Legislation introduced in Maine is another example of performing paranoia rather than addressing problems truthfully, the columnist writes.
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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Waterville man sentenced in gun store burglary
Damiean Marcial-Alexander stole firearms from J.R.’s Trading & Pawn in downtown Waterville in 2022.
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Commentary: First of all, do no harm, Mr. Trump
What the president is doing with USAid will do incalculable damage, the columnist writes.
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An almost forgotten story about my deviation
While going over ideas for his column, J.P. Devine remembers a letter he once sent before going to war.
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RFK Jr. can take Maine approach to food nationwide
Maine gets the food system right. So does Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now in line to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Chef Andrew Gruel writes.
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Rep. Karen Montell: Congress should pass Credit Card Competition Act
The legislation would lower fees for small businesses, the state representative writes.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
In Trump’s America, a eulogy for the American Dream
After the inauguration, we mourn the loss of American ideals, the columnist writes.
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Commentary: Republicans want the poor to pay for Trump’s tax cuts
Cuts proposed by the new administration would come out of the pockets of America’s most vulnerable.
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Commentary: How Trump’s TikTok ban reprieve could work
The president’s order may not be legal. But that doesn’t mean it won’t work.
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Scholars Strategy Network: Social Security is just one way government works for you
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