A “yes” vote on Question 2 on Nov. 2 would mean that some very critical projects all over Maine can become a reality. The pandemic was devastating to many sectors, including airports. The transportation bond has money in it to match federal funds to make airport improvements. Traveling is coming back, thank goodness, and soon […]
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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Elaine Makas: Secretary of State website offers key referendum info
If voters are confused about Nov. 2 referendum Question 1, which relates to the New England Clean Energy Connect corridor, they are not alone. It is a very complicated issue, made all the more difficult to understand by the barrage of conflicting and passionate information pouring in equally from both sides. Fortunately, the Department of […]
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Rich Lowry: The new missile gap
We are once again discussing a “Sputnik moment,” a nuclear arms race, and a missile gap — all throwbacks to the 1950s-1980s — thanks to China’s aggressive pursuit of military capabilities designed to deter and defeat the United States.
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Bob Neal: The Countryman: Looking for reality in TV ‘reality’ shows
Anyone in Maine can appreciate Mike Shaffer, a lineman in the snow belt above Syracuse. “What makes me tough as nails is working in any type of weather and playing with electricity in my hands every day. Being away from my family for long periods can be very hard at times, but I’m doing it for them.”
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David Griswold: MacLeod brings continued experience to Auburn council
Tim MacLeod is worthy of a second term as Ward 2 city councilor for Auburn. I have known Tim since his Boy Scout days, when he worked his way up to Eagle rank. He is a lifelong Auburn resident and has a daughter in school here. He is a good neighbor. I know firsthand how […]
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Scott St. Pierre: Gelinas has done ‘fantastic job’ as Lewiston councilor
Stephanie Gelinas has done a fantastic job as Ward 7 city councilor in Lewiston. She continues to be a great leader. As founder and executive director of Sandcastle Clinical and Education Services and LA Hearing Center in Lewiston, she understands the needs of our community. Stephanie serves the community in many ways and is active […]
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In rebuttal: Renee Cote: Retroactive law passage not new in Maine
In response to the letter from Ellen Field on “retroactive laws” in the Sun Journal on Oct. 16, she’s just wrong on the facts, as are the advertisements from “Mainers for Fair Laws” that have been filling our mailboxes and air waves. Title 1, Chapter 11, Section 302 of the Maine Revised Statutes has long […]
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: My people are Americans
Shall we embrace fidelity or surrender to the storm? For some of us, that’s no choice at all. Hence, “you people” — less a call for division than a belated recognition that division has already come, that some of us have seceded from common cause, common ideals, common hope — and that the rest of us must recognize that, if only so that we can be clear-eyed about saving ourselves.