I feel it’s wrong for mentally ill people who commit horrendous crimes to be allowed to go free after treatment. If they regain their mental health, and become aware of their deeds, they should have to serve time in a restricted area, not freed after treatment. I would like to see a new law, retroactive […]
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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Lou Giard: More rich people should pay fair share of taxes
I imagine what it would be like if most rich people became willing to pay their fair share of taxes, so that our country would have the necessary resources to fill everyone’s needs. Housing, proper medical care, food, transportation, etc. — I’m talking basic needs. There’s too much greed in this country; sooner or later […]
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Cal Thomas: Inhumanity in Memphis
From what the video shows there was no justification for what happened to Tyre Nichols. Neither is there any justification for violent behavior in reaction to it, which changes and improves nothing.
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Dave Griffiths: School goes overboard in removing word from curriculum
You can’t make this stuff up. The School of Social Work at the University of Southern California just announced that to avoid sounding anti-Black or anti-immigrant, it will “remove the term ‘field’ from our curriculum and practice and replace it with ‘practicum’.” It seems that “‘going into the field’ or ‘fieldwork’ may have connotations for […]
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Deanne Danforth: Defending virtues of being ‘woke’
Some Republicans accuse people of being “woke” as if it’s an insult, something bad and something to be ashamed of. Until now I thought woke meant waking a person out of sleep. That’s not what woke currently means when used as a political weapon against people of color. In 2017, a new meaning of “woke” […]
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Clarence Page: Can Black History Month survive Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ‘anti-woke’ politics?
After Republican Glenn Youngkin’s long-shot victory in Virginia’s governor’s race in 2021 after campaigning heavily against “critical race theory,” a line of study not taught in public schools, Republicans and other conservatives have weaponized the term to blast any lessons on race, gender and identity that they don’t like as liberal “indoctrination.”
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Stan Tetenman: In support of state budget priorities
We are fortunate in Maine that we have legislators from both parties who do their best to work together to find solutions to benefit all of our citizens. Let us hope that spirit of cooperation will provide help to all our citizens.
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Cal Thomas: Scandal? What scandal?
The White House is caught in an ethical bind. On the one hand it claims classified documents found when an FBI warrant was executed at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort are scandalous, while simultaneously claiming that classified documents found at President Biden’s home and at in an old office suite are not a big deal because Biden instructed his lawyers to go get them and inform the National Archives.