Article Topic: business reporting

Trump’s Canadian metals tariffs could backfire on Maine

Posted March 7th, 2018 & filed under business reporting, Canada, Donald Trump, Maine, Portland Press Herald, speaking, trade, US politics.

In today’s Portland Press Herald, I have a piece on how President Trump’s 25 percent tariff on imported steel and 10 percent tariff on aluminum could backfire on Maine manufacturers… Read more »

Can a fallen New Hampshire mill town become the Silicon Valley of human organ manufacturing?

Posted December 19th, 2017 & filed under business reporting, New England, New Hampshire, Politico, science stories, What Works.

Over at POLITICO, I have the story of how inventor Dean Kamen is leading a $300 million push to resolve bottlenecks in the mass production of genetically-customized human tissues and… Read more »

Why did those coin counting machines vanish from your TD Bank?

Posted September 25th, 2017 & filed under business reporting, consumer frauds, Portland Press Herald, US dispatches.

TD Bank’s US branches dropped their free Penny Arcade coin counting machines from service last summer. Unless you were paying attention, you may have missed why. On the occasion of… Read more »

Trump’s tariffs on Canadian softwood please Maine sawmill owners

Posted April 26th, 2017 & filed under Border Issues, business reporting, Canada, Donald Trump, forests, Maine, Maine dispatches, New Brunswick, Portland Press Herald, US politics.

In today’s Portland Press Herald, I report on how President Trump’s imposition of punitive tariffs against imported Canadian softwood lumber are being seen in Maine, a state where two-fifths of… Read more »

With rule repeal, how to keep your digital life private?

Posted April 23rd, 2017 & filed under business reporting, lobbying, Maine, Maine dispatches, Portland Press Herald, US dispatches, US politics.

Earlier this month, President Trump signed into law a repeal of federal privacy rules preventing your internet service provider from exploiting a broad range of information about your online life… Read more »

In Maine, critics fear Trump’s EPA cuts will damage environment, economy

Posted March 12th, 2017 & filed under business reporting, Donald Trump, economy, environment, Maine, Maine dispatches, Portland Press Herald, US politics.

In today’s Maine Sunday Telegram, I write about how critics of President Trump’s proposed cuts to the US Environmental Agency fear they will cause significant damage to Maine’s environment and… Read more »

COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of six books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. He is a contributing editor at POLITICO and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.

A native of Maine, he has reported from more than 50 countries and seven continents and lived for more than four years in Eastern Europe during the collapse of the Soviet empire and the transition that followed. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago he is past Pew Fellow in International Journalism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy.

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