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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PublishedMay 29, 2023
Orcas are trying to tell us something. Can we hear it?
While captive orcas have killed a handful of people, almost no one has been killed by whales in the wild. One may have involved an orca mistaking a person for a seal, its natural prey. So why are they targeting the sailboats now?
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PublishedMay 29, 2023
When delivery costs more than the food you ordered
There is no question that the food delivery market is here to stay. Sure, we’ll gripe, but we’ve become a society that is hooked on convenience — and such is the cost of convenience.
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PublishedMay 22, 2023
What food expiration dates really mean — and when to ignore them
“Your freezer is like a magic pause button,” Dana Gunders said, allowing food to retain its flavor and last much longer than normal.
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PublishedMay 22, 2023
Meet the Red Bike Guy who in a viral video heckled white nationalists
Joe Flood said he has lived in D.C. for 30 years and has felt more protective of the city since the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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PublishedMay 22, 2023
A fulfilling job is a luxury of modern times
The growing interest in cultivating job satisfaction dovetailed with a larger cultural shift toward individual self-fulfillment that reached new levels by the 1960s and 1970s. A job, like an unhappy marriage, should be abandoned if it no longer met a person’s emotional needs.
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PublishedMay 15, 2023
The hole where Britain’s ambition used to be
Britain broke away from the European Union on a promise of freeing itself from excessive regulation and striking out on its own. Yet a flagship project that might have served as a signal of confidence to the world is now stunted to the point that detractors still hope it might be put out of its misery completely.
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PublishedMay 15, 2023
Multibillion-dollar natural disasters are the new normal
Even as the number of expensive calamities soars, Americans keep moving into the teeth of them. Florida, Texas, Arizona and other states at increasing risk of deadly weather have been the country’s fastest-growing states in recent years.
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PublishedMay 15, 2023
Good luck finding a first-class plane ticket
Leisure passengers, keen to live their best lives following the pandemic (and untroubled by their carbon footprints), are filling up first-class cabins; they think nothing of dropping $10,000 on a one-way fare that comes with extras such as limousine service and a personal assistant at the airport.
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PublishedMay 8, 2023
Sun Journal brings home New England press awards
WALTHAM, Mass. — The Sun Journal has won seven New England Newspaper & Press Association awards, announced at Saturday’s annual association convention, including four first-place awards. State writer Steve Collins won first-place honors in history reporting for his look back at then-Sen. Edmund Muskie’s bid for the White House in 1972, and how a fake […]
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PublishedMay 8, 2023
Tesla wanted a price war. Ford showed up.
Ford’s renewed push on EV volume, however much it may hurt its own bottom line, will keep the pressure on Tesla. And there are other competitive forces entering the fray. For example, Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 electric sedan is squarely aimed at the Model 3-curious and has garnered enthusiastic reviews.
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