Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) … has set the middle of the month as his target for changing the filibuster rule that requires 60 votes to pass most legislation. That Schumer has opposed what he now proposes is well-documented for anyone taking the time to do even minimal research, which most of the major media appears unwilling to do.
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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Froma Harrop: The MeToo defense was beneath her dignity
Elizabeth Holmes was just found guilty on four counts of fraud for lying to investors in her quest to raise money for her company, Theranos. It turned out that her blood-testing technology never worked.
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: ‘What kind of nation are we going to be?’
For generations, the answer was a given. We were a nation of laws. A nation of democratic principles. A nation that knew its greatness sprang from its goodness. And most of all, a nation that aspired. Meaning that, even when — as frequently happened — America failed its lofty ideals, it at least had ideals to fail.
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Rich Lowry: The left supports the constitution — except when it doesn’t
Democrats are entertaining ideas — whether blowing up the filibuster, packing the Supreme Court, adding new states for partisan advantage — that violate the kind of norms they always cited in opposing Trump.
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Kevin Landry: Pandemic highlights chasm between haves, have-nots
The year 2021 witnessed the piercing grip of the aristocracy’s talon clench tighter, in my opinion. These are the powerful elite class that control the media, academia, Silicon Valley, politics and Hollywood. In my opinion, they want to control the narrative without discourse. Freedom of speech and dissent used to be embedded in our country’s […]
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Bob Mennealy: Greenwood expressed dangerous opinions in column
Maybe there is something in the aquifer and well water in Wales that prompted two fairly intelligent men, Randy Greenwood and Isaiah Lary, to not get the COVID-19 vaccines. Greenwood contracted the virus and was hospitalized, put on a ventilator, and feared for his life, according to an article in this very paper. Science overwhelmingly […]
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Bob Neal: The Countryman: Can meat prices be lowered?
President Joe Biden, trying to take the edge off our inflationary spiral, has gone after the meat and poultry industries. His target is worthy, but his tools and his aim are lousy.
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Lou Giard: Wear a mask, protect a neighbor
I’m really concerned today about the fact that so many people do not want to wear a mask during this pandemic. They feel that it is their right to do as they please. What happened to caring for one another? Don’t they realize that we are all in this together? If we fail to stop […]