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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PublishedMay 11, 2020
Amazon’s empire is vulnerable to ‘rebel’ incursions
The e-commerce rebels are making their advance. Last October, Shopify Inc. CEO Tobi Lutke said his company’s goal was to “arm the rebels” against the Amazon.com Inc. empire. Since then, the mantra has become a rallying cry for Shopify’s employees and the merchant customers that use its e-commerce store software. And now, the business turmoil […]
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PublishedMay 11, 2020
The pandemic is changing how we eat, but not for the better
For decades, advocates from chefs to doctors have tried to get Americans to change the way they eat. In a matter of weeks, a virus appears to have done what they could not. Since mid-March small farms have seen a spike in subscriptions to community-supported agriculture operations, or CSAs, which deliver prepaid weekly bundles of […]
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PublishedMay 11, 2020
Jobless benefits may be the intended victim of fast reopenings
Many states are racing to reopen their economies before measures such as testing, contact tracing and full-time mask-wearing are in place. But the one of biggest economic effect of a hasty end of lockdowns adopted to limit the spread of the coronavirus won’t be to save businesses; it will be to kick people off of […]
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PublishedMay 4, 2020
East Africa has weathered pandemics — and has a few things to teach the U.S.
The United States and powerful developed countries can benefit from the example of Africa, where humility about the capacity to treat diseases makes societies favor measures to prevent them.
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PublishedMay 4, 2020
Five myths about vaccines
Amid today’s pandemic, as many eagerly await a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, here are five myths about this medical innovation.
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PublishedMay 3, 2020
Time to reopen our new ‘normal’
Gov. Janet Mills has asked for input from the public on what course Maine should take in the current virus condition. Here is mine. Mainers, in their classic, stoic manner, have been troupers in their respect for the government-mandated requirements to stay at home, maintain “social distancing,” and observe the shutdown of so-called non-essential services. […]
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PublishedApril 27, 2020
Bailed-out CEOs should have skin in the game to keep them honest
After the 2008 Wall Street bailout, profiteers sucked up too much money. One of them was then-hedge fund manager Steven Mnuchin, now President Trump’s secretary of the Treasury Department. Mnuchin used a government backstop to bottom fish a failed savings and loan. Instead of helping beleaguered homeowners with mortgages at this firm, he foreclosed on thousands of […]
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PublishedApril 27, 2020
Point: Government should not be a roadblock to patient treatment
For decades, the Food and Drug Administration’s overly bureaucratic drug approval process has stopped patients from accessing potentially lifesaving vaccines and treatments. And thanks to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we’re learning that just how severely this red tape has hampered our ability to prepare for this crisis and any public health crises ahead. Fortunately, Right […]
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PublishedApril 27, 2020
Counterpoint: Dr. Trump’s snake oil might cost lives
Like a carnival barker selling snake oil, President Trump repeatedly has touted the use of chloroquine, an antimalarial drug, and hydroxychloroquine, another antimalarial drug that also is used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, as a “game-changing” treatment for COVID-19. No scientific evidence exists to back up Trump’s claims; the data on which he bases […]
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PublishedApril 26, 2020
New realities in an ever-changing world
In these past few weeks, we’ve seen things change, quickly and dramatically. We’ve heard the prophets of doom tell us to “prepare,” almost always by buying whatever book, video or trinket they’re selling. Change is constant and those who accept that know being prepared means being able to see a new reality and adapt behavior and thinking to it. Preparedness means being ready to see that the old ways of reacting […]
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