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.

Editorials, Opinion

View from Away: A difficult but not ‘hard’ Brexit deal

January 2, 2021December 30, 2020

Star Tribune (TNS)

Editorials, Opinion

Our View: If we want a better new year, it’s all up to us

by The Editorial Board January 1, 2021December 30, 2020

The calendar didn’t cause the catastrophes of 2020, and our problems weren’t magically solved when it turned to 2021.

Op-Eds, Opinion

Commentary: New Year’s resolutions in an era of COVID

by Andrea K. McDaniels January 1, 2021December 30, 2020

The Baltimore Sun (TNS)

Op-Eds, Opinion

Commentary: It wasn’t all bad, was it? 9 things to keep from 2020

by Steve Johnson January 1, 2021December 30, 2020

Chicago Tribune (TNS)

Op-Eds, Opinion

Douglas Rooks: Divisions must be bridged, not deplored

by Douglas Rooks December 31, 2020December 30, 2020

It was the partnership forged in Philadelphia in 1776 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson that explains where we’ve been as a nation, and where we might be going.