In his rebuttal to Bob Schaible’s March 21 piece (“Angus King: ‘Good faith negotiations’ needed in Israeli-Palestine conflict,” March 24), Sen. King claims he will continue to “oppose Israeli settlement expansion, and similarly oppose economic boycotts against Israel.” This sounds “reasonable” and “balanced” until one stops to think of two things. First, settlements are a […]
Alex Lear
A Maine native and Colby College graduate, Alex has been covering coastal communities since 2001. He lives in the Portland area with his wife Lauren, 4-year-old daughter Alaina, and 7-year-old bulldog Walter. He has released four CDs of original music and does occasional research work for Marvel Comics' collected editions.
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Orion Breen: Community radio, TV need support
I like people. I like to hear what people think, what they like, what music makes them sing. Or cry. Or sing and cry at the same time. I don’t like a machine telling me what I should like. I don’t want my behavior predicted based upon past likes. I like to be genuinely surprised, […]
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Jonette Christian: Biden’s immigration bill: Do we really need more workers?
Rewarding the illegal pipeline with multiple legalization schemes is a race to the bottom for all Americans, immigrant and native born, and a slap in the face to those employers and legal immigrants who played by the rules.
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Cal Thomas: ‘Baghdad Bob’ rides again
Secretary Mayorkas is asking us to ignore what “our lying eyes” see. Television pictures show thousands of migrants crossing the border. Adding to the mess is the Biden administration’s authorization for ICE to spend $86 million to house migrants in American hotels. Will they also get hotel promotional points?
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: The victims of this war don’t get a wall
No, they get only chyrons and newsprint, to go with smarmy platitudes of inaction, specious pieties worn smooth by repetition.
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Rich Lowry: Stop the steal, for real this time
After rightly excoriating their Republican colleagues for challenging on Jan. 6 presidential results certified by the states, House Democrats immediately turned to doing, in effect, the exact same thing in an Iowa congressional district their candidate lost by six votes.
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Conor Norris and Edward Timmons: Universal license recognition would make it easier to move to Maine
Universal recognition laws treat professional licenses like a driver’s license. We don’t make people moving between states sit for a permit exam and pass a driving course; rather we trust other states’ ability to screen out poor drivers. We should trust them the same way for occupational licensing.
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Joan Grant: Palestinians’ situation ‘dire’ under Israeli occupation
I was glad to see Robert Schaible’s column (“Sen. King complicit in Israel’s Big Lie,” March 21) that sheds light on the Palestinians’ dire situation under Israeli occupation, which continues with the support of the U.S. government and U.S. taxpayer dollars. I’m also pleased that Sen. King responded, but I’m dismayed that while he’s waiting […]