Brakey has long planned to move to the Granite State to run a libertarian group.
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, Maine, Religion and Values
Two Catholic churches to close next spring, including Holy Cross
Our Lady of the Rosary in Sabattus and Holy Cross in Lewiston are expected to stop offering Mass by June.
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Posted inElection 2024, Lewiston-Auburn
Gov. Janet Mills urges voters in Lewiston to ‘reject the politics of despair’
Mills touts Kamala Harris and hits Donald Trump during a Tuesday campaign stop in Lewiston.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
A year after Maine’s deadliest shooting, Lewiston searching for light in the darkness
More than 900 people gathered to remember victims of a mass shooting and honor those who helped.
Posted inNews
How a mass shooting brought Bates College closer to its community
From more student volunteers to special Halloween events, Bates has sought to emphasize ‘common ties’ to Lewiston and Auburn.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, News
Lighting up Lewiston a year after the darkness
With hope and love, survivors and residents search for ways to ‘take back’ a day that brought so much grief
Posted inElection 2024, Maine, Politics
Golden, Theriault trade jabs in final 2nd Congressional District debate
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.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, New England
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.
Posted inBooks, Lewiston-Auburn
Bates College lecturer on the longlist for National Book Award
Writer Jessica Anthony said she’s ‘startled and shocked, but thrilled.’
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
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.