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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PublishedJanuary 14, 2024
Our View: It’s time to pick the president by national popular vote
The Electoral College process is the only one we’ve ever known. That’s not a good reason to stay with it.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2024
Our View: Build roadways that are safe for everyone
Telling people to pay attention and drive slowly isn’t working.
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PublishedJanuary 8, 2024
Commentary: Resolutions aren’t the key to a happier new year. Here’s where to start
We tend to look to the new year as a new beginning, as an opportunity for a fresh start. Aspiring for something different, something better, we devise resolutions in hopes of making ourselves healthier, more productive, more successful … but really, the end goal is to be happier: to feel satisfied rather than wanting at […]
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PublishedJanuary 8, 2024
Commentary: In a stressful world, let’s work on managing our anger in 2024
There is a lot to be angry about. Our political systems are dysfunctional and rife with hateful rhetoric. Headlines about multiple wars abroad are competing for our attention, while at home, we are fighting ideological wars for our basic rights or to protect our communities. A devastating pandemic is grinding through a fourth year. A […]
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PublishedJanuary 8, 2024
Commentary: The US is facing the biggest COVID wave since omicron. Why are we still playing make-believe?
The pandemic is far from over, as evidenced by the rapid rise to global dominance of the JN.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2. This variant is a derivative of BA.2.86, the only other strain that has carried more than 30 new mutations in the spike protein since omicron first came on the scene more than two years […]
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PublishedJanuary 6, 2024
Commentary: 2023 was the year of the do-nothing House Republicans. In 2024, they’ll do worse than nothing
It’s a new year but the same old mess in Congress. Instead of a fresh start, lawmakers return next week to their stale, dead-end arguments and legislative gridlock. And by now the reason they’re mired in the mess is an old story: Repeatedly in 2023, we saw the dysfunction of the MAGA Republicans who narrowly […]
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2024
Thankful for help of Oakland FD
My mother, sister and I would like to take a moment to praise the hard work, kindness, compassion, and concern of the Oakland Fire Department. Over the past six weeks, my dad battled a new and aggressive cancer. As his health declined, and we were waiting for a stairlift to be installed, the wonderful staff […]
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2024
Bellows should be lauded as patriot
We all know what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, despite the endless efforts of the right-wing propaganda machine to deny what we saw with our own eyes. And we all know who was responsible for spurring on the attempt to subvert democracy by overturning a free and fair election. While the majority of politicians and […]
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2024
Bellows decision on Trump an embarrassment
Letter
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2024
Commentary: Maine AG has poor record in police shootings
A Maine attorney general has never found an officer at fault in a shooting.
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