In response to Jaime Beaulieu’s letter (“Question 1 is undemocratic,” Sept. 23) concerning the New England Clean Energy Connect corridor, this individual fails to acknowledge that this controversial question should have been voted on by the people of Maine. Petitions overwhelmingly signed by voters was supposed to be voted on last year, but was thrown […]
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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Bob Neal: The Countryman: Post-pandemic opportunities for colleges
Coming out of the holding pattern, universities and colleges face at least two major challenges as they try to establish their new normal. One is the quest for evermore money. The other is the closing of the academic mind.
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Paul Frederic: Energy corridor would create jobs, attract investment
The New England Clean Energy Corridor (NECEC) is employing more than 1,000 Maine workers in well-paying jobs and generating millions of dollars for local vendors. Municipalities that host portions of the project are receiving millions in new tax dollars beginning this year, based on NECEC’s estimate that one-third of the endeavor’s value is in place. […]
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Paul Poliquin: Carl Sheline for Lewiston mayor
I ask voters to elect Carl Sheline to be the next mayor of Lewiston. Having served as a city councilor and council president with four mayors, I know Carl is capable and the right choice to move Lewiston forward. I ask people to join me in voting for Carl Sheline for mayor. Paul Poliquin, Lewiston
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Rich Lowry: Biden’s border ‘challenge’ gets worse
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is indisputably good at one part of his job — always referring to the migrant surge at the border as a “challenge” and never a “crisis.”
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Todd Gaudette: Game has passed Patriots coach by
The party’s over. Tom Brady proved he could win without Patriots coach Bill Belichick. Bill can’t win without Tom. Now Bill has given the keys to a rookie who should be sitting and watching a veteran. The game has passed Belichick by like a memory in the NFL’s rearview mirror. This year’s schedule and roster […]
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: You can starve an ideal only so long before you kill it altogether
An ideal, like any living thing, must be nourished in order to survive. Ours has become severely malnourished, having been fed on empty calories of jingoism and myth, a sepia fable of virtues many of us love to trumpet — liberty! justice! for all! — without really trying to live.
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Gregory D’Augustine: Thanks to a kindly fellow citizen
The little things sometimes confirm that civility and civilization really aren’t dead after all. Recently I witnessed this evidence. As I approached a busy intersection in a four-lane road in Lewiston I saw one of those maneuvers we all know and hate. A long line of vehicles, waiting to turn left at the intersection, was […]