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.
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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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 […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Rich Lowry: The idiocy of vaccine mandates for kids
To avoid an unlikely harm — unvaccinated kids getting a serious case of COVID — the schools wanted to impose an almost-guaranteed harm by excluding thousands of students from the classroom, kneecapping their education. At best, this is playing chicken with the well-being of children; at worst, it is thoughtless and cruel policy in stubborn pursuit of the goal of substituting the judgment of public school mandarins for parents.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Susan Dorman: Legalize default privacy across internet
People should encourage the good stewardship of our legislators in Congress to legislate for privacy across all platforms. As our stewards, may they legalize default privacy across the internet. Individuals can then set the terms of agreement to suit their interests. Susan Dorman, Bryant Pond
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Ken Gordon: Collins’ stance on voting rights bill disappoints
Another Collins disappointment. It’s been more than saddening to watch Susan Collins, the U.S. Senate’s “most bipartisan senator,” attack the voting rights bill currently under consideration. At this time when democracy in the United States has never been more threatened and endangered, her statements that voter suppression in our country is nonexistent is very telling. […]
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Pam Stock and Mark Grenda: Kudos for community’s help after water main break
Last Thursday night around 10, we discovered an astonishing disaster unfolding in front of our home. A water main had broken on the road, and the vast majority of water gushing out of the pipe ended up in our yard and basement. There was nearly five feet of water, and rising fast. Many folks responded. […]
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: He was the only one we had
In his years of greatest impact — the late ’50s through the 1960s — Poitier required the movie-going world to see Black people. In those years, the Miami-born Bahamian actor was a doctor, a teacher and a soldier, a cop, a convict and a warmhearted handyman. In other words, he embodied blackness in all its shades of humanity and did so with an unyielding insistence upon his own — and therefore, upon our — dignity and worth.