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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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  • Published
    April 5, 2021

    Turn office buildings into homes after the pandemic

    Some buildings could even be adapted to a mixed-use conversion approach, with one portion of a building preserved for offices and residential units occupying the remaining portion. But no matter which conversion strategy is pursued, significant hurdles must be overcome.

  • Published
    April 5, 2021

    My life was upended for 35 years by a cancer diagnosis. A doctor just told me I was misdiagnosed.

    “Either outcome is deeply meaningful. If you survived anaplastic astrocytoma, then you are the outcome of a miracle of biblical proportion. If an erroneous diagnosis was made, which I think is what happened, then yours is an important cautionary tale. Pathologists, like everyone else, make mistakes.”

  • Published
    April 2, 2021

    What Maine is doing to tamp down the worst power outages in the nation

    Maine continues to top most other states in the number and duration of power outages caused primarily by severe weather and downed trees, but regulators and utilities are aiming to improve upon that dubious distinction.

  • Published
    March 29, 2021

    The Suez logjam shows how fragile our global trade system is

    The grounding of the Ever Given has graphically shown the world, once again, how vital the maritime supply chain is, not just to those receiving the goods from a particular vessel, but to everyone — and how easily a disruption can occur that affects us all.

  • Published
    March 29, 2021

    Robinhood heads for IPO with a tarnished reputation

    While Robinhood’s disclosures have improved, its business model still relies crucially on payment for order flow, a practice that has called into question its ability to satisfy its duty as a broker-dealer to provide the best execution of customers’ trades, even when the companies pay for Robinhood’s order flow.

  • Published
    March 25, 2021

    Births

    Rumford Hospital Delilah Rae Theriault, a girl to Lynda Theriault of Livermore Falls, Dec. 5. Sibling, Gracelynn; grandparents, Melissa Theriault, Livermore Falls, Scott Theriault, Strong; great-grandparents, Wilbur Souther, Livermore Falls, Mary Lou Theriault, Mexico. Rylee Jean Cantu, a girl to Tasha Hutchinson and Michael Cantu of Rumford, Dec. 15. Siblings, Marley Bisson, Ayva Bisson, Willow […]

  • Published
    March 22, 2021

    The Triangle Fire and the fight for $15

    From the outset, the minimum wage was designed to be a living wage. Roosevelt had long championed the “change from starvation wages and starvation employment to living wages and sustained employment,” but he had to rely on voluntary compliance from industry.

  • Published
    March 22, 2021

    ‘I’m so sorry that you and your teammates got mistreated’

    A high school football team told adults they were spit on and called the n-word. Nothing changed until a player posted, ‘enough is enough!’

  • Published
    March 22, 2021

    The risk of inflation is real — and growing

    The succession of government stimulus packages to combat the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the broad supply of money in the United States from $15.5 trillion in February 2020 to a whopping $19.4 trillion in January. That is a record one-year increase, according to statistics from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Biden’s billions will come on top of that.

  • Published
    March 21, 2021

    Our View: Many broad promises, without achieving full broadband access

    As we look back on decades of campaign promises and administrative wobbling, and on tens of millions of dollars in broadband investment, Maine is behind and getting behinder.