In his July 20 rebuttal to Cal Thomas’s July 11 column decrying the Supreme Court’s unwillingness to hear a second appeal from a florist who had refused to serve a soon-to-be-married gay couple, Christian minister Marc Greenwood disdained his “pity party for Christianity,” prompted as it was by his conviction that America was founded as […]
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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Bob Neal: The Countryman: Must be 50 ways to leave your country
Nearly half of Democrats in the five western states favor secession. In our part of the country, two in five Democrats and one in four Republicans, not to mention more than a third of independents, want to take these 11 states out of the union. The guys in the Confederate flag t-shirts (southern Republicans) favor secession by 66%.
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Posted inLetters, Opinion
In rebuttal: Paul Cain: Vaccine will protect against COVID-19 impacts
Unfortunately, the Cal Thomas column of July 22 (“Truth and COVID-19“) was full of bits of information and half-truths used to create confusion regarding the virus. He criticizes Dr. Anthony Fauci for allegedly changing his position on masks, but the “typical mask” has never been credited with the ability to protect the wearer from infection. […]
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Froma Harrop: Mental distress fuels crime, extreme politics
We now have an evil mix of social isolation and extremist rhetoric that some use to confer an air of respectability to their delusions. The social services that keep the mentally unbalanced in check need to be strengthened — and soon.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Richard Charloff: More Republicans need to get vaccinated
When I recently went online to find out how many Democrats vs. Republicans have had the COVID vaccine, a recent poll showed that 86% of Democrats and 45% of Republicans were vaccinated. Many reasons for this disparity have been given, but I do not want to waste my limited amount of space with a review […]
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Madison Sheppard: Arctic wildlife refuge must be protected
As a young climate activist, I’m deeply concerned about the fact that our political leaders are not doing enough to combat climate change. Case in point: the decision by Congress in 2017 to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development. The Arctic Refuge is one of the last wild places […]
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Cal Thomas: Truth and COVID-19
People — including two U.S. presidents, Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the president, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, and Dr. Rochelle Walensky, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — have all made statements which, at the time, they claimed were accurate and based on science, but turned out to be inaccurate.
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In rebuttal: Charles Nero: Social inequality’s cause requires introspection, not innocence
I write in response to Kevin Landry’s guest column (“Time to move on from a cancerous past,” July 11). I think Landry is correct to point out the biases and discrimination New England’s Franco Americans have faced. However, Landry makes the specious claim that if systemic racism exists “then not only are institutions racist, but […]