Students told to stay on campus until they go home for the Thanksgiving holiday.
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 inElection 2020, Local & State, Politics
Jared Golden declares victory, promises a positive approach to politics
Republican Dale Crafts conceded in a call to Golden mid-day Wednesday.
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Posted inElections, Lewiston-Auburn, Local & State, Politics
Signature campaign underway to require citizenship to vote in Maine
A wealthy Wisconsin conservative is funding a push by organizers for a ballot question next fall.
Posted inElection 2020, Local & State, Politics
Analysis: All eyes are on Maine’s 2nd District
The White House may hinge on whether Donald Trump won voters in rural Maine
Posted inElection 2020, Local & State, Politics
Golden leads in bid for second term in U.S. House
Preliminary results show Democrat Jared Golden ahead of Republican Dale Crafts.
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Maine Crime, Politics
U.S. Senate candidate calls Maine’s top public health official a ‘death doctor’ and Gov. Mills a ‘psychopath’
Independent U.S. Senate hopeful Max Linn lashes out in campaign’s final days against those he thinks for stifling freedom with rules to thwart COVID-19.
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Lewiston-Auburn, Local & State, Politics
Voters decide Tuesday whether Jared Golden should get a second term
Republican Dale Crafts hopes to unseat the Lewiston Democrat in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District.
Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education
Three Bates College students test positive for COVID-19
There are now four active student cases at the college, which had been doing well at fending off the disease.
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Local & State
Maskless Maine Republican candidate faces firestorm after Trump rally
Michelle Kaplan said she’s a firm believer in science and masks.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Local & State
Mainers encouraged to apply for jobs on controversial power line
Work on the $1 billion project is expected to being in mid-November.