Right on time, Maine’s newest national monument celebrates the work of one heroic American woman — and the beautiful home and grounds that supported it.
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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Time for Maine to refresh its US Capitol statues | Steve Collins
Nothing against Hannibal Hamlin or William King, but we’ve got so much more to say about ourselves.
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Angus King III should take aim at Susan Collins instead | Steve Collins
Mainers might just back a father-son team in the U.S. Senate.
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A fight may loom over tiny Machias Seal Island | Steve Collins
Lobster-loving Republicans are eyeing Gulf of Maine territory claimed by both the U.S. and Canada.
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Muhammad Ali told Lewiston its most important fight wasn’t his — and it’s still going on | Steve Collins
The city’s new statue of Ali honors the boxer who reminded the city of what’s really important.
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Like it or not, Susan Collins and Jared Golden have Mainers’ respect | Steve Collins
What do they stand for? Better to ignore the hardliners and ask the quiet crowd in the middle.
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Paul LePage’s election math doesn’t add up | Steve Collins
Gov. Janet Mills won a second term by a margin so large that it would have been obvious if it was illegitimate. It wasn’t.
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It won’t be enough to stop the fighting in Ukraine | Steve Collins
War crimes investigators need to continue building cases to haul offenders to justice.
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Portland offers insight into Pope Leo’s Black heritage | Steve Collins
From 1875 to 1900, a former slave guided Maine’s largest diocese, passing for white.
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At least so far, Jared Golden is not a man with a plan | Steve Collins
The 2nd District congressman certainly isn’t hurting for options, however, when it comes to his political future.