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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.

Business, Lewiston-Auburn, Local & State

Call centers pose ‘pretty high’ risk for coronavirus exposure, expert says

by Steve Collins March 18, 2020March 19, 2020

After worker complaints, TD Bank lets more of its Auburn call center workers stay home, beefs up cleaning.

Local & State, Schools and Education

Bates College to close its campus and send students home

by Steve Collins March 13, 2020March 13, 2020

Bates was the last NESCAC college to yield to the coronavirus.

Lewiston-Auburn, Local & State

Fake flyers at Bates showed ‘blatant disregard’ for efforts to inform community of COVID-19 dangers

by Steve Collins March 11, 2020March 12, 2020

College officials decried the hoax and urged students, faculty and staff to ignore the flyers, which carried a forged signature of Bates’ president.

Local & State

Despite coronavirus threat, Bates College expects to finish academic year as planned

by Steve Collins March 10, 2020March 12, 2020

College officials are preparing for online teaching in case shutting classrooms becomes best way to deal with the COVID-19 threat.

Local & State, Politics

Vaccine question pits science versus choice

by Steve Collins March 1, 2020March 2, 2020

Supporters of Question 1 argue parents, not the state, should decide if children should be vaccinated. Opponents, including every major medical group in Maine, say immunizations save lives.

Local & State, Politics

Republicans, Democrats split on whether to back Question 1

by Steve Collins February 28, 2020February 29, 2020

Maine Republican candidates favor vaccine referendum, Democrats oppose it and independents vary on how to vote.

Elections, Lewiston-Auburn, Local & State, Politics

Maine Democrats wary of endorsing presidential candidates

by Steve Collins February 28, 2020February 29, 2020

Jared Golden says Michael Bloomberg would be the wrong choice but doesn’t express a preference among the others.

Local & State

Maine charity working to preserve languages worldwide

by Steve Collins February 25, 2020February 26, 2020

Rockland activists, whose work is featured in new Netflix documentary airing Friday in Camden, seeks social justice by preserving, fostering rare languages.