The city would gain more than $8 million in additional tax revenue annually if New England Clean Energy Connect gets a green light.
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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Seth Carey’s unsuccessful DA race spurs effort to change law
A Turner lawmaker sponsors a bill to prevent suspended lawyers from becoming district attorneys.
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Opposition mounts to Trump plan to extend work requirement for SNAP benefits
Jared Golden said he might support the change, as long as it doesn’t hurt children or seniors, while Maine’s senators and Chellie Pingree oppose it.
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Angus King targets IRS for auditing poor Mainers more than most Americans
Piscataquis and Washington counties have more than their fair share of tax audits.
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Poland Spring might get soaked with new $100 million state tax
Lawmakers eye an extraction fee of 12 cents per gallon for Maine groundwater.
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U.S. House Republican leader assails ranked-choice voting in Maine
Republicans in Augusta and Washington are trying to stymie or repeal a voting method they say helps Democrats like Jared Golden.
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Owner of Rumford’s Hotel Harris expected to repay unhappy guests, avoid jail
James Adinolfi agrees to repay complaining customers in deal that will clear his record if he stays out of trouble for a year.
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Fleeing scene of dog attack could become a crime in Maine
Spurred by a mauling in Gardiner last summer, legislators consider creating a new law to keep owners on the scene when their dogs assault someone.
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Wayne Gallant case spurs legislators to eye ways to deal with wayward elected officials
Sen. Lisa Keim, R-Oxford, says changes are needed to protect public integrity.
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Susan Collins’ only challenger collecting cans and bottles to fund campaign
Independent Danielle Ravyn VanHelsing seeks campaign cash while cleaning up Maine.