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 28, 2018
Pro-offshore oil group chaired by LePage is run by energy lobbyists
The energy industry staffs a governors’ coalition that Maine’s governor rescued from dissolution.
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PublishedSeptember 30, 2018
Terry Hayes: Count me out of ‘us versus them’ politics
Separated from her siblings as a child, she grew familiar with division. So when her political party embraced tribalism, the governor candidate chose a new course.
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2018
Alan Caron: Longtime builder of coalitions first had to rebuild himself
‘I lifted myself out of a series of accidents,’ says the independent whose grit shaped him into a community organizer and revered political mind.
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PublishedSeptember 16, 2018
Janet Mills’ mission: Break yet another glass ceiling
Informed by an influential family and an esteemed role model, a longtime Maine Democratic leader has come prepared with decades of public service as she seeks the governor’s job.
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PublishedSeptember 9, 2018
Shawn Moody: Self-made millionaire runs on authenticity
The Republican who hopes to follow in the current governor’s footsteps banks on his proven entrepreneurial ability and a life story built on success.
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PublishedJuly 20, 2018
A Maine man appears on Putin’s list of Americans he’d like Trump to let Russia interrogate
Kyle Parker, who grew up in Old Town, was central to the drafting of the Magnitsky Act, which sanctions Russian human rights abusers.
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PublishedJuly 8, 2018
Collins says justice’s respect for precedent will protect Roe v. Wade. Experts disagree.
Maine’s Republican senator pins her support of a Supreme Court nominee on ‘settled law,’ but her reasoning withers under scrutiny.
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PublishedJune 28, 2018
Collins to judge Trump’s Supreme Court pick without ‘litmus tests’ such as Roe v. Wade support
Her spokeswoman says Maine’s Republican senator believes the landmark abortion ruling is settled law, and she won’t use the issue to disqualify a candidate to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy.
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PublishedJune 23, 2018
Pingree describes ‘heartbreaking’ scenes, families in cages at Texas border facilities
The Maine representative and 24 Democratic colleagues inspect facilities where separated parents and children are being held.
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PublishedJune 22, 2018
Rep. Poliquin co-sponsors bill directing administration to reunify children with families
The Republican representing Maine’s 2nd District signs onto the Family Reunification Act, which would require Homeland Security to use ‘all necessary means’ to reunite families ‘at the earliest possible date.’
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