Critics say the power company’s advertising in favor of its $1 billion project are misleading, but both versions are both confusing and correct.
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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Program that pays farmers to provide food for hungry Mainers threatened
State lawmakers are weighing whether to allocate $3 million to continue a hunger relief program, which buys fresh produce from 75 Maine farms, for two more years.
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Searching for an old Corvette
Lisbon lawmaker Rick Mason scoured the state for more than 15 years trying to find the 1984 Corvette his father drove.
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Lewiston man pleads not guilty in Giusti death
LEWISTON — The oldest of a trio of males charged last month in the June 12, 2018, death of Donald Giusti pleaded not guilty in court Wednesday. Pierre Musafiri, 23, was charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly kicking Giusti while he lay badly injured in Knox Street after a confrontation between two groups near Kennedy […]
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Golden protests ‘gotcha politics’ move by House leaders
Lewiston Democrat says measures with bipartisan backing should be allowed to go the Senate without tying them to bills the GOP won’t support.
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An Auburn murder in 1867 led to political feud in Augusta
Maine’s top politicians clashed after the Civil War over the hanging of a former slave.
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Bates College achieves carbon neutral status to help stave off climate change
Bates is the seventh college in the country to reach its goal pronounced in 2007.
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Nobel-recognized professor: Banning nuclear weapons is possible
Speaking at Bates College, Emily Welty says ‘the world is worth fighting for.’
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Bill aims to encourage more employee-owned businesses
Sen. Nate Libby’s measure would offer tax breaks to help owners of companies sell to their workers or tenants.
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Activists hold ‘Goodbye CMP’ party in Lewiston
Group supports bill to buy out Central Maine Power to create a public electrical utility in its place.