In her years in the Senate she has worked tirelessly to produce benefits in the lives and livelihoods of Mainers, but she has never shown courage in the defense of America’s ideals. Now is her chance.
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.
Rich Lowry: Facebook’s speech policies are absurd
If Facebook just wanted to say that Trump is often noxious and dishonest in his social media postings, that’d be understandable. But this would put it in the inherently subjective and highly contentious business of deciding which politicians are worthy and truthful, and which are not.
Cal Thomas: Central Insanity Agency
The CIA has had problems in its past, but none as serious as this. If they continue to succumb to wokeness, the “I” in its acronym will stand for insanity.
Rev. Dr. Jodi Hayashida: Harm reduction saves lives
It is well past time for us to move past the death measure of Maine’s regressive policies and instead choose the critical and life-affirming practices of harm reduction. Harm reduction is a collection of evidence-based techniques rooted in a fundamental belief that every life is sacred and worthy of care. It is a decision to reframe the epidemic of substance-related deaths away from criminalization and toward public health.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: Have your meat and eat it, too
We can eat as much beef as we want and help the environment at the same time. It’s all about how we raise the beef.
Kevin Landry: Politics now ‘permeates every facet’ of culture
There was a time when politics had its place. It was a glorious time when Democrat and Republican family members could have a civil (more or less) debate without cancelling each other out. It was a time when you could watch a ball game without some player or advertisement preaching to you about some issue. […]
Ed McCarthy: ‘Underwhelmed’ by Collins’ bipartisan tag
So Sen. Susan Collins is “most bipartisan” (Sun Journal, May 3). Pardon if I am underwhelmed. Given today’s Republican Party, composed of semi-lunatic Trumpites and anti-government apologists for the owning classes typified by the obstructionist McConnell, it ain’t hard to appear reasonable, even if your bipartisanship consists mostly of wondering why President Biden won’t just […]
Suzanne Roy: Lewiston ‘deserves better’ as major Maine city
Thanks to Richard Grandmaison for correcting the misperception that Lewiston is the third largest city in Maine. Lewiston has been the second largest city in Maine since at least the early 1900s despite a long list of obstacles that have seemed aimed at limiting its size and influence: namely, a statewide blindness to its strengths […]