The past is a better teacher if we will pay attention to successes and mistakes, that we might avoid one and embrace the other.
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.
Austin Bay: ‘Projecting a different picture’ won’t solve Biden’s border crisis
The Biden administration is attempting to hide its responsibility for its policy disaster on the U.S.-Mexico border and the subsequent illegal migrant crisis. Even Democrats now acknowledge the border crisis is a major political and economic problem that will damage them in the 2024 national elections.
Norm Gellatly: Is Trump really ‘one of us’?
Donald Trump has been verbally bashed by many, and justifiably so. I too, have joined in on the bandwagon several times. Nevertheless, he does show a few positive traits. He speaks clearly, assertively, with frequent repetition to drive home his points with no uncertainty. He carries himself with self-assurance, nattily dressed. He deals out an […]
Carol Frechette Thomas: Relocate Lewiston’s Veterans Memorial Park to avoid flooding
Here’s a request to move Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston to an area less likely to experience flooding. Perhaps the park across the street could be expanded to accommodate the various monuments, benches and souvenirs of service. If the community is going to fundraise $100,000 to restore what was damaged, it makes sense to me […]
Bob Neal: The Countryman: What did not happen in 2023
Each party had ample opportunity in 2023 to smarten up. Neither did.
Marilyn Burgess: U.S. should ‘put the brakes to Israel’
It is time we left Israel to its own revenge and genocide. I do not want my money to go to supplying 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, when it fails to differentiate between Hamas and civilians. I understand that Hamas did a terrible thing, but I think Israel has got its pound of flesh many times […]
Jon St. Laurent: Christmas conflagrations in the Holy Lands
For Christians in the West Bank, Christmas is not a merry day, and celebrations normally attended by thousands at the birthplace of Jesus are canceled as bombs rain down on Bethlehem. There is mourning, not just for their own losses — those killed by an Israeli Defense Force bombing of a Greek Orthodox church in […]
Michael Boom: Terrorists groups ‘must be shown the door’
Hamas, Isis, the Taliban and Hezbollah all have one thing in common. They are all pure barbarism at its ultimate worst that humanity has to offer. Barbarism is savagery at a primitive level, without any restraint or civilized state of being. This moment in history takes all of us back in time to the Twin […]