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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PublishedJuly 3, 2022
Hilary Koch: In one fell swoop, Supreme Court turns women into second-class citizens
It’s a fantasy that restricting access to abortion care will reduce abortions, the columnist writes.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2022
View from Away: Biden right to resist court-packing calls
The Orange County Register (TNS)
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PublishedJuly 1, 2022
Our View: How to fill an immediate need for Maine housing
Transitional housing could help all kinds of new residents, not just asylum seekers, find a safe, secure place to start a new life.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2022
Tom Waddell: The Supreme Court puts our basic rights on the ballot this fall
The Supreme Court’s recent Christian Nationalist rulings make November elections that much more important
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PublishedJune 30, 2022
View from Away: Biden’s gas tax holiday idea should be a nonstarter
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (TNS)
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PublishedJune 29, 2022
Our View: Hearing shows how Trump brought democracy to the brink
Americans who believe in democratic values must learn the lessons provided by the Jan. 6 hearings. If not, authoritarians certainly will.
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PublishedJune 27, 2022
View from Away: Does a chatbot have a soul?
The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
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PublishedJune 25, 2022
View from Away: Latin American dictators get zero tolerance, but Biden gives the Saudis a pass
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (TNS)
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PublishedJune 21, 2022
Maine Compass: My fellow Republicans must stop slide into election denial
Bruce Poliquin, the party’s nominee in the 2nd Congressional District, is complicit in Donald Trump’s efforts to sabotage democracy.
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PublishedJune 20, 2022
Commentary: It’s way past time for sensible gun laws, safe spaces for our children and ourselves
Every day when we go to work in a children’s hospital, we know that today could be the day. The day when our community is in the news, and we are called to the Emergency Department to assist in caring for victims of a school shooting. We work more than 1,000 miles from each other, […]
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