Committee proposes a dispatchable unit of defense lawyers to work on cases in underserved rural courts.
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 inOp-Eds, Opinion
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.
advertisement
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
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 […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Cloutier announces election bid for House District 94
Incumbent legislator is committed to continued advocacy in newly redrawn district
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
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.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
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.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
The Fed and China go to war against different foes
The benefits to the global economy from these twin assaults are substantial — if central bank Chair Jay Powell and People’s Bank of China Governor Yi Gang get it right. China is trying to stave off an economic and financial winter.
Posted inMaine
Nine command centers take new approach to tackling homelessness
In February, MaineHousing, the Statewide Homeless Council, and Built for Zero established nine Homeless Response Service Hubs in Maine. Each command center will be staffed by a hub coordinator. In May, the hub teams will start collecting real-time, by-name data of people experiencing homelessness across the state. Hub command centers and coordinators will then use […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Freezing the clock: Nationwide push for permanent daylight saving time gains momentum
Polling shows Americans widely detest the practice: 75 percent would prefer to end it, according to an October poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Yet people are divided — and passionately so — about whether the country should have an early sunrise or a late sunset.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Are smartphones serving as adult pacifiers?
“They are the holy grail for convenience,” says Jeni Stolow, a social behavioral scientist and assistant professor at the Temple University college of public health. “It’s someone’s whole world in the palm of the hand. That is really appealing because it can make people feel in control at all times.”