I don’t always agree with Janet Mills, but she’s Maine’s better choice. As “the pandemic governor,” Mills steadily navigated Maine. However, Paul LePage is unfit for governing. Faced by two students exercising free speech holding handmade signs when he spoke in Farmington as governor, the flustered LePage stormed away like a baby, as was typical. […]
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.
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Caro Poirier: Recalling ‘positive living legacy’ of Margaret Chase Smith
In times like these — when public discourse is divided and intense, and politicians so want to be re-elected that their meta-communication gets blurred — discerning voters may be searching for a politician with uprightness for whom they may vote. Two weeks ago I discovered a political figure who spoke her conscience as a senator […]
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Cal Thomas: The decline of a nation
Things once considered wrong and immoral are now paraded as the opposite and woe to those corporations, institutions and individuals that claim otherwise.
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Mary Ann Norcross: Development needs to ‘stay away from Lake Auburn’
The Auburn mayor doesn’t like to read what I have to say in my letters to the editor. Here are my opinions on “development and Lake Auburn.” The city wants development. The city paid $100,000 for a study that said “not to seek to ease the current resource protection zoning or consider rezoning portions of […]
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George Fogg: EPA wasted millions, failed to protect many Mainers
I am puzzled by the more than apparent discrepancy being shown in the media about the PFAS problems here in Maine. (“Even trace amounts of PFAS chemicals pose health risk, new federal advisory says,” June 17). It would seem to me that the EPA is extremely late in its actions to curtail the poisoning of […]
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Froma Harrop: High gas prices do not stop traffic
It could be that Americans, driven by pent-up demand for post-pandemic travel, are just willing to dig deeper into their funds to keep the tank filled. It could it be that they are driving more fuel-efficient vehicles and thus buying fewer gallons of gas to begin with. It could be that the “record-high price of gas” we keep hearing about is not actually a record high.
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Rich Lowry: The GOP needs to get beyond 2020
If Donald Trump is the Republican candidate again in 2024, even in the unlikely event that he wanted to memory hole Jan. 6, it wouldn’t happen. The Democrats would bring it up unrelentingly. Perhaps it wouldn’t work, but why would Republicans want to risk it or even deal with the complication?
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Austin Bay: Will China soon claim the western Pacific?
If communist China’s recent words and deeds reflect a calculated design and totalitarian intent, soon we will hear Beijing declare the entire western Pacific Ocean a sovereign Chinese sea, where Beijing rules — so-called international laws, treaties and U.N. resolutions be damned.