A new building at Roberts Farm could offer some vital improvements so more students can enjoy Roberts Farm like the SAD 17 fifth-graders presently do. SAD 17 students are counting on you to vote yes to investing in a bigger, better building for Roberts Farm on June 13.
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.
Cameron Lorrain and Heather Printup: Maine needs Poland Spring’s environmental leadership and jobs
We are disheartened by a group of bills that once again targets our company. One bill of concern is L.D. 1111 — a misguided proposal that would usurp the authority of water utilities to exercise their science-based stewardship of local water resources.
Rich Lowry: Trump is wrong about ‘woke’
In the absence of a better word, “woke” is unavoidable — so unavoidable, in fact, that Trump used it describe the military on the same day he knocked it as nebulous and overused.
Austin Bay: Turkey chooses dictatorship, to the detriment of the Free World
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in the process of killing Turkey’s democracy, and that’s a very destructive historical crime with long-term ramifications throughout the developing world, especially in culturally Muslim nations.
Froma Harrop: Anatomy of an insanity
With her wild hair, peekaboo sweater and extraordinary claim that then-presidential candidate Joe Biden had sexually assaulted her, Tara Reade merited considerable skepticism.
Cal Thomas: Soft vs. hard bigotry
If a Black child is told, overtly or covertly, he or she cannot succeed in life, many will internalize that message. Some will use it as an excuse to engage in crime, including the looting of stores and even shootings as we constantly witness in some of our major cities. Others will simply give up, or drop out of school, dooming far too many to a life of failure and antisocial behavior.
Michael Boom: Don’t reward criminals who resist arrest
Our police officers’ jobs are hard enough, without the unnecessary burden of those who resist arrest when being arrested. How many monuments do we have to erect in order to praise those among us who resist, when they know full well they’re guilty as hell? Vigilante justice must not overshadow blind justice when people’s lives […]
Steve Bien: Work requirements do not work
A major part of the 11th-hour budget deal is the addition of work requirements to Food Stamp programs. Although Republicans brought us to a near catastrophe claiming all kinds of concerns about the budget, they showed their real interests at the final bargaining table. Right from the start, the real budget issues — defense, Medicare […]