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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PublishedNovember 25, 2020
Jody Jalbert: Wishing a very Happy Thanksgiving to all
Local journalism requires research, time and resources and we thank you for your continued support.
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PublishedNovember 25, 2020
Taunya Knight: A special end-of-life care-giver
“She wants to take care of people the way she would her own family, her mom, her sister, her daughter.”
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PublishedNovember 24, 2020
Ray Mitchell: Lesson on the importance of ‘civics’
To graduate high school in 1956 I had to pass a class called “civics.” In it we learned how our government functions. One part was about the job of a secretary of state. In each state that person leads a group of nonpartisan election workers who are trained to count ballots in national and state […]
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PublishedNovember 23, 2020
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address still speaks to us
That great address is only 272 words long. It took Lincoln only two minutes or so to deliver. It will take you less time to read it.
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PublishedNovember 23, 2020
Channeling Lincoln’s ideological balancing act will lead Biden to success
Quoting from Lincoln’s first inaugural address, Biden declared that it was time for our “better angels” to prevail.
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PublishedNovember 18, 2020
Donna Perry named New England’s journalist of the year
The annual award recognizes an individual for producing journalism of distinction in New England.
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PublishedNovember 16, 2020
A father died alone after voting for the first time
In the days that followed, a tribute to Yaroslav Koporulin appeared on American University’s website, and a friend of the family created a GoFundMe to help John O’Mahony, who is now left to raise the couple’s four young children on his own.
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PublishedNovember 16, 2020
Biden speaks openly about systemic racism. Could his words lead to change?
If Biden gets to talk about race without the racial baggage Obama carried, does it mean he might actually be able to get more accomplished on race? Could he use white privilege to dilute white privilege?
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PublishedNovember 9, 2020
Franklin Memorial Hospital implements more stringent visitor restrictions
Move to prevent community spread of COVID-19, safeguard colleagues.
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PublishedNovember 9, 2020
Trump’s power on Twitter, Facebook will outlive his presidency
“There’s no way that Donald Trump sits on his hands while Biden undermines his legacy,” said Timothy Naftali, a New York University historian. “He is likely to be a fundamentally disruptive presence in American political life as an ex-president. And that is, once again, norm busting.”
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