The idea of “Medicare for All” advanced another step with the recent release of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s more detailed health proposal. It is expansive and bold, and has brought some excitement to the progressive core of the Democratic Party. While policy mavens can delight in the details, the enormity of the proposal is a sign […]
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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Our View: Land and Water Conservation Fund needs protecting
The federal program has purchased thousands of acres of land and supported more than 41,000 state and local park projects.
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Commentary: Think measles is no big deal? Talk to my patient
It is one of the most effective ways to protect our health: herd immunity. By vaccinating the vast majority of people in a population, we can guard against the spread of potentially deadly infections. When we allow this collective immunity to dissipate, the results can be devastating — sometimes even for people who have been […]
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View from Away: Speaker Pelosi, replace NAFTA with USMCA
When President Donald Trump signed a new agreement to replace NAFTA, a lot of people who depend on borderless commerce — many of them Midwest exporters of manufactured and agricultural goods — breathed a sigh of relief. After 15 months of arduous negotiations, the specter of harmful trade barriers rising on our northern and southern […]
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Our View: Don’t discount human cost of retail industry
Black Friday is tough on retail workers, but the rest of the year is not so great either.
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From the publisher: Thankful for our readers
If not for your support of our work through your subscription, we wouldn’t be able to deliver you the stories that inform, entertain and challenge you.
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View from Away: A man was found in his apartment three years after his death
We’ve seen thousands of sad stories in our time, but the case of a man found in his North Texas apartment three years after his death ranks right up there as one of the saddest. Ronald Wayne White, believed to be a Navy vet working as a defense contractor, was last in contact with his […]
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Our View: Medical examiner doesn’t inspire ‘confidence’
Dr. Mark Flomenbaum has not had a good year.
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View from Away: The world refuses to slow its suicidal course toward catastrophic climate change
The United Nations’ Environment Program released a rather dire report Wednesday concluding that by 2030, global production of fossil fuels — extracted coal, oil and natural gas — would be more than double what we can safely consume if we hope to limit the most severe impacts from human-caused global warming. In other words, rather […]