Mo Mehlsak

The Forecaster

Mo Mehlsak is executive editor of The Forecaster, American Journal and Lakes Region Weekly. He's a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and started his career in Los Angeles, where he covered the retail side of the automotive industry for Automotive Age magazine and later became a business writer for the Los Angeles Daily News. Mo moved to Maine in 1984 with his wife and first child, and after a year as a stay-at-home dad and freelance journalist, became a business writer and columnist for the Journal Tribune in Biddeford. He eventually became the paper's features editor, editor of the weekend edition and eventually, city editor. He joined The Forecaster in 2004 as managing editor and became executive editor in 2006. Mo and his wife raised two daughters in Cape Elizabeth, and now reside in South Portland.
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Balentine is either clueless or insincere

Much of what John Balentine writes is laughable, but “Stop Talking About Race” – invoking as it does the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to make the case Democrats are driving current politics’ race baiting – might be a new low. Balantine cites “Trump’s lack of verbal skills” as an excuse for current discourse. […]

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Talking about race is part of the solution

Columnist John Balentine’s argument that we need to “stop talking about race” is extremely misguided. By not talking about race we normalize a system designed to benefit whites over other groups in society and we erase from the public consciousness the many injustices being suffered by black and brown people throughout the country. This includes […]

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