The 2024 Dana F. Connors Chamber of the Year award was presented at the annual Maine State Chamber of Commerce meeting and dinner.
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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Cal Thomas: The ultimate gift
Saving lives – babies and mothers – is a two-way blessing. Make a donation and see what I mean.
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Froma Harrop: The Herculean effort to keep Trump happy
Donald Trump has turned the U.S. government into one giant pacifier to calm his fear of seeming less than all-powerful.
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Austin Bay: 2024’s biggest news story: Trump survives assassination to win most significant US election since 1980
Though president-elect, internationally Trump’s already perceived as president.
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Jon St. Laurent: ‘Surrendering to Trump sets a dangerous precedent’
During the presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump filed a spate of lawsuits against news organizations — ABC News and host George Stephanopoulos among them — advancing the false narrative that his perceived enemies unfairly target him, wrote Politico’s Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing. Now the New York Times reports that Debra OConnell, the Disney executive who directly […]
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Clarence Page: Kash Patel and his ‘bureau of intimidation’
The fear is not that Patel will defang an institution he finds so nefarious but rather that he will turn it on new targets.
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In rebuttal: William LaRochelle: Granlund on the mark with Trump/Time cartoon
Any sensible person with a smidgen of knowledge about Adolf Hitler’s and Joseph Stalin’s careers as genocidal autocrats knows better than to view President-elect Donald Trump as their counterpart in that respect. So, I disagree with letter writer Mark Wood’s objection (Dec. 19) to Dave Granlund’s cartoon, in which Trump is depicted as Time magazine’s […]
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Froma Harrop: What are Daniel Penny’s politics?
Republicans clearly want to adopt the white Marine veteran who strangled a threatening Black passenger on a New York City subway car.