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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PublishedJune 26, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: A really big spider sends us scrambling
A fishing spider found on a basement floor got the columnist and his grandson looking for a jar big enough to contain it, writes Dana Wilde.
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PublishedJune 26, 2024
Commentary: Congress worked across the aisle on a bill to protect kids online. Now pass it
Fifty years ago, my father served as the Republican minority leader in the deep-blue Massachusetts House of Representatives. But during his time in office, he managed to create jobs, protect reproductive rights and author a landmark environmental bill that protects Massachusetts wetlands to this day. (Did I mention he was Republican?) That solutions-minded approach was […]
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PublishedJune 25, 2024
Healthy Lakes, Healthy Communities: We all have a seat at the ‘kitchen table’
Everybody has what it takes to contribute to our communities.
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PublishedJune 24, 2024
Commentary: It’s far cheaper to help migrants before they leave home
Gardi Sugdub is a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast that is jammed from end to end with housing for about 1,300 members of the indigenous Guna people. The island is sinking beneath rising waters as the planet warms. So Panama has built an inland housing development for the entire population. They’ll move into their […]
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PublishedJune 18, 2024
Commentary: Counting hurricanes in a post-truth world
The Colorado State University Tropical Weather and Climate team made a news splash on April 4, forecasting a disturbingly above-average number of storms expected in this year’s hurricane season. The forecast was also notable in that it was announced earlier in the year than ever by the hurricane forecasting team at CSU, which has been making […]
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PublishedJune 18, 2024
Commentary: You don’t need a degree to understand climate change, just an insurance policy
You don’t need to be a scientist to understand the harms of climate change. All you need is an insurance policy. And finding affordable insurance is getting harder in the places hit hardest by climate change. As climate change increases the intensity and severity of extreme weather, the costs, both financially and in terms of […]
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PublishedJune 16, 2024
Rep. Bruce White: Setting the record straight
Letter
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PublishedJune 14, 2024
Recount requested in Senate District 24 Democratic primary decided by 24 votes
Initial results showed Denise Tepler of Topsham beating Jean Guzzetti of Bath, 1,822-1,798.
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PublishedJune 12, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: Painted turtles know just where to go
This is the time of the year when turtles are on the move, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedJune 11, 2024
Commentary: Election officials are heroes. Support them by becoming poll workers
Elections are the primary mechanism for Americans to communicate their ideas, priorities and values. As someone who closely studies civic engagement and elections, I’ve seen firsthand the crucial work that election administrators and poll workers do to make it possible for people to have a say in our system of self-governance. They are the faces […]
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