Maine Somali leader said she won’t let shooter defeat her quest to help people
Steve Collins
Columnist
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.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State
Maine community rallied to help save Fowsia Musse after shooting
After being shot in Ethiopia, Musse needed advanced care only available in America.
advertisement
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State
Career and technical centers seek more money from Legislature
Lewiston and Farmington centers are among those pushing for a funding increase to bolster career education.
Posted inElections, Local & State, Politics
Brunswick Democrat is first to enter the 2024 U.S. Senate race in Maine
David Costello hails incumbent Angus King but argues that major reform is needed in the nation’s capital.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Fowsia Musse recounts how she survived a shooting spree in Ethiopia
Somali leader in Lewiston nearly died in an airport during a family trip in October.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Local & State
Legislators ponder bill that would let many Maine renters keep pets
Committee hears strong opinions pro and con on a measure that would force many landlords to allow dogs, cats and other pets.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
State panel urged to hold down rate increase for CMP
A public hearing in Lewiston Tuesday drew a handful of people worried about utility bills
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State
Housing advocates urge state to ban application fees for renters
Supporters say axing the fees will make it easier for people to find housing in a tight rental market
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
Bates College workers reject proposed union
National Labor Relations Board staffers who counted the ballots said 254 voted against the union while 186 favored it.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State
Legislators weigh how much politicking to allow at polls
Maine’s restrictions go too far, some say, while others oppose even a ‘scintilla of electioneering’ at polling places.