Now that we’re seeing the failure to meet our objectives in the war in Afghanistan and the lives lost, we can now look forward to our next war: the one against the COVID virus. The enemy has one objective, to kill as many as possible. This enemy cannot strategize like a human enemy. It achieves […]
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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Posted inLetters, Opinion
Alicia Heyburn: Youth heal, thrive, with time outside
Youth need time outdoors to be happy, healthy, connected and curious. A troubling report in the Portland Press Herald stated, “In Maine and across the country, the number of adolescents who attempt suicide has risen dramatically.” We have an immediate opportunity to care for ourselves and our youth with more exposure to the natural world. […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Froma Harrop: So, Ron DeSantis wants to be president
The Florida governor evidently believes the path to a Republican presidential nomination requires appeasing the right-wing nuts who recently booed even Donald Trump when the former president urged people to get their shots.
Taxpayers should know that they are paying for this idiocy and vote accordingly.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Austin Bay: The deadly consequences of Biden’s bugout
Biden not only surrendered to terrorists spouting bombastic threats, but he also capitulated to the revived murderous and culturally misogynistic regime that gave al-Qaida terrorists a base to plot the September 11, 2001, attacks that killed 2,977 Americans and injured over 6,000.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Andrew Lewis: Auburn committee failed with mask choice vote
At its Aug. 18 meeting, the Auburn School Committee voted to no longer require masks in schools, leaving our students and faculty at risk of sickness and death. This display of moral cowardice is disgusting. With the exception of two committee members, they elected to ignore the advice of experts, parents and the community. The […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Jim Benson: Biden ‘a global disgrace of epic proportion’
Our so-called president is a global disgrace of epic proportion. His Middle East policies are an open door welcome mat for another terrorist attack on America. Has America forgotten 9/11? Biden is following Obama’s agenda to a tee. The mess Biden put us in now in Afghanistan should have never happened. He has no exit […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Joan McGill: Richardson Lake needs higher water level
Since 1972 I have spent a significant part of each year on Richardson Lake. I have found it to be a quiet, pristine habitat for all the flora and fauna that is treasured in Maine. This environment has been preserved and protected by a settlement agreement for the upper Androscoggin River water storage and the […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Mark Wood: School must tread slowly with anti-racism policy
It has been a longstanding axiom that those who stand for nothing will fall for anything, especially in this present climate of racial shaming. Therefore, the Lewiston School Committee would do well to proceed very slowly in adopting an “anti-racism” policy when more than semantics are at issue here; racism as a free-standing construct or […]