What, exactly, does a thug look like? In the July 14 article reporting that an internal State Police review found no racial profiling by Trooper John Darcy, this is the unanswered question. Police authorities were right to be concerned that Trooper Darcy made this statement. What exactly, I’d like to know, made him think that […]
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 inOp-Eds, Opinion
Bob Neal: The Countryman: Keeping it all together
Ronald Reagan assembled and held together a coalition of fundamentalists and big business that seem about as likely to be bedfellows as are peaches and frisbees. But Reagan got and kept the peaches and frisbees together, and Republicans won six of 11 presidential elections.
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Posted inLetters, Opinion
Jamie Beaulieu: Move forward together in wake of crises
We Americans have decided to respond to the last few crises separately. After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that meant shoving aside those who’d committed themselves to seeing the American people through the battle between Middle Eastern extremists determined to use terrorist attacks to provoke a war they could use to restructure that region, […]
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Daphne Izer: Mandate automatic emergency braking on trucks
The U.S. Senate will soon be voting on a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar surface transportation bill, S. 2016, the Surface Transportation Investment Act. The bill directs the U.S. Department of Transportation to mandate lifesaving technology, automatic emergency braking, on large new trucks. However, due to the influence of the trucking lobby, the bill excludes small and medium […]
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Cal Thomas: Penalty for early withdrawal
What did we learn from Vietnam? Obviously nothing because we have repeated history in Afghanistan. There was no “end game,” except to hold off the Taliban, an entity motivated by religious fervor that has no intention of quitting.
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John O’Malley: Vaccinations needed to ensure life, work safety
Much has been written recently about vaccinations; some refuse to be vaccinated for numerous reasons. I think they have every right to not get vaccinated, even though they may infect others. The courts have ruled that employers have a right to require employees to be vaccinated to ensure a safe workplace for clients and employees. […]
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Jon St. Laurent: Elections gamesmanship in Austin
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and his majority party state House Republicans ran into a little trouble trying to force passage of draconian Jim Crow reboot voter suppression bills in the regular session, when House Democrats refused to participate and walked out on the last day at the 11th hour. Abbott et al. consider the growing […]
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Ellen Field: Shedding light on anti-vaccination propaganda
The states where COVID cases are increasing the most are almost entirely Republican. Why are Republican leaders hurting their supporters with anti-vaccination propaganda? Why did the former president, who suffered from COVID, quietly get vaccinated before he left office? Why did Republicans at CPAC cheer anti-vaccine remarks? Republicans such as Reps. Marjorie Greene and Lauren […]
