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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PublishedOctober 19, 2023
Sun Journal, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel win Publick Occurrences award
The joint investigation was prompted by personal observations of the staff that the population of homeless in Lewiston, Augusta and Waterville was clearly on the rise over the summer of 2022
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PublishedOctober 16, 2023
Pigs can help solve our organ donation problem
There’s long been a gap between the relatively small number of organs available for transplant and the long waiting lists of potential recipients. Last week, the world got a little closer to a future in which pigs — yes, pigs — could narrow that gap. A new study, published in Nature, showed that a monkey […]
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PublishedOctober 14, 2023
Sun Journal staff wins dozens of journalism, advertising awards
This year’s Freedom of Information Award included recognition of the newspaper’s fight for access to the Department of Health and Human Services’ prescription monitoring database for its “Legacy of Pain” investigation into the growing opioid crisis across the state.
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PublishedOctober 9, 2023
The moral case for no longer engaging with Elon Musk’s X
X is now an app that forcibly puts abhorrent content into users’ feeds and then rewards financially the people who were the most successful in producing it, egging them on to do it again and again and make it part of their living.
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PublishedOctober 2, 2023
Retailers bear some blame in theft epidemic
In August, Dollar General lowered its full year net sales and same store sales forecast in part because of an “approximately $100 million of additional shrink headwind.”
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PublishedOctober 2, 2023
A glimmer of hope in a dysfunctional housing market
I speculated early last month that the resale inventory picture could turn in the fall. The data that has come in since then give me more confidence in that hunch.
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PublishedSeptember 25, 2023
Some kinds of dogs shouldn’t be allowed as pets
I am frankly suspicious of anyone who wants to own a bully dog. Limiting preferences for such dogs now would help limit the spread of the XL bully dog itself, which has been in the U.K. only since about 2014 or 2015.
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PublishedSeptember 18, 2023
Striking UAW can’t bring back the 1950s or wish EVs away
The solution to the U.S. backlash against Japanese vehicle imports was ultimately for the likes of Honda to simply build the cars here. The IRA’s subsidies are designed to encourage this, if politics allow.
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PublishedSeptember 18, 2023
America can take care of our poorest children. We just don’t want to.
When COVID threatened the already janky network of child-care centers available to parents, the nation finally stepped into action and expanded benefits to child-care centers. It worked.
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2023
Yes, we do need another moonshot. Or five.
India won the latest round in August by being the first to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole. Tellingly, it managed the feat just days after superpower Russia failed at the same task.
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