A wealthy Wisconsin conservative is funding a push by organizers for a ballot question next fall.
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 2020, Maine, Politics
Analysis: All eyes are on Maine’s 2nd District
The White House may hinge on whether Donald Trump won voters in rural Maine
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Posted inElection 2020, Maine, Politics
Golden leads in bid for second term in U.S. House
Preliminary results show Democrat Jared Golden ahead of Republican Dale Crafts.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Election 2020, Lewiston-Auburn, Politics
Durham voters approve creation of town manager position
DURHAM — Voters on Tuesday endorsed a plan to hire a town manager. By a 1,479-1,085 margin, residents agreed with officials who said the growing town needed more administrative oversight. Voters also endorsed spending money to find someone to fill the job. Town voters shot down a proposal to allow commercial marijuana businesses in Durham.
Posted inElection 2020, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, Politics
Take a deep breath and remember we’re all in this together, local leaders say
Efforts underway in Lewiston and Auburn to bridge political divide and protect election results, whatever they are.
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Maine Crime, Politics
Max Linn calls Nirav Shah a ‘death doctor’ and Janet Mills a ‘psychopath’
Independent U.S. Senate hopeful lashes out in campaign’s final days against those he thinks are stifling freedom with rules to thwart COVID-19.
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, Politics
Voters decide Tuesday whether Jared Golden should get a second term
Republican Dale Crafts hopes to unseat the Lewiston Democrat in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District.
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Lewiston-Auburn
Democrats try to round up votes in Lewiston
Sara Gideon and Joseph Kennedy headline separate rallies in bid to boost party loyalists
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Three Bates College students test positive for COVID-19
There are now four active student cases at the college, which had been doing well at fending off the disease.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
Durham voters to decide on hiring a town manager
Tuesday’s ballot also includes question on marijuana businesses.