President Biden has accomplished much. He has put thousands out of work by canceling the Keystone Pipeline project while waiving sanctions for Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline. His policies have engendered rising inflation. He has ignored a Supreme Court, thereby continuing to prevent landlords from evicting non-paying renters. The price of gasoline, timber, oil, food, […]
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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Rich Lowry: President Biden’s man-made disasters
It’s a particularly galling Biden rhetorical move to use the catastrophic failure of the Afghan forces that he helped bring about to insist that his decision to leave was the only responsible one. He’s gone from claiming we could safely leave because the Afghan security forces would do just fine on their own, to arguing we had no choice but to get out because they couldn’t manage without us.
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Froma Harrop: Mission impossible was not possible
Media pests were demanding apologies to liven their chyrons. “Will you publicly disclose what went wrong?” one journalist asked. No, the U.S. is not going to issue a what-went-wrong report, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan responded, but it is going to look at “everything that happened.”
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Bob Neal: The Countryman: In Afghanistan, maybe nothing is as it appears
Did I mention that Afghanistan may be the most corrupt country in the world? And the most transactional? It’s not how can I fight for my country, it’s how much will you give me to fight for my country?
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Wales-based district bases reopening plan on infection levels in each school
RSU 4 board using green, yellow and red codes to indicate risk of COVID-19 spread.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Tom Hart: Blame Biden, not Trump
It’s terrible how our country is going downhill with this president. We have Biden. He’s a phony. As soon as he took office he shut our pipeline down. People are flooding over our borders. Food went sky-high and our taxes are going to go up. He has no guts. Those of you who voted for […]
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Paul Spencer: Setting the tone for abysmal future
The current occupant of the White House is an embarrassment and his policies of a mere seven months in office have been disastrous domestically and in terms of foreign affairs. In a recent press conference, he assured the press that Afghanistan was in no way similar to what happened in Vietnam, but the parallels speak […]
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Peter McKeown: Vote ‘yes’ to stop the NECEC project
New England Clean Energy Connect’s advertising propaganda is sickening. Let’s look at some facts: FACT: New England is known as the exhaust pipe of America . . . whether we get clean or polluted air to breathe depends completely on wind direction. FACT: Despite this, Maine still has the cleanest air in New England because […]
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Austin Bay: Biden’s Afghanistan disaster didn’t have to happen
President Joe Biden gave his withdrawal speech on April 14. There was time. Incompetent, arrogant and oblivious White House leadership compounded by obscenely bad interagency planning created the horror we witness and the slaughter to be.