Ben Bragdon

Kennebec Journal/Morning Sentinel

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Published
October 7, 2019

A thank-you for Waterville mayor

Letter
Published
October 5, 2019

View from Away: Other states will benefit from California’s move to upend NCAA rules on paying student-athletes

The NCAA likes to say that all its student-athletes are “students first, athletes second.” And there’s a great deal of truth to that. Largely due to academic reforms enacted in 2003, graduation rates for NCAA athletes have risen from 74% in 2002 to an all-time high of 88% in 2018. But it’s also true that […]
Published
October 4, 2019

View from Away: Small airplane seats to finally get crucial FAA safety checks

Airplane passengers loathe being crammed together in coach and seethe when seatbacks are reclined onto their laps. But are these crowded conditions actually unsafe? Americans soon should find out. A 2018 funding bill gave the Federal Aviation Administration the authority to set minimum seat sizes as cabins shrink and body sizes grow. Federal regulations require […]
Published
October 4, 2019

Our View: No, small family farms should not ‘get out’

Comments by the secretary of agriculture show who has the power in agriculture.
Published
October 2, 2019

Doyle McManus: Hunter Biden — and Trump’s children — follow a long line of White House relatives cashing in

The tangled tale of Hunter Biden is worthy of a Russian, or maybe Ukrainian, novel: A ne’er-do-well son goes abroad to seek his fortune, but succeeds only in endangering his father’s presidential campaign. In 2014, Hunter, a not-very-successful lawyer who had been in and out of alcohol rehabilitation and debt, landed a lucrative job working […]
Published
October 2, 2019

Jay Ambrose: Could a President Pence save the Republicans?

In 2008, Esquire magazine named him one of the 10 best members of Congress, a forever principled conservative, never a party hack. And a question is whether he might be among the country’s top presidents, this smooth-talking, gently paced Mike Pence. It’s possible, at the least, that he could in fact become president, given the […]
Published
July 19, 2019

Our View: Safer streets part of building community

Roads should be improved to acknowledge their use by pedestrians and bicyclists, not just motorists.
Published
June 9, 2014

OUR OPINION: Augusta voters should approve Lithgow project

Renovation and expansion project will set up building for the next 100 years.
Published
January 2, 2012

Douglas Rooks: A missing link in Maine’s corrections system

Given renewed awareness of the costs of locking people up for decades, is it time to bring back parole?