This Thursday, August 20, I’ll be speaking on, well, why Maine and Mainers are they way they are and how events centuries ago shaped our fundamental, postcolonial character.It’s the subject… Read more »
Article Topic: Maine
Maine pandemic updates: testing delays, low hospitalizations, few non-residents testing positive
A few recent updates on the pandemic situation in Maine: Major national testing labs have been overwhelmed by the pandemic’s surge in the Deep South and El Norte, and that’s… Read more »
Racist names banned by Maine law decades ago still on official registry
Based on a reader’s tip, last week I discovered that Maine’s official registry of coastal islands still contained several with names banned by law decades ago, including three with the… Read more »
Coronavirus in Maine at the onset of high tourist season
As the coronavirus spreads across the southern and western United States — a topic I’ll have more to say about tomorrow — Mainers are simultaneously kicking off their summer tourist… Read more »
Two developments I covered in recent days regarding the pandemic here in Maine. In this week’s Maine Sunday Telegram, I revisited the issue of Maine’s Covid-19 testing capacity and strategy… Read more »
Launching UNION virtually June 16 with Longfellow Books and MWPA
Despite the pandemic, my new book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood, goes on sale this coming Tuesday, June 16 and the good folks at… Read more »
Maine pandemic: zip-code data released; hospitalizations, testing updates
In this week of civil rights protests, police violence, and militarized deployments in major cities it’s been hard to remember there’s a deadly, once-in-a-century pandemic going on, but amazingly there… Read more »
Covid hospitalizations return to peak levels in Southern Maine
The number of Covid-19 inpatients at Portland’s major hospitals returned to the peak levels of early April last week, data collected directly from Maine’s hospitals show. York County’s largest hospital… Read more »
Exclusive: pandemic appears resurgent in southern Maine
To kick off your Memorial Day weekend unpleasantly, I have this story in today’s Portland Press Herald showing that Covid-19 has been having a clear resurgence in two of Maine’s… Read more »
Maine CDC to improve its pandemic data reporting
Over the past couple of months, I’ve reported on a variety of shortcomings in the way the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention collects and/or shares data on 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.