Over the next few months Maine citizens who filed state income taxes will be getting a check for $850, issued by the Maine State Treasury. The media has been calling this a relief check. This is a misnomer. It should more accurately be called a refund from being over-taxed to begin with. It is not […]
Alex Lear
A Maine native and Colby College graduate, Alex has been covering coastal communities since 2001. He lives in the Portland area with his wife Lauren, 4-year-old daughter Alaina, and 7-year-old bulldog Walter. He has released four CDs of original music and does occasional research work for Marvel Comics' collected editions.
Froma Harrop: ‘Women’ shall not be erased
There are lots of good women who don’t care to be called “bodies with cervixes.” These efforts to burden them with silly labels are truly not helping the cause. What the cause needs is sending more Democrats to Washington, and this does the opposite.
Cal Thomas: Biden whiplashes border patrol
Only in America, it seems, can border patrol agents be cleared of breaking any laws but still be punished, while those entering the country illegally mostly escape punishment.
Cal Thomas: The age of wokeness
Reinforcements have arrived with the publication of the Babylon Bee’s “Guide to Wokeness.” It is laugh out loud funny, unless you are woke.
Froma Harrop: Biden is, actually, doing well
For some reason, Biden is getting attacked from all political sides and for things that are not his fault. He’s been handed a bad hand to play on so many fronts.
Austin Bay: Gulf of Mexico pirates threaten global security and environmental extortion
On June 14 pirates armed with automatic weapons attacked a Pemex (Petroleos Mexicano/Mexican Petroleum) oil platform in the Bay of Campeche. State-owned Pemex is by far the most important company in Mexico. The Mexican Navy, however, responded slowly. The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) estimates that in 2019, 180 attacks occurred on Mexican oil targets.
Iris Roberts: The way we were: Our father and his guns
Our dad thought assault weapons of war were useless for civilians and a “waste of good money.” He was a veteran of World War II, who did not live long enough to know that assault weapons of war would one day proliferate in numbers so large that they would eventually be bringing children brutally down in classrooms, and killing people of all ages ruthlessly almost anywhere in America — and I’m glad that he did not.