UPDATE: Maine’s 2nd District lawmaker says he will endorse one article of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
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.
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Two Somali politicians find inspiration in each other’s success
Controversial U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, talked Friday with incoming Lewiston City Council member Safiya Khalid after a political rally in New Hampshire.
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Susan Collins and Angus King join other senators in calling for swift action on climate crisis
Susan Collins is the only Republican senator to sign the Dec. 9 letter calling current U.S. efforts ’threadbare‘ and urging more action by the federal government.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, Politics
Golden says he is ‘not sold’ on CMP’s controversial hydropower line
Maine’s 2nd District congressman says he has ‘serious concerns’ about the $1 billion plan to bring Quebec hydropower into the New England power grid via a new substation in Lewiston.
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How surviving a rape at age 15 helped spur Bre Kidman to run for US Senate
A terrible night in Finland in 2003 left the Saco lawyer determined to fight for justice after seeing Brett Kavanaugh win a U.S. Supreme Court seat.
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Republican congressional challengers in Maine’s 2nd District oppose CMP project
The three, who hope to unseat Democrat Jared Golden next year, are against the power company’s $1 billion plan for a new transmission line from Quebec to Lewiston.
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Hundreds show up to voice concerns about transmission corridor
The hearing concerned a permit for Central Maine Power’s proposed 145-mile transmission line from Quebec to Lewiston.
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Stein says investigation into her alleged ties to Russia ‘found zero’
The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee looked at charges that the Green Party’s presidential candidate had connections with the foreign power.
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Green Party calls for authorities to kill $1 billion hydropower project
Ex-presidential contender Jill Stein and U.S. Senate candidate Lisa Savage oppose CMP’s plan to build a new power line to bring Quebec electricity to Lewiston.
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Sen. Collins backs bill to bolster local recycling rates across the country
Maine’s senior senator is among the backers of a $75 million U.S. Senate proposal to educate Americans about how and why they ought to recycle.