When markets are booming, people who take unwise risks can still do OK. When conditions go south, those who invested or borrowed recklessly often find themselves exposed to financial trouble.
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.
Rich Lowry: Kemp and Pence are GOP heroes
Gov. Brian Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had provoked Donald Trump’s ire by refusing to indulge his delusions about the 2020 election or engage in any legally dubious maneuvers to change the result in Georgia, and they had felt the full fury of the White House and Mar-a-Lago.
Cal Thomas: What is U.S. foreign policy?
Somewhere between isolationism and intervention there must be a middle ground. Finding it is up to our leaders. Where are those leaders, and what is our foreign policy? Those questions had better be answered quickly, or the consequences from delay could be severe.
Austin Bay: Thoughts for Memorial Day 2022
For Memorial Day 2022 I find myself thinking about those 13 Americans who died in the 2021 Biden administration Afghanistan debacle. I honor their service and sacrifice.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: ‘Who will be the last to die?’
You think it’s hard asking a man to be the last to die for what you know is wrong? Try asking a child.
Rich Lowry: The big lie about Georgia voting has been exposed
The surge in the early vote in Georgia shows that all the smears about the state’s new voting law, repeated by everyone from the president of the United States on down, were complete nonsense.
Ron and Sue Dorman: Legislators are on citizens’ payroll, not NRA’s
We would ask our legislators, those from Maine and stewarding every state in the nation, to get off the National Rifle Association’s payroll if they are on it. Congressmen and women and the president of the United States are on the citizens’ payroll. Legislators, in stewardship of the people, with bipartisanship, regulate gun manufacturing and […]
Joseph Ziehm: World ‘addicted to apathy’ amid shootings
We thought after all the school shootings that laws would change, thinking it would close loopholes in mental health checks. Instead, we learned how morally bankrupt and void of humanity the National Rifle Association is. We’ve seen insanity for the past 20 years, such as hoaxes perpetuated by Alex Jones. It’s the world we live […]
George Bussiere: Biden should follow Reagan’s gas cost approach
When Ronald Reagan was president, there were gas lines all over the country and gas was going up and up. President Reagan threatened a windfall profit tax. And like magic, lines disappeared and the price of gas dropped. I wonder why Congress and President Biden can’t do the same. George Bussiere, Auburn