Longtime senator snagged more money for her state than any of her colleagues.
Steve Collins
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Steve Collins became an opinion columnist for the Maine Trust for Local News in April of 2025. A journalist since 1987, Steve has worked for daily newspapers in New York, Connecticut and Maine and served as the State House reporter for the Sun Journal since 2016. The Maine Press Association named him Maine's Journalist of the Year in 2022. Among his other awards are the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2016 Ethics in Journalism Award, the I.F. Stone Whistle-Blower Award in 2015 and the Bob Wallack Community Journalism Award from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. Steve is a founder and board president of Youth Journalism International, a charity that teaches students around the globe about news writing, media literacy and issues of the day. His wife, Jackie Majerus, serves as its executive director. Born in Massachusetts, he grew up in a military family that took him to Norway, Ohio and Virginia, where he earned a degree in history from the University of Virginia. He and Jackie live in Auburn. They have two adult children, two collies and not enough time.
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Documents reveal police officers’ ‘courageous’ response to Oct. 25 mass shooting in Lewiston
Firsthand reports by individual Lewiston, Auburn and Androscoggin County officers describe courage, caring in the horrific first hours.
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Maine Republican lawmaker quits in disgust after congressional primary
John Andrews of Paris said GOP voters picked the wrong man to take on U.S. Rep. Jared Golden and he can’t represent them any more.
Posted inElection 2024, Maine, News, Politics
Republicans will pick a challenger to Jared Golden in Tuesday’s primary
Mike Soboleski and Austin Theriault are facing off for a chance to represent their party in the November general election in Maine’s 2nd District race.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
New community board announced to advise Maine Trust for Local News
Owner of Morning Sentinel & Kennebec Journal and other papers gathering input from community leaders across Maine.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, Nation & World, News
Trial of accused Alpo Martinez killer underway in New York
Alberto ‘Alpo’ Martinez was a federal witness living in Lewiston before he was killed in Harlem in 2021.
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Lewiston, Auburn say balloon festival will ‘take off’ with municipal leadership
Festival organizers agree ‘show should go on,’ but will leave it to City Hall to make it happen.
Posted inMaine, News
Angus King impressed by Wales farm operated by Somali farmers
‘I like this on every level,’ Maine’s junior senator said during his tour of Liberation Farms.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Portrait of Bernard Lown to be unveiled June 7 in Lewiston
The painting of the inventor of the defibrillator and a Nobel Peace Prize honoree is part of Brooksville artist Robert Shetterly’s ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth’ series.
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In Lewiston, state commission hears testimony on police response to 2023 mass shooting
State police chief said there is ‘always room for improvement,’ but he is proud of what police did during the Oct. 25 incident that killed 18 people.