Piscataquis and Washington counties have more than their fair share of tax audits.
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 among a trio of Democrats most likely to side with Trump
The first-term Lewiston lawmaker said he and biggest Trump-backing Democrat, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are “kind of anti-establishment.”
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Maine’s 200th birthday offers opportunity for businesses and organizations
AUGUSTA — With Maine’s bicentennial fast approaching, there is growing interest by organizations and businesses in who can use the logo developed for the big birthday party. The Maine Bicentennial Commission hopes that municipalities and nonprofits will hold events that focus at least in part on the state’s creation in 1820 and that they’ll highlight […]
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, News
Poland Spring might get soaked with $100 million state tax
Lawmakers eye an extraction fee of 12 cents per gallon for Maine groundwater.
Posted inMaine, News
U.S. House GOP leader McCarthy assails ranked-choice voting in Maine
Republicans in Augusta and Washington are trying to stymie or repeal a voting method they say helps Democrats like Jared Golden.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, News
Bates College gathering brings student research to forefront
Students at the annual Mount David Summit zing college’s origin story and offer ideas to help Lewiston and Auburn.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, News
Concern grows that contaminated sludge may have harmed some area farms
Treated sludge has been used on at least several dozen sites in Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin counties over the years.
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No cuts to Special Olympics, Maine congressional delegation says
Legislators have rejected two previous bids to wipe out federal funding for the nonprofit.
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Winning big in Special Olympics’ World Games
Lewiston resident Justin Beliveau won a bronze medal in swimming in Abu Dhabi this month.
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James Adinolfi expected to repay would-be guests at Hotel Harris and avoid jail
Rumford lodging provider agrees to repay complaining customers in deal that will clear his record if he stays out of trouble for a year.