The Democratic freshman ousted Republican Bruce Poliquin in a tight race decided by ranked-choice voting.
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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Jared Golden getting ready to take office next week in Washington
They won’t give Maine’s next congressman the keys to his office until Wednesday, but his new digs in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill are ready. They’re a little sparse, though. Pictures of the still-vacant office taken this week show only empty shelves, gleaming desktops and computers showing only screen savers. One stands […]
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George Popham, Ronald Reagan and Maine’s role in America’s first Thanksgiving
Just before the last ship returned to England in the fall of 1607, leaving the Popham colonists to face a brutal Maine winter, the colonists reached out to a nearby friendly Indian named Nahaniida.