of their choice. Some of these attack ads are by political action committees that so often get people elected by fabricating untruth. Imagine if all of the nonsense that goes on in […]
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Austin Bay: Iran’s latest rebellion, in context
What doesn’t appear in major media is the sorry and cowardly depth of America’s feckless response to the Iranian people’s appeals for aid and assistance in escaping the terrible Aryan Islamofascist regime that brutalizes them.
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Froma Harrop: Single mothers in economic pain: Where are the dads?
Pretending that poor families headed by single mothers are just victims of a tough economy absolves the living fathers of all responsibility. That’s what happens when you let the dads disappear from stories of families in financial peril.
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Cal Thomas: Meloni baloney
Italy has elected its first female prime minister. Normally that would be cause for celebration by those who promote diversity, but press reaction in Europe and the United States is treating Giorgia Meloni as the second coming of Italian dictator and Adolf Hitler ally, Benito Mussolini.
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Tell us something we don’t know
Maybe that’s an ungenerous way to respond to a study on an important social issue by a respected, nonpartisan think tank. But, if you’ve been paying any attention at all, that may be your instinctive reaction to last week’s report from the Washington-based Public Religion Research Institute quantifying that Republicans, as a corporate body, are the most racist folks there are.
