In yesterday’s Portland Press Herald, I explore why Maine lags the other five New England states in the daily reporting of all sorts of pandemic-related data, including the fact that… Read more »
Article Topic: Maine dispatches
In Maine, state having difficulty gathering critical pandemic data from hospitals
In the past few days I’ve written a couple of times on an unexpected problem with Maine’s pandemic response planning: more than three weeks into the crisis, the state Center… Read more »
Maine and the medical supply chain amid the pandemic
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 »
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 »
Colony, Chapter 2: Maine and Massachusetts were different from the start
Maine is celebrating the bicentennial of its statehood this year, but the story of our beginnings lies in the millennia and centuries that preceded March 15th, 1820, the day we… Read more »
Maine Climate Council: state meeting near-term targets, but transportation fix a challenge
Under Gov. Janet Mills, Maine has committed to a range of relatively tough climate goals: reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent (vis a vis 1990 levels) by 2030; becoming… Read more »
Stacey Abrams, in Maine, urges fight against voter suppression
Stacey Abrams, the Georgia legislator who narrowly lost a controversial gubernatorial race in 2018 to the man who organized the state’s voter purge, Secretary of State Brian Kemp, was in… Read more »
“Putin’s Favorite Congressman” moves to Maine
Dana Rohrabacher is a surfing enthusiast, cannabis activist, and former Reagan speechwriter who once joined muhajadeeen to attack Russian targets and Afghanistan and arm wrestled a visiting bureaucrat named Vladimir… Read more »
Talking about the Don Gellers pardon with NPR
Late last fall my plane touched down at National Airport in Washington, I turned on my phone and there was an interview request from a reporter at NPR interested in… 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.