A journalist since 1987, Steve Collins has worked for daily newspapers in New York, Connecticut and Maine. He has served as the State House reporter for the Sun Journal since 2016. Among his awards are the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2016 Ethics in Journalism Award and the I.F. Stone Whistle-Blower Award in 2015. Collins 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-Collins, 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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PublishedFebruary 17, 2022
Great Falls Forum: Battling conspiracy theories is all about listening
Bates College professor Stephanie Kelley-Romano said when people feel left out and disempowered, “they are going to look for some sort of explanation.”
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PublishedFebruary 17, 2022
Bates College plans to renovate historic Chase Hall
Displaced offices and student groups will move temporarily to the former convent the college bought last year from St. Mary’s
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2022
Minot native faces more charges in light of new evidence of his role at US Capitol riot
Mitch Simon allegedly threw something at embattled police and tussled with officers Jan. 6, 2021, at a barricade.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2022
Gov. Janet Mills’ plan could boost Maine’s community colleges
In Auburn on Friday, Mills laid out the case for students to attend two-year colleges for free.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2022
Capitol riot not ‘legitimate political discourse,’ Maine Republicans say
But congressional hopefuls Bruce Poliquin and Liz Caruso stop short of saying Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
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PublishedFebruary 7, 2022
Lawmakers tell Massachusetts to stop sending its waste to Maine
Committee endorses bill that limits out-of-state construction debris and likely hurts a Lewiston firm caught in the middle
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2022
The day the dirty trickster apologized to Muskie
Twenty-one months after the Canuck letter came out, Nixon campaign operative Donald Segretti sent Muskie an apology. The Muskie Archives has it at Bates College in Lewiston. “Dear Senator Muskie,” the by-then convicted dirty trickster wrote on Oct. 11, 1973, “I wish to personally apologize to you, your family and your staff for my activities […]
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2022
Maine’s Edmund Muskie: ‘Good-humored’ but with a ‘temper that verged on the volcanic’
Known for his environmental legacy, Muskie, according to then-Sen. Joe Biden, ‘never believed that a career in politics obliged his head to divorce his heart.’
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2022
How Mainer Edmund Muskie’s tirade a half-century ago may have cost him the White House
One of the most successful dirty tricks in American political history wiped away the presidential hopes of Rumford’s favorite son in 1972.
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2022
Newborns in Maine may soon be screened for dangerous – and common – virus
Lawmakers are poised to endorse a bill that would establish rules for checking babies for CMV, a virus that can lead to hearing loss and cerebral palsy.
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