Alex Seitz-Wald

Susan Collins signs petition being circulated to put a referendum on the Maine ballot in 2026 barring trans students from school bathrooms and sports teams of the gender they identify with.

Tune in to @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social tomorrow to catch the @midcoastvillager.bsky.social newspaper and cafe in their pre-Thanksgiving food issue!

Sigh, billions wasted on the billionaires. I would be good at being a billionaire and just chilling out!

They’re telling us there’s a chance: Why the debate nonqualifiers won’t quit (yet) Why the longest long shots of the still-bloated 2020 Democratic presidential field say they're staying in the fray.

"There is nothing to do there except work. Seriously, there's no recreational activities,” Steyer said.

Fun guy!

Link: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

I once asked Tom Steyer why he wasn’t on a beach in Fiji sipping Mai Thais, like I would if I had a billion dollars.

“If I were in Fiji sipping a Mai Tai, I would be despondent.”

OK, not a beach guy. What about chilling on his gorgeous 1,800-acre cattle ranch?

A local brewery had invited @SenatorCollins @JanetMillsforME and @grahamformaine to a drinking contest. Please please make this happen! Democracy demands it.

Alex Seitz-Wald left broadcast news for a local Maine paper. The 2026 campaign won’t let him escape the national scene. - The Boston Globe The Globe spoke to Alex Seitz-Wald about transitioning from NBC to the Midcoast Villager — and how coverage of Graham Platner’s controversial US Senate campaign bridged the gap.

Pleasure chatting with @aidanryan.bsky.social about leaving national politics for local news in Maine and getting sucked right back into the campaign drama.

Great questions about the dynamics between local and national news. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/11/b...

I picked a hell of a year to move to Maine to retire from national politics.

BREAKING: Rep. Jared Golden announces he won't seek reelection: "I don’t fear losing. What has become apparent to me is that I now dread the prospect of winning."

www.midcoastvillager.com/voices/opini...

DO NOT CONGRATULATE:

BREAKING: Former Maine college student wins New York City mayoral race.

Took my daughter to vote with me before school, which was convenient because the whole town votes in her school’s gym.

This is better than fine.

Opinion | I Thought Graham Platner Was Finished. What I Saw in Maine Changed My Mind.

I've long been a fan of @michellegoldberg.bsky.social but especially appreciate her candidness about the evolution of her thinking on Graham Platner after coming to Maine and seeing what's happening on the ground. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

Here’s the NYT story and here’s the entirety of Mamdani references on Bowdoin’s website. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

A Bowdoin grad is about to maybe become the next mayor of New York, but you wouldn't know it from the college itself, which has made no mention of Zohran Mamdani's campaign on its website, frustrating some alumni.

As one quipped, the NYT wrote about Mamdani’s ties to Bowdoin before Bowdoin did.

Maybe I'll have to eat these words, but every day I drive to work and check if the Platner yard signs are still there from the day before. Yup. And every day for the past week, I've tried to find a voter who supported Platner but have since abandoned him — haven't found one yet.

Every day on my drive to work, I check if the Graham Platner yard signs are still there from the day before. They're all still up. And every day for the past week, I've tried to find a voter who supported Platner but have since abandoned him — haven't found any yet.

Graham Platner Soldiers On Large crowds in the Midcoast suggest that rumors of the oyster farmer's political demise are exaggerated.

NEW: Graham Platner Soldiers On

From my vantage on the ground here in Maine, rumors of Platner's demise have been greatly exaggerated. I've seen many campaigns implode in my 15 years covering national politics — none looked like this. www.midcoastvillager.com/news/politic...

Graham Platner: “I am running as a Democrat, despite my party trying to destroy my life.”

School gymnasium filled with hundreds of people for a Graham Platner event

Despite everything, this room is absolutely packed for Graham Platner in Damariscotta.

Good added context about the @midcoastvillager.bsky.social here that didn't make it into the NYT. We're building on a rich history of small-town news innovation here -- and have plenty of Village Soup momentoes around the office.

Thanks for this, Dan! Great added context. I read your book last year, great primer for my new role.

And thought you'd appreciate these old signs sitting in our hallway waiting to be hung. (That's "The Free Press" poking out from behind the Village Soup one)

The New York Times discovers Maine’s Midcoast Villager. Here’s the rest of the story. The Midcoast Villager, an innovative weekly newspaper based in Camden, Maine, got The New York Times treatment last week. But though the Times lavished attention on the high-profile journalists who…

New at Media Nation: The New York Times discovers Maine’s Midcoast Villager. Here’s the rest of the story. dankennedy.net/2025/10/27/t...

Me peepin’ leaves right now

This ME-Sen poll and this account are fake. No such poll on Emerson Polling's website or X feed. And take a close look at the account's handle: @PoliticPollss when the real one it's impersonating is @Politics_Polls.

Nothing but respect for MY ballroom! 🇺🇸 🫡

Unluckily or luckily for him, depending on how it goes, Platner’s event tonight happens to be in Ogunquit, which is just about the most accessible part of Maine to the outside world, between Boston and Portland, allowing for maximum media turnout compared to almost anywhere else.

Thanks so much and do it!

Here's a counter-narrative datapoint: A 70-something reader in Rockland just emailed to cancel her subscription because we covered the Graham Platner controversy: "I no longer want to receive this newspaper... I'm disgusted."