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 8, 2023
You don’t want to know how banks make their sausage
Bank investors would do well to read postmortem reports. They won’t reveal the next lender to fail, but they provide useful insights into the goings-on inside a bank.
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PublishedMay 2, 2023
Overnight standoff in Auburn sparked by online feud, police say
Police say the 21-hour standoff started after a Gillander Avenue resident fired a gun at a passing car.
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PublishedMay 1, 2023
British glasses are half-full for King Charles
Brits are expected to stock up on scones, clotted cream and party food, as they did for the Platinum Jubilee. They spent £87 million ($108 million) more on groceries during the Jubilee week than on average in 2022.
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PublishedMay 1, 2023
MIT is a college bargain. NYU, not so much.
Survey data collected for the Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics in the 2017-2018 academic year showed that 59.1% of all undergraduates received federal grants, loans or both, with the share rising to 59.6% at four-year public colleges and universities and 64.2% at four-year private nonprofit ones.
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PublishedApril 24, 2023
Migration’s root cause isn’t that complicated
Americans might want to remember how, at the height of the pandemic, it was migrant workers who guaranteed the availability of food.
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PublishedApril 24, 2023
Business travel recovery is showing cracks
Before COVID, business travelers would regularly buy flights closer to the departure date, even if that meant paying a premium, and were also more likely to take trips in January and February than vacationers. But with the corporate travel recovery still lagging, that backstop isn’t there.
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PublishedApril 24, 2023
Why gun control advocates keep failing
We could better enforce existing gun laws, such as those governing false reports on background checks and proxy purchases, without passing new legislation or adding to the burdens on law-abiding gun owners.
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PublishedApril 17, 2023
The IRS is becoming a model of efficiency. Really.
As the federal tax filing deadline approaches on April 18, the IRS appears to be at the beginning stages of a major overhaul that promises improved customer service and more efficient tax administration.
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PublishedApril 17, 2023
Has 200 years of science fiction prepared us for AI?
Knowing our deep history of skepticism helps put current reactions to AI in perspective. And that’s something that, for now at least, only a human can do.
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PublishedApril 10, 2023
Major League Baseball’s revolution has just begun
Too often in recent years it felt like, when it came to strategy, baseball was a “solved problem.” Find pitchers who throw really hard and generate a lot of strikeouts, and find hitters who hit home runs even if they strike out a lot and can’t do much else. Things became too stagnant and predictable.
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