Lewiston and Farmington centers are among those pushing for a funding increase to bolster career education.
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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Brunswick Democrat is first to enter the 2024 U.S. Senate race in Maine
David Costello hails incumbent Angus King but argues that major reform is needed in the nation’s capital.
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Timeline
1982 — Fowsia Musse is born in Somalia 1989 — Fleeing the violence in Somalia, Musse moves with her family to the Somali regional state in neighboring Ethiopia 1995 — Musse, one of nine children, arrives in the United States as a refugee at the age of 14. 2019 — Juweriya Subcis is chosen for […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Gunman who killed Somali lawmaker faces execution
Authorities in Ethiopia announced the man’s conviction but provided little more information.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Fowsia Musse recounts how she survived a shooting spree in Ethiopia
Somali leader in Lewiston nearly died in an airport during a family trip in October.
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Fowsia Musse overwhelmed by support
The only time tears flowed during Fowsia Musse’s long discussion of an October shooting spree and its aftermath came when a reporter asked her about the help she got from others during her recovery. “There’s no amount of pay-it-forward that I can do in my lifetime, whatever’s left of my life, to say thank you […]
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
Legislators ponder bill that would let many Maine renters keep pets
Committee hears strong opinions pro and con on a measure that would force many landlords to allow dogs, cats and other pets.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
State panel urged to hold down rate increase for CMP
A public hearing in Lewiston Tuesday drew a handful of people worried about utility bills
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
Bates College withdraws union case from labor board
LEWISTON — Bates College formally withdrew its request Monday for the National Labor Relations Board to review the issue of whether all of its union-eligible employees can be in the same union. The college said the issue is moot now because its workers voted against joining a union. The NLRB, a federal agency in the […]
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How drunken revelers and ‘witches’ likely inspired the naming of Merrymeeting Bay
Historians doubt that the unusual bay where the Androscoggin River ends got its name from happy surveyors or a confluence of rivers.