In response to Gregory D’Augustine’s letter (“Biden has done much good,” Aug. 24), it looks like President Biden has a friend. What D’Augustine failed to mention are all the meaningful things Biden inherited from the previous administration, like a strong foreign policy, a secure border, energy independence, the vaccine, a recovering economy, and much more. […]
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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Leonard Pitts Jr.: The dots had names
Our hubris and our failures, they echo. They ramify. That was the story of last week, of tiny dots that fell from a U.S. transport plane as it cleaved the sky. Reports identified them as Fida Mohammad and Safiullah Hotak.
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Jan Cornelius-Knudsen: Leave Arctic alone permanently, save planet
The United Nations Inter Panel Committee on Climate Change recently released a report that paints a rather grim outlook for our future. We clearly cannot wait to act as climate-related floods, fires, storms and extreme weather grip our nation. Acting now for an individual, however, sounds daunting. After all, what can I do to change […]
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Jim Cyr: Changing rules after game played is wrong, dangerous
Imagine the Red Sox win the World Series in a clean sweep. But the defeated team pressures Major League Baseball to change the rules and retroactively apply them. Under the new rules, the victory is overridden, and the other team declared the winner. But there is another twist — for all future games, the umpires […]
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Stan Tetenman: Time to teach real American history
When I attended school in the ’50s and early ’60s I was taught how our Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution and set up the basis for our government. I was not taught how they compromised on allowing slavery to continue. Nor did we have the context of how the government was formed to allow only […]
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Paul Baribault: We must all be our brother’s keeper
A Florida cousin died from COVID last week — he was 63, nine years my junior and otherwise in good health. His mother, literally my first cousin, preceded him into the same hospital by a day, also stricken with COVID. She is on a ventilator today, in an induced coma; and at 86 she’s been given a 30% chance of survival. Both she and her son declined to be vaccinated.
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Froma Harrop: Regulating duck art is honking silly
The controversy centers on a Trump administration rule that the winning piece of art include some depiction of hunting. Supporters assert that the hunting imagery would showcase the reality that hunters contribute mightily to the cost of refuge preservation.
