When Martin Luther King stood at the temple of Lincoln in 1963 and declared his dream “that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” he surely spoke a word for the ages.
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.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Mark Isaacson: Time’s up for Central Maine Power
CMP’s unreliability and poor response to its all too frequent outages, its hopeless billing system, its terrible customer service, and its plodding approach to solar deployment are all enormously frustrating. Whether they constitute sufficient cause for unwinding the company’s exclusive franchise may be debatable. However, its totally predictable and insufficient response to the challenge of beneficial electrification constitutes far more than adequate cause to replace its monopoly. It’s a necessity.
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Posted inLetters, Opinion
Cecile Demers: Greenwood ‘had no regard’ for others regarding virus
I am writing this letter to thank Bruce Lovett for his letter (“Greenwood should apologize for ‘selfish act’,” Dec. 28) regarding Rep. Randy Greenwood’s column (“COVID is serious; so am I,” Dec. 26). I would like to add that I think Mr. Greenwood had no regard for anyone else but himself, and that we will […]
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Tom Hart: President Biden ‘is not for Americans’
It’s too bad that our country is going downhill with Joe Biden. I will not call him my president. I think he is a liar and a thief. He doesn’t want to help America. As soon as he was president he shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, and gas prices and other expenses have gone […]
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Larry Gilbert Sr.: Gov. Mills should back unionization of farmworkers
I supported Gov. Janet Mills in her run for office. When I read that she had vetoed a bill that would have given farmworkers the right to unionize, I fully agreed with those who said her veto was “fundamentally immoral” and “an absolute disgrace.” The bill, LD 151, sponsored by Rep. Thom Harnett (D-Gardiner), was […]
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Bob Neal: The Countryman: The fight for a key path to success
To walk the path to success, nothing beats punching your ticket at an elite school, so access to them is a key to America’s future. And the elites often write templates for other colleges.
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Froma Harrop: Not getting vaccinated can be child abuse
The vaccinated majority is rapidly losing interest in the fate of the unvaccinated — and that’s putting it diplomatically. The latter may be irresponsible, ignorant, selfish, mentally unbalanced or any combination of the above. We just feel sorry for the innocents around them.
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Jon St. Laurent: Electoral fraud claims in 2020 echoed 1876 deal
Before his treasonous Jan. 6, 2021 speech before the Senate was interrupted by an invading mob, Sen. Rafael “Ted” Cruz (R-Texas) was in the process of explaining the rationale for his dereliction of duty by contesting certification of the electoral votes that would have declared Joe Biden the winner. This traitorous-interruptus homily will forever be […]
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Robert Porter: American people, not feds, should decide what’s best
Article V of the U.S. Constitution gives states the power to call a convention of states to propose amendments. It takes 34 states to call the convention, as well as 38 to ratify any proposed amendments. A Convention of States Action resolution would allow states to discuss amendments that “limit the power and jurisdiction of […]