I’m writing to express my support of Carl Sheline as mayor of Lewiston. As a Lewiston business owner, I have seen firsthand the positive impact Carl has had on our city. He truly values Lewiston’s residents, business owners, and city employees. I believe that Carl is working to make Lewiston a better place. Whitney Pelletier, […]
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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Peter Zanoni: Some lawbreakers get jail time, others get freedom
I don’t get it. Why are there so many people in jails all across America, and we say “because they broke a law.” Well, shouldn’t we let all of them walk out of jail freely now to honor equality and fairness? Why? Because every migrant who enters America illegally has broken the law, too. And, […]
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Clarence Page: Fani Willis and the court of public opinion
It doesn’t take a law degree to know that the appearance of impropriety can be just as damaging as the real thing. Sometimes worse.
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Hunter Kissam: High time for a ceasefire in Gaza
There’s nothing I can say that hasn’t been said, but the message can’t be said enough. Gaza’s people are under the imminent threat of genocide at the hands of the extremist Israeli government, backed by the full weight of the U.S. government. Still, it’s amazing to see the blatant hypocrisy. Benjamin Netanyahu can say Israel […]
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Patrick Eisenhart: Union’s no-confidence vote on Lewiston mayor raises questions
After reading your newspaper’s Feb. 22 article, “Union votes ‘no confidence’ in Mayor Sheline,” the first question I asked myself, “Haven’t we had enough negative news in Lewiston to last a lifetime?” The next question was how the union president ever got elected with so little knowledge of collective bargaining and how a town or […]
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Rich Lowry: It makes no sense to abandon Ukraine
It’s difficult to predict how a Ukrainian defeat would reverberate. Abandoning allies in a humiliating fashion has unpredictable consequences. When we cut lose South Vietnam in the 1970s, it catalyzed an anti-Western offensive around the world, and Joe Biden’s botched pull-out from Afghanistan may have tempted Putin into Ukraine.
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Clarence Page: On Trump’s befuddling hold on the GOP and the fizzling of the ‘Never Trump’ movement
The current presidential campaign is becoming a grand drama of dueling versions of reality, with us, the voters, sitting in the jury box, hoping to witness some semblance of justice.
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Cal Thomas: The new American antisemitism
In the aftermath of “from the river to the sea” anti-Israel protests on many college campuses and in the streets comes a perfectly timed book by Johns Hopkins University Professor Benjamin Ginsberg, titled “The New American Anti-Semitism: The Left, The Right, and the Jews.”