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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PublishedOctober 16, 2024
Scholars Strategy Network: Our health is on the line this election
Americans have the ability to pick representatives who will make a huge slew of decisions affecting our futures and also our ability to empower ourselves, writes Amy Fried.
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PublishedOctober 14, 2024
Photos: ‘The Black Azaleas Song Cycle’ from ‘Post Pardon: The Opera’
Students and faculty from Colby College were part of the performance Oct. 5 at the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts in Waterville. Photographer Rich Abrahamson captured their rehearsals and live performance.
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PublishedOctober 14, 2024
Photos: Local vocalists, musicians bring opera to life in Waterville
Students and faculty members from Colby College were also part of the recent performance of “The Black Azaleas Song Cycle” from “Post Pardon: The Opera” at the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts at Colby. Photographer Rich Abrahamson captured their rehearsals and live performance.
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PublishedOctober 12, 2024
Sen. Craig Hickman: We must protect all our children
Maine has the worst rate of child maltreatment in the nation. We can’t stand for this. Despite historic investment in recent years, key indicators on child welfare aren’t improving. Improvements haven’t come fast enough for the thousands of children without permanent homes, the burnt-out case workers watching children fall asleep in hotel rooms overnight, the foster parents […]
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PublishedOctober 11, 2024
Maine Compass: National Coming Out Day is a reminder of our history, strength
We also gather with hope, determination, and a fierce commitment to protecting what we’ve created together.
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PublishedOctober 11, 2024
Commentary: Will voter turnout in November repeat the historic numbers of 2020?
As we race to Election Day, one polling question will gain enormous importance in our understanding of the race — who are the actual voters? Using likely-voter screens, pollsters are now trying to figure out who will vote and who will sit this one out. In most polls, there is usually a small difference in […]
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PublishedOctober 9, 2024
Commentary: How much will the Supreme Court matter in the 2024 election?
What role, if any, will the Supreme Court play in the November presidential election? That is the crucial, unknowable question, as the court returns from its summer recess. Will this be an election like 2000, when the Supreme Court in effect decided the outcome with its decision in Bush v. Gore? Or will this be […]
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PublishedOctober 7, 2024
View from Away: It’s too late for Kamala Harris to play tough on immigration
Vice President Kamala Harris ticked off her presidential campaign checklist with a visit to the southern border last week. She talked with members of the Border Patrol and made boilerplate promises of getting tough on immigration. Sorry, Kamala, you don’t get points for promising to close the barn door after the horses have escaped. Harris, […]
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PublishedOctober 7, 2024
Commentary: Instagram teen accounts — Just one front in the fight for mental health
It’s good news that Instagram has launched stricter controls for teen accounts, strengthening privacy settings for those under 18. Underage users’ accounts are now automatically set to private mode. The platform is also implementing tighter restrictions on the type of content teens can browse and blocking material deemed sensitive, such as posts related to cosmetic […]
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PublishedOctober 5, 2024
View from Away: Helene’s 500 miles of wreckage and devastation should bring howls of fury at leaders’ folly
The storms speak and their voices are growing more violent, more vehement. This storm — Helene — may be the most furious yet. It raked glancing blows through the Caribbean and along Mexico’s coast before slamming into Florida’s Big Bend at Category 4, with 140 mph sustained winds that tore buildings into scraps of wood […]
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