Vice President Kamala Harris — whose poll numbers and favorability among the public and even her fellow Democrats have sunk faster than a rock thrown in the River Seine — left for Paris this week, where she is attending a five-day meeting “to focus on the plight of migrants and refugees.”
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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Bob Neal: The Countryman: Schools front and center
You can argue that COVID-19 has changed dining out, retail and health care drastically and you’d be right. But the lasting effect on and in the schools may be both wider and deeper. After all, our next generations are coming up through the public schools.
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Stephen Carnahan: Build Back Better bill needs Sen. Collins’ support
Do people remember the first time they got a paycheck? Do they remember their excitement as they opened the envelope? And then do they remember saying, “That’s all? That’s all I get for all that work?” Now, Sen. Susan Collins adds an insult to American workers. She recently said that programs in the Build Back […]
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Jacob Morin: Our mirror in the sky: A treatise on Iandus
Who or what is Iandus? That name says it all. It is, literally, I and us. As you read this, editor, you are the I. As I write and read this, I am my I. You are part of my us, as I am part of yours. Whenever Iandus is evoked, it refers to every […]
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Cynthia Stancioff: Congress should support carbon pricing with dividends
This past year, numerous towns throughout Maine passed resolutions in town councils and annual town meetings supporting national carbon pricing with dividends for all U.S. households. At this moment, carbon pricing is being planned for inclusion in the budget reconciliation bill. Now is the time to remind our members of Congress we care about our […]
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: ‘Blond hair white skin’
Two months after posting video of herself in the mob of right-wing thugs who stormed the U.S. Capitol, Jenna Ryan went on Twitter to taunt her detractors. “Definitely not going to jail,” she wrote. “Sorry I have blonde hair white skin a great job a great future and I’m not going to jail. Sorry to rain on your hater parade.”
Last week, Ryan was sentenced to 60 days in prison.
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Austin Bay: Winning the opium wars on American will
The next generation of American warriors is confused, sidetracked and pre-defeated by asserted blows to tender psyches and perceived microaggressive social pains. The next generation of American thinkers is cheated of knowledge when self-crowned elites claim math is racist. Sorry — 2 plus 2 only equals 3 in Marxist hells ruled by bayonets.
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Gina Morin: Sen. Collins should back Build Back Better bill
I’m a frustrated Maine voter. Sen. Susan Collins recently claimed that the “expensive entitlement programs” the Biden administration is proposing in the Build Back Better legislation “would break the connection between work and a brighter future.” Well, I can prove that’s not true. I am disabled, and earlier this summer I started a fellowship with […]
