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 »
Article Topic: Maine
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 »
Speaking on the crisis in the world’s oceans and Gulf of Maine, April 4
It’s been snowed out twice already, but on Wednesday, April 4 I really am going to finally speak about the crisis in the world’s oceans and the Gulf of Maine… 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 »
Trump’s Canadian metals tariffs could backfire on Maine
In today’s Portland Press Herald, I have a piece on how President Trump’s 25 percent tariff on imported steel and 10 percent tariff on aluminum could backfire on Maine manufacturers… Read more »
Senator King warns of Russian cyber threat to 2018 midterms
Senator Angus King, I-Maine, came by the Press Herald newsroom last week for a wide-ranging, on-record conversation with myself and my colleagues about everything from the state of the immigration… Read more »
Dunlap, other top state election officials received classified briefing on threats to voter systems
The U.S. intelligence community has been warning elected officials and the public for some time now about the past, present, and future threat Russia has posed to the integrity of… Read more »
Gov. LePage scuttled Wiscasset traffic compromise, attorney says
Maine Governor Paul LePage personally intervened to kill a compromise between the state transportation department and the town of Wiscasset over a controversial traffic project there, an attorney for the… 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.