East Bay Times (TNS)
Ben Bragdon
Staff Writer
Ben Bragdon is managing editor of the Sun Journal. Prior to that, he was deputy managing editor for news at 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.
Our View: Overdose deaths driven by remarkable dangerous supply
Illicit drugs have always had the capacity to kill. But never like this.
View from Away: Parkland father rudely interrupts President Biden. Was he wrong?
Miami Herald (TNS)
Commentary: ‘You don’t look your age!’ It’s time to squash ageism
Chicago Tribune (TNS)
Our View: Maine cities should take advantage of opportunity to grow
The cities that thrive in coming years will be the ones who create an environment for people from all walks of life.
Nicholas Goldberg: Are animals entitled to basic legal rights just like people?
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Our View: People may be ‘done’ with COVID, but there’s a lot leaders can still do
Not everyone is still listening. But for those who are, officials should give out timely advice, and go all-in on a universal vaccine.
Maine Compass: Remove dams, and make Kennebec everything it can be
What is the word for a fish which begins its life as an egg in a small mountain stream, hatches and swims downstream countless miles, transforms itself to survive in salt water, and journeys out through the Gulf of Maine, above Newfoundland, to Greenland, and then swims all the way back? Awe-inspiring? Miraculous? Thousands upon […]
Ramesh Ponnuru: Supreme Court needn’t fear political backlash on abortion
Bloomberg Opinion (TNS)