There are three bills before the Maine Legislature that fully rub against the spirit of Kennedy’s sentiment of cross border collaboration. LDs 194, 479 and 641 all aim to limit the rights of “foreign owned” companies’ role in Maine’s referendum process. However altruistic this may seem, there is more to the story.
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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Kent Ackley: Shining a light on dark money
Campaign finance reform is, rightfully, on the minds of many. Particularly those of us proudly independent from a political party, who are concerned with the influence of dark money here in Maine. While concerns with dark money are not new, today there are finally real solutions on the table. One bill currently moving through Washington, […]
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Marc Jalbert: Not thrilled with Golden’s COVID plan vote
Am I the only one having trouble understanding Jared Golden’s statement and action on the currently-passed COVID plan, that this plan needed to be more targeted, extending unemployment benefits, funding vaccine distribution and increasing investment in public health infrastructure? Within this plan unemployment benefits are extended; public health infrastructure is addressed with aid to state […]
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Susan Lea: Support Pentheny for Poland selectperson
I have lived in Poland since 1976, and just a few years ago I met Jane Pentheny. I appreciate that she would want to protect the character of Poland, with our inviting environment of woods and lakes. I have also been impressed with her interest and understanding of local and state issues that impact the […]
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Eric Rohrbach: GOP now ‘party of misinformation,’ ‘no real ideas’
The hypocrisy of Republicans in Washington is astounding. Not one of them voted for Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus package, complaining that it was bloated and not specific enough to address the problems we are all facing as a nation. The federal government is a blunt instrument, not a scalpel, and to suggest otherwise is […]
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Froma Harrop: Stopping climate change is ultimate moon shot
Those who think President Biden’s aggressive climate change agenda is radical should think about how very radically their world will change if the trend continues unhindered. Meeting the challenge will be the ultimate moon shot – making the defeat of COVID seem easy by comparison.
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: ‘Woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy’
It would be wrong if anybody said it. But yes, it is more wrong because you [Sen. Tim Scott] said it. Your ancestry, your biography and the very color of your skin tell us that you know better. Yet you said it anyway.
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Rich Lowry: Biden’s COVID relief bill is bad policy, bad faith
From where Biden sits, why not spend as much as possible under the rubric of “COVID relief”? To paraphrase Rahm Emanuel, a pandemic is a terrible thing to waste.