Colin Woodard is the Press Herald’s State and National Affairs Writer, and is often at work on large investigative projects. Born in Waterville and raised in western Maine, he was a foreign correspondent for two decades, reported from more than fifty countries on all seven continents, and witnessed the collapse of communism and its bloody aftermath in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He’s written five books, including histories of Maine (The Lobster Coast), North America’s rival regional cultures (American Nations) and the Golden Age Pirates (Republic of Pirates), which was turned into a quickly forgotten NBC mini-series starring John Malkovich as Blackbeard. Since joining the Press Herald in 2012, he’s won a George Polk Award and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. He used to be an avid sailor and SCUBA diver, but with small kids at home, his hobbies now include sleeping and picking up toys.
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PublishedOctober 26, 2015
As Gulf of Maine warms, puffins recast as canaries in a coal mine
Story by Colin Woodard/ Staff Writer Photos by Gregory Rec/ Staff Photographer EASTERN EGG ROCK T he puffins are having a better year. On a late June day, the adults are landing on the rocky shore of this 7-acre bird sanctuary in flights of three or four, their bright red and yellow beaks stuffed with […]
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PublishedOctober 25, 2015
Big changes are occurring in one of the fastest-warming spots on Earth
YARMOUTH BAR, Nova Scotia S andwiched on a narrow sandbar between Yarmouth’s harbor and the open Gulf of Maine, the fishermen of Yarmouth Bar have long struggled to keep the sea at bay. Nineteenth-century storms threatened to sweep the whole place away, leaving Yarmouth proper’s harbor more open to the elements, prompting the province to […]
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PublishedSeptember 25, 2015
Unwanted prescription drugs – but not data – will be collected Saturday
New federal regulations prevent researchers from counting the medicines, to cut the risk of diversion.
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2015
Fed up with EPA, LePage retaliates with threat
Citing ‘overreach’ in regulating tribal waters, he contemplates an unprecedented step: yielding the state’s Clean Water Act powers.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2015
Army Corps withdraws Penobscot Bay dredging application
Project would enhance Searsport, but plan to dispose of contaminated spoils drew local ire.
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PublishedSeptember 6, 2015
Searsport dredging proposal faces stiff headwind
Fears of mercury contamination are fueling opposition to an Army Corps plan for the head of Penobscot Bay.
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PublishedAugust 25, 2015
DeCoster retains ownership of Maine farms but won’t be involved in their management
Hillandale Farms, the new leaseholder, plans to assume the payroll of the farms in late September.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2015
Facing blowback, LePage administration quietly dissolved ties with Jeb Bush’s education foundation
A Maine Sunday Telegram investigation shows how links to Jeb Bush’s education reform foundation – once central to Gov. Paul LePage’s policy goals – evaporated after key events in 2013.
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PublishedAugust 14, 2015
Pennsylvania-based company linked to rule-breaker Jack DeCoster buys 3 Maine egg farms
Hillandale Farms owned the Iowa operation tied to a nationwide salmonella outbreak in 2010, and the notorious businessman was one of its suppliers.
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PublishedAugust 9, 2015
Can New Brunswick and Nova Scotia teach Maine a lesson about consolidation?
Merging towns to save money by joining services is touted for Maine, but its success in Canada varies.
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