As for the price of turkeys, who’s panicking, other than certain media desperate for a hot headline during the mid-November doldrums? No need to panic. Black Friday is right around the corner, and as national obsessions go, shoppers-gone-wild are hard to beat.
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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Oliver North and David Goetsch: Are you better off today than you were 10 months ago?
The latest theme of the Biden presidency is “Build Back Better.” But those of us who are paying already inflated prices for gasoline, bread, milk, eggs, butter, heat for our homes and other essentials know things are not as they should be. Americans who go to grocery stores only to find bare shelves, while hundreds of fully-laden cargo ships sit unloaded in ports, know things aren’t better.
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Joe Graziano: Our union at Bates: For our coworkers and community
I have lived in the greater Lewiston-Auburn area most of my life. My family owned a restaurant in Lisbon for 44 years. After our family business closed in 2012, I was hired at Bates. The college was good to me, and I was appreciative. I still am, but I have realized not everyone here is […]
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Deanne Danforth: Earth doomed without alternative natural renewable energy
Most scientists believe fossil fuel contributes to climate change. The world’s warmer now than before the industrial age. Meteorologist Hubert Lamb, a modern climatologist, believed CO2 levels alone couldn’t account for all global warming. Burning fossil fuels produces gases and extreme heat that’s warming the atmosphere. Some scientists believe thermal emissions from Earth’s interior contribute […]
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Bob Neal: The Countryman: For these I give thanks
As we near our annual orgy of grace and gluttony, we have a lot for which to be thankful. Most of all, I’m grateful for communities that keep on keeping on through it all.
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Lorraine Tyra: Greenwood no hero for rejecting vaccine
State Rep. Randall Greenwood shows a selfish disregard for the hospital staff at St Mary’s Regional Medical Center. He did not get the vaccine that has been proven as a good deterrent to severe cases of COVID-19. Instead he felt he had the right to tax the already over-burdened ICU and other hospital staff for […]
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Kathy Shaw: Auburn doesn’t need strip zoning
At the Nov. 9 meeting of the Auburn Planning Board, a proposal for strip zoning was the center of testimony and discussion amongst the 60-plus community members in attendance and planning board members. Every single citizen who spoke, every single one, asked that the planning board refuse to recommend the zoning changes. After more than […]
