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 22, 2019
View from Away: Trump backtracks on vaping
Faced with a troubling outbreak of a mysterious vaping-related illness and the skyrocketing use of electronic cigarettes among teens, President Trump announced in September that the Food and Drug Administration would pull flavored electronic-cigarettes from the market, possibly within weeks. He promised quick action, and he was right to do so. At that point, six […]
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PublishedNovember 22, 2019
Waterville musical ranks with best of them
Letter
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PublishedNovember 22, 2019
You can’t be healthy without dental care
Letter
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PublishedNovember 22, 2019
Veterans Day time for discussion
Letter
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PublishedNovember 22, 2019
Parking still a problem in Concourse
Letter
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PublishedNovember 20, 2019
Commentary: Republicans smeared Vindman at impeachment hearing, and it backfired spectacularly
Tuesday morning’s installment of the House’s impeachment hearings wasn’t expected to produce sensational headlines. The witnesses — Lt. Col Alexander Vindman, a Ukraine expert on the National Security Council staff, and Jennifer Williams, an adviser on Russia to Vice President Mike Pence — weren’t expected to enlarge in significant ways on their previous testimony in […]
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PublishedNovember 20, 2019
Our View: Lawmakers should rein in facial surveillance
We need strong state and federal policies to keep the powerful technology from being misused.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2019
View from Away: Pass Trump’s trade bill
When dealing with international trade — as with many things in business — sometimes what’s needed most is simply a sure thing. We’ve been critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to trade over the past few years in large part because he has injected a tremendous amount of uncertainty in markets, supply chains and other […]
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PublishedNovember 18, 2019
Commentary: Give us back our sunshine — make daylight saving time year round
“We go back and forth between being time’s master and its victim.” — James Gleick, science historian Stop teasing us, Congress. Floridians are outdoorsy people, and we want our sunshine. Give it back. The current method of trying to bend Mother Nature to human purposes by observing part of the year in daylight saving time […]
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PublishedNovember 17, 2019
Commentary: Don’t destroy what makes America great
When I crossed through Checkpoint Charlie from West Berlin to East Berlin nearly 30 years ago, the failures of former East Germany were immediately obvious. The grey unkempt landscape and dilapidated buildings looked as though that country hadn’t been repaired since American and Soviet tanks faced off yards apart decades earlier in one of the […]
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