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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PublishedMarch 13, 2020
Bates College to close its campus and send students home
Bates was the last NESCAC college to yield to the coronavirus.
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PublishedMarch 11, 2020
Fake flyers at Bates showed ‘blatant disregard’ for efforts to inform community of COVID-19 dangers
College officials decried the hoax and urged students, faculty and staff to ignore the flyers, which carried a forged signature of Bates’ president.
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2020
Republicans, Democrats split on whether to back Question 1
Maine Republican candidates favor vaccine referendum, Democrats oppose it and independents vary on how to vote.
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PublishedFebruary 25, 2020
Maine charity working to preserve languages worldwide
Rockland activists, whose work is featured in new Netflix documentary airing Friday in Camden, seeks social justice by preserving, fostering rare languages.
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PublishedFebruary 22, 2020
Susan Collins complains about misleading campaign advertising
At Republican dinner Saturday in Lewiston that barred the press, Maine’s senior senator expresses hope for winning a fifth term this year.
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2020
Abortion foe from Auburn to challenge Susan Collins
Linda Wooten, a former Republican state committee member, is entering the U.S. Senate race as “the only pro-life candidate.”
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2020
Once wary, Eric Brakey has come to embrace Donald Trump
The Republican congressional hopeful once called him “a disaster,” but now, locked in a three-way primary, views Trump as “the best president in my lifetime.”
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2020
Bates College breaks record for Fulbright award winners
The top Fulbright producer among liberal arts college for two of the past three years, Bates’ 24 honorees this year are the most any college of its type has ever had.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2020
Environmental regulators say Lewiston scrap metal firm violated clean water laws
Grimmel Industries and two related companies in Oakland and Topsham must pay a $250,000 fine to the EPA and end pollution practices.
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PublishedFebruary 7, 2020
Susan Collins says she doesn’t know who she’ll vote for in November
After refusing to back Donald Trump in 2016, Maine’s senior senator said Friday she hasn’t thought about whether to back him at the polls this year.
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