Article Topic: Maine dispatches

Maine’s EMS system in crisis

Posted December 13th, 2019 & filed under Health, Maine, Maine dispatches, Portland Press Herald.

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 »

Kelp, “forests of the sea,” vanishing from parts of warming Gulf of Maine

Posted November 18th, 2019 & filed under climate change, environment, Maine, Maine dispatches, Mayday, New England, Oceans, Portland Press Herald.

Kelp, a foundation species with a role not unlike that of corals in tropical seas, is vanishing from the coasts of New Hampshire and southern Maine due to the rapid… Read more »

Is Maine’s decades-long lobster boom about to end?

Posted October 29th, 2019 & filed under climate change, environment, fishing, Lobster Coast, Maine, Maine dispatches, Mayday, Oceans, Portland Press Herald.

I recently reported on a new scientific study that suggests Maine’s lobster boom is about to come to an abrupt end, with landings returning to historic levels over the next… Read more »

Can a Maine-based project help farmers worldwide fight climate change by storing more carbon in their soil?

Posted October 9th, 2019 & filed under agriculture, climate change, environment, Maine, Maine dispatches, Portland Press Herald, science stories.

I recently reported on an applied research initiative at Maine’s Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment that has the potential to help save the world. Some 14 percent… Read more »

Maine’s governor wants the state carbon-neutral by 2045. What will that take?

Posted October 3rd, 2019 & filed under climate change, economy, energy, environment, Janet Mills, Maine, Maine dispatches, Maine politics, Portland Press Herald, urban planning, US dispatches.

At the United Nations, Governor Janet Mills pledged to make Maine carbon-neutral by 2045, tasking the new Maine Climate Council to come up with a plan to do so via… Read more »

Maine launches its Climate Council, charged with slashing emissions

Posted September 30th, 2019 & filed under climate change, environment, Janet Mills, Maine, Maine dispatches, Maine politics.

Last Thursday I covered the opening launch event of the Maine Climate Council, the 39-member body charged with coming up with detailed plans to slash Maine’s greenhouse gas emissions by… Read more »

Covering Climate Now and the Gulf of Maine

Posted September 16th, 2019 & filed under climate change, environment, fishing, Maine, Maine dispatches, Maine politics, Oceans, polar regions, Portland Press Herald, science stories, US politics.

Ahead of United Nations Climate Summit in New York next week, more than 170 news outlets have signed on to Covering Climate Now, an effort organized by the Columbia Journalism… Read more »

In Maine, study finds cruise ship passengers spend about half as much as previously claimed

Posted August 28th, 2019 & filed under business reporting, Maine, Maine dispatches, Portland, Portland Press Herald.

Last year, I wrote a series for the Portland Press Herald exploring how Maine communities can balance the costs and benefits of cruise ship tourism, an issue that had already… Read more »

Sinclair directs local TV stations across the country, including Maine’s WGME, to promote Trump campaign merch

Posted August 24th, 2019 & filed under Donald Trump, Maine, Maine dispatches, Media, political finance, Portland, Portland Press Herald, US politics.

Sinclair Broadcasting, the conservative Maryland-based company that’s the largest owner of local television stations in the country, this month directed its stations to publish “news articles” promoting Trump campaign merchandise…. Read more »

Trump’s “judge whisperer” buys Maine mansion, hosts fundraiser for Susan Collins

Posted August 23rd, 2019 & filed under lobbying, Maine, Maine dispatches, Maine politics, political finance, Supreme Court, Susan Collins, US dispatches, US politics.

In this past week’s Maine Sunday Telegram, I have the story of how Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society and the man credited with pre-selecting Brett Kavanaugh,… 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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