Letter
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.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
View from Away: Move quickly on FAA safety reforms
Changes are needed, and not just for safety. They’re necessary to restore the credibility of the U.S. regulatory system.
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Our View: Helping asylum seekers, and others, helps Maine
There’s no reason the state has decide between giving migrants short-term aid and doing the same for other residents.
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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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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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Our View: Lawmakers should rein in facial surveillance
We need strong state and federal policies to keep the powerful technology from being misused.