RUMFORD —Steve Dyment has announced he is seeking election to the Board of Selectpersons. According to a written statement from Dyment, he has “spent the past year attending as many board meetings as I can to help me understand the mechanics of the select board.” A member of the Planning Board, he said, gives him […]
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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When your private dinner conversation becomes your waiter’s Facebook post
Is this the future of America’s nightlife — cocktails, conversation and political correctness?
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Point: Defunding the police makes sense
From the budgetary point of view, we just spend too much money on policing. Over the last 40 years, state and local spending on policing has almost tripled, rising from $42 billion to $115 billion, in 2017 inflation-adjusted dollars.
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Coronavirus will finally give artificial intelligence its moment
The upside of greater computing power, better business insights and cost efficiencies from AI is too big to ignore.
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COVID-19 cases: Tri-County by the numbers
COUNTY Andro. Franklin Oxford State New cases reported Friday. […]
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Sheats announces bid for re-election to Maine House
AUBURN — State Rep. Bettyann Sheats, D-Auburn, has announced her candidacy for re-election to House District 64, which includes Minot and northern parts of Auburn. Sheats is in her second term in the Legislature where she sits on the Transportation Committee. She has sponsored several bills related to veteran issues, social justice and transportation. “My […]
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Five myths about federal courts
“In the United States, Supreme Court Justices serve for life, which is why it becomes such a newsworthy event when a spot opens up.”
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Tinder, TikTok and more: Online activists are finding creative new ways to say Black Lives Matter
“Most of these movements online tend to be very spontaneous, very organic,” said Francesca Vassallo, a University of Southern Maine political science professor who studies protest movements. “Individuals who have seen some type of injustice genuinely want to help, so they participate.”
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The Constitution demands police accountability
Uniformed officers exercise police powers. But that hasn’t always been the case, and this matters because police powers actually belong to the people.
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Historical societies across the U.S. are crowdsourcing pandemic time capsules
Who better to collect and curate such stories than the folks who have been doing it all along, the historical societies across the nation? Here’s a look at a few that are working to preserve today’s anecdotal evidence for tomorrow.