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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PublishedApril 7, 2021
Harvard honors the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner Bernard Lown
The 99-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner who died in February was hailed in an online celebration of his life.
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PublishedApril 6, 2021
Number of COVID-19 cases at Bates College keeps rising
Bates College has 77 COVID-19 cases among students and two-thirds of its isolation housing is full.
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PublishedApril 5, 2021
With COVID-19 cases surging on campus, Bates College extends its lockdown
The Lewiston-based campus hit a new high of 60 active cases among students after it locked down the campus last week.
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PublishedApril 1, 2021
Bates College imposes temporary quarantine to slow COVID-19 outbreak
With 34 active cases, students are told to stay inside their rooms until next Tuesday to reduce spread of highly contagious virus.
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PublishedMarch 30, 2021
Lawmakers consider banning release of most balloons in Maine
Aiming to protect wildlife from latex litter, environmentalists urge the Legislature to bar people from intentionally releasing balloons.
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PublishedMarch 26, 2021
The heartache behind the dry words of a Maine bill on funeral vehicle safety
A widow seeks more regulation of funeral home vehicles after her husband died driving one in 2017.
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PublishedMarch 26, 2021
Bates says it has the capacity to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to students
College plan will depend on vaccine supply, dropping age restrictions
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PublishedMarch 23, 2021
Maine may allow Viking-style funeral pyres
Legislature is weighing whether to make open-air cremation legal in Maine.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2021
Maine map gap: Bad federal maps muddle route to better broadband
State and federal maps offer little more than a vague impression of where high-speed internet exists and where it does not.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2021
Atlanta killings spur Bates College president to defend Asian Americans
Clayton Spencer said ‘anti-Asian bias has reached disturbing levels’ and called on Lewiston college ‘to act for justice.’
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