The two leading congressional contenders in Maine’s 2nd District have similar war chests heading into a tough race.
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.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Bates College aims for a new union vote by its employees
Bates hopes the national labor board will rule in its favor on who can join the union and order a new vote by eligible workers who want one.
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Posted inAndroscoggin County, Election 2022, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills
Seth Carey loses case against district attorney hopeful
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows rules Carey failed to prove DA contender Neal McLean Jr. did anything wrong.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Schools & Education
Controversy swirls around process for RSU 16 budget vote
Directors urge revision of a pamphlet prepared by the district that urged abolishing the annual budget vote at the polls.
Posted inElection 2022, Lewiston-Auburn
Lewiston city councilor seeks state House seat
Robert McCarthy announces intention to take on incumbent Democrat Margaret Craven
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local Sports, Maine, Maine colleges, Sports
Bates College accused of racial discrimination by its former football coach
Malik Hall, replaced as coach last year, filed a civil rights lawsuit last week against the elite Lewiston college that once employed him
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, River Valley
Lawmakers back long-sought upgrade of Androscoggin River water quality
Legislators unanimously endorse upping water standards from Lisbon Falls to Merrymeeting Bay.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Election 2022, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills
Seth Carey fails to offer evidence against district attorney hopeful
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows says she will issue ruling within the five days required by law.
Posted inbPlus
A boat, a pole, a dead husband. The tale of Katherine Cornish, Maine’s first execution for murder
Maine’s first murder trial, in 1644, was for a self-admitted adulteress who was found guilty with ample acknowledgment she was a “hussey” and a shocking lack of evidence she was a murderer.
Posted inMaine, Nation / World, Politics
Maine’s senators generally favor US Supreme Court nominees
Voting against Ketanji Brown Jackson’s bid for a Supreme Court seat would mark a break in Pine Tree State tradition.