Earlier this afternoon, I joined an in-studio conversation about the (extensive) news of the week at Maine Public radio for their live call-in show “Maine Calling.” The discussion — including… Read more »
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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 »
Talking news of the week with NPR’s On Point, August 4
NPR’s “On Point” with Tom Ashbrook is in town this week, and tomorrow, August 4, I’ll be joining them live in studio from 10 to 11 am Eastern to talk… 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 »
Sinclair, “must run” commentary, and Maine’s WGME
In this week’s Maine Sunday Telegram, I write about the nation’s largest owner of local television stations, Sinclair Broadcasting Group, and the “must run” pro-Trump editorials it requires Maine’s WGME-13 to… Read more »
Trump voter fraud commission renews demand for state’s voter data — without commissioners’ approval
The vice-chair of President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission has sent a second letter to all fifty states, renewing their demand for detailed voter registration data. But Maine secretary of… Read more »
Interior Department whistleblower is a Mainer
For Thursday’s Portland Press Herald I interviewed Joel Clement, the Department of Interior scientist and research director who wrote a fiery op-ed in Wednesday’s Washington Post alleging the Trump administration… Read more »
Sens. Collins, King warn Trump not to interfere with Mueller probe
In tomorrow’s Portland Press Herald, I have this story on Senator Susan Collins’ warning to President Trump regarding his implied threat to interfere with or fire Robert Mueller, the Justice… Read more »
Maine removed major dams and river herring have returned in a big way
In this week’s Maine Sunday Telegram, I wrote about the continuing recovery of river herring — alewives and blueback erring — in Maine rivers after the removal of major dams… Read more »
Sen. Collins opposes Senate health bill
In today’s Portland Press Herald, I report on how Maine’s U.S. Senators have reacted to the latest Republican Senate health care bill. Both oppose it in no uncertain terms, with… 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.