Your child wants to play catcher on the softball team, and the coach says a mask is required. Your daughter wants to be on the alpine ski team, and a helmet is required. Do you argue? Do you insist on double blind, placebo control research to confirm the wisdom of these measures? If your son […]
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.
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Triple Crown race Sunday in Auburn; expect traffic delays
The race, which is usually the first of three held each year, will be held Sunday beginning at 8:30 a.m. at Court and Main streets.
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Go ahead. Ignore that email.
I miss plenty of spam, including those endless silly warnings from partisans that the sky will surely fall tomorrow unless I contribute $25 or more tonight. On balance, I think I come out ahead. Maybe that’s because I teach and write for a living. It’s easy to see how the demands of other professions might require a different mindset.
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I killed Taliban fighters from an air-conditioned room. Did it even help?
It was in these instances that the video game stopped and the flesh-and-blood consequences of what we were doing hit me — a wave of sickness, regret and second-guessing. Yet my routine on the base would remain largely unchanged.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
David Haines: Vaccine is not a sacrifice, it’s survival
When I was 5 years old one of my playmates and I were “cooking stuff” in the back yard. I dug up a root to add to our stew, but Carol warned, “If you eat that you will die!” Two weeks later Carol was dead, killed by polio. I wasn’t sure what it meant to […]
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Stephen Carnahan: Mandates are not unique to masks
According to the article in the Sun Journal on Aug. 19, Rep. Laurel Libby says that we are at war over the matter of “government force.” And, that mask mandates are a current battle in this war. Since when does government have the right to tell anyone they must wear a mask? For that matter, […]
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Renee Cote: Libby’s anti-vax stand doesn’t serve Maine
I’m vaccinated, I work from home, and I don’t have school-aged children, so I’m reasonably well insulated from COVID-19–related problems. But like everyone else I’m at risk for breakthrough infection because not enough people are getting vaccinated and too many people are refusing to wear masks indoors. And like many others, I can’t visit a […]
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David Griffiths: How quickly the lessons we learned have been lost
One question hanging over the quagmire that turned so quickly into defeat is whether the Afghan troops themselves are to blame. Amidst the flurry of commentary about their allegedly poor fighting spirit, columnist Thomas Friedman suggests, “It was never about the way our Afghan allies fought. It was always about their will to fight for the corrupt pro-American, pro-Western governments we helped stand up in Kabul.”
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Barry J. Lohnes: Peace must come from within
Not much is new in Afghanistan: since pre-history, peace has been elusive. Afghanistan has epitomized instability for millennia, resisting occupiers: Greeks, Mongols, Turks, Arabs, British, Persians, Russians, and more recently, Americans. Even in the short term, neither colonialism nor democracy has taken root. Outliers, bloodied after countless incursions, have learned to leave it alone. Long […]