Murray Carpenter
@murray-journo
Author of Sweet and Deadly, How Coca-Cola Spreads Disinformation and Makes Us Sick (MIT Press, March 2025), and Caffeinated (Penguin, 2014). Bylines at New York Times, NPR, Maine Public Radio, Washington Post, etc. Belfast, Maine.
Karolina Rojas told his story Thursday. Speaking quietly through tears in Spanish, she said he never stopped working, was a doting father to their little girl. Translator Keyko Torres and Guerrero's sister Daniela Guerrero supported her as she spoke at a press conference in a Biddeford hotel.
Big crowd to watch Muskeg for the first Belfast Summer Nights of 2026! #maine #belfastmaine #livemusic
Buckets of rain, high water, very few people, and good fun on the Allagash River in northern #Maine.
It was fun sneaking over to Canada last weekend to chase striped bass on the Miramichi River! #fishing #flyfishing
Maine Maritime Academy schooner Bowdoin arriving in Belfast harbor today to be hauled out at Front Street Shipyard. #maine
Lewiston Mayor Carl Sheline, at left in blue, endorsed #Platner on Thursday.
Graham Platner was in Lewiston today, and said with Governor Mills stepping aside, he plans to keep campaigning as he has been, in his effort to unseat Maine Senator Susan Collins.
Quite a sight Sunday on the Maine Turnpike just south of Portland. Driver appeared to be fine.
Paul Christman of the Maine Department of Marine Resources, describing the egg-planting process.
Greta Rybus making the photos that captured the essence of the Maine mountains in late winter.
Very pleased to report that @mitpress.bsky.social is publishing the paperback edition of Sweet and Deadly today! Look for it in your favorite local bookstore.
