Everyone in the Portland Press Herald newsroom is on a full-court press to cover the pandemic and I’ve been following supply chain issues this week. In today’s paper I have… Read more »
Article Topic: Health
Maine company taking orders for masks, Covid-19 tests, but its leader is facing criminal fraud indictments
Last week, the Boston Globe reported that a Maine company represented by former Portland legislator Diane Russell had reached out to Massachusetts officials and was supplying nearly a million urgently… Read more »
Maine island life in the time of coronavirus
At the moment the coronavirus pandemic “got real” in Maine — the announcement of the first confirmed case here — I was on Cheabeague Island with Press Herald colleague and… Read more »
Maine’s EMS system in crisis
Maine is the least densely populated state this side of the Missouri River, and that’s put it on the frontlines of a nationwide crisis for Emergency Medical Services — the… Read more »
US Surgeon General on American Nations and public health
I ran across this one accidentally on Twitter. Last week, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams gave the keynote address at the American Public Health Association’s National Public Health Week Forum… Read more »
Sen. Collins opposes Senate health bill
In today’s Portland Press Herald, I report on how Maine’s U.S. Senators have reacted to the latest Republican Senate health care bill. Both oppose it in no uncertain terms, with… Read more »
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven 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 Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.