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.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Tom Fallon: Those who oppose abortion should embrace adoption
Simply, quietly, may I encourage those who strongly oppose abortion to adopt with love unwanted, in-danger children, if they are to live? This would be a Christian act of love. Tom Fallon, Rumford
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Posted inLetters, Opinion
Jacynthe Jacques: Lewiston library cuts would hurt fiber of community
I was once an immigrant who made Lewiston my home. I spoke French and had to learn to navigate a new country and culture. The Lewiston Library became a refuge for me and my family — a place to learn English, to access services we might not have been able to get elsewhere, a place […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Mary Hunter: Library deserves Lewiston’s continued support
I am opposed to reducing the Lewiston Public Library’s weekly hours from 50 to 40 and closing for an additional day. That’s a 20% cut in services to key populations in Lewiston, particularly young people doing homework, others without easy access to the internet at home, and those looking for materials in languages other than […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Denis Bergeron: Follow the money
The Sun Journal is doing a good job running stories on the trial over the New England Clean Energy Connect. A few weeks ago, Portland Press Herald writer Tux Turkel raised the issue of the costs of legal participation in the trial by Natural Resources Council of Maine. According to the article, NRCM received a […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Froma Harrop: They’re very rich but also very lonely
Assuming reasonably good health, who wouldn’t find contentment living in a gilded mansion and flying around in private jets? Imagine being able to just plunk down a platinum card anytime some glittering luxury winks your way. Envision being cushioned from the indignities of waiting on lines. But imagine also how this exclusivity can separate one from interaction with other human beings.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Mark Wood: In abortion discussions, words matter
Words matter when talking about abortion. So, as the debate over how and where, or even if, the abortion pill mifepristone can be dispensed, we are hearing and reading about the term “medication abortion” to describe its use. Even though “medication” is a term reserved for describing the use of various pharmaceuticals — whether over […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Bill Frayer: Reducing library hours would cut off nose to spite face
I am writing to oppose the proposed cuts to the Lewiston Public Library’s budget. Benjamin Franklin started our first public library in Philadelphia in 1731. He later wrote, “This library afforded me the means of improvement by constant study, for which I set apart an hour or two each day, and thus repair’d in some […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Jake Paris: Expand, not reduce, Lewiston library hours
As a longtime (more than 20 years) resident of Lewiston and a longtime user of the library, I was extremely disappointed to hear of the possibility of closing the library one extra day per week. Here are two good reasons to expand library hours, rather than shorten them. My first is that the library plays […]
