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.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Stan Tetenman: Time to teach real American history
When I attended school in the ’50s and early ’60s I was taught how our Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution and set up the basis for our government. I was not taught how they compromised on allowing slavery to continue. Nor did we have the context of how the government was formed to allow only […]
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Paul Baribault: We must all be our brother’s keeper
A Florida cousin died from COVID last week — he was 63, nine years my junior and otherwise in good health. His mother, literally my first cousin, preceded him into the same hospital by a day, also stricken with COVID. She is on a ventilator today, in an induced coma; and at 86 she’s been given a 30% chance of survival. Both she and her son declined to be vaccinated.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Froma Harrop: Regulating duck art is honking silly
The controversy centers on a Trump administration rule that the winning piece of art include some depiction of hunting. Supporters assert that the hunting imagery would showcase the reality that hunters contribute mightily to the cost of refuge preservation.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
In rebuttal: Gregory D’Augustine: Biden has done much good
In rebuttal to recent letters critical of the president, to date Biden has: Disengaged, as initiated by former President Trump, our military from the longest, and probably most costly war in U.S. history. And yes, I think the withdrawal could have been done a lot better; Continued Trump-era efforts to level the playing field with […]
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Cal Thomas: Biden’s surrender
At the end of his speech, President Biden immediately left the White House without taking questions. He returned to Camp David. It seemed a metaphor for his shameful and rapid retreat from Afghanistan.
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Thomas Farley: Maine is not a haven of white-collar office workers
In the midst of a job-killing pandemic, President Biden is trying to pass a bill that would give 11 million undocumented immigrants the legal right to work here. If he’s successful, it’s going to hit our state hard.