Bar Harbor independent Max Linn and Solon educator Lisa Savage help Bond get on the Nov. 3 U.S. Senate ballot.
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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U.S. Senate hopeful Tiffany Bond calls on state ‘to do the right thing’
A Portland independent filed a civil rights suit Friday to ask a judge to put her on the Nov. 3 general election ballot.
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Independent Max Linn qualifies for U.S. Senate race ballot
Tiffany Bond suing state to waive signature rules so she can be a fifth candidate in the general election.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Bates College vows to intensify its anti-racism efforts
College President Clayton Spencer responded this week to critics who complained of structural racism with a plan to combat the problem.
Posted inPolitics
Candidates challenging Golden for 2nd District take tough stance on immigrants
The three contenders for the U.S. House seat in the July 14 primary promise to protect America’s borders.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, Schools & Education
Bates College plans to reopen for fall semester
President Clayton Spencer outlined many changes to the Lewiston campus during a weekend talk to alumni.
Posted inbPlus, Maine
Maine’s Great Fire raged in 1825 and destroyed almost a million acres
The 1825 blaze, the biggest ever recorded east of the Mississippi River, terrified pioneers, but is not known to have killed anyone in the state.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Voters will see polling places transformed next month
Officials are trying to make sure everything goes well during the July 14 primary, which will be the first statewide election since the pandemic hit.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Racism at Bates College challenged
More than 500 members of the Bates community this week called on the college president to take swift action to combat racism.
Posted inMaine, Politics
Bennett, Crafts keep GOP 2nd Congressional District debate low-key
Eric Brakey of Auburn a no-show for Voice of the Voter.