The price of natural gas is the primary reason that electricity prices have soared. Natural gas represents 47% of New England’s power generation, nuclear 31%, renewables 12%, which actually includes burning refuse and wood, and hydropower 10%. It’s important to note that nuclear plants are old and are likely to phase out. Not only is […]
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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View from Away: Trump-fueled GOP culture wars target the gay pride flag
The Baltimore Sun (TNS)
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Matthew Yglesias: If Canada’s conservatives can say YIMBY, why can’t America’s?
Bloomberg Opinion (TNS)
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Commentary: Is my drug copay coupon a form of charity — or a bribe?
Kaiser Health News (TNS)
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Hilary Koch: A bipartisan failure to lower the cost of life-saving insulin
Democrats and Republicans should be ashamed for putting on a show while leaving Americans in the lurch.
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View from Away: Why members of Congress should trade their stock portfolios for a shred of credibility
The Sacramento Bee (TNS)
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Lynn Schmidt: A million American lives lost to the pandemic deserve to be remembered
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (TNS)
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Commentary: Earth Day is a benchmark of our past, a beacon to where we need to go
InsideSources.com (TNS)
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Hal Brands: Ukraine war is depleting America’s arsenal of democracy
Bloomberg Opinion (TNS)
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Douglas Rooks: Will the ‘force of memory’ prevail?
Recalling George Mitchell’s imperative that “all democratic people know that it is the force of memory which keeps alive the force of freedom in the world,” Douglas Rooks ponders the implications of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the testing of the democratic alliances.