At the United Nations, Governor Janet Mills pledged to make Maine carbon-neutral by 2045, tasking the new Maine Climate Council to come up with a plan to do so via… Read more »
Article Topic: urban planning
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 »
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 »
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.