With the 2025 legislative session now underway, our elected officials must make supporting small businesses a top priority rather than wasting valuable floor time on unnecessary and overreaching tech regulations.
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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Vickie Lailer: The incredible power of reading to children at home: Join the February Read to ME Challenge
Reading at home does more than create lifelong memories. It sets our children up for success at school. It gives children background knowledge, fosters empathy, and increases their vocabulary.
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Rich Lowry: Trump’s Panama win
The Panamanian political leadership presumably hasn’t been sleeping so well the past several weeks. After the election, Trump began banging the drum about Panama’s mismanagement of the canal. Then, in a truly extraordinary line in his inaugural address that didn’t get much attention given the rush of other events, he pledged to take it back.
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Froma Harrop: Egg prices are totally Donald Trump’s fault!
During the campaign, Donald Trump stood before a table of groceries, a box of eggs included, and promised: “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on day one.” It’s now past day 14, and eggs prices are hitting record highs.
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James Cogan: No one voted for Musk
I don’t think my Republican friends and neighbors fully meant their vote to unleash the full catastrophe now unfolding. Many debatable policy actions may have been predicted, but others would not have been anticipated. The extent of the elimination of substantial vital foreign aid opens up huge opportunities for China and Russia to extend their […]
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Gil Steward: Simultaneous early releases clog wintry roads
So far this year to date we have not had a lot of snow, but we’ve had a lot of storms. A lot of them start in mid-morning, so this makes for the worst driving from 11 a.m. to 1, 2 or 3 p.m. Places that had school let kids out at noon. Credit unions, […]
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Michael Boom: Offer reparations in the form of free education
Give a man a fish and one has fed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish and one has fed him for a lifetime. Right? A free education is the best way to offer reparations for no less than 300 years of oppression inflicted upon descendants of African-Americans. People want to prove […]
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Diana Lovejoy: A ‘far-right cabal’ now runs America
The White House has been taken over by the patients. The Mad Hatters are running the country. There are no trained staff to sedate and control them. They have an immigrant South African searching through our personal data, undoing our diplomatic programs, and causing pain and deprivation to the citizens. President Trump and his flunkies […]
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Fred Brodeur: ‘It is time to grieve the loss of God’s children’
On Tuesday evening, I heard President Trump say he wanted to take the land of the Palestinian people. At this time, it is necessary and appropriate for the families and loved ones of the deceased to find the bodies of the victims of the war against Gaza, to mourn their dead, and have their homes, […]