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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PublishedJune 22, 2021
Robert Casimiro: Sen. Collins must demand border enforcement
Sen Collins visited the southern border on May 26 to view, first-hand, conditions there and the chaos that exists at the border. She was with a group of U.S. senators, one of whom, Mike Braun of Indiana, tweeted: “When we had the Remain in Mexico policy we (had) 45 year record lows for border apprehensions. […]
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PublishedJune 21, 2021
Bad Holocaust education leads to bad Holocaust analogies
In recent years, the rise in hate speech, antisemitism, racism and xenophobia has provided renewed momentum to legislative efforts, bringing the number of states requiring some form of Holocaust and genocide education to 19, as of this month. Even so, state boards of education rarely provide the additional resources necessary to gain specialized training on the topic.
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PublishedJune 21, 2021
Don’t increase the gas tax, replace it
The federal gas tax hasn’t been raised since 1993, and as a result its real value has been cut in half, requiring Congress to regularly top-up the Highway Trust Fund. The gas tax was supposed to steadily fill the fund’s accounts, allowing Congress to allocate the money to new capital projects. The idea was for the heaviest users of the highways to bear most of the cost of their construction.
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PublishedJune 20, 2021
Editorial cartoon for Sunday, June 20
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PublishedJune 20, 2021
Cal Thomas: Why not call it Ferris Bueller’s day off?
No more Christmas, Hanukkah, Memorial Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, or even Indigenous Peoples Day (formerly known as Columbus Day). Maybe they should keep April Fools’ Day because that accurately reflects their decision.
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PublishedJune 20, 2021
Rich Lowry: Biden’s tribute to Trump
On China, Trump’s wrenching shift in the U.S. approach is now getting the tribute of broad acceptance by a successor who has nothing good to say about him and wants, in fact, to differentiate himself from the former president as much as possible.
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PublishedJune 19, 2021
Joan Villani: Biden is proving what a great president Trump was
In rebuttal to Carole Richard’s letter to the editor on Sunday, June 13, titled ” Media needs to dump Trump,” does she know that neither President Biden nor Vice President Harris have been to view the crisis at the border yet as thousands of undocumented immigrants from dozens of countries are crossing into our country […]
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PublishedJune 19, 2021
Bob Neal: The Countryman: Declaring holidays won’t square accounts
An official holiday is a balming act, but it does little more than recognize history. Much more to the point would be working to reverse the continuing effects of history.
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PublishedJune 19, 2021
Editorial cartoon for Saturday, June 19
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PublishedJune 18, 2021
Leonard Pitts Jr.: ‘Allow teachers to teach the truth’
Mrs. Niedermeyer willed herself to stop grinding her teeth and marked a B+ in her grade book. In the old days, she’d have given him an F. But that was before 2021, when Republicans banned Critical Race Theory, the 1619 Project, museums, history books, Spike Lee movies, Spike Lee, dreadlocks, Black Panther comic books and anything else that made white people uncomfortable.
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