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, 2024
Commentary: Today’s potent marijuana is spawning public health dangers that we shouldn’t ignore
In 1964, Bob Dylan reportedly introduced the Beatles to cannabis, a seminal moment in the 60-year campaign to legalize marijuana. Before that, marijuana was hardly a part of mainstream American society, its use primarily associated with artists, bohemians and the so-called urban underclass. Dylan sang, “Everybody must get stoned,” and the Beatles incorporated drug references […]
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PublishedNovember 6, 2024
Sen. Brad Farrin: Bureaucracy, infighting shouldn’t be a part of funding Maine’s EMS units
Much-needed funds are not going where they need to go, the senator writes.
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PublishedNovember 4, 2024
Scholars Strategy Network: Which candidate is best for you and your family?
Our intent is to give you fact-based, reliable information in an array of critical areas: health care, education, climate, jobs and wages, infrastructure, so you can make the best choice for president, the columnists write.
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PublishedNovember 4, 2024
Commentary: Salute our frontline heroes of democracy
As the nation votes, it’s easy to focus on candidates, policies and outcomes of the elections. Yet, behind every successful election are millions of dedicated elections professionals and poll workers who make democracy possible. They are often volunteers who rise to the occasion to serve their communities, ensuring that every eligible voter has the opportunity […]
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PublishedNovember 4, 2024
Commentary: As Americans wait for their election, the world waits for it too
This week, as many Americans fret over what our country will look like after the upcoming national election, much of the world is fretting with us. The United States may not be the unipolar power that it was following the Cold War, but it remains the most influential and consequential country on Earth. How our […]
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PublishedOctober 28, 2024
Former Hallowell mayors: Residents paying price for council, manager budget mismanagement
Letter
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PublishedOctober 25, 2024
Former Maine GOP chair: Donald Trump has been a disaster. Kamala Harris has earned my vote
After 44 years as a Republican, the writer is voting for a Democrat for the first time.
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PublishedOctober 23, 2024
Commentary: No, immigrants don’t commit more crimes
A new explainer by the Migration Policy Institute seeks to apply facts to the lively discussion of immigration and crime. A spokesperson for MPI said the nonpartisan research organization, known for a sober tone, hoped to clear up “confusion.” That’s one way to characterize Donald Trump’s nine-year campaign of lies. Trump is busy making his […]
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PublishedOctober 22, 2024
Commentary: The true cost of Trump’s tariff scheme
Pundits sometimes claim that U.S. presidential campaigns are devoid of big, consequential policy ideas. That’s clearly not true this time around. Arguably the most profound policy change being proposed in this campaign is former President Donald Trump’s big idea to broadly raise tariffs on imported goods, possibly to levels the U.S. has not seen in […]
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PublishedOctober 22, 2024
Healthy Lakes, Healthy Communities: Time well spent in the conservation Band-aid brigade
Any amount of effort you can give toward nature is worth it, the columnist writes.
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