She was tenacious. So, what? Male executives wore that badge proudly. This woman built a business empire based on creating artistic cheese trays and making wreaths from dry leaves. Try that, Elon Musk.
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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Austin Bay: Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon fix-it list
Based on what he’s done in battle as well as said on the record, Hegseth understands the Pentagon’s Job One is fielding an American military that is stronger, better prepared and deadlier than any other military on the planet.
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Joe Voisine: Republicans must bring America back to normalcy
President Biden and Democrats’ personal vendetta with former President Trump should have been put on the back burner. While America struggled to make ends meet, a very weak administration has put the world on fire. The voters have spoken, and Republicans must make the wise decision and bring America back to normalcy. Who knows if […]
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Carl Bucciantini: Greene residents should have been more civil, respectful at meeting
On Nov. 18 the town of Greene held a special town meeting to act on an amendment to the town’s solar ordinance. The town meeting form of government is democracy at its purest. Residents gather to discuss and to act upon the affairs of the town; yes, tempers may flare, but the overall tone is […]
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Norm Gellatly: Trump: ‘The premier snake oil salesman’
The informative, concise letter by Dave Griffiths, highlighting many of Donald Trump’s horrid comments over the years, was depressingly revealing (“So much for American exceptionalism,” Nov. 12). Any couple of them should severely question the “content of one’s character,” as Martin Luther King Jr. observed, and send him to the proverbial showers, not to the […]
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Cal Thomas: To vet or not to vet
Suggestions that the Senate and House should adjourn for 10 days to allow president-elect Trump’s nominees to sail through without hearings is a bad idea that could come back to haunt Trump, his administration and the public.
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Clarence Page: How Democrats let a rising generation of supporters slip away
As hard as it may be for Democrats to admit, Donald Trump made a more persuasive case to those outside the monoculture.
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Patricia Quinn: Shetterly’s portrait exhibit in Lewiston ‘is amazing’
I have just come from the Bates Mill Atrium and witnessed the portrait collection “Americans Who Tell the Truth” by Maine artist Robert Shetterly. He is showing 260 portraits of living and dead individuals who “tell the truth.” Each painting is accompanied by a quote which explains “his, or her” truth. There is also a […]
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Rudolph Ziehm: America needs to maintain Social Security
Cal Thomas inferred in a recent column that people would have been so much better off financially if they had put their money in the stock market some years ago, but George Bush suggested the same thing just before the collapse in 2007. The Republican Party hates Social Security and the fact it is so […]