How do we know who is vaccinated and who isn’t? Who will enforce mask mandates for the unvaccinated? What happened to the earlier guidance that vaccinated people keep wearing masks so they don’t become carriers of the disease — that is, the Typhoid Marys of 2021? No one from CDC answered any of these questions. Or dozens of others.
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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Rich Lowry: Beware of bogus scientific consensus
The rigid conventional wisdom around the question of the origins of the virus has broken up, and evidence pointing to a lab leak is finally getting the serious consideration it deserves.
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: The crisis that did not bring us together
We are a nation that managed to politicize medicine, that made science a liberal conspiracy. We are people who literally couldn’t come together to save their own lives.
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Lucas Brown: Support for Pine Tree Power Company
Although I have only been paying electric bills on my own for about five years, I am a lifelong Mainer and strongly believe a transition to consumer-ownership of our electric utility is the best thing for everyone in our state. Right now, we are forced to pay Central Maine Power or Versant, both investor-owned companies […]
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Cal Thomas: A ceasefire solves nothing
A ceasefire is worse than a truce, and even a truce is no substitute for victory.
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Norway Memorial Library Board of Trustees: Vote for Reedy, Shiers for Norway library board
We write to urge Norway residents to vote June 8 for both highly-qualified candidates on the ballot for the two open seats on the Norway Memorial Library Board of Trustees. Cynthia Reedy is running for re-election, and Jessie Shiers is running for a first term. As elected officials, trustees oversee the library budget, set library […]
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Austin Bay: China’s bio-economic war on the world has begun to backfire
China’s communist dictators decided to wage bioeconomic warfare on the world. If Donald Trump were president, that decision would cost Beijing. With Slow Joe in charge? I’m not so sure. But the facts are coming out. And when they do, blowback is inevitable.
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Larry Gilbert Sr.: U.S. needs to stop aiding ‘warmongers of Israel’
We need more than the thoughts and prayers the president offered for the grandmother of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who is living under Israeli occupation. Tlaib was, in effect, denied her ability to visit her grandmother in Palestine because of the silencing conditions placed on her by the Israeli government. Thoughts and prayers don’t stop the […]