With Paul LePage term limited, there’s a competitive race for Maine Governor this fall. Over the late summer, I’ve been at work on a series of in-depth profiles of the… Read more »
Article Topic: Maine dispatches
The Making of Shawn Moody, GOP nominee for Maine governor
Maine’s bombastic governor, Paul LePage, is term limited and leaves office early next year. Over the past six weeks I’ve been at work on a series of in-depth profiles of… Read more »
Cruise tourism impacts in Maine, a series
Over the past four months I’ve been at work on a series on the impact of cruise ship tourism in Maine, where most ports of call have a smaller year-around… Read more »
Barbara Bush, 1925-2018, an obituary
Former First Lady Barbara Bush died last night at 92. I had the privilege of having written her obituary for her summertime local paper, the Portland Press Herald, which you… Read more »
How did ranked choice voting become a polarized, partisan issue in Maine?
In June, Maine is expected to hold the first-in-the-nation statewide primary election using ranked choice voting, with contests for governor, US Senate, and Congress on the agenda. But it is… Read more »
Maine TV anchors among those recording Sinclair’s “fake stories” promo
Over the weekend, a montage went viral that featured dozens of local television anchors at Sinclair Broadcasting stations across the country reciting the same promo about their concern over “fake… Read more »
Maine’s ranked choice voting odyssey
My latest for POLITICO Magazine is on Maine’s ranked choice voting odyssey, which at the time the piece came out 48 hours ago already had more twists and turns than… Read more »
Maine: LePage administration threatens Wiscasset on traffic project, town says
In yesterday’s Portland Press Herald, I have an update on the increasingly fraught struggle between Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s Department of Transportation and the town of Wiscasset, site of Maine’s… 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 »
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.