Ben Bragdon is deputy managing editor for local news, overseeing enterprise reporting projects for the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel. Ben was previously editorial page editor for those newspapers and Central Maine Sunday for more than 10 years. Before that, he was managing editor for weekly newspapers at Current Publishing in Westbrook. He began his career as a reporter at the Piscataquis Observer in Dover-Foxcroft and editor at the Moosehead Messenger in Greenville. He has a bachelorās degree in history from Boston University.
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PublishedApril 17, 2024
Commentary: Will former Trump officials vote for America first?
Conservative Republican Trump insiders are confronting the fact that they have a tough decision they must make.
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PublishedApril 16, 2024
View from Away: Government incompetence is keeping kids out of college
President Joe Bidenās botched rollout of a revamped financial aid form reveals a stunning lack of managerial competence. It has left colleges unable to tell millions of students how much theyāll have to pay, causing some to delay enrolling and others to drop the idea altogether. This easily avoidable failure threatens to deprive low-income Americans […]
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PublishedApril 13, 2024
View from Away: Potatoes are not grains. Keep them rooted in the vegetable family
An influential federal committee that sets the countryās nutritional guidelines is considering reclassifying the potato as a member of the grain family, ostensibly as a strategy to combat a growing obesity epidemic. Instead, the action would confuse consumers and potentially rob Americans of affordable calories at a time food insecurity is spiking. The Dietary Guidelines […]
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PublishedApril 5, 2024
From the archives: The 1963 eclipse brought wonder, disappointment to central Maine
The people who could see the rare astronomical phenomenon were awed, but because of rainstorms, many never got a glimpse.
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PublishedApril 5, 2024
Commentary: A ‘grave counterintelligence threat’ aided Trump in 2016. He wants him back
Americansā collective judgment is so clouded by hyperpartisan lenses that we are missing a potential national security threat right before our very eyes. Former President Donald Trump is apparently considering reenlisting someone onto his campaign who the Senate Intelligence Committee once dubbed āa grave counterintelligence threatā because of ties to a Russian oligarch. On March […]
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PublishedApril 2, 2024
Maine Compass: Legislature must take charge of EV rulesĀ
Consequential policies like EV mandates should be decided by lawmakers, not by regulators.
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PublishedApril 1, 2024
View from Away: The humanitarian aid Gaza needs most is a cease-fire
In Gaza, famine is imminent. To get urgently needed food, clean water, temporary sanitation facilities and medical supplies to more than 2 million Palestinians, President Biden ordered construction of a floating dock. Building it will take weeks. In the interim, aid trickles into the narrow strip of land between southwestern Israel and the Mediterranean. A […]
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PublishedApril 1, 2024
Commentary: Is this the worst Congress ever? Let’s count the ways
More than halfway through the current two-year Congress, the “lawmakers” there bring to mind the old schoolyard quip about slacker students: They’re really good at recess. This pre-Easter week is the first of two that the House and Senate are taking off, though it seems like only yesterday they recessed for two weeks to mark […]
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PublishedMarch 28, 2024
Passenger train service through central Maine halted by representatives in Augusta
The bill would look at the feasibility of running a passenger rail between Portland and Bangor, with stops in Lewiston, Auburn, Waterville and just west of Augusta.
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PublishedMarch 26, 2024
Scholars Strategy Network: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
This series will examine how things have changed for Mainers, and why it is almost always for the better, the authors write.
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