Articles Tagged: Maine dispatches

Could a serial killer have murdered Sarah Cherry?

Posted August 7th, 2022 & filed under Maine, Maine dispatches, Portland Press Herald.

It was one of the most horrific murders in Maine history and one of the most controversial murder cases. A 12-year old girl abducted and brutally murdered in a rural… Read more »

With union in trouble, governors gathering in Maine

Posted July 12th, 2022 & filed under Janet Mills, Maine, Maine dispatches, Portland, Portland Press Herald, US dispatches, US politics.

With the U.S. feeling like the 1850s, the nation’s governors are gathering here in Maine tomorrow for the National Governors Association summer meeting. But they’re not discussing how to deal… Read more »

How Maine became a Covid-19 hotspot

Posted December 26th, 2021 & filed under coronavirus, covid19, Health, hospitals, Maine, Maine dispatches, News, Portland Press Herald.

Maine and northern New England have been among the safest places in the United States for most of the pandemic, with low case rates, per capita hospitalizations and deaths. But… Read more »

Paul LePage is back and Maine braces for a political storm

Posted September 23rd, 2021 & filed under Janet Mills, Maine, Maine dispatches, Maine politics, Politico, US politics.

Here in Maine, former Governor Paul LePage — who has described himself as “Trump before Trump” — officially kicked off his campaign to return to the governor’s mansion last night… Read more »

9/11 Started Here, in Portland, Maine

Posted September 9th, 2021 & filed under Maine, Maine dispatches, Maine history, Media, Portland, Portland Press Herald, transportation, US dispatches, US History, World History.

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 »

Quebec to New England transmission project could be delayed by rival

Posted July 28th, 2021 & filed under Canada, climate change, energy, environment, forests, Janet Mills, Maine, Maine dispatches, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, Portland Press Herald, Quebec.

Here in Maine one of the most controversial public policy issues of recent years has been over a project to connect the massive hydroelectric dams in northern Quebec with 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.

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 and a recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy.

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