My kids are out in the world but the graduation parties keep coming. I attended my first of the 2024 season on Mother’s Day — over to Jean Street in Lewiston (well done, Maddy!) — and it surely won’t be the last such engagement this spring. And yet, without kids in a school system, one […]
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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Austin Bay: Pier pressure on Gaza’s shore — and in Michigan
American prestige, equipment and lives are at stake.
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Rep. Tammy Schmersal-Burgess: Maine’s 72-hour waiting period violates the Constitution
Maine’s recent passage of a 72-hour waiting period to purchase a firearm … is a right delayed and therefore a right denied.
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Rich Lowry: Biden has disastrously misplayed the politics of Gaza
President Biden has shown that it’s impossible to be all things to all people, but it is possible to convince most of them that you don’t know what you’re doing.
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Cal Thomas: Warren Buffet is wrong on taxes
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett is right most of the time, but he is no prophet, because he is wrong about raising taxes while ignoring spending cuts.
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William LaRochelle: Trump: Dangerously amoral
In an admirably forthright, clear-eyed statement, Republican Geoff Duncan, former lieutenant governor of Georgia, recently declared, “This November, I am voting for a decent person I disagree with on policy over a criminal defendant without a moral compass.” And Tony Schwartz, who ghostwrote “Trump: The Art of the Deal” (1987), also considers him beneath the […]
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Lou Giard: Hope for a better future for all people
As an 85-year-old grandfather I am disappointed in our generation, for not doing our best to leave this world in a better shape. People are having to work too hard now to make a living. We should be working to live, not living to work. I wonder about capitalism and the American dream. We are […]
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Bob Neal: The Countryman: At the end of a tough winter
I’m not done writing, but I’m changing lanes. I have two books in mind and have been slowly, too slowly, working on one, a compilation of my columns, opting for those with long shelf life.
