Virtually all responsible scientists agree that climate change is a crisis, but not a crisis that will “come to a head” tomorrow. It is a crisis many years in the making. The world is not going to fry into a lifeless ball of steamy dirt in the next 10 years. But the Earth is slowly […]
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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Jennifer Rubin: Why the plea to Congress on voting rights is so urgent
To prevent the Republicans’ wholesale attack on voting, we need specific provisions to override barriers to the ballot, not only for protections for early voting but also for nonpartisan redistricting. No one can honestly argue that there are 10 Republicans to do any of this.
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Fauci is my dog
Fauci is, in many ways, a perfect dog name. Two syllables that end on a happy “e!” sound make it an ideal moniker for beckoning, cuddling and, yes, reprimanding.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
The media has erased the long history of Black barbecue, skewing our understanding
The real-world consequences wrought by the media shift during the 1990s were remarkable and well-established by the mid-2000s. Barbecue went from having an affordable, working class, folk art and rural Southern vibe to being a cool, creative and urbanized craft drenched with fine dining sensibilities
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Economic reality is dragging Russia toward climate acceptance
Sooner than expected, Putin’s hydrocarbon-dependent regime has found itself watching key markets slip away as China targets net-zero emissions and Europe introduces measures including a levy on heavy industry imports that fail to meet its climate protection standards.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Elliott Epstein: Rearview Mirror: Rightful ownership and the struggle of might and right
Land ownership today is considered to consist of a bundle of rights: the right to occupy, build on, log, mine, subdivide, sell, bequeath, mortgage and, above all, deny anyone else access to, a tract of earth. The complete bundle is known in Anglo-American real estate law as ownership in “fee simple.” At a national level, it’s known as sovereignty.
Posted inMaine, News
Awash in federal cash, Maine counties ponder limited ways to spend it
County government here has limited duties. Some officials say the American Rescue Plan Act presumes they do much more, and guidance on using the money is needed.
Posted inNews, River Valley
Dixfield inn subject of foreclosure likely to be total loss for homeowner
After purchasing the historic brick home on Weld Street in 2017, Ann Marie Cook and her mother, Jean Louise Cook, quickly became overwhelmed with the cost of keeping the place heated and maintained, and stopped paying their property taxes altogether a year later. Now, facing foreclosure, Ann Marie Cook says buying the building was a “humongous mistake.”
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Our patent system is broken. And it could be stifling innovation.
Health care is a strange market. Patients may consume the medication, but doctors are in charge of choosing it, and insurance pays for much of it. As a result, consumers do not have full information and do not bear the full burden of the costs.
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For a little bird, her loss felt huge — and offered a new understanding
There is a phrase for pet deaths that occur because their owners don’t have enough money — “economic euthanasia.”