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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PublishedFebruary 22, 2021
Asking patients for their pronouns helps us treat them — unless they shut down
The question demands creativity and experimentation. Perhaps the question about gender identity could come later in an interview, after doctor and patient have already established a rapport.
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PublishedFebruary 19, 2021
‘Curtis’ cartoon strip begins Monday
The Sun Journal is introducing a new feature on its comics page.
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2021
Donations pouring in to help Varney siblings after their parents were killed
A home security system is top on the list to help the daughters of the slain parents, for whom a gofundme page was set up.
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PublishedFebruary 15, 2021
Medical racism has shaped U.S. policies for centuries
Medical racism is not a new phenomenon. The origins stretch back centuries and created a system of belief and practice that allowed doctors to place blame on Black people for not having the same health outcomes as white people.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2021
We built a ‘better’ food system. The cost: It couldn’t handle a pandemic.
Why don’t we pay as much attention to the benefits of resilience as to the benefits of efficiency? We tend to get good at what we can measure, and it’s easy to produce numbers that support efficiency, such as crop yields per acre. Resilience cannot be easily measured, though.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2021
Small pharmacies beat big chains at delivering vaccines. Don’t look so shocked.
In Maine, officials eager to hurry things along have begun transferring doses meant for the chains to local pharmacies instead.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2021
One nurse’s diary of life after the vaccine: A glimpse of post-pandemic normalcy
Angela spoke to The Washington Post in a series of phone calls.
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PublishedFebruary 1, 2021
As enthusiastic support for health care workers subsides, a small gesture has big meaning
Candace Jones, Jenna Johnson, Courtney Adams and Melanie Powell came up with their Hug in a Cup Initiative after they noticed that support for health care workers wasn’t as robust as it was in the spring.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2021
Even forgiving student loans won’t solve the higher education funding crisis
Partially or fully wiping out federal student loan debt would be a godsend to many Americans but not be enough to slay the fund-eating dragon that has become a many-headed hydra. Federal student loans and the industry they spawned have never adequately funded colleges and universities nor enabled Americans to afford college fees.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2021
The handwarming story of how Bernie Sanders got his inauguration mittens
According to Sen. Bernie Sanders, “In Vermont, we know something about the cold. And we’re not so concerned about good fashion. We just want to keep warm.”
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