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 5, 2020
Eric Brakey holds fundraising lead in race for 2nd Congressional District
He will join two other Republicans in a debate Thursday at Lewiston Middle School.
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2020
Voters in Maine to make presidential picks March 3
A referendum on a new vaccination law will also be on the ballot.
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PublishedFebruary 2, 2020
Harlem’s Baby College starts young
Latasha Morgan, director of the Baby College at the Harlem Children’s Zone, makes the Energizer Bunny look like a slacker. Morgan, who has worked for the New York nonprofit for 18 years, said its Baby College is a pretty simple concept: It takes about 75 parents of newborns and has them attend nine consecutive Saturday […]
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PublishedFebruary 1, 2020
Lewiston educators head to Harlem in search of ideas to address poverty
What they saw, they said, might help transform the community by raising students and families from generations of hardship.
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PublishedFebruary 1, 2020
Lewiston educators head to Harlem in search of ideas to address poverty
What they saw, they said, might help transform the community by raising students and families from generations of hardship.
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2020
Lewiston looks to Harlem programs to spur change
Officials see an opportunity to copy some Harlem Children’s Zone programs to help combat poverty in troubled neighborhoods.
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PublishedJanuary 29, 2020
Social Security administrators say their agency is getting barraged with scam complaints
A Senate hearing led by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday delved into a growing problem of con artists impersonating government officials to cheat Americans out of their savings.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2020
Kapow! Black artists break the comic book mold
Five African-American artists talked recently about making their way through the changing world of comic books.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2020
Kapow! Black artists break the comic book mold
Five African-American artists talked recently about making their way through the changing world of comic books.
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PublishedJanuary 22, 2020
Three decades late, Small Business Administration eyes help for rural Maine
Federal bureaucrats never established the Office of Rural Affairs when it was mandated in 1990, but after a California representative took action to get it going, financial assistance for business development in states like Maine may finally get off the ground.
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