What a beautiful time of year it is to live in Maine: the summer sun, cool breeze, tranquil lakes, and peaceful seashore this time of year. Despite the beauty of nature, when assessing our incoming bills my stress increases as less and less of the money I earn remains in my pocket. Appliances wear out […]
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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In rebuttal: Mark Wood: Maine’s Legislature spent our money like drunken sailors
Catherine Rampell’s column about allowing fear to talk ourselves into a recession (“We’re likely not in a recession — but we could talk ourselves into one,” Aug. 7) might have been more encouraging had the news out of Augusta not been so stark two weeks, namely that the state’s surplus for fiscal 2024 ended with […]
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Clarence Page: Why ‘stolen valor’ political fights are so intense — and misplaced in the cases of Walz and Vance
The attacks on VP nominees Tim Walz and JD Vance, centered as they are on what frankly are quibbles, hardly seem worthy of so much airtime and consideration.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Camille Parrish: Bettyann Sheats is a person we can trust
Bettyann Sheats has demonstrated her commitment to our future. She has voted for bills that safeguard our environment and have created new jobs. Maine Conservation Voters recently endorsed her candidacy based on her “proven record of voting for and championing the environment and our democracy.” Bettyann understands the importance of protecting water quality, addressing climate […]
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Norm Gellatly: Are we becoming a nation of juvenility?
Our revolving presidential and vice-presidential campaigning scene is disturbing. As is evident, the modes of operation are to drag the opposing party’s candidate through the mud, investigating for flaws of any sort, even the most minute. The office seekers’ policies — remember them? — remain buried beneath the mudslinging, preventing us from being informed. Cable […]
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Rich Lowry: How did Kamala Harris become so good at this?
In reality, Kamala Harris is a cardboard cutout of a politician whose main political talent is to be able to, just barely, simulate determination, passion and mirth while reading from a teleprompter.
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Boys are flocking to gymnastics classes, thanks to pommel horse guy
Stephen Nedoroscik is inspirational because he seems like those gamer kids who are good at the Rubik’s Cube, who aren’t jocks.
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Voting rights are dying by a thousand cuts
The Fifth Circuit ruling reasoned that the word “class” covers only members of a specific racial group, not members of more than one racial group added together.