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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Our View: Housing crisis is everywhere in Maine, and so is homelessness
The rising cost of housing is leaving people 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 effective, but they are being taken in relatively few cases.
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Our View: Public transit a good place to spend Maine 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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Another View: Of course Clarence Thomas should recuse himself
Revelations that his wife pressured Trump’s chief of staff to try to overturn the election make it clear has no business ruling on cases involving Jan. 6.
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Our View: Maine investigators need help bringing crimes against children to light
And tech companies must do more to stop their platforms from being used to store and share evidence of child sex abuse.
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Our View: There’s no excuse for failing to stop for a Maine school bus
The flashing red lights on top of a giant yellow vehicle are your sign to put on the brakes.
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Our View: How Maine can advance understanding of ALS
A registry under consideration by the Legislature would give researchers valuable information on people receiving care for the always-fatal illness.
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Our View: What do we gain by cutting school meals?
Waivers that allowed districts to innovate in the face of the pandemic are set to end June 30, and it will do nothing but harm students and schools.
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Our View: Help Ukraine refugees, and others across the world
The U.S. has stepped back from its position as a world leader on resettling displaced persons. That has to end.