In yesterday’s Portland Press Herald I explored why the state’s top public health official had to essentially do a two-minute advertisement to help the mass vaccination site in Bangor fill… Read more »
Article Topic: Maine dispatches
Penobscot elder Donna Loring on the future of Maine-tribal relations
Donna Loring has for decades been a major figure in Maine-tribal relations: legislator, tribal council member, aide to two governors, author and public intellectual. Now, fresh off her time… Read more »
Four dams, the Kennebec River and the future of US Atlantic salmon in the balance
While the pandemic has been raging across the world, a high-stakes battle over the future of one of Maine’s largest river systems has been playing out in an obscure federal… Read more »
New allegations against a Maine “medical supply” company led by man facing fraud indictments
It’s Election Day 2020. Stay safe and, if you pray, do so for the survival of the American Experiment. In my Maine reporting, I’ve been focused on the other crisis… Read more »
Coronavirus in Maine: York, Oxford county enter danger zone
Maine and its northern New England neighbors, New Hampshire and Vermont, have been the three healthiest states for almost the entire pandemic to date, with relatively low prevalence, hospitalizations, and… Read more »
How Maine won the first rounds against Covid-19
Maine, knock on wood, has weathered the pandemic better than most states, sometimes ranking 50th of the states in key metrics like new infections per capita. The disease can come… Read more »
Maine pandemic updates: testing delays, low hospitalizations, few non-residents testing positive
A few recent updates on the pandemic situation in Maine: Major national testing labs have been overwhelmed by the pandemic’s surge in the Deep South and El Norte, and that’s… Read more »
Racist names banned by Maine law decades ago still on official registry
Based on a reader’s tip, last week I discovered that Maine’s official registry of coastal islands still contained several with names banned by law decades ago, including three with the… Read more »
Coronavirus in Maine at the onset of high tourist season
As the coronavirus spreads across the southern and western United States — a topic I’ll have more to say about tomorrow — Mainers are simultaneously kicking off their summer tourist… Read more »
Two developments I covered in recent days regarding the pandemic here in Maine. In this week’s Maine Sunday Telegram, I revisited the issue of Maine’s Covid-19 testing capacity and strategy… 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.