Between now and next November, he faces a primary in a Republican Party that has gone haywire. Former President Donald Trump has vowed to take down Baker. (He’s already endorsed former state Rep. Geoff Diehl, the only well-known Republican running in the party’s primary.) Baker evidently doesn’t want to play in the nasty clown show sure to follow.
Alex Lear
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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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Rich Lowry: The IOC is a craven handmaid of Beijing
The International Olympic Committee has doggedly defended Beijing as the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics, even as the Chinese Communist Party pursues its campaign of unrelenting barbarity against the Uyghurs.
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George Howitt: Republican challenge to vaccine mandate isn’t wise
Susan Collins and every fellow U.S. Senate Republican voted to “defund” the vaccine mandate on businesses, the military and the federal workforce. Many senators will not disclose their vaccine status, though I suspect that most are vaccinated. They don’t object to the vaccine; they object to it being mandated. Their reasoning goes something like this: […]
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Austin Bay: China and Russia: The authoritarian-imperialist threat to world peace
Russia’s early December troop movements along its Ukraine border and China’s fall 2021 aerial and naval penetrations of Taiwanese territory are well-publicized displays of massed conventional armed forces poised to enter another nation’s sovereign territory and wage war.
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Bob Mennealy: U.S. ‘should learn from past mistakes, not hide from them’
Right-wing radicals wan to ban the discussion of the history of racism in the United States, and in some cases offering bounties to citizens who report teachers defying such edicts. Are they denying that the Civil War — a conflict mainly centered on the merits or lack thereof of slavery being legal or outlawed — […]
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Cal Thomas: The signs weren’t missed, they were ignored
As has been the case with so many other school shootings over several years, last week’s murder spree at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit might have been avoided if actions had been taken in the face of several obvious warning signs.