Last week I reported on Canadian researchers having found record-warm water pouring into the primary deepwater entrance to the Gulf of Maine and Maine scientists confirming that they’ve seen similar,… Read more »
Article Topic: environment
Speaking on the crisis in the world’s oceans and Gulf of Maine, April 4
It’s been snowed out twice already, but on Wednesday, April 4 I really am going to finally speak about the crisis in the world’s oceans and the Gulf of Maine… Read more »
Gov. LePage scuttled Wiscasset traffic compromise, attorney says
Maine Governor Paul LePage personally intervened to kill a compromise between the state transportation department and the town of Wiscasset over a controversial traffic project there, an attorney for the… Read more »
Trump renews push to eliminate LIHEAP, Sea Grant, NEA, other programs
Last year, President Trump tried to eliminate a wide range of programs with an outsized impact in Maine, including Sea Grant, low income heating assistance, community block grants, the National… Read more »
Speaking on the crisis in the oceans and Gulf of Maine, Portland, Me., Feb. 7
I’ll be speaking about the crisis in the world’s oceans and in the Gulf of Maine on February 7th at the Portland Public Library here in Maine. The talk —… Read more »
Maine Governor’s nomination of Nestle Waters official to state BEP draws ire
In today’s Portland Press Herald, I wrote about how Maine Governor Paul LePage’s nomination of Mark Dubois, the public face of Nestle Waters (dba Poland Springs), to the state Board… Read more »
Right whales in crisis: speeding ships and missing calves
The disastrous year for the North Atlantic right whale, the world’s second most endangered mammal after the species’ Pacific cousin, doesn’t appear to be abating. After seventeen of the whales… Read more »
Gov. LePage’s support for offshore drilling at odds with every New England member of Congress
This month, when the Trump administration unveiled its plan to open virtually all areas of U.S. federal waters to oil and gas exploration, most of New England’s elected leaders expressed… 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.