Why don’t we pay as much attention to the benefits of resilience as to the benefits of efficiency? We tend to get good at what we can measure, and it’s easy to produce numbers that support efficiency, such as crop yields per acre. Resilience cannot be easily measured, though.
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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Small pharmacies beat big chains at delivering vaccines. Don’t look so shocked.
In Maine, officials eager to hurry things along have begun transferring doses meant for the chains to local pharmacies instead.
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One nurse’s diary of life after the vaccine: A glimpse of post-pandemic normalcy
Angela spoke to The Washington Post in a series of phone calls.
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As enthusiastic support for health care workers subsides, a small gesture has big meaning
Candace Jones, Jenna Johnson, Courtney Adams and Melanie Powell came up with their Hug in a Cup Initiative after they noticed that support for health care workers wasn’t as robust as it was in the spring.
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Even forgiving student loans won’t solve the higher education funding crisis
Partially or fully wiping out federal student loan debt would be a godsend to many Americans but not be enough to slay the fund-eating dragon that has become a many-headed hydra. Federal student loans and the industry they spawned have never adequately funded colleges and universities nor enabled Americans to afford college fees.
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The handwarming story of how Bernie Sanders got his inauguration mittens
According to Sen. Bernie Sanders, “In Vermont, we know something about the cold. And we’re not so concerned about good fashion. We just want to keep warm.”
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VIDEO: Katie Boss, Nirav Shah discuss COVID in 2021 at Great Falls Forum
Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and Katie Boss, a public health professional with Healthy Androscoggin, are live at Thursday’s virtual Great Falls Forum.
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Is your broadband access reliable?
Chamber, Sun Journal holding listening session Friday
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Capitol’s cleaning crew deserves our gratitude — now and in the future
We can’t change what happened that day, but going forward, we have a choice: We can denounce what they believe with words or with concrete actions that push against the societal, financial and educational inequities that keep the disparities they embrace in place.
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Shukri Abdirahman: The work can’t stop until ‘all people are treated equally’
The Lewiston resident and University of Farmington student responds to the question in King’s “I Have a Dream” speech: When will you be satisfied?