Article Topic: travel advisories

Maine and 37 other states got zero ventilators from the federal stockpile. Why?

Posted April 16th, 2020 & filed under coronavirus, covid19, Donald Trump, Health, Maine, Maine dispatches, Portland Press Herald, transportation, travel advisories, US dispatches.

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

Posted April 15th, 2020 & filed under coronavirus, covid19, Donald Trump, Health, Maine, Maine dispatches, New England, Portland Press Herald, transportation, travel advisories.

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 »

In Japan

Posted September 29th, 2018 & filed under American Nations, Asia, Japan, speaking, travel advisories.

I’m at the end of an enjoyable, whirlwind week in Japan. Unless, that is, the whirling winds of Typhoon Trami close Narita airport this late afternoon. I came on the… Read more »

COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven 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 Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.

A native of Maine, he has reported from more than 50 countries and seven continents and lived for more than four years in Eastern Europe during the collapse of the Soviet empire and the transition that followed. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago he is past Pew Fellow in International Journalism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, a recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

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