Candidates in televised debate offer different takes on a wide array of issues.
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 inElection 2022, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
Tiffany Bond is only candidate to attend first 2nd District debate
Rep. Jared Golden and Bruce Poliquin skipped event hosted by Maine Public
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Odors from a polluted Androscoggin River used to peel paint off houses
The river’s staggering stench in days past defied description, though many tried in newspapers, politics and even poetry.
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The Androscoggin River has been an ever-changing resource
A quick overview of the river that made the growth of Lewiston and Auburn possible.
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Chapter 19: A dramatic moment in the trial
The high point of the trial, without a doubt, occurred just before Maine Attorney General Harris Plaisted called Thomas Dwight, an anatomy professor at Bowdoin College who became the father of forensic anthropology, to take the stand.
Posted inElection 2022, Maine
Jared Golden earns support from gun rights advocates
In 2nd District race, Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine gives Golden an A+ and challenger Bruce Poliquin an A.
Posted inElection 2022, Maine, Politics
Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia hails Maine Rep. Jared Golden’s independence from party leaders
Two lawmakers defend the Inflation Reduction Act that has been criticized harshly by Republicans.
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Maine’s northernmost resident tells US Postal Service, ‘I exist’
A 67-year-old veteran in Estcourt Station has trash and recycling collection, a telephone, electricity and a paved road, but he cannot get mail.
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Chapter 18: A visit to Switzerland Road
Eben Pillsbury, an attorney for accused killer James M. “Jim” Lowell, had suggested the visit, telling the judge that in seeing the spot, jurors “might better understand its surroundings.”
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Beloved ‘Old Man of the Falls’ no match for ‘progress’
After crews dynamited a rock formation at Lewiston Falls in 1899, it began to succumb to the Androscoggin River it once overlooked.