In April 1919, Wilson traveled to the Paris Peace Conference for talks on ending the Great War. Soon after arriving, the president become ill with a fever and violent fits of coughing that left him nearly unable to breathe.
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.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Netanyahu is now treating his Israeli opponents the way he does Palestinians
Netanyahu has made incitement against Palestinian citizens of Israel his primary campaign strategy in recent years, undermining their right to vote, and under his 11 consecutive years in office, Israel has passed myriad anti-democratic laws and normalized incitement against Israeli human rights groups and left-wing activists.
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Posted inNews, Schools & Education
Search statewide academic performance data
We used linear regression to examine the relationship between demographic factors and student performance at varying school levels.
Posted inNews, Schools & Education
School survey responses
In July, the Sun Journal sent a survey to superintendents in all public schools in Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin counties, and to superintendents in Portland, Waterville, Augusta, Winthrop and Bangor. The survey asked six questions.
Posted inOpinion, Our View
An existence of challenge, of obstacles
The break in education over the spring, and then over the summer, will most certainly have a lasting and negative impact on learning. For students who don’t have the support, and/or the technology to study at home in the current year, the impact will be far more detrimental.
Posted inNews, Schools & Education
Editor’s note:
This report is part of a continuing series on poverty in Maine, and the strangling affect poverty has on our communities. The work is being done in cooperation with the Investigative Editing Corps.
Posted inElection 2020
Libby announces campaign for reelection to Senate
LEWISTON – Senate Majority Leader Nate Libby, D-Lewiston, has announced his reelection campaign for District 21. According to a written statement, during his service in Augusta, Libby achieved several legislative accomplishments on behalf of Lewiston residents: • He negotiated a state budget compromise that doubled the Homestead Property Tax Exemption from $9,100 to $18,200, and blocked […]