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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PublishedApril 11, 2022
We need better COVID booster shots, not more of the same
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were supposed to be easy to update, and they are, but scientists got disappointing news when they tested omicron-specific boosters in animals and found they worked no better than the original boosters. Although the existing boosters are pretty good, they are not nearly good enough to prevent thousands of breakthrough infections, some of them pretty nasty.
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PublishedApril 10, 2022
Methodology: Where the drug data came from
PRESCRIPTION DATA The Sun Journal analyzed data from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System, or ARCOS, from 2006 to 2014, along with data from Maine’s Prescription Monitoring Program, or PMP, from 2016 to 2021; for this report. The Sun Journal was able to obtain and analyze the ARCOS data […]
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PublishedApril 4, 2022
’70s-era inflation advice was hollow and still is
For those with enough cash on hand, collectibles offered a more enduring, if less edible, hedge against inflation. Coins, stamps, baseball cards, antiquarian books, gemstones, antique furniture and presidential autographs all became popular hedges in the 1970s. Some also became the focus of speculative bubbles, though these invariably collapsed by the early 1980s.
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PublishedApril 4, 2022
Jan. 6 committee revelations are crucial for preventing the next coup
The history of coup attempts shows a disturbing trend: people whose ideas were too unpopular and repulsive to prevail at the ballot box have resorted to violent, extralegal and antidemocratic means to get their way.
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PublishedMarch 30, 2022
Lawmakers seek funding for Maine’s first public defenders
Committee proposes a dispatchable unit of defense lawyers to work on cases in underserved rural courts.
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PublishedMarch 28, 2022
Abraham Lincoln’s political instincts offer a blueprint for Biden
Present-day America is bitterly divided — but Lincoln’s time was divided, too. As with Biden, political and legislative realities constrained Lincoln. But Lincoln’s ability to successfully wield gradualism and build to bigger achievements offers a possible method for overcoming divisions today.
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PublishedMarch 25, 2022
Building Bridges Maine to host media literacy session Monday
LEWISTON — Building Bridges Maine, an affiliate of Braver Angels, is hosting a one-hour media literacy session starting at 5:30 p.m. Monday. Braver Angels is a national citizens organization working to unite Americans of all political views in an alliance to depolarize the nation, including through workshops, debates and music. The Zoom will be facilitated […]
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PublishedMarch 22, 2022
Cloutier announces election bid for House District 94
Incumbent legislator is committed to continued advocacy in newly redrawn district
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PublishedMarch 21, 2022
On TV every defendant gets a trial. But in real life, trials are rare.
For many, the jury trial represents the cornerstone of criminal justice itself: a truth-seeking mission that allows a person to be judged by a panel of peers. But trials have become rare. Around 97 percent of all criminal cases don’t go to trial but instead end in guilty pleas, most of them the result of a bargaining process driven by prosecutors with the power to coerce defendants into giving up their right to a trial.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2022
The Fed is basically just guessing about interest rates
Monetary policy is much less precise than we’d like to believe. We can’t even be sure what a neutral rate would be. People would probably be disturbed if they knew how poorly economists understand how changing interest rates feeds through markets and ultimately affects inflation and unemployment.
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