No more Christmas, Hanukkah, Memorial Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, or even Indigenous Peoples Day (formerly known as Columbus Day). Maybe they should keep April Fools’ Day because that accurately reflects their decision.
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: Biden’s tribute to Trump
On China, Trump’s wrenching shift in the U.S. approach is now getting the tribute of broad acceptance by a successor who has nothing good to say about him and wants, in fact, to differentiate himself from the former president as much as possible.
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Joan Villani: Biden is proving what a great president Trump was
In rebuttal to Carole Richard’s letter to the editor on Sunday, June 13, titled ” Media needs to dump Trump,” does she know that neither President Biden nor Vice President Harris have been to view the crisis at the border yet as thousands of undocumented immigrants from dozens of countries are crossing into our country […]
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Bob Neal: The Countryman: Declaring holidays won’t square accounts
An official holiday is a balming act, but it does little more than recognize history. Much more to the point would be working to reverse the continuing effects of history.
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: ‘Allow teachers to teach the truth’
Mrs. Niedermeyer willed herself to stop grinding her teeth and marked a B+ in her grade book. In the old days, she’d have given him an F. But that was before 2021, when Republicans banned Critical Race Theory, the 1619 Project, museums, history books, Spike Lee movies, Spike Lee, dreadlocks, Black Panther comic books and anything else that made white people uncomfortable.
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Austin Bay: Army long range strike gives China a taste of its own medicine
In a nutshell, the Army wants to place mobile, long-range missile and extended-range artillery batteries on Pacific islands and perhaps in Japan and South Korea. The missiles and artillery rounds are “smart” — meaning precise.
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Heidi Weber: It’s not a village, it’s the parents
With friends like this who needs enemies? Now they rocked the pontoon boat, why did they not push it toward their friends so they also would be safe? No, today they only think for themselves. They would never be any good if they were on a battlefield not able to be the one rescuing a […]
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Michael Boom: The power of a grandfather’s wisdom
My grandfather was a wonderful human being. He took me for a ride on his tractor and paid me one summer for picking weeds out of the bean rows. My grandfather taught me many things about life. About 50 some years ago, my grandfather told me that the Republican was for the rich man and […]