This past year, numerous towns throughout Maine passed resolutions in town councils and annual town meetings supporting national carbon pricing with dividends for all U.S. households. At this moment, carbon pricing is being planned for inclusion in the budget reconciliation bill. Now is the time to remind our members of Congress we care about our […]
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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Leonard Pitts Jr.: ‘Blond hair white skin’
Two months after posting video of herself in the mob of right-wing thugs who stormed the U.S. Capitol, Jenna Ryan went on Twitter to taunt her detractors. “Definitely not going to jail,” she wrote. “Sorry I have blonde hair white skin a great job a great future and I’m not going to jail. Sorry to rain on your hater parade.”
Last week, Ryan was sentenced to 60 days in prison.
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Austin Bay: Winning the opium wars on American will
The next generation of American warriors is confused, sidetracked and pre-defeated by asserted blows to tender psyches and perceived microaggressive social pains. The next generation of American thinkers is cheated of knowledge when self-crowned elites claim math is racist. Sorry — 2 plus 2 only equals 3 in Marxist hells ruled by bayonets.
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Gina Morin: Sen. Collins should back Build Back Better bill
I’m a frustrated Maine voter. Sen. Susan Collins recently claimed that the “expensive entitlement programs” the Biden administration is proposing in the Build Back Better legislation “would break the connection between work and a brighter future.” Well, I can prove that’s not true. I am disabled, and earlier this summer I started a fellowship with […]
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Rudolph Ziehm: Police suffered rescuing ‘ungrateful politicians’
On Jan. 6, “Blue lives matter” was cast aside by its principal proponents for convenience sake. I say, never did they matter more. The Capitol police — they and they alone — saved our country from mob rule. An evangelist preacher said Trump is God’s flawed messenger on Channel 13 two weeks ago. Flawed messenger? […]
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Froma Harrop: Hey Gen Z, you’re not in charge
The Sunrise Movement didn’t get what it wanted. Because its young climate activists have been led to believe they are supremely important to the Democratic Party, they are very disappointed that more of their demands were not met in the final infrastructure deal.
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Cal Thomas: Winsome Sears: It’s not 1963
Virginia Lt. Governor-elect Winsome Sears’ victory … is significant not only because she is a Black woman and the “first” of her race and gender to hold the office of lieutenant governor in Virginia, but also because she has been described as an anti-racist. Sears does not buy into a victimhood that characterizes the Democratic Party’s view of people of color.
