Time for America to realize that broadband access for everyone will be just as important to American society. Otherwise, we’ll have millions and millions of people who are permanently logged out of daily life.
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
The racist roots of the dog whistle
When people knowingly use dog whistles to spread racist messages, they show contempt not just for the people they’re speaking past, but to the people they’re speaking to.
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China is turning American movies into propaganda — enough is enough
Getting a movie made and released in Hollywood isn’t easy, even without taking foreign markets into account. But even before the pandemic left U.S. movie theaters in infinite limbo, Chinese audiences had become increasingly important to U.S. studios.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Peg Hoffman: Senate must act to aid Americans
Republicans in the Senate have been stalling. They have failed to negotiate in good faith to renew vital unemployment benefits for working families in Maine. Those families’ well-being is key to restoring the health of our Maine economy. It has now been almost six months since our economy shut down and it remains greatly contracted […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
Join us for a ‘virtual’ 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 last weekend. We recognize the cancellation is a real loss for our community and had […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Lisa Lisius: Hypocrisy and failure in the Maine Legislature
On June 16, the Republican members of the Maine Legislature stood on the capital steps demanding that the Legislature be called back into session. But then in July and again in August, when the Maine Legislature’s leadership invited all the members to return to Augusta, most Republicans didn’t even have the decency to reply with […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Marc A. Jalbert: Build in a time delay for mail-in ballots
In his usual destructive manner, Trump is setting things up to ensure a flawed election. He doesn’t want to be the only one to lose. His actions regarding essential funding for the U.S. Postal Service are designed to set things up for failure to deliver. As president he should be doing all he can to […]
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My county wanted school nurses to justify its unsafe reopening plan. So I quit.
These new routines don’t seem to be designed to stop viral spread and promote public health. They seem like products of magical thinking.
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Kamala Harris and the ‘Stench of Sexism’
If we really believe that discrimination on the basis of sex is wrong, the way to stop it, as Chief Justice John Roberts said in reference to race discrimination, is to stop discriminating on the basis of sex.
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Harris for vice president is peak Gen X
As a latchkey child of non-European immigrants who has Salt-N-Pepa, Prince and Phil Collins on her summer playlist, Harris — a Dorito-loving, Converse-and-pearls-wearing collaborative leader who doesn’t always seek the spotlight- is ours. Pure Gen X.