The leader of the 9/11 hijackers, Mohamed Atta, spent his last night and the morning of September 11th on the outskirts of Portland, Maine, amid the mundane commercial sprawl of… Read more »
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Maine and 37 other states got zero ventilators from the federal stockpile. Why?
In yesterday’s Portland Press Herald I tried to answer the question: “Why did Maine — and 37 other states — get zero ventilators from the Strategic National Stockpile?” The answer… Read more »
Maine lags rest of New England in pandemic data reporting
In yesterday’s Portland Press Herald, I explore why Maine lags the other five New England states in the daily reporting of all sorts of pandemic-related data, including the fact that… Read more »
Maine island life in the time of coronavirus
At the moment the coronavirus pandemic “got real” in Maine — the announcement of the first confirmed case here — I was on Cheabeague Island with Press Herald colleague and… 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 »
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 »
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 »
Right whales in crisis: speeding ships and missing calves
The disastrous year for the North Atlantic right whale, the world’s second most endangered mammal after the species’ Pacific cousin, doesn’t appear to be abating. After seventeen of the whales… Read more »
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 »
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.