Steve Collins

Sun Journal

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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August 18, 2021

Maine lawmaker insists ‘this is war’ to block vaccine mandates

State Rep. Laurel Libby is a leading figure in the fight against the state’s edict that health care workers get COVID-19 vaccines.
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August 16, 2021

Bates College tells students, faculty and staff they must wear masks

Reversing fall plans, the Lewiston college tells its mostly-vaccinated community that high COVID-19 rates in Lewiston require a return to a mask mandate on campus.
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August 4, 2021

Bruce Poliquin’s bid for his old position fascinates Maine politics professors

Several keen observers said Jared Golden may be stronger than Republicans think — and Poliquin may face trouble in a primary.
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August 4, 2021

Bruce Poliquin seeks to reclaim his old seat in Congress

The two-term Republican hopes to knock out the Lewiston Democrat, who beat him in 2018, in next year’s U.S. House race in Maine’s 2nd District.
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August 1, 2021

The untold story of a 1964 Tokyo Olympic Maine silver medalist

Glo Perrier is one of two Lewiston natives known to have won medals at the Olympics.
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July 28, 2021

With vaccine mandates for students in place, Bates College eyes a return to near normal in the fall

Vaccinated students will no longer need masks and won’t have to stay 6 feet apart anymore as most COVID-19 restrictions are dropped at the Lewiston campus.
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July 27, 2021

Bates College seeks to reduce heated interactions between students and campus security

A new report on campus safety urges more residential life staffers and greater effort to ease tensions between safety officers and students at the Lewiston college.
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July 26, 2021

New state law aims to help former prisoners get jobs

In most cases, employers will not be allowed to ask applicants about criminal history on applications, though they can do so during job interviews.
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July 25, 2021

At the 1924 Olympics, Maine’s Bob LeGendre leaped into history

For several years in the 1920s, Americans hailed LeGendre, a world-record holder and Olympic medalist, as the best athlete in the country and possibly the world.
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July 21, 2021

America’s water systems are vulnerable to a Pearl Harbor-level cyberattack, Angus King warns

Maine’s junior senator said the nation faces “an extremely dangerous situation” until it bolsters its security against web-based attacks on critical infrastructure.