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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PublishedOctober 5, 2020
Our View: Climate change effects becoming harder to ignore
Between smoke from West Coast wildfires and brown grass from a drought, Mainers could easily see how rising temperatures are affecting our world.
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PublishedOctober 3, 2020
View from Away: Senate is right to move swiftly to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court
The Dallas Morning News (TNS)
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PublishedOctober 2, 2020
Our View: Treat suicide as the public health problem it is
A new task force being formed to help veterans will do the important work of lowering the stigma that is getting in the way of care.
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PublishedSeptember 30, 2020
Our View: Congress needs to act now to avoid long recession
A moderate recession will become a severe one — and most of us will feel the difference in our everyday lives.
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PublishedSeptember 30, 2020
Our View: Congress seems to be courting a long recession
The House has a bipartisan COVID relief package, but Senate Republicans have failed to grasp the moment’s urgency.
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PublishedSeptember 28, 2020
Our View: Congress comes together finally to help national parks
The Great American Outdoors Act was a great step, but the work shouldn’t end there.
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PublishedSeptember 26, 2020
View from Away: Trump wants to invade your privacy in the name of immigration enforcement
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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PublishedSeptember 25, 2020
Our View: COVID-19 prevention measures are there for a reason
Carelessness and failed leadership turned a few cases of the coronavirus into the state’s biggest outbreak.
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PublishedSeptember 24, 2020
Douglas Rooks: Melville Fuller’s career put on trial
An extraordinary letter from the Maine Supreme Judicial Court asking that a statue of jurist be removed lacks compelling evidence.
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2020
Our View: President Trump fails to acknowledge suffering caused by COVID
As the U.S. passed 200,000 deaths from the virus, the president said it “affects virtually nobody.”
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