Judith Meyer

Sun Journal

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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Published
August 2, 2022

Defense lawyers want murder indictments dismissed because Maine State Police heard confidential calls

The lawyers for Bobby Nightingale and Jaquile Coleman seek to have the charges thrown out because of alleged attorney-client privilege violations.
Published
August 1, 2022

Maine religious leaders hope to stem drop in attendance

Religious attendance is on the decline in Maine, the third least religious state in the nation, according to Gallup polls.
Published
July 12, 2022

Jared Golden, David McKinley team up on bill to preserve rural VA health care

The congressmen say the bill would protect against the recommended closure of clinics in Rumford, Houlton and Fort Kent and reduce services at Togus.
Published
July 11, 2022

Maine jail recorded hundreds of lawyer’s calls. He wants to know why

The details involving attorney John Tebbetts’ calls are the latest revelations in a monthslong investigation by The Maine Monitor. It previously reported that Aroostook, Androscoggin, Franklin and Kennebec county jails recorded nearly 1,000 calls defendants made to their attorneys between June 2019 and May 2020. Phone calls between Tebbetts and his clients are among those recordings.
Published
July 6, 2022

Availability of Maine defense lawyers reaches all-time low

Maine’s public defense agency reports only 224 attorneys are accepting assignments to new criminal and child protection cases from courts. In 2019, there were 410.
Published
June 21, 2022

Paris man faces 4 criminal charges in connection with attack on Capitol

In all, the FBI included eight images of Todd Tilley outside and inside the Capitol building, along with a video showing “Tilley joining with the crowd in shouting, ‘Stop the steal,'” in an affidavit used to obtain an arrest warrant.
Published
March 30, 2022

Lawmakers seek funding for Maine’s first public defenders

Committee proposes a dispatchable unit of defense lawyers to work on cases in underserved rural courts.
Published
January 22, 2022

Maine’s prime farmland is being lost to solar. Is ‘dual use’ the answer?

Farmland, with its open fields, southern exposure and well-drained soils, is typically one of the easiest and cheapest places to put a solar project.
Published
January 7, 2022

Access responses and disciplinary records

Detailed findings, including Maine Freedom of Information Coalition’s Freedom of Access Act request, a spreadsheet containing police department responses, hundreds of email and voice messages exchanged with members of law enforcement over the last year, and the full text of disciplinary records that were provided by police agencies, are available at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IhAS4pvP2uL9ja2MUffWxH4QTHio8M9E?usp=sharing Email: Mainefreedomofinfo@gmail.com Password: […]
Published
November 13, 2021

As Downeaster nears a milestone birthday, questions arise about its future

While politicians favor expanding the train service, COVID has changed riding habits, perhaps permanently. Expenses and emissions also warrant consideration.