Once a carefree nature girl, I now govern my lawn with an iron grip, there’s no denying. It’s insanity, and I own it.
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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Cal Thomas: Invasion by any other name
A rose by any other name is still a rose. And an invasion by any other name is still an invasion. We cannot sustain a country with what amounts to an open border no matter what it is called.
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Patrick Eisenhart: Mainers listen to correct people on COVID
Everyone has a choice to listen to their own doctor and/or Dr. Anthony Fauci, or the misinformation put out by Tucker Carlson on Fox News, or Texas and Florida Republican governors leading the nation in COVID deaths and hospitalizations in their respective states. Thankfully the people of Maine have followed the masking and vaccination policies […]
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Bob Neal: The Countryman: Some small steps in cultural progress
Fittingly, when Cuomo leaves office before his term is up, he’ll be replaced by a woman. The only way he can salvage any reputation is to quit before he is impeached. The good that can come of it is that more men in power will learn. You can run but you can’t hide.
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Austin Bay: Sue the Chinese Communist Party for coronavirus destruction
The U.S. government, American businesses and individual Americans harmed by the virus should sue the CCP and its various corporate cutouts for gross negligence and criminal cover-up. Seek triple damages.
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Bob Mennealy: Pandemic has demonstrated GOP’s hypocrisy
Elliot Epstein’s column (“When are just rewards just to be expected?,” Aug. 1) cited another incident of GOP hypocrisy in regard to COVID-19. Maine Rep. Chris Johansen, R-Monticello, an anti masker and anti vaxxer, came down with COVID-19 and was hospitalized. Such hypocrisy is not limited to Johansen; Paul LePage opposed Medicaid expansion, which would […]
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Is human compassion so hard for them?
It’s telling that people who were so fulsome in their outrage when a Target store was burned after the police murder of George Floyd, who were so righteous in their fury when Colin Kaepernick took a knee to protest police violence against African Americans, can muster so little empathy for cops who defended the Capitol — our Capitol — against the worst attack in over 200 years.
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Rich Lowry: Policymakers disregard their own COVID mandates
The coronavirus hypocrites believe they live in a hierarchical society, starkly divided between the rule-makers and the suckers who have no choice but to obey them.