This regards “Gov. Mills launches Dirigo Business Incentive Program at Lisbon’s Springworks Farm” (July 26). Eight years ago the MaineSpark coalition of business leaders, nonprofits, schools, universities and other partners came together to establish Maine’s education attainment goal: by 2025, 60% of adults will hold a post-secondary credential valued by our businesses and industry. We’ve […]
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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Clarence Page: A ‘woke’ military? Don’t forget the messy race relations that got us here
As I see today’s generation of congressional Republicans wage their seemingly endless war against the “woke,” I cannot help but wonder: Do these folks have any idea of how turbulent the issue of military diversity used to be?
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Rich Lowry: Mutually assured re-nomination
Trump and his enemies may despise one other, but they are working toward the same immediate outcome, i.e., a high-stakes, hate-filled, Third World-ish Trump-Biden rematch with the possibility of jail for one of the contenders if he loses and intense prosecutorial scrutiny for the other if he comes up short.
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Bob Neal: The Countryman: Culture wars revisit Nashville
Country music is at another crossroad. It can point its art and its fans forward or backward.
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Joseph Pelliccia: Vote Jeff Harmon for Auburn mayor
I first met Jeff Harmon recently and was tremendously impressed by his commitment to work collaboratively as the new mayor of Auburn. Jeff seeks out the advice of people with expertise to offer in solving the many problems faced by Auburn, including — but not limited to — recycling, preserving the environment, promoting transportation, education […]
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Gregory Nadeau: Pine Tree Power referendum’s passage would cost billions
Maine voters are faced with a huge decision this fall: the proposed Pine Tree Power referendum. If passed in November, Maine electric customers would be on the hook for the billions of dollars that would have to be paid to the owners of Central Maine Power and Versant for the seizure of all their property […]
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Cal Thomas: Tony Bennett: More than a ‘crooner’
While many singers have nice voices, not all can interpret songs the way Tony did. His talent and material spanned several generations.
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Froma Harrop: It’s the economy, Joe, and only the economy
Democrats should not be sinking into the Republicans’ culture war traps. Yet they feel obligated to spend so much of their airtime countering transparently dumb talking points, be it on race or on gender.