If you have an implanted hip, this article concerns learning more about it, to help you to become a bona fide Hipster. Hips are replaced today more than ever before; this trend will continue. A reason for this is that your original hip is simply a bony, mechanical joint. As such, tissue surrounding hips can, […]
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.
Cal Thomas: Where should evangelicals go now?
Evangelical Christians have unquestionably been a loyal and largely unmovable base of support for President Trump since he has been in office and in some cases before. Should the election results not be overturned by recounts or court decisions, where do they go and what should they do? Perhaps no evangelical pastor has been a […]
Froma Harrop: Was gun waving the worst part?
Some of the sickest images to come out of our recent turmoil have featured Americans waving guns at other Americans – not in self-defense but to provoke fear. The worst showed armed thugs threatening Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on the state capitol steps over her anti-COVID regulations. (This was separate from an alleged plot by […]
Rich Lowry: The completely insane Electoral College strategy
Why limit yourself to the far-fetched when the utterly fantastical is an option? President Donald Trump’s challenges of the outcome of the presidential race in several razor-thin battleground states are unlikely to succeed. Faced with this prospect, some allies of the president are advocating, or beginning to whisper about, Republican state legislatures taking matters into […]
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Acknowledging a bitter defeat is never easy
We turn, one last time, to Hans Christian Andersen. Over the past four years, many observers, this one included, have found one of the Danish writer’s most famous tales irresistible for explaining both Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s slavish sycophancy toward him. In “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” a monarch parades through town naked, having […]
Rumford church to hold Christmas fair Nov. 21
RUMFORD — The Parish of the Holy Savior will hold the annual Christmas Fair from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at the Holy Savior Parish Hall, Franklin Street. The church will adhere to state mandated COVID-19 restrictions. Handmade and decorated fresh Christmas wreaths will be available for pre-orders, date to be announced. The […]
Community briefs for Friday, Nov. 13
Dixfield American Legion to hold craft fair MEXICO — The Dixfield American Legion will hold a craft fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Mexico Lions Club. Knights of Columbus to hold drive-thru supper LEWISTON — Holy Family Council 10019 Knights of Columbus will hold a drive-thru supper on […]