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 2, 2019
Commentary: With the impeachment vote official, the heat shifts from Schiff back to Trump
An anonymous whistleblower’s complaint about President Trump’s July 25 phone call with new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy teed up two questions for lawmakers in September: What exactly did Trump do, and how bad was it? It has taken weeks, but now the House may be able to focus its attention, and the public’s, on just […]
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PublishedNovember 1, 2019
View from Away: President Trump is right to mark the death al-Baghdadi as a victory
One mark of how far we have fallen into the politics of division is the blowback the White House has experienced after the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Now let’s first stipulate that no one on this side of civilized society would seriously argue the world was a better place with al-Baghdadi in it. He […]
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PublishedOctober 31, 2019
Commentary: Facebook’s political ad exemption policy is a danger to our democracy
In recent weeks, President Donald Trump ran an ad on Facebook with discredited allegations about former Vice President Joe Biden’s relationship with Ukraine. Despite requests from Biden’s campaign to take down the ad, Facebook refused, stating the ad didn’t violate its policies on political advertising. Facebook’s new policy exempts politicians’ political ads from third-party fact-checkers. […]
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PublishedOctober 31, 2019
Our View: Pedestrians should get our attention every day
Halloween has a lesson or two about making roads more safe for everyone.
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PublishedOctober 30, 2019
Our View: Americans deserve full story on Trump’s actions
The information the public has so far is damning, and a full, unobstructed impeachment inquiry is necessary to find out the rest.
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PublishedOctober 27, 2019
Our View: Don’t let children be forgotten victims of domestic violence
The long-term affects of witnessing abuse are clear and must be addressed.
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PublishedOctober 26, 2019
View from Away: Cleaning up Trump’s mess
How would the candidates repair the damage Trump has wreaked upon U.S. institutions, political norms and relations?
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PublishedOctober 26, 2019
Jay Ambrose: William Barr is right about religion
Attorney General William Barr recently gave a speech on religious freedom at the University of Notre Dame law school, saying that mainstream faiths were being attacked by secularists, mass media, academia, movies, TV and the like, that our traditional moral system was being degraded and that the self-discipline of the past was fleeing. In no […]
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PublishedOctober 25, 2019
Commentary: GOP faced with the most damning impeachment testimony yet
How bad was diplomat William Taylor’s testimony for President Donald Trump? Bad enough to prompt dozens of House Republicans on Wednesday to interrupt the impeachment inquiry, arguing that the process should be conducted in public, not in secret. Three House committees have been taking depositions privately in day-long sessions held in a secure room in […]
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PublishedOctober 25, 2019
Our View: Question 2 solves small but vital issue on voting access
The constitutional amendment would allow Mainers with disabilities to sign referendum petitions, letting them fully participate in democracy.
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