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.
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.
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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.
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Austin Bay: Chinese Communists lied and Hong Kong died
What killed Hong Kong’s democracy? The blunt truth is the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship callously broke an international treaty.
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Paul Baribault: Republican leaders’ ‘corrective’ take on Jan. 6 events
Obeisance is the French word for “obey.” In a way it carries even more weight in that category than its English peer. So regarding the immediate speeches of Republican leaders to the events in our Capitol last year, the word hovers over their follow-up actions since then, and in nearly all cases to their “corrective” […]
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Ben Lounsbury: Americans must overcome fears, resolve differences
Recent polls have shown that both sides of the political spectrum fear for the future of our country. Thank heaven there is one thing that both sides agree on: fear. But the nature of our fear helps reveal the deep polarization of our citizens. One side says it fears that the country is headed toward […]