Why is it that inclusion and diversity always seem to exclude people who believe differently? Such people are now viewed as criminals in some states if they seek to apply their faith to their businesses and in the public square.
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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Bob Neal: Herd mentality runs both ways, depending on your politics
Herd immunity comes when 70% to 90% of all people have been vaccinated. At that point, the virus can no longer infect willy-nilly. It won’t infect most people on whom it lands, so that specific instance of the virus dies. Its only hope is to find the unvaccinated.
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Rich Lowry: Joe Biden’s Afghan withdrawal folly
As the bad news has piled up, the Biden administration has tried to provide reassuring signals. One expedient is keeping our top commander, Gen. Austin Miller, in the country a few more weeks. But are the Afghans, and the Taliban, not supposed to notice that nearly all of his forces have already withdrawn?
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Is Naomi Osaka brave or a publicity hog?
Whether stars like Osaka have to do the bidding of the official organizations is not relevant to this conversation. The athletes can do as they please. Nor is it relevant that some observers consider these news conferences boring. Maybe they are. Maybe they’re not.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Rudolph Ziehm: Don’t need his kind of ‘plain talk’
Paul LePage wants to be governor again. We need a man who brags “I was Trump before Trump”? Have we not had enough from a man who sent a profane voicemail where he proposed a duel so he could kill a legislator who pointed out a racist statement he made? He talks plain all right. […]
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Bob Mennealy: GOP needs a fresh tactic
It amazes me, despite losing the presidency, the House and the Senate under Trump, that the GOP rather than modifying its policies that lost the executive and legislative branches of the federal government has pinned it’s future on suppressing enough of the electorate that it feels would not vote for its candidates. Has the GOP […]
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Norm Gellatly: Commercial manipulation stinks
In his June 23 letter, Marc Jalbert scorned the high frequency of TV commercials, referencing networks’ methods of obsessive bombardment. I certainly agree with him and enjoyed his interesting tirade. His message got me to think about the nature of TV commercials in the earlier days of TV. In contrast to those in the present […]
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Austin Bay: Guard duty after the Afghan deluge
Al-Qaida’s 9/11 massacre taught open-minded Americans that anarchy in even the world’s most remote and impoverished corners provided anti-American terror cults with a base of operations. If you read anti-American as also meaning anti-modern and anti-personal freedom, by George you’ve got it.