Ten years after the disappearance of a little girl in Waterville, her mother’s wrongful-death lawsuit is moving forward.
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: Americans who refuse to vaccinate, wear masks could learn from ‘Code Girls’
The World War II codebreakers, two Mainers among them, saved countless lives through their sacrifice and service.
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Our View: Overwhelmed emergency response system needs Maine’s attention
Underfunded, understaffed ambulance services are on the brink of collapse.
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Our View: Tests, shots fail to keep up with Maine virus surge
This failure is helping fuel the historic number of cases – and it will do the same during the next spike if something doesn’t change.
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Our View: Tick-borne diseases need more of our attention
Maine has a robust surveillance program, but more funding is needed nationally to find out where and why tick populations are booming.
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Our View: Maine won’t wait long for answers on clean energy, transmission lines
A proposal to connect Aroostook County to the New England grid is a follow-up of sorts to the CMP corridor.
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Our View: Some of our state’s most serious crimes go unreported
The rate of offenses continues to fall in Maine, but that figure doesn’t say it all.
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Our View: Contaminated Maine deer show far reach of ‘forever’ chemicals
The contamination caused by decades of spreading sludge from paper mills and wastewater plants does not stop with the farm fields it was spread on.
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Our View: Food insecurity in the military says a lot about hunger in America
Thousands of military families struggle to get enough food, for the same reasons that other families do.
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Our View: Only response to drug crisis is to save as many lives as possible
The approach to addiction that backgrounds or sidelines harm reduction in favor of punishment and stigma is not working.