Dec. 7, 1941. “A date which will live in infamy,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it. The attack’s 80th anniversary is this month.
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: Forcing teens to have babies would not be good for Republicans
About four of every five Americans want to keep abortion legal. Roe v. Wade has given anti-abortion politicians the ability to placate “pro-life” voters while not inconveniencing the others. But make one’s daughter, one’s wife or oneself fly from Mobile, Texas, to Seattle, Washington, for a procedure that once was locally available, and there are going to be repercussions at the polls.
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Posted inLetters, Opinion
John Reeder: ‘New blood’ needed among politicians
I would like to respond to the announcement in the Nov. 18 Sun Journal concerning Peggy Rotundo running for election again. We keep saying it’s time for change, and yet we continue to reelect the same people to represent us, people who have spent years and years in office, and nothing ever changes. It’s the […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Kiernan Majerus-Collins: Rotundo an ‘effective voice for progressive change’
Peggy Rotundo’s recently-announced candidacy for the Maine Senate is great news for Lewiston, and for our entire state. In these difficult times — faced with a global pandemic, an increasingly fascist Republican Party, and an existential climate threat — we need tough, smart, experienced leaders in public office. Peggy, who served as chair of the […]
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Bob Neal: The Countryman: Justice unfolds, but slowly
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” Dr. Martin Luther King told us four days before he was murdered. He didn’t say it bends steadily or quickly.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
James Lysen: Build Back Better deserves Golden’s backing
I ask people to join me in urging our U.S. representative, Jared Golden, to support the Build Back Better Act. We expect Republicans in Congress to take credit for BBB if and when it passes, like they did earlier on the infrastructure bill which the majority of Republicans opposed. Most Republicans have also refused to […]
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Cal Thomas: Connecting the dots
The Supreme Court has an opportunity to correct a great legal and greater moral wrong if it will “seize the time” and connect the dots between abortion, the unique value of human life at all stages, and the social upheaval that is consuming us because of the court’s refusal in the last 48 years to restore legal protection to the most vulnerable among us, the unborn child.
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: The social covenant has shattered
You don’t stand facing the back wall of an elevator. In heavy traffic, you take turns merging. You stop at the red light even when the street is deserted. And, oh yes, you don’t join a mob to ransack a store.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Ava Hopps: Woodstock area needs more volunteer firefighters
The Woodstock Fire Department has been around for almost 80 years to help and serve the people in our community. Unfortunately, the number of firefighters have been dwindling over the past several years, not just in Woodstock, but nationwide. In rural areas such as Woodstock, service is on a volunteer basis, so all of the […]