In working with Kristen Cloutier at our mutual workplace and as she represented my district on the Lewiston City Council, I observed her listening attentively, initiating thoughtful solutions to significant problems, and fairly advocating proposals to build a sustainable future for all community members. As a Lewiston city councilor, Kristen supported numerous redevelopment projects with […]
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 inLetters, Opinion
Philip Keith: So sad to see the blame game
It is sad to see Sen. Collins buying into President Trump’s election-scam of blaming the Democrats for refusing to roll over and give up on protecting the American people in the face of the impending economic catastrophe we face at the end of the expired assistance agreement. She calls it blackmail when her opponents commit […]
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Posted inLetters, Opinion
Roland Morin: Maine doesn’t need a Trump clone
Paul LePage should go back to Florida and stay there. We don’t need a clone of Trump in Maine. Gov. Janet Mills and Dr. Nirav Shah are doing a good job, and if LePage were still governor we would have more corona cases and deaths. Roland Morin, Livermore
Posted inLetters, Opinion
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 […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Poland tells the Kremlin and NATO it’s prepared to fight
Poland is the lynchpin of NATO’s current eastern flank.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
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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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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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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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.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
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 […]