My wish for the new year is a return to common decency and morality, to see kindness and caring everywhere. I am hopeful Generation Z will march to the polls this November in droves to say we will not accept inaction in Congress while children are being massacred in our schools. I wish to see […]
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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Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy
Auburn company raises over $800 in snowsuit drive
AUBURN — Better Homes & Gardens/The Masiello Group raised more than $800 from its Auburn office in its annual snowsuit drive for Promise Early Education Center. The money paid for gloves, hats, boots and more than 23 full sets of snowsuits. As the Head Start program for Androscoggin County, the center aims to provide a […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Jacqueline Smith: Excluding Trump from ballot ‘a slap in the face’
How sad and pathetic it is when three individuals and a bias secretary of state can make a decision that affects the rights of all the citizens of this wonderful state (excluding Donald Trump from the primaries). What a slap in the face. Obviously, they don’t believe that we are capable of thinking for ourselves […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Penny Haslett: Trump is not for the people
I’m so upset that so many people were angry with Secretary of State Shenna Bellows. I feel she was very direct and stated just the facts. People are so quick to judge without looking up the information. I wish people would take the blinders off and see Donald Trump for what he really is. He […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Froma Harrop: Sorry, haters. California is doing just fine
There’s a neurotic need in the right-leaning media to declare that California is going down.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Cal Thomas: Biden not ‘faithfully executing’ the law
When it comes to the open southern border it could be argued — and should be argued by more members of Congress — that the president has violated his oath, which is reason enough for impeachment.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Rep. Mike Lajoie: Legislature must address new PFAS regulations
Maine’s legislature faces an urgent policy dilemma with how the state should move forward to enforce a new law regulating the presence of PFAS, sometimes referred to as “forever chemicals,” in the economy.