A hundred years ago, as winter gave way to spring in Kansas, a particularly virulent strain of influenza struck some overcrowded Army camps, filling the infirmaries and straining the ability of doctors and nurses to cope. Few outsiders noticed and most of the men recovered. As quickly as the flu struck, it faded. But when […]
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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Jackman town manager seeks ‘white pride’ foothold in Maine
The manager of the small town of Jackman hopes to create a “New Albion” stronghold far from the immigrants, feminists, Muslims and others who don’t fit his white pride platform. His New Albion venture, which refers to an ancient name for Great Britain, is something he’s doing on his own. There is no indication that […]
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George Popham, Ronald Reagan and Maine’s role in America’s first Thanksgiving
Just before the last ship returned to England in the fall of 1607, leaving the Popham colonists to face a brutal Maine winter, the colonists reached out to a nearby friendly Indian named Nahaniida.
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Holman Day was a newsman, novelist, poet
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the Lewiston Journal Magazine on Jan. 18, 1969. Every day the normal flow of traffic swishes by the Victorian-style house that stands on the corner of Goff and Court streets, and the drivers seldom take a second look at it. But each year, when the magnolia tree beside […]