It’s not unusual — in fact, it’s the norm — for an owner to determine the editorial line of a newspaper.
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.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Donald Potter: Trump/Vance ambush of Zelenskyy was shameful
On Feb. 28, never in my life had I been so ashamed to call myself an American. The ambush of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance in the Oval Office was a despicable display of brutish disrespect of a wartime ally of the U.S. The past three years have seen the […]
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Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy
Norway Savings Bank lauds team member achievements
NORWAY — Norway Savings Bank held its 2025 Employee Appreciation Day Celebration Feb. 26 at the Italian Heritage Center in Portland. Among local people honored was Kristen Charette, mortgage loan officer and vice president in Fryeburg as well as in North Conway, New Hampshire, who was named employee of the year. The Culture Champion Award […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Patrick Eisenhart: I don’t support Rep. Libby
Wow. On the Feb. 28 front page in super-sized lettering, “I support Libby.” Well, I don’t. Wasn’t Rep. Laurel Libby just censured by the state Legislature for breaking federal Title IX law and Maine Child Online Privacy Protection laws by posting on her Facebook page the picture of a Maine high school student athlete she […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Judy Cyr: Rep. Libby deserves an apology, removal of censure
The Democrat majority took away the right of Republican Rep. Laurel Libby to vote and speak on the House floor until she’s complied with the speaker’s request for an apology because she posted a photo of a male athlete playing in a girls’ sport, that had already been posted online by the school and others. […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Holly Lasagna: Article on Libby was biased, incendiary, unfair
I am astounded, horrified and furious at the piece on Rep. Laurel Libby and the vilifying of trans women and girls in the Feb. 28 paper. Not only is it incendiary and unfair, but it is also weak, lazy journalism. Interviewing three people at a pizza place and country store is ridiculously biased. I worry […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Steven Libby: Rep. Libby had a right to express her opinion
I have been a citizen of Maine all my life. I am 71 years old. I have been very disappointed in a lot of decisions that this government has made over the years, but I am appalled at the recent decision to silence an honest and upright person when the House of Representatives censured Laurel […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Cal Thomas: Ukraine ministers speaking truth
Does President Trump seriously believe he can make a peace deal with Russia’s Vladimir Putin by the force of his personality and pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to acquiesce to something not in his country’s best interests?
