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 3, 2023
Todd Wilson: Mayor Sheline has the skills to do the difficult work of being our mayor
Mayor Carl Sheline is truly a Renaissance man with strong business, people and process skills. His rare talents are combined with a keen mind and humorous wit that make him a true pleasure to have as mayor. I am a person in recovery, a proud family member and assistant director of A Hand Up Recovery […]
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PublishedNovember 2, 2023
Ellen Grunblatt: Golden has acted with courage
We didn’t think it could happen in Maine and then it did, forcing Mainers to reexamine our convictions on gun safety. No one has done so more bravely than Rep. Jared Golden in his response to the mass shooting in his hometown. His stated commitment to work for an assault weapons ban after his previous […]
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PublishedNovember 2, 2023
Lawrence Small: If we give politicians more money than the NRA …
It appears that the majority of Americans would like to see a ban on assault style weapons being sold to civilians and some kind of accountability for people who already own them. At some point (so I’ve been told) elected officials used to support the majority vote, but this hasn’t been the case for quite […]
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PublishedNovember 2, 2023
Lily Leeman: We owe justice to 18 people, and so many more
On June 7, 2022, I stood in front of my fellow students, teachers, lawmakers, and the eyes of the public pleading for lawmakers to take what I was saying seriously: gun control. I was in the eighth grade then and reacting to the tragedies of Uvalde, Texas. Now, I’m a sophomore in high school reflecting […]
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PublishedNovember 2, 2023
Leslie Weinberg: Time to make your gun regulations far stronger
I live in Connecticut. We have very good gun regulations in the state. Years ago there was a shooting in Newtown at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Twenty children and 6 adults were killed. We now have automatic background checks, banned automatic weapons, and have red flag laws. I hope the shootings in Lewiston will make […]
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PublishedNovember 2, 2023
Laura Rinck: Our superpower is that chip on our shoulder
Lewiston has a chip on our shoulder. But what the world has come to learn this past week is that chip is made from grit and grace; heart and hard work; toughness, tenacity; authenticity and love. Having a chip is often viewed negatively, but it can also be a catalyst to be the very best […]
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PublishedNovember 2, 2023
Donna Halvorsen: Soboleski should stand on the side of the innocents
Michael Soboleski is the one playing politics by berating Jared Golden — a fellow Marine, no less — for changing his position on assault weapons. Golden stood up for his country by enlisting in the Marines after 9/11, and he acted courageously now by calling on Congress to ban these military weapons. Soboleski knows the […]
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PublishedNovember 2, 2023
Stephanie Cote: City employees behind the scenes
Most of us will not see the complexities of what happens behind the scenes after one monster does the unthinkable. You may not see the city administrators call their own families to tell them they are not going to be home for dinner because they must work late and continue to do their job. You […]
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PublishedNovember 2, 2023
Brian Charles Browne: Surely, the NRA would want to compensate victims
On Monday, the children at the East End Community Grade School in Portland, Maine, wrote sympathy cards to their two fellow classmates whose father was killed at one of the crime scenes in Lewiston. The father also had two older sons and a spouse. The two older boys witnessed their father’s murder. Fortunately, these four […]
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PublishedNovember 2, 2023
Eloy Barrera: From Uvalde to Lewiston, we stand strong
After last week’s devastating shooting in Lewiston, Maine, my heart echoed with pain, recalling the haunting day of May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Each incident, from Uvalde to Santa Fe, Parkland, and Columbine, pierces our souls with the same question: How did we let this cycle of violence persist? The anguish deepens as we […]
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