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
In rebuttal: Mark Wood: Article on prehistoric feasts didn’t serve up real news
If fake news is patently false, and misinformation is based upon mistaken facts, and disinformation is a deliberate lie to achieve a certain end, I do not know how to categorize the front page story from the Associated Press (“How cooking food for feasts made us human,” Nov. 22). This story held up 780,000 year […]
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Paul Luce: Lewiston-Auburn needs a VA home
Lewiston-Auburn has some 5,000 to 6,000 veterans. Some are homeless, experiencing food insecurity, and are in need of medical and personal care. The nearest VA home is in South Paris, and Lewiston-Auburn — the second largest metropolitan area in the state — doesn’t have one. That makes no sense to me. Mayors Carl Sheline and […]
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Stan Tetenman: Racism, antisemitism deserve condemnation from politicians
The election is over. There was no red wave. Voters chose to keep our functioning democracy by defeating election deniers from gaining control over state elections. There was no voting fraud. It took a court order for an election board controlled by Republicans in Arizona to certify its election results. Democrats have maintained control of […]
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Cal Thomas: Congressional lame duck quackery
Warnings about overspending and high taxation are ignored. The Founders gave us a Constitution that established boundaries beyond which government cannot go. They repeatedly advised against excessive and ongoing debt. That government has long exceeded constitutional limits is why it has become so dysfunctional in so many areas.
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Amy Dieterich: ‘We have to do better as a community for people like Gabe’
Like many Sun Journal readers, I read about the murder in Poland over Thanksgiving and felt disappointed that a man like Justin Butterfield could slip through the holes in our social safety net for so long. But I also felt a great sense of loss because I knew Gabe D’Amour — not well, but enough […]
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Austin Bay: The Tiananmen Tiger stalks the Chinese Communist government
The current demonstrations are the first widespread mass protests against Chinese Communist Party rule since Tiananmen.
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Cal Thomas: On turning 80
I’ve been asked when I will retire, but I can’t think of anything that matches or exceeds expressing my opinions and getting paid for them. If good health continues, and with the approval of editors around the country, I shall press on, annoying liberals for as long as I am able.