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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Cal Thomas: A taxing time
We must drive a stake in the blood-sucking government’s heart, or we will end up driving one in ourselves, and the country we have known and loved will be no more.
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Froma Harrop: Did legalized abortion lead to lower crime rates?
The abortion discussion should rightfully go beyond a woman’s right to control her body.
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Bates College professor awarded Maine’s Public Humanities Prize
LEWISTON — Myron Beasley, a Bates College professor, is one of two 2024 recipients of the Maine Humanities Council’s Constance H. Carlson Public Humanities Prize. Maya Williams, Portland’s seventh poet laureate, is the other winner. Beasley, associate professor of American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies, is being recognized for his innovative leadership in conversations […]
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Lewiston gift shop celebrates 10-year milestone
LEWISTON — The EllieAnna Gift Shop is celebrating its 10-year anniversary at 785 Main St. The celebration runs from Friday to Sunday with various promotions.
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Lewiston, Wilton nonprofits receive grants
Nonprofit organizations in Lewiston and Wilton are among 44 receiving more than $140,000 in grants through Bangor Savings Bank Foundation’s Community Matters More program. Locally, Community Concepts of Lewiston is receiving $5,000; Literacy Volunteers — Androscoggin of Lewiston, $4,000; Western Maine Play Museum of Wilton, $3,000; and the Greater Androscoggin Human Society of Lewiston, $1,000. […]
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Rich Lowry: No one cares about Joe Biden’s lawlessness
President Joe Biden has, once more, claimed to find astonishingly wide-ranging authority to forgive student loans hiding in minute places deep in the federal code.
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Froma Harrop: As Nebraska Goes, so could go Maine
Maine’s House recently narrowly voted to have the state join an interstate compact that would assign its Electoral College votes to whatever presidential candidate won the national popular vote. So far 16 states have joined the compact, which would go into effect only if the members have enough electoral votes to determine the outcome.
