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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PublishedAugust 14, 2020
Carl Bucciantini: Legislature must reconvene now
The Maine Legislature adjourned in March because of the coronavirus and left hundreds of bills unaddressed. Initially, the Republican Party wanted to reconvene the Legislature to discuss these bills at a later date. Oddly, now that the Democrats are calling to reconvene the Legislature, the Republicans refuse to participate unless they get to control the […]
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PublishedAugust 14, 2020
Poland tells the Kremlin and NATO it’s prepared to fight
Poland is the lynchpin of NATO’s current eastern flank.
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PublishedAugust 13, 2020
Linda Flagg: CMP corridor is bad for Maine
Hydro-Quebec is a Crown Corporation owned exclusively by the Province of Quebec. Hydro-Quebec stands to make $12.4 billion in profits off of the proposed CMP corridor project by rerouting power they already sell to the Northeast on existing power lines, and charging Massachusetts more for it. Hydro-Quebec will return much of its profit from this […]
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PublishedAugust 13, 2020
Linda-Lee Desmarais: Many questions for our schools
When we heard the term “social distancing” as one of the solutions to COVID-19, my daughter, a Florida kindergarten teacher, asked “How will I be able to lead my class to lunch or PE and keep them six feet apart?” My reply to her went something like this: “Now is the time to call upon […]
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PublishedAugust 13, 2020
Rudolph Ziehm: GOP can’t win with present platform
I wonder if President Trump cheats at golf? I think our historic president would only cheat if he got the chance. Florida has election tampering issues. Trump says he wants to count their mail-in ballots. Them only. Reality Winner is in jail for revealing Russian attempts to tamper with voting machines in states Trump won […]
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PublishedAugust 13, 2020
Cal Thomas: Trump is right about mail-in ballots
Many Democrats claim the fear over mail-in ballots is misplaced, but the evidence proves otherwise and in close elections, especially presidential elections, a few votes either way in key states can decide the winner.
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PublishedAugust 12, 2020
Join us for a ‘virtual’ balloon launch Saturday
Pandemic restrictions on large crowds forced the cancellation of the annual Great Falls Balloon Festival this year, a highly popular three-day event that can draw as many as 100,000 people to the Twin Cities. The festival would have been held this weekend. We recognize the cancellation is a real loss for our community and will […]
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PublishedAugust 12, 2020
Silver Moore-Leamon: I really and truly object, really
This letter concerns the long analysis (Sun Journal, Aug. 6) detailing how Sen. Susan Collins really and truly “feels” about our current president. Its intent could only have been to persuade us that she is “really” and “truly” the independent, courageous person Mainers would be likely to vote for. Recording that she has supported him […]
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PublishedAugust 12, 2020
Nancy Willard: Nothing wrong with absentee voting
Trump has claimed there are big problems with absentee ballots. While teaching at the University of Southern Maine it was necessary for me to vote absentee ballot and I never felt there was a problem. Since retirement I have counted absentee ballots in my hometown of Woodstock. I see absolutely no problem with citizens who […]
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PublishedAugust 12, 2020
Michael McClure: Democrats, beware
President Trump is trying to steal the November election. There is still time to demand voter ID before the election. Democrats should call your representatives and senators and insist on voter ID to keep our elections fair and honest. Michael McClure, Lewiston
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