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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PublishedAugust 11, 2023
Commentary: What does climate change have to do with migration? More than you think
Francis Perez is thinking about coming to America. In the last three years, his family’s coffee farm in Honduras has suffered hurricanes, flooding, and drought. “I feel that I’m stuck. I don’t feel that I can build the future I want here,” Francis told NPR. Francis’s thoughts are shared by many in the world. Climate […]
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PublishedAugust 11, 2023
Our View: Bus searches by border agents violate rights of Mainers
Old Town-based Cyr Bus Lines needs to join Greyhound and Concord Coach in taking a stand against questioning without warrants.
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PublishedAugust 10, 2023
Commentary: Finding a path to healthy conflict
Spencer Cox, the new chairman of the National Governors Association, is promoting the idea of “healthy conflict.” The Utah governor has become concerned about the growing problem of toxic arguments in society. As the Washington Post reports, Cox wants people to learn how to “disagree better.” We should all try to think of ways we […]
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PublishedAugust 9, 2023
Commentary: The Midwestern flood of 1993 was devastating. Climate change has made conditions worse.
Perhaps this is the summer that finally renders climate change real. Flooding and soaring temperatures across the nation have made global warming indisputable. The problem, as always, is how to reach political consensus on an action plan. Republicans want to plant a “trillion” trees; Democrats want to limit carbon emissions. If the nation’s response to […]
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PublishedAugust 8, 2023
Commentary: Do meaningful coincidences exist? Here’s what lunch with a friend taught me
The Chinese have an expression that I’ve always liked: “No coincidence, no story.” A story should contain some kind of strange or unexpected twist; if it doesn’t, it’s not much of a story. Here’s mine. A month ago, I surprised my friend Pete at the hospital where he was getting his last set of infusions […]
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PublishedAugust 7, 2023
Editorial: Should we name heat waves? It’s worth a try to save lives
Not a lot of people know about one of California’s worst disasters in the last few decades, one that overwhelmed hospitals, sent bodies piling up in coroner’s offices and was deadlier than the 1994 Northridge earthquake or the 2018 Camp fire. That’s what happened when a severe heat wave smothered California in July 2006, killing […]
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PublishedAugust 7, 2023
Martin Schram: Truth shatters a Big Lie
For more than two years, Donald Trump’s most patriotic MAGA true-believers have been accepting with unshakable trust what they were sure was rock-solid evidence that their leader really won reelection. They genuinely believe they’ve seen all the proof they need that the 2020 election was stolen from them. They have seen the videos on the […]
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PublishedAugust 6, 2023
Our View: Next Farm Bill should bolster local food systems
At a hearing last week in Freeport, Maine farmers said they need support dealing with a number of crises.
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PublishedAugust 5, 2023
Commentary: Why do I hoard more books than I could possibly read? An investigation
Publisher’s Weekly recently reported that book sales for the first half of the year are down once again, continuing a trend that has accelerated since the pandemic. As usual, I seem to be out of step. After a few years of joining the Kindle cult, I am back to my old bibliophile ways of buying […]
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PublishedAugust 5, 2023
Commentary: Young people deserve a seat at the table
CBS News recently proclaimed that “kids in the U.S. and around the world are in crisis.” Self-harm among youth is on the rise, and enduring problems like bullying and sexual assault continue to wreak havoc. Young people feel the impending doom of climate change and await the day when their school is assaulted by an […]
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