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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PublishedFebruary 12, 2024
Commentary: Will Crumbley verdict trap good parents too?
Oakland County, Michigan, Prosecutor Karen McDonald wanted to send the message that gun owners need to secure their firearms, and in Jennifer Crumbley she found the messenger. But is the courtroom the place to advocate for policy outcomes, or is its sole role to administer justice fairly? “I want to be really clear that these […]
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2024
Our View: Republicans in Congress show true colors on immigration
They got the best of border negotiations and still said no, showing they have no interest in solving problems.
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PublishedFebruary 9, 2024
Commentary: Supreme Court’s options narrow as Trump loses each appeal
It just got harder for the Supreme Court to save Donald Trump from criminal prosecution for his involvement with the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In a straightforward opinion, a unanimous panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rejected Trump’s claim that a former president should be immune […]
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PublishedFebruary 5, 2024
Commentary: Iowa and New Hampshire add to the case for electoral reform
The problem with statistics is that they can be manipulated to support or refute any argument, and the Iowa caucus results are no exception. But despite some conflicting narratives that twist the results in different ways, Iowa and New Hampshire add two more brush strokes to an already clear painting — one that depicts a […]
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2024
Our View: Finally, it’s costly to withhold public information from the public
A landmark ruling against a public agency acting in bad faith sends a clear message to others.
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PublishedFebruary 2, 2024
Commentary: US tax dollars should be funding humanitarian relief work in Gaza, not destroying it
Over the past five decades, American taxpayers have invested more than $7 billion to finance hundreds of projects in humanitarian relief and development in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, all under the banner of “ peacebuilding.” But the Biden administration is currently providing the weaponry that is killing the very people the government […]
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2024
Commentary: Some Americans (but not you and me) can avoid taking responsibility for their mistakes
Suppose that when you did something bad, you could split off another you to deal with it, basically by dying and taking the punishment with it. You can’t. But you could if you were a corporation, and would if you were a corporation owned by Charles Koch and you wanted to avoid possibly paying lots […]
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2024
Commentary: Post-Roe America’s national shame: 65,000 forced pregnancies
It’s now been about a year and a half since the Supreme Court’s decision to revoke the constitutional right to abortion. Over that time, new data has been gradually filling in the picture of what access to reproductive health care looks like in much of the US. And the image forming is increasingly grim. Consider […]
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PublishedJanuary 28, 2024
Our View: Lessons of school sports more important than score
All the tinkering in the world won’t keep some schools from having good years when others aren’t.
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PublishedJanuary 28, 2024
Maine shouldn’t go with national popular vote
Letter
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