Maine’s congressional incumbents are easily outpacing challengers so far in collecting campaign cash.
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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Androscoggin County commission considers future of landmark building in Auburn
Officials discuss whether the county can afford to remain in the historic County Building.
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One of the Androscoggin’s mysteries: Why did Lewiston Falls become Great Falls?
The name of one of the Androscoggin River’s most outstanding features has shifted without an obvious cause.
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Clock is ticking on plan for a new sheriff’s office in Auburn
Androscoggin County needs to complete the project by 2026 or give back $4.5 million to feds
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A Black man in Lewiston in 1912 describes life under slavery during his Virginia boyhood
In ‘heart-rending scenes,’ white slavers ‘would sell their own children,’ William Davis recalled.
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Politics and public safety clash as sheriff and mayor feud
The fate of a proposed new building for the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office hangs in the balance
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Ukraine needs more missiles, tanks and planes from U.S., says Maine’s Jared Golden
2nd District Democrat among most ardent U.S. House supporters for arming Ukraine in its quest to oust Russian invaders
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Mainer solves mystery over silent film’s lighthouse
A lighthouse expert discovered that “Out Yonder” producers in 1919 built a temporary lighthouse on the Hudson River in New Jersey.
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A mysterious lighthouse
In the 1919 film “Out Yonder,” which news accounts say was filmed along the New England coast, perhaps entirely in Maine, the action takes place near a lighthouse. But it isn’t clear where the lighthouse shown in the movie was located. Reviews referred to it as Great Reef Light, but that appears to be a […]
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Maine silent movie festival something to talk about
Century-old moving pictures filmed in Maine to be shown at Augusta’s historic theater next weekend, among them several involving Auburn’s Holman Day.