The inventor of the direct current defibrillator will be featured as part of the mint’s American Innovations series.
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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Jared Golden and Republican challengers differ sharply on abortion issue
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Bates College agrees to pay former coach’s children sickened by mold in college-owned house
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Lewiston massacre spurs creation of an anthology of Maine stories
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Lewiston bowling alley preparing to reopen after mass shooting
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Fund opens applications for aid to Lewiston mass shooting victims
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