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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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  • Published
    June 22, 2020

    Coronavirus will finally give artificial intelligence its moment

    The upside of greater computing power, better business insights and cost efficiencies from AI is too big to ignore.

  • Published
    June 20, 2020

    COVID-19 cases: Tri-County by the numbers

    COUNTY                                                             Andro.    Franklin    Oxford    State                   New cases reported Friday.          […]

  • Published
    June 15, 2020

    Sheats announces bid for re-election to Maine House

    AUBURN — State Rep. Bettyann Sheats, D-Auburn, has announced her candidacy for re-election to House District 64, which includes Minot and northern parts of Auburn. Sheats is in her second term in the Legislature where she sits on the Transportation Committee. She has sponsored several bills related to veteran issues, social justice and transportation. “My […]

  • Published
    June 15, 2020

    Five myths about federal courts

    “In the United States, Supreme Court Justices serve for life, which is why it becomes such a newsworthy event when a spot opens up.”

  • Published
    June 15, 2020

    Tinder, TikTok and more: Online activists are finding creative new ways to say Black Lives Matter

    “Most of these movements online tend to be very spontaneous, very organic,” said Francesca Vassallo, a University of Southern Maine political science professor who studies protest movements. “Individuals who have seen some type of injustice genuinely want to help, so they participate.”

  • Published
    June 8, 2020

    The Constitution demands police accountability

    Uniformed officers exercise police powers. But that hasn’t always been the case, and this matters because police powers actually belong to the people.

  • Published
    June 1, 2020

    Historical societies across the U.S. are crowdsourcing pandemic time capsules

    Who better to collect and curate such stories than the folks who have been doing it all along, the historical societies across the nation? Here’s a look at a few that are working to preserve today’s anecdotal evidence for tomorrow.

  • Published
    June 1, 2020

    Katrina was disastrous for restaurants. The pandemic will be apocalyptic.

    We started offering takeout and delivery but stopped after a week: Our guests weren’t observing social distancing, and no one was wearing a mask.

  • Published
    June 1, 2020

    These 6 restaurants around the world have found creative ways to enforce social distancing

    Keeping disease prevention in mind, establishments are getting creative with the use of barriers, props and other objects to enforce social distancing and make their dining spaces seem more lively.

  • Published
    May 31, 2020

    Not even the punctuation

    It was almost 40 years ago I learned a couple exceedingly difficult and expensive lessons about our legal system. I had always been taught that people were required to tell the truth in court and legal proceedings. I expected that. Then I learned that lawyers, at least some of them, define the truth as: “Whatever […]