People there made enormous sacrifices and got very little in return, since almost nothing was done to make the situation any safer coming out of the shutdowns than going into them.
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.
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Don’t ignore the life-and-death trade-offs of COVID lockdowns
Oncologists have long been sounding the alarm about the price of the shutdown. Remote medical appointments are no substitute for physical visits unless there’s evidence in the blood work.
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America has lost the war on misinformation
Pew Poll: Americans who rely on social media as their pathway to news are more ignorant and more misinformed than those who come to news through print, a news app on their phones or network TV.
Posted inOpinion
Liberal, progressive — and racist? The Sierra Club faces its white-supremacist history
As Confederate statues fall across the country, the club’s leadership said in a post on its website, “it’s time to take down some of our own monuments, starting with some truth-telling about the Sierra Club’s early history.”
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How did ‘white’ become a metaphor for all things good?
How do linguistic metaphors get formed? And do they perpetuate racism?
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Maine’s COVID response has kept residents safer than most
It only takes a glance at a pandemic map, like those published online by Johns Hopkins University or the CDC, to vindicate the governor’s decisions about reopening.
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George Washington invoked executive privilege, but he’d reject William Barr’s version
After Washington asserted executive privilege, other presidents were empowered to do so as well with his example in mind. In recent years, however, presidents have expanded the use of executive privilege to cover all manner of activities and legal precedent often supports executive stonewalling.
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Lewiston man charged with murder after fight in Auburn restaurant lot
Trai M. Larue of Lewiston is jailed after the death of Roger I. Cornell of New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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U.S. needs a bold jobs program, not a patchwork bailout
Unemployed Americans don’t just need cash — they need jobs. Government checks and unemployment insurance put food on the table, but they don’t address numerous other risks associated with job loss.
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The Fed needs to focus on employment
If the Fed committed to getting the jobless rate below 4%, it would give households and businesses the confidence they needed to spend and hire. Hence, this is likely to be the most effective form of forward guidance.