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 bachelor’s degree in history from Boston University.
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PublishedNovember 24, 2023
Commentary: I am nine months pregnant and living in Gaza. Will my baby first hear my voice or bombs?
I am 26 years old and about to give birth in Gaza. I am terrified. Nine months ago, my husband, our 3-year-old daughter and I were all filled with joy, and began planning a beautiful future for our small family in a loving home in northern Gaza. I was excited to experience motherhood again. We […]
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PublishedNovember 20, 2023
Commentary: Home-schooling is now mainstream. True school choice must include support for it
I do not recall my exact reaction when my husband suggested that we consider home-schooling our children. Laughter seems plausible, particularly since we had no children yet when he casually worked its mention into our conversation. But my sense of home-schooling at that time was mostly that it was for families on the cultural fringe […]
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PublishedNovember 19, 2023
Our View: Mills administration is failing in effort to fix child welfare system
The state’s ability to recognize children in peril and act on their behalf is getting worse.
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PublishedNovember 18, 2023
View from Away: Trump’s dangerous ‘vermin’ speech would have been at home in Nazi Germany
It is a full-time job to call out every one of Donald Trump’s lies and efforts to divide this nation, but his “vermin” address on Saturday deserves special attention. The ex-president and leading Republican candidate for 2024 dishonored military veterans and further tainted his political party with a hate-filled Veterans’ Day speech featuring words that […]
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PublishedNovember 18, 2023
Carl P. Leubsdorf: 60 years ago, in Dallas
It was one of those mild November days, typical of Washington autumns, the temperature pushing 70. Because I worked nights, I was trying to nap between picking up the 3-year-old at play school and her older siblings at 3. But excited voices interrupting the music on my favorite oldies station jostled me awake, talking of […]
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PublishedNovember 17, 2023
Commentary: The Supreme Court finally has a code of ethics, but it has a fatal flaw
Although it is welcome and overdue that the Supreme Court finally adopted an ethics code for its justices on Monday, the approach is seriously flawed in that it includes no enforcement mechanism. Instead it continues to leave it to each justice to decide whether to be recused in a particular case. Until Monday, every judge […]
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PublishedNovember 13, 2023
Commentary: American Muslims and Jews must stand together amid tragedies in Middle East
Two years ago, the two of us, a Muslim-American woman, and a Jewish-American man, wrote a book together, arguing that American Muslims and Jews cannot afford to allow the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to divide our faith communities here at home. We believe in that principle today as much as we did then; but as we watch […]
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PublishedNovember 11, 2023
Commentary: Rise in infant mortality shows US needs to take better care of moms
New provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offer a horrible statistic: The infant death rate in the U.S. rose by 3% in 2022 to 5.6 deaths per 1,000 live births, the first significant increase in about 20 years. It’s too soon to know if this is the start of a terrible […]
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PublishedNovember 10, 2023
Commentary: Gun case forces Supreme Court to confront its own illogic
The good news is that the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to reverse a Fifth Circuit decision that said police can’t confiscate guns from domestic abusers. The bad news is that the high court’s 2022 Bruen decision, which guided the lower court’s ruling, remains firmly in place. Bruen is among the worst-reasoned Supreme Court decisions […]
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PublishedNovember 9, 2023
Our View: Metal mining has no place in future of Katahdin region
There is too much of a chance of something going wrong if Maine allows a mine in such an environmentally sensitive place.
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