This month, when the Trump administration unveiled its plan to open virtually all areas of U.S. federal waters to oil and gas exploration, most of New England’s elected leaders expressed… Read more »
Article Topic: Maine dispatches
Maine: state plan to mitigate the infamous Wiscasset traffic bottleneck turns acrimonious
The state has a plan to mitigate Maine’s most infamous summer traffic bottleneck, the one in the historic village of Wiscasset, where US Route 1 passes down Main Street to… Read more »
Maine: Wiscasset sues state over controversial traffic project
If you’ve visited Midcoast Maine in the past quarter century of summers, you’re probably aquatinted with the state’s most notorious traffic bottleneck: Route 1 as it passes through the historic… Read more »
Five women, including three with Maine ties, allege groping by George H.W. Bush
With power out across much of Maine — including my house — I’ve been remiss in posting this Portland Press Herald story from the weekend where we broke the fourth… Read more »
Congress poised to reject many Trump program eliminations
This winter and spring, President Trump rolled out a budget proposal including the complete elimination many domestic programs, including a number whose absence would be noticed in Maine. These included… Read more »
On the Maine (and Icelandic) links of the “grandfather” of American neo-Nazis
In September 1955, Maine’s Portland Press Herald ran a soft feature on a local guy making good. “Publisher Who Loves Children Brings Out A New First Issue” profiled area resident… Read more »
Maine accidentally defunds its state digital mapping office
Belatedly, note that in Friday’s Portland Press Herald I have the odd story of Maine having accidentally defunded its state GIS office, which provides geospatial data, maps, and services to… Read more »
Exploring the lasting legacy of early Maine and New Hampshire
Readers of The Lobster Coast and American Nations are aware of the lasting effects of Colonial Era events on the future trajectories and characteristics of North America’s disparate regional cultures… 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.