The York-area chase, which occurred in the southbound lanes, led to an accident in the northbound lane that killed a Falmouth couple.
Judith Meyer
Judith Meyer is executive editor of the Sun Journal, Kennebec Journal, the Morning Sentinel and the Western Maine weekly newspapers of the Sun Media Group. She serves as vice president of the Maine Freedom of Information Coalition and is a member of the Right to Know Advisory Committee to the Legislature. A journalist since 1990 and former editorial page editor for the Sun Journal, she was named Maine’s Journalist of the Year in 2003. She serves on the New England Newspaper & Press Association Board of Directors and was the 2018 recipient of the Judith Vance Weld Brown Spirit of Journalism Award by the New England Society of Newspaper Editors. A fellow of the National Press Foundation and the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, she attended George Washington University, lives in Auburn with her husband, Phil, and is an active member of the Bicycle Coalition of Maine.
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1871 provides a road map for addressing the pro-Trump attempted insurrection
When Biden takes office on Jan. 20, he and his administration will be tasked with responding. And when they do, they should look not to 1876, as many politicians and commentators have been arguing, but to 1871.
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Spending the pandemic talking to yourself? If you live alone, you’re not alone
Some self-talkers amuse themselves by deploying personas and accents. While binge-watching “The Crown” over Thanksgiving weekend, Elisabeth Rivette, a 23-year-old law student at St. Louis University, started to speak to herself as Margaret Thatcher. “I’d be cracking myself up about how to pronounce pillow or lamp or something,” she says.
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Three clashing truths about the Capitol riot
Almost every Republican member of Congress recoiled from the violence. Many publicly criticized Trump for encouraging insurrection, as did administration officials who resigned in protest.
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Our view: Our republic is in dire need of fresh allegiance
We are a nation that operates by rule of law. Not, by rule of kings. That is the foundation of our republic.
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All public schools in Lewiston go to remote learning this week
There is a wave of positive tests for COVID-19 and multiple instances of close contacts identified among staff members and students.
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The Fed is powerful, except in fighting wealth inequality
Takeaway from 2020: For all the central bank’s plaudits, its one kryptonite remains the same, whether in good economic times or bad. It’s powerless to stop the wealth gap in America from growing wider.
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Sneezed on, cussed at, ignored: Airline workers battle mask resistance with scant government backup
The displays of rule-bucking intransigence are described in more than 150 aviation safety reports filed with the federal government since the start of the pandemic and reviewed by The Washington Post. The reports provide an unguarded accounting of bad behavior by airline customers, something executives hit by a steep drop in travel and billions in pandemic-related losses are loath to share themselves.
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Conceived in a pandemic, born in a pandemic: The first quarantine babies are arriving
Like every new parent who has given birth in the past nine months, Katy Dobson had to adjust her expectations for the day of delivery — and manage those of her family.
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Denying the Holocaust threatens democracy. So does denying the election results.
We must refute the falsehoods that the president is purveying, which tens of millions of Americans believe, according to opinion polls. And we need to do it now, before it takes further hold, instead of just dismissing the problem.