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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PublishedDecember 21, 2020
The pandemic helped them realize: I want to marry you
Although annual statistics for engagements are virtually nonexistent, there’s evidence to suggest the coronavirus pandemic has produced a bumper crop.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2020
Through crinkly plastic, fierce embraces fight the loneliness of COVID-19
Human touch has serious power, and while every touch between humans has the potential to transmit the coronavirus, the absence of touch is a slow, dull pain of its own.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2020
Don’t put those COVID stimulus checks in the mail
What should concern Congress are those Americans who, through no fault of their own, are unable to work amid the pandemic.
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PublishedDecember 13, 2020
Last Kennedy in Congress: Retiring Rep. Kennedy says greed hinders aid to needy
Kennedy is the grandson of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy, D-N.Y., who was assassinated in 1968. A member of that Kennedy family has been in Congress with little interruption since Robert Kennedy’s brother, the future President John F. Kennedy, entered the House from Massachusetts in 1947.
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PublishedDecember 13, 2020
‘Take off your mask’: Boorish customers have found a way to make sexual harassment even more of a hazard
“‘Take off your mask’ really means expose yourself to the risk of death,” said One Fair Wage Executive Director Saru Jayaraman, “so that I may judge you.”
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PublishedDecember 13, 2020
If nations compete for doses of coronavirus vaccines, we’ll all lose
As United Nations Director General António Guterres recently declared, “For the first time since 1945, the entire world is confronted by a common threat, regardless of nationality, ethnicity or faith. But while COVID-19 does not discriminate, our efforts to prevent and contain it do.”
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PublishedDecember 13, 2020
There’s a responsible way to end the federal marijuana ban
While federal prohibition should end, we can and should tolerate use without being wholly indifferent to it.
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PublishedDecember 13, 2020
COVID-19: How will history judge us?
The history of the COVID-19 pandemic will be more interested in how the battle ends than in how it got started. In that respect, the fight begins now.
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PublishedDecember 13, 2020
Amazon’s new health band is the most invasive tech we’ve ever tested
The Halo collects the most intimate information we’ve seen from a consumer health gadget — and makes the absolute least use of it.
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PublishedDecember 12, 2020
Bob Neal: The Countryman: Too much of a good thing?
Analysts of higher-education trends are predicting that the aftermath of COVID-19 may bring the closure of hundreds of colleges, perhaps 10 to 20% of our 4,200 or so colleges.
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