Homeless say they are feeling the heat as the city presses its Neighborhood First initiative.
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.
Posted inBethel, Maine, Oxford Hills
Fox may not want Tucker Carlson, but Bryant Pond does
The former Fox News TV show host ‘is just regular, old folk’ to people around town.
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Posted inSchools & Education
Volunteers sought for Futures Task Force in Poland-based school district
POLAND — Regional School Unit 16 is looking for “highly motivated, collaborative and analytical individuals” to join its Futures Task Force. According to a news release from the three-town school district, the goal of the task force “is to develop and present recommendations to the school board in September 2023 to achieve cost savings and […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Brazilian journalist threatened by country’s president to speak in Maine
Patricia Campos Mello to tell her story at Bates and Maine Law next week.
Posted inMaine, Nation / World
Jared Golden floats compromise to fend off debt crisis in Washington
Lawmaker urges president and the U.S. House speaker to cut a deal on the budget to prevent a federal default on debt payments.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Musse plans a memorial and a youth shelter in Jigjiga
Maine Somali leader said she won’t let shooter defeat her quest to help people
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Maine community rallied to help save Fowsia Musse after shooting
After being shot in Ethiopia, Musse needed advanced care only available in America.
Posted inFranklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
Career and technical centers seek more money from Legislature
Lewiston and Farmington centers are among those pushing for a funding increase to bolster career education.
Posted inElections, Maine, Politics
Brunswick Democrat is first to enter the 2024 U.S. Senate race in Maine
David Costello hails incumbent Angus King but argues that major reform is needed in the nation’s capital.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Timeline
1982 — Fowsia Musse is born in Somalia 1989 — Fleeing the violence in Somalia, Musse moves with her family to the Somali regional state in neighboring Ethiopia 1995 — Musse, one of nine children, arrives in the United States as a refugee at the age of 14. 2019 — Juweriya Subcis is chosen for […]