The fight against the agency’s ‘enhanced activities’ is inspiring.
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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Hard to sift through Maine’s jam-packed race for governor | Steve Collins
There’s one gubernatorial hopeful for every hour in the day — so far. Where to start?
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The persistent slop of the Maine Wire is paying off | Steve Collins
It’s clear to anyone watching that leading members of Maine’s Republican Party — among many others — have fallen in line with the website’s mission.
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It takes courage and commitment to follow MLK’s lead | Steve Collins
In these troubled times, the qualities exemplified by Martin Luther King Jr. are more valuable than ever.
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Maine has also spent time eyeing Greenland | Steve Collins
President Trump would do well to review some of our leading papers’ historical commentary on this … acquisitive thought process.
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For our nation’s 250th, let’s remember how much we have in common | Steve Collins
For our 250th birthday, my hope is we can act our age.
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Rick Bennett shows Maine Republicans there’s another way | Steve Collins
At a weekend rally in support of Somali Americans, the state senator from Oxford impressed me.
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Hope in the newsroom, and to the ends of the Earth | Steve Collins
During her time in the Peace Corps, former Sun Journal staffer Vanessa Paolella reminded us of the value of showing up.
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If Janet Mills doesn’t wake up and start fighting, she’s toast | Steve Collins
Unless she corrects course, the governor’s Senate campaign is headed for disaster.
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Somalis are not ‘garbage’ and Mainers should be outraged | Steve Collins
President Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about. This makes yesterday’s comments all the more repugnant.