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.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Austin Bay: A soldier dies in the Biden Border War and China’s Strategic Drug War
Bishop Evans died as a soldier fighting in two wars threatening America.
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Posted inLetters, Opinion
Joe Mailey: Re-elect Cloutier to House of Representatives
Rep. Kristen Cloutier has continuously proven herself a champion for the average citizens of Lewiston and the entire state of Maine. She would like the opportunity to continue her work. Housing, wages, drug and alcohol abuse, education, health care and many other complicated issues have all been the focus of her hard work and commitment […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Pam Rousseau: Lake Auburn filtration system would raise Lewiston water bills
Lewiston citizens need a little history about their drinking water. In 1875, the city of Auburn started pumping water out of Lake Auburn for use. In 1880, swimming was prohibited because of bacteria in the water. Around the turn of the century, because of the terrible pollution of the water in the Androscoggin River, Lewiston […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Rich Lowry: In defense of Vikings
What popular depictions of the Vikings tend to leave out … is how these Northmen or Norsemen built as well as destroyed, governed as well as marauded. They had a large hand in setting the contours of medieval Europe and creating a cultural inheritance that still shapes the West today.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Richard Whiting: Septic ordinance would greenlight Lake Auburn development
In 1923, Maine’s Legislature passed an Act to Incorporate the Auburn Water District, which “shall have power to adopt bylaws, not inconsistent with the general laws of the state, to prevent pollution of the water of Lake Auburn and to preserve the purity of said water of Lake Auburn, and may prescribe penalties for the […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
In rebuttal: William LaRochelle: Cash helps homeless more than kind words
In her column on homelessness (Sun Journal, April 25, page 5), onetime journalist Shannon Jones told the story of her adopted son who suffers from learning disabilities and mental illness and who is himself homeless — despite her and her husband’s all-out efforts to help him. Nevertheless, I take issue with a couple of her […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Pinky Amor Mennealy: Support Sheats for state Senate
I am writing in total support of Bettyann Sheats’ campaign for the Maine Senate. Bettyann is a West Point graduate who served our country as a helicopter pilot and most recently served on the board of the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport. She is also an Auburn small business owner. I hope voters join me in supporting […]
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: A bad Monday for freedom
This week’s headlines point, in disparate ways, to the same threat. Meaning a corrosion, not simply of the people’s right to know, but of their very ability to know. In that sense, it doesn’t matter whether you and I are in step on which story left us most dyspeptic.