We all should be mindful that Glenn Youngkin won the governorship by only two points. The culture war may not quite be the free lunch Republicans think is.
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.
Lori Dwyer: Immigration reform urgently needed to help meet rural health needs
Our current immigration system imposes trauma on good and decent people. I have personally watched families experience the agony of living with uncertainty in legal limbo. The human costs alone are reason enough to provide a path to earned legal status and citizenship.
Andrew Barton: Expand Maine’s ecological reserve system
Most agree that the Ecological Reserve System needs to be expanded. So, what’s stopping that? In the original 2000 legislation to create the system, an arbitrary cap was placed on total acreage. It’s time to remove that limit.
Austin Bay: Communist Chinese imperialists steal sub-Saharan Africa
China’s calculating communist-imperialists dominate 21st century empire-building in sub-Saharan African.
Cal Thomas: Forget bipartisanship
Winning the argument is better than never-ending arguments. We know what works and what is not working. Let’s apply that knowledge and experience. It would get the country out of debt and shrink the overreach of government, contributing to more liberty, not less, as seems to be what we are currently experiencing.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Some of us still have some growing up to do
One is at a loss for words to describe the amnesiac gall of those Republicans who have slammed President Biden for mistreating Peter Doocy.
Froma Harrop: Is the Zoom glass ceiling really about gender?
Remote work “will hold women back,” says CNBC. Home-based employees may be deprived career advancement available to colleagues in the company office. And women, usually tasked with child care, are more likely to choose — or feel forced — to work from home. That’s why some are calling remote work “the Zoom glass ceiling.”
George Howitt: Comparing Jan. 6 investigation to Watergate
A mob of Donald Trump followers assaulted the Capitol to stop the pro forma ratification of Joe Biden’s victory on Jan. 6, 2021. Questions immediately began whether the role of the president’s rhetoric and legions of his followers’ quixotic quest for evidence of fraud fueled the violence. Unlike Watergate, Republicans refused to establish a bipartisan […]