To make the necessary transition to clean energy, and to keep prices down, Maine will need good partners running its electric companies.
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.
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View from Away: DeSantis’ war on Disney is how autocrats handle critics
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (TNS)
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Nicholas Goldberg: The end of the world is coming, even if you’ve heard it all before
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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View from Away: Putin and Russia must answer for atrocities in Ukraine
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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Our View: Housing crisis is everywhere, and so is homelessness
The rising cost of housing is putting Mainers all across the state on the brink of disaster.
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Our View: Therapeutics could change COVID response – if people use them
Antiviral medications like Paxlovid are very effective, but they are only being taken in relative few cases.
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Maine Compass: Loggers, not legislators, know what is best for their industry
This is an election year, when politicians will do almost anything to secure votes, even at the expense of small businesses. As Maine loggers face more challenges than ever before, it is unfortunate Democratic lawmakers in the Maine Legislature, led by Senate President Troy Jackson, are ignoring their views to advance unnecessary bills in the […]
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Our View: Public transit a good place to invest COVID relief funds
Investing in the system is the only way to make it work for more people, and thus build the ridership necessary to sustain it.
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Maine Compass: Maine’s paper shortage an opportunity for industrial revolution
Contrary to the popular narrative, the global industry is far from dead, writes the publisher of Down East Magazine.
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View from Away: Of course Clarence Thomas should recuse himself
Los Angeles Times (TNS)