Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is negotiating the delivery of billions in financial assistance to Boeing, United Airlines and other large aviation companies to protect them from coronavirus fallout. Mnuchin should cancel this costly exercise in favoritism. We’re not rooting for any company’s failure, nor for hardship to befall employees of any industry. Rather, we’re opposed […]
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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David Trahan: Rooks column got gun shops all wrong
Rather than have another fight over firearms, let’s concentrate on opening Maine businesses safely.
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View from Away: COVID-19 offers tech a chance to improve its image
The Mercury News (TNS)
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Our View: Months in, lack of COVID-19 testing still holding us back
The U.S. does not yet have even the capacity to test vulnerable facilities, and it will need a lot more than that to safely reopen the economy.
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View from Away: We need more testing more than we need another round of stimulus spending
The Dallas Morning News (TNS)
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Sen. Matt Pouliot: Food insecurity a major concern
We all need to pitch in to make sure kids have enough to eat.
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Our View: Keeping public spaces open in a time of outbreaks
Officials should plan now on ways to keep beaches and parks open in the summer and fall, even if physical distancing is still required.
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Trudy Rubin: Brutal propaganda war over coronavirus means facts matter more than ever
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