Thanks to the pandemic, every teen is officially two years younger, because they missed at least a couple of Halloweens, okay?
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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We need to build a better flu shot
For now, with CDC data showing flu cases in the U.S. are already ticking upward, everyone should consider getting the shots we already have. They might not be perfect, but they work well enough to save many lives.
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Race, class and gender shape how we see age and childhood
If we want to see children as children, and make judgments about their needs and their agency, we must do so in a way that challenges, rather than reaffirms, the systems of power that have created an unequal concept of childhood throughout our history.
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Steve Collins named Maine Press Association Journalist of the Year
According to Mark Mogensen, managing editor/days, “among Steve Collin’s many qualities, the one I respect the most has nothing to do with his many talents as a writer, as a researcher, as a communicator, as a trusted co-worker or a knowledgeable journalist. It’s his fundamental understanding of how important local journalism is to all of us. His regard for the truth and accuracy.”
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Sun Journal and western Maine weeklies earn statewide newspaper awards
The Sun Journal received the Freedom of Information Award for the 19th time in 23 years, along with writing, design, photography and advertising honors
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Melissa Logan named Maine Press Association’s Advertising Person of the Year
In presenting the award, Kelly Wade, Sun Media Group advertising operations manager, called Logan persistent, confident, dedicated, resilient and perceptive.
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LIV Golf is changing the role of golf in ‘sportswashing’
Due to the quiet lobbying at the Pinehurst tournaments, Rafael Trujillo enjoyed a favorable reputation in the United States into the late 1950s. Considering the conversations occupying the long pauses between swings on the course, golf proved the perfect venue to lobby those directing U.S. foreign policy without the public learning of the public relations campaign.
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The global energy order is unraveling fast: Welcome to World War E
The Ukraine crisis is part of a broader unraveling, with the mutual need that ties energy producers and consumers together giving way to cruder contests over who needs who.
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In the 1850s, the Irish faced the same hostility as today’s immigrants
The great fear was that immigrants raised in an Old World culture of despotic monarchy, aristocratic privilege and the suppression of ideas could not be expected to uphold the democratic values of the American republic. The immigrants were instead thought to be the tools of corrupt and opportunistic demagogues. There was also the widespread belief that Catholics, bound by their allegiance to the pope, could not be loyal U.S. citizens.
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Immigration’s burden doesn’t fall on a ‘handful of red states’
According to research by economists at Harvard University, Americans overstate the number of immigrants living in the United States by almost fourfold. They underestimate their education and employment rates, and overestimate both their poverty and the burden they impose on American taxpayers.