Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is indisputably good at one part of his job — always referring to the migrant surge at the border as a “challenge” and never a “crisis.”
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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Todd Gaudette: Game has passed Patriots coach by
The party’s over. Tom Brady proved he could win without Patriots coach Bill Belichick. Bill can’t win without Tom. Now Bill has given the keys to a rookie who should be sitting and watching a veteran. The game has passed Belichick by like a memory in the NFL’s rearview mirror. This year’s schedule and roster […]
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: You can starve an ideal only so long before you kill it altogether
An ideal, like any living thing, must be nourished in order to survive. Ours has become severely malnourished, having been fed on empty calories of jingoism and myth, a sepia fable of virtues many of us love to trumpet — liberty! justice! for all! — without really trying to live.
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Gregory D’Augustine: Thanks to a kindly fellow citizen
The little things sometimes confirm that civility and civilization really aren’t dead after all. Recently I witnessed this evidence. As I approached a busy intersection in a four-lane road in Lewiston I saw one of those maneuvers we all know and hate. A long line of vehicles, waiting to turn left at the intersection, was […]
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Lawrence Small: Bail amount for hit and run is ‘disgusting’
I write in response to the Sept. 21 article, “Police arrest suspect in weekend Sabattus hit-and-run that killed a local woman.” Five hundred sixty dollars. That’s all it takes for bail after someone kills another human being with his vehicle and drives away as though nothing happened. This is one of the most disgusting things […]
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Jamie Beaulieu: Question 1 is undemocratic
Posing as an effort to protect public lands, Question 1 would do several very undemocratic things. It would overturn decisions made by the democratic body that approved construction of the New England Clean Energy Connect after consulting with environmental scientists to ensure it will offset greenhouse gas emissions resulting from fossil fuels power generation. It […]
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Froma Harrop: Republican excesses bring new hope to Democrats
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s massive victory in California’s recall election should spray some water on overheated predictions that Democrats will lose big in the 2022 midterm elections. And that’s not the only source of hope for the Democratic Party.
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Cal Thomas: The new Exodus
The real story is the slow but gaining-in-speed exodus from California to states with lower or no state taxes. This mass exit likely reduced the number of people who might have voted to oust Gov. Gavin Newsom.
