Calling for ‘a political exorcism,’ Heath vows to oust Janet Mills in the 2022 election.
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 inLewiston-Auburn
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Bates College urges renewed focus on racial justice
Activist Angela Davis kicked off a daylong, online session of events aimed at confronting historical injustice and pressing for progress.
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Posted inBusiness, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
Controversial power project gets final permit, but CMP may have to wait for construction to start
A federal appeals court called a halt to some work pending further review of a legal case brought by foes of the hydropower transmission line through western Maine.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Nation / World
Minot man who marched at Capitol says crowd full of ‘patriots’
Mitch Simon, whom some have called a terrorist, says he did not enter the building or see any sign of the antifa agitators he expected during last week’s siege in Washington, D.C.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, Politics
Eric Brakey backs termination of former Young Americans for Liberty leader
Former state senator from Auburn says sexual misconduct charges shook his faith in the leadership of the libertarian group that employs him as a policy advisor.
Posted inMaine, Politics
Legislators weigh measure that would allow nicknames on ballots
Governor worries some might choose nicknames like “The Greatest” or “The People’s Hero” instead of the names they really use.
Posted inElection 2020, Maine
Max Linn was among ‘happy, joyful’ crowd in Washington as insurgents stormed U.S. Capitol
Failed U.S. Senate candidate from Bar Harbor said he thought it would be a “victory party.”
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Politics
Bates president says Capitol assault laid bare ‘ugly truths’ nation must face
Bates College President Clayton Spencer said higher education depends on truth, evidence and ‘a culture of persuasion rather than violence.’
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
First babies of the new year welcomed in Lewiston
Two hospitals in Lewiston each welcomed a baby Friday to kick off 2021.
Posted inBethel, The Bethel Citizen
Friday morning fire in Bethel sends woman to hospital
A woman suffered burns after a fire broke out in a mobile home just after midnight on Friday morning.