The candidates for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District seat cover familiar ground in their third and final debate, sparring over the economy, immigration and gun rights.
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.
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Boston eyes $8 billion rail plan that would benefit Maine
A new ‘Rail Link’ between North and South stations would ease passenger rail between Maine and the rest of America.
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Bates College lecturer on the longlist for National Book Award
Writer Jessica Anthony said she’s ‘startled and shocked, but thrilled.’
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Bates College students narrowly avoid disaster in bus accident
A neighbor rescued about 20 first-year Bates students trapped in a bus tilting over a ‘very steep bank’ in rural Maine.
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Plans underway to commemorate Lewiston mass shooting anniversary
Organizers are putting together free event at The Colisèe on Oct. 25 to mark Lewiston’s darkest day.
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Republicans take aim at Jared Golden’s refusal to disclose his presidential preference
Experts say remaining mum likely won’t hurt the Lewiston Democrat at the polls.
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2nd District candidate to drive in race to benefit Lewiston shooting victims
State Rep. Austin Theriault, who was a NASCAR driver before his political career, hopes to unseat three-term U.S. Rep. Jared Golden in November.
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‘A brilliant scholar’: Bates College professor Sue Houchins dies at 80
The respected scholar and gifted teacher had been on the faculty of the Lewiston college since 2003.
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Schemengees Bar & Grille co-owner David Lebel dies at 57
The Lebels bought Schemengees more than a quarter century ago because, they once said, they both loved pool so much.
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Three congressional candidate debates slated in Maine’s 2nd District
Jared Golden and Austin Theriault plan to face off three times in six days in early October. None of the debates are in Lewiston.