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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PublishedJuly 7, 2021
Lewiston Democratic City Committee to meet
LEWISTON — The Lewiston Democratic City Committee will meet in person at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 22. The meeting will be held in a new location at 124 Canal St., the Gateway Community Services office. Parking is available in the adjacent parking lot. All Lewiston Democrats, as well as unenrolled residents, are encouraged to attend. […]
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PublishedJuly 7, 2021
Editorial cartoon for July 7
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PublishedJuly 7, 2021
Retirees, forget the 4% withdrawal rule
The only real rule is that blindly sticking with 4% is dangerous. Most experts agree it’s no longer safe to just assume the same historic returns for stocks and bonds, so 3% or 3.5% withdrawal rates might be better.
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PublishedJuly 5, 2021
Let the market fix labor shortages
A shortage misdiagnosis can have serious repercussions, particularly if it leads to policies that offer up lower-cost substitutes for American workers and suppress wages.
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PublishedJuly 5, 2021
Some call voting restrictions upheld by Supreme Court ‘Jim Crow 2.0.’ Here’s the ugly history behind that phrase.
How did white supremacist lawmakers get around the 15th Amendment, which guaranteed Black men the right to vote, and later, the 19th Amendment, which should have secured the vote for Black women? Here’s a look at their legal and illegal methods.
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PublishedJuly 5, 2021
We can repeat Boston’s 1776 freedom summer
Boston’s “freedom summer” ended on Sept. 18, 1776, when the city ordered the guardhouses closed and the city to reopen for business.
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PublishedJune 28, 2021
Births
St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center Bentlee Scott Bubier, a boy to Katie Farrell and Justin Bubier of Auburn, Feb. 17. Siblings, Bryce and Cayden Bubier, Landon and Luke Farrell; grandparents, Scott and Carla Pelletier, Auburn, Becki and Wayne Bubier, Greene; great-grandparents, Leo and Joline Pelletier, Auburn, Glenice Bubier, Greene. Vivianne Nicole Loch, a girl to […]
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PublishedJune 28, 2021
Biden condemned Trump’s nepotism. So why are his aides’ relatives getting jobs?
The Washington Post recently identified 11 family members employed in various administration posts. The actual number of hires may be higher, but we don’t know because the government doesn’t publish a roster of political appointees.
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PublishedJune 28, 2021
U.S. worries about space aliens and UFOs are older than you think
Credulous reporting about space aliens from the highest reaches of the government might make it seem as though we have entered a new phase of U.S. history — but we haven’t. In fact, since the early republic, U.S. officials have been worried about space aliens.
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PublishedJune 28, 2021
Automation is a race the U.S. can’t afford to lose
Many Americans are still techno-optimists in some ways. Technology is the factor cited most as having improved life over the last half century. But in recent years, it seems like this optimism has been gradually eroded, replaced in part by skepticism and fear.
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