Bloomberg Opinion (TNS)
Ben Bragdon
Staff Writer
Ben Bragdon is managing editor of the Sun Journal. Prior to that, he was deputy managing editor for news at 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 bachelor’s degree in history from Boston University.
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It’s not that testing and quarantine rules are too strict or schools too cautious. It’s that too many people are sick.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch (TNS)
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If Republicans want to have a hand in how the state responds to the pandemic, they have to act more responsibly.
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Chicago Tribune (TNS)
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Tampa Bay Times (TNS)
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Bloomberg Opinion (TNS)
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Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Our View: Judge’s order against The New York Times cannot stand
With very few and exact exceptions, no one in government can tell a newspaper what it can and cannot publish.