Colin Woodard - 2009 Articles

Municipal campaign disclosures unavailable; on state advice, Maine towns
destroying paper trail on candidates and special interests; Maine Things
Considered, Maine Public Radio, January 14 2009, PORTLAND, MAINE

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G lobal financial crisis overwhelms tiny Iceland; How world's fourth richest
nation was laid low, Christian Science Monitor, INTERNATIONAL, January 21
2009, REYKJAVIK, ICELAND, p. 1

Bjork to the rescue; singer backs venture capital fund to save homeland,
Christian Science Monitor, INTERNATIONAL, January 21 2009, REYKJAVIK,
ICELAND

W ill social safety net survive Iceland's crisis ?; in a terrible crisis, few
Icelanders expected to hit rock bottom, Christian Science Monitor,
INTERNATIONAL, January 22 2009, REYKJAVIK, ICELAND

W ill E.U. lifeline sink Iceland's fisheries?; the industry that built Iceland's
ecnomy may be harmed by Europe's fishing policies; Christian Science
Monitor, INTERNATIONAL, January 29 2009, HAFNARFJORDUR, ICELAND

I celand strides toward a hydrogen economy; global stresses underscore
goals even as they delay progress; Christian Science Monitor,
ENVIRONMENT, February 12 2009, REYKJAVIK, ICELAND

D estroying the candidates' paper trail; update on destruction of local campaign
finance disclosures in Maine; state advice, Maine towns destroying paper trail
on candidates and special interests; Working Waterfront, February 2009,
PORTLAND, MAINE

Quelling a Pirate Revolt; why the Royal Navy failed to stop the Golden Age
Piracy outbreak; Military History Quarterly, FEATURES,Spring 2009, pp. 9-19

History lesson; parallels between the Golden Age piracy outbreak at the
recent Somali one; Military History Quarterly, SIDEBAR,Spring 2009, p. 15

Nature's Refuge; the future of the fifty islands of the Maine Coastal Islands
National Wildlife Refuge; Down East, COVER STORY ,April 2009

Responding to Economic Catastrophe, Iceland Looks to Its Universities;
Chronicle of Higher Education, MONEY & MANAGEMENT, March 6 2009,
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND

I n sunny Turks & Caicos, 'political amorality' forces Britain to retake control,
the corruption scandal afflicting the British territory; Christian Science Monitor,
INTERNATIONAL, April 5, 2009, PROVIDENCIALES, TURKS & CAICOS

P ublic pier talks tilted toward private development; Maine State Pier update,
The Bollard Online, NEWS, April 10 2009, PORTLAND, MAINE

Why did an Antarctic cruise ship sink?; Big ice chunks, misjudgment, and
faulty doors doomed the MS Explorer; Christian Science Monitor,
INTERNATIONAL, April 20, 2009

Uncharted seas; despite widespread support, the Gulf of Maine Ocean
Observing system suffers a partial collapse; Down East, TALK OF MAINE ,May
2009

U pdates: campaign finance and GoMoos; update on destruction of local
campaign finance disclosures in Maine, the plight of the Gulf of Maine Ocean
Observing System; Working Waterfront, May 2009, PORTLAND, MAINE

Linda Bean's lobster dreams; profile of LL Bean heir, conservative political
donor, and aspiring seafood magnate. Down East, FEATURE, July 2009,
PORT CLYDE, MAINE

Maine squeeze; Iceland’s banking failure put credit lines to Canadian
processors and Maine lobster dock prices in the deep freeze.; National
Fisherman, JULY 2009, REYKJAVIK, ICELAND

Update: Augusta poised to fix local campaign finance report problem. the
destruction of local campaign finance disclosures in Maine; Working Waterfront
Online, May 14 2009, PORTLAND, MAINE

T he picnic that changed Europe; 20th anniversary of the "great escape" of East
Germans at the Pan European Picnic.; Global Post, August 19, 2009,
SOPRONKOHIDA, HUNGARY

A n empire of sail; review of Live Yankees by W.H. Bunting; Down East,
BOOKS, August 2009.

The O ak Island Mystery; a possible explanation for one of North America's
most enduring buried treasure legends; Working Waterfront, July 2009, OAK
ISLAND, NOVA SCOTIA

N eo-Nazis on the Rise; the rise of the extreme right in Eastern Europe.; Global
Post Passport, August 26, 2009, ZLIN, CZECH REPUBLIC

F ossil fuels left out in the cold; exporting Iceland's geothermal know-how.; San
Francisco Chronicle, August 30, 2009, WORLD, p. A17, HELLISHEIDI,
ICELAND

After the fall of the Wall, Middle Europe reemerges, sort of; Habsburg lands,
now borderless again, have mixed response; Christian Science Monitor,
INTERNATIONAL, September 17, 2009 (online edition); September 13, 2009,
p.11 (weekly magazine.); SOPRON, HUNGARY

Unease at the Border; Austrians shudder, Hungarians cheer a vanished
frontier; Christian Science Monitor, INTERNATIONAL, September 13, 2009,
p.11 (weekly magazine.); ST. MARGARETHEN IM BURGENLAND, AUSTRIA

H omeless nuclear waste; US has no plan for spent fuel stranded at old
atomic plant sites; Christian Science Monitor, ENVIRONMENT, September
13, 2009 (online and weekly editions); p.36, WISCASSET, MAINE

H ow a picnic led to the fall of the Berlin Wall; 20 years ago today, Hungarians
let 60,000 East Germans escape to freedom; Christian Science Monitor,
INTERNATIONAL, September 10, 2009; SOPRON, HUNGARY

Inflating repair costs and cruise ship benefits on Portland's waterfront; two
studies expose troubling questions about how city has handled major
waterfront developments; Working Waterfront, PARALLEL 44, September
2009, PORTLAND, MAINE

Secret Lives of Mainers; things you didn't know -- or think you know that are
wrong -- about Maine's people; Down East, COVER STORY, November 2009.

A world transformed; Academe in Eastern Europe 20 years after the fall of
Communism; The Chronicle of Higher Education, CHRONICLE REVIEW
COVER STORY, October 25, 2009, BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC

E xploiting the Motion of the Ocean; Tidal power in Canada's Bay of Fundy;
Global Post Passport, October 30, 2009, L'ETETE, NEW BRUNSWICK

Securing America's northern front; how the tightening of the border is
disrupting cross-border life on the Maine-New Brunswick frontier; Global Post
Passport, November 2, 2009, SAINT STEPHEN, NEW BRUNSWICK

Tidal power takes two steps forward; deployment of ocean energy turbines in
eastern Maine; Working Waterfront, PARALLEL 44, November 2009,
EASTPORT, MAINE

Pyramid Man; an amateur archaeologist delcares he's found the world's
greatest pyramid complex in Bosnia; Smithsonian Magazine, FEATURES,
December 2009; VISOKO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

A tale of two utopias; Tomas Bata's legacy in the Czech city of Zlin; Global Post
Passport, December 7, 2009, ZLIN, CZECH REPUBLIC

N uclear waste: Canada asks towns to give it a home; nuclear waste policy in
Canada; Christian Science Monitor, INTERNATIONAL, December 10, 2009
(weekly and online editions); SAINT ANDREWS, NEW BRUNSWICK

E conomic risks of nuclear power plants; sidebar on Canadian plant's
refurbishment problems; Christian Science Monitor, INTERNATIONAL,
December 10, 2009 (weekly and online editions); POINT LEPREAU, NEW
BRUNSWICK

P robing Romania's cryptic revolution; scholars disagree about who killed
many of the 1100 victims; Global Post Passport, December 18, 2009

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