Gov. Janet Mills and the Democratic-controlled Legislature proved willing to both listen and compromise on potentially tough issues for Maine’s business community, chamber executives said.
Steve Collins
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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.
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When boxer John L. Sullivan came to Lewiston, he proved a ‘gigantic fizzle’
When the world’s first heavyweight boxing champion visited Lewiston in 1885 for an exhibition match, it didn’t go well.
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Susan Collins taps her leadership PAC to shore up support
Maine’s senior senator uses her Dirigo PAC to support GOP politicians, from Mitch McConnell to candidates for the Maine Legislature.
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Lots of ‘cool science’ at Bates spurred by federal program
The $104 million that taxpayers have allocated to encourage biomedical research in Maine has contributed to the growth of student-focused scientific training at Bates and other Maine colleges.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Lots of ‘cool science’ at Bates spurred by federal program
The $104 million that taxpayers have allocated to encourage biomedical research in Maine contributes to the growth of student-focused scientific training.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State
Mailers touting power line project offer wildly different job estimates
Critics say the power company’s advertising in favor of its $1 billion project are misleading, but both versions are both confusing and correct.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State
Program that pays farmers to provide food for hungry Mainers threatened
State lawmakers are weighing whether to allocate $3 million to continue a hunger relief program, which buys fresh produce from 75 Maine farms, for two more years.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State, News
Searching for an old Corvette
Lisbon lawmaker Rick Mason scoured the state for more than 15 years trying to find the 1984 Corvette his father drove.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
Lewiston man pleads not guilty in Giusti death
LEWISTON — The oldest of a trio of males charged last month in the June 12, 2018, death of Donald Giusti pleaded not guilty in court Wednesday. Pierre Musafiri, 23, was charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly kicking Giusti while he lay badly injured in Knox Street after a confrontation between two groups near Kennedy […]
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Golden protests ‘gotcha politics’ move by House leaders
Lewiston Democrat says measures with bipartisan backing should be allowed to go the Senate without tying them to bills the GOP won’t support.