The resistance has taken to its recliners with bags of popcorn. Its members expect grand opera as an administration run by billionaires for billionaires rolls over the working folk who put Trump in office.
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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Cal Thomas: Trump’s second inaugural address
As this year’s inauguration occurs on the same day as the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Trump might — if he has it within himself — pledge to honor the great civil rights leader’s statement about love: “Hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love.”
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Clarence Page: Jimmy Carter’s funeral brought a rare and much-needed vision of peace
We saw all five living presidents happily seated together, while we observers speculated as to what Republican President-elect Donald Trump and Democratic former President Barack Obama were joking about with each other. Peace at last?
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Jamila Levasseur: U.S. tax dollars fund Israel’s crimes
Imagine Central Maine Medical Center is bombed while you’re working your shift. The hospital director is hit by shrapnel, but he vows to continue caring for patients. He’s one of the only doctors left, because most of them were arrested last month by an occupation army. Imagine the generators have been hit, you are working […]
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Kathleen Case Keene: Muhammad Ali statue is being disrespectfully placed
I am writing to express my utter dismay that our Lewiston city leaders think a statue of Muhammad Ali being placed so close to Main Street is a good idea. That the city will glorify a Vietnam conflict “conscientious objector” with a statue placement about 100 yards from Veterans Memorial Park is disrespectful to the […]
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John Henderson: We must celebrate our local people and families
If we don’t tell our own stories of greatness, who will?
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Rich Lowry: It’s OK that we don’t have more female firefighters
This isn’t to slight the contribution of female Los Angeles Fire Department personnel who are out there giving it their all in dangerous conditions, but to note that of all the phenomena that don’t care about race and gender, a rampaging inferno must top the list.
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Juliana L’Heureux: Robert Kennedy Jr. is wrong choice for DHHS
I am a registered nurse. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins knows how essentially important competent organizational leadership is, because she has experience as a former Maine commissioner overseeing the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. This department oversees licensing for professions like physicians, nurses and others. Sen. Collins must reject the nomination of Robert Kennedy Jr. […]