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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PublishedNovember 6, 2019
Today’s veterans are living history
Letter
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PublishedNovember 6, 2019
Veterans pledge to keep us safe
Letter
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PublishedNovember 6, 2019
Our View: New approach needed to handle school threats
Schools need the right resources to process threats, and to stop problems before they get too dire.
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PublishedNovember 6, 2019
Veterans have made many sacrifices for us
Letter
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PublishedNovember 6, 2019
Veterans among our bravest
Letter
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PublishedNovember 5, 2019
View from Away: Automakers siding with Trump on fuel rules is bad for everyone
As has become obvious in fire-ravaged California, climate change is no longer an abstract concept to worry about someday but a threat to quality of life. Seen in this light, the decision by General Motors, Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Subaru, Hyundai, Kia and Fiat Chrysler to back President Donald Trump’s challenge to California’s tougher vehicle emission […]
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PublishedNovember 4, 2019
View from Away: Inmates risking their lives to fight California’s wildfires deserve a chance at full-time jobs
As California continues to burn, the state’s firefighters have spent day after day in the searing heat and ferocious wind, hiking toward the flames, cutting fire lines and protecting homes. It’s grueling, heroic work that saves lives and prevents more devastation. And sometimes, it’s done by prison inmates. Among the thousands of federal, state and […]
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PublishedNovember 3, 2019
Our View: Fewer inmates will relieve pressure on jails
A legislative committee looking at jail funding should focus on initiatives that lowers the jail population.
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PublishedNovember 3, 2019
Commentary: How we treat old chimpanzees — and what that says about us
The National Institutes of Health announced last week that it will be breaking its promise to move 44 chimpanzees currently being held in a biomedical facility in New Mexico to Chimp Haven, a sanctuary in Louisiana. Francis Collins, the head of NIH, said a review panel had determined that these chimpanzees are either too old […]
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PublishedNovember 2, 2019
View from Away: Facebook hands its microphone to lying politicians, Twitter takes it away
There is a big between not censoring candidates’ remarks and handing them a bullhorn to amplify untruths across the electorate, which is what Facebook is doing.
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