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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.

Local & State

‘Cult’ leader Gary Blankenship loses eviction fight in St. Agatha

by Steve Collins February 21, 2020February 22, 2020

Facebook followers told he will look for “someplace warmer”

Local & State, News

‘Cult’ leader in St. Agatha may face eviction

by Steve Collins February 17, 2020February 17, 2020

Gary Blankenship has a court date Friday that could lead to him moving farther “off the radar.”

Lewiston-Auburn, Local & State

Tens of thousands of Mainers may face exposure to excessive levels of arsenic

by Steve Collins February 16, 2020July 19, 2022

Lawmakers consider a bill to spur more testing of private wells and perhaps lower the allowable amount of arsenic in drinking water.

Elections, Local & State, Politics

Abortion foe from Auburn to challenge Sen. Collins

by Steve Collins February 14, 2020February 14, 2020

Linda Wooten, a former Republican state committee member, is entering the U.S. Senate race as “the only pro-life candidate.”

Elections, Local & State, Politics

Once wary, Eric Brakey has come to embrace Donald Trump

by Steve Collins February 12, 2020September 14, 2020

The Republican congressional hopeful once called him “a disaster,” but now, locked in a three-way primary, views Trump as “the best president in my lifetime.”

Local & State, Schools and Education

Bates College breaks record for Fulbright award winners

by Steve Collins February 10, 2020February 11, 2020

The top Fulbright producer among liberal arts college for two of the past three years, Bates’ 24 honorees this year are the most any college of its type has ever had.