Where COVID-19 is concerned, experience is a priceless commodity that has already been purchased for us in bulk at ruinous prices and is being given away for free. Yet some people will not accept the gift.
They insist on buying their own.
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: The census and Maine’s future
I don’t expect Maine to become majority-minority. Certainly not within the lifetime of anyone here now, even the newest baby. But I do expect Maine’s ethnic mixture will change. And I do believe Maine will be richer for the change.
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In rebuttal: John Wade: Dangers of propaganda warfare
Paul Spencer’s letter (“Setting the tone for abysmal future,” Aug. 20) was aptly titled. However, his letter is really about propaganda warfare. Encyclopedia Britannica defines propaganda as “dissemination of information — facts, arguments, rumors, half-truths, or lies — to influence public opinion,” with an emphasis on manipulation. Sadly, the battle is being fought, not against […]
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Rich Lowry: The media’s finest hour
The Afghanistan fiasco has created that most disorienting and discomfiting experience for a progressive administration — a serious bout of critical media coverage immune to White House spin and determined to tell the unvarnished story of an ongoing debacle.
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Clem Bechard: Biden poorly executed withdrawal from Afghanistan
It’s so sad to me that so many of our own citizens will be left behind in Afghanistan. Thank you, Mr. President, for a well-prepared withdrawal of our citizens, military hardware and soldiers. What a well-planned sham. Last news I just heard, we had up to 12 servicemen killed. Who knows the number before it’s […]
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In rebuttal: Joan Villani: Biden has ‘blood on his hands’ in Afghanistan
In response to Gregory D’Augustine’s letter (“Biden has done much good,” Aug. 24), it looks like President Biden has a friend. What D’Augustine failed to mention are all the meaningful things Biden inherited from the previous administration, like a strong foreign policy, a secure border, energy independence, the vaccine, a recovering economy, and much more. […]
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: The dots had names
Our hubris and our failures, they echo. They ramify. That was the story of last week, of tiny dots that fell from a U.S. transport plane as it cleaved the sky. Reports identified them as Fida Mohammad and Safiullah Hotak.
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Jan Cornelius-Knudsen: Leave Arctic alone permanently, save planet
The United Nations Inter Panel Committee on Climate Change recently released a report that paints a rather grim outlook for our future. We clearly cannot wait to act as climate-related floods, fires, storms and extreme weather grip our nation. Acting now for an individual, however, sounds daunting. After all, what can I do to change […]
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Jim Cyr: Changing rules after game played is wrong, dangerous
Imagine the Red Sox win the World Series in a clean sweep. But the defeated team pressures Major League Baseball to change the rules and retroactively apply them. Under the new rules, the victory is overridden, and the other team declared the winner. But there is another twist — for all future games, the umpires […]