For Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we look back at how central Maine responded to his assassination.
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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Commentary: So long, net neutrality, and good riddance
What we’ve learned after a federal court strikes down net neutrality.
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Dogs need daily walks for their own well-being
Even in the cold, your dogs should get exercise every day, the columnist writes.
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Commentary: This cancer vaccine should spare future generations from ordeals like my wife’s
In the future people will be able to avoid daily radiation therapy, hospital stays, chemotherapy infusions, infections, and other tough parts of cancer treatment, the columnist writes.
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Commentary: Fast action on ‘one big beautiful bill’ could create long-term problems
Putting tax cuts, border and energy policy in one piece of legislation is asking for trouble, the columnist writes.
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Kennebec Journal, Maine’s oldest newspaper, turns 200
The Kennebec Journal published its first issue on Jan. 8, 1825, making it Maine’s oldest surviving newspaper.
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Commentary: AI requires creative legislation
The barebones legislation offered in some states represents a good start, a professor writes.
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Commentary: What’s the truth about sobriety? Here’s my answer
“The Shining” (book 1977, film 1980) is about a white-knuckle alcoholic’s descent into his disease and its effects on his mind, career and family. I didn’t learn this until recently. I just thought it was about how scary it is to be married to a writer. I moved from L.A. to New York City three […]
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Commentary: Trump’s Ukraine policy in 2025 will show if he is a winner or a loser
As Russia viciously bombed Ukrainian cities over Christmas and shot down an Azeri airliner with antiaircraft fire, it was hard to ignore the message from Moscow. A new foreign policy era has begun even before Donald Trump takes office. It will be quickly defined by how the president-elect deals with Moscow’s war on Ukraine. The […]
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View from Away: Some honesty (at last) about Biden’s decline would help Democrats move on
With less than a month left now in Joe Biden’s presidency, it might seem pointless to discuss yet again the president’s cognitive fitness for office. But there are two reasons that discussion shouldn’t yet be over: One, there are serious questions right now about who is actually making decisions in the White House — questions […]