The Maine Legislature is eyeing a summertime gas tax hike to help close a longstanding funding gap for infrastructure needs.
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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Tucker Carlson pulls plug on plans for Fox News studio in Bryant Pond
Controversial television host says publicity killed his plan to open studio near his vacation home in western Maine.
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Tucker Carlson pulls plug on plans for Fox News studio in Bryant Pond
Controversial television host says publicity killed his plan to open studio near his vacation home in western Maine.
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Lawmakers may make it easier to prosecute stranglers
Auburn Sen. Ned Claxton’s proposal would drop requirement that prosecutors prove intent.
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Golden clashes with House GOP leader
Maine’s 2nd District congressman argued campaign finance with Kevin McCarthy on House floor.
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Bates to begin work next week on new science building
Two Nichols Street houses slated for imminent demolition.
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Despite big gains, women have ‘a long way to go’ in politics, Emily Cain says
Former U.S. House candidate hails “sea change” in number of women holding elected office, but hopes many more will join them.
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Collins says she will decide in 2020 whether to endorse Trump
Maine’s senior senator, who opposed the president in 2016, says she needs to work with Trump in the meantime.
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Lewiston mother tells U.S. Senate committee about her struggles affording insulin
Michelle Dehetre tells U.S. Sen. Susan Collins she can’t afford the diabetes drugs she ought to have.
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Activists take aim at Golden for pro-gun, pro-ICE votes
Maine Democrat comes under fire from gun control group and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.