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With his best friend and sister Dollyne Bohn living hours away, in Delaware County, Pa., the 2020 pandemic year was a punishing time for our late digital editor, Robert Schork. Holed up in his Yonkers home, Robert was devastated to
Read moreThis is a sample of our Examiner+ newsletter. Hi all, Before we get at a few of today’s news items, a quick word about The Trust Project. Last spring, we gained entry into the project, and have been working hard ever since
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Nowadays, in her free time, you might find Mia Wheeler flashing her incredible street roller skating skills. It’s a hobby that helps divert her mind temporarily from the ghastly memories. But before she turned her life around, Wheeler had no
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The funding of political campaigns, as we already know, is heavily influenced by big money contributions, to put it mildly. In fact, here in New York, just the top 200 donors last year contributed nearly $16 million, surpassing the combined
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It was October 2013, and the opioid overdose epidemic was raging. Ardsley’s Harris Marquesano, 19, had a job interview the next day. Popular, kind and athletic, Marquesano had been diagnosed years earlier with an anxiety disorder, and later with ADHD.
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The owner of The Hangout Cafe, a local restaurant in Carmel, filed a police report last week after being the target of anti-LGBTQ hate. Friends and colleagues have taken to social media to rally to the restaurant proprietor’s support. The owner,
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The Kids are Not All Right I went into this reporting process loaded for bear. The target of my ire was homework – especially for high school students – and what seems to be the preposterous volume of after school
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‘Boss Hogg’ Wannabes Exposed by Local Newspaper in Oklahoma When I first spotted a Tulsa TV news anchor’s tweet two weekends ago about the horrifying threats leveled against local newspaper journalists in McCurtaind County, Okla., I immediately thought of my
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I hesitated for a full minute before pulling the trigger on this column, but then after a gulp of early Saturday afternoon espresso, I said to myself, “Self, if the show about nothing is good enough for Seinfeld, the column
Read moreThe following is a sample of our award-winning, bonus content Examiner+ Newsletter. In the very early Examiner days, maybe in the fall of 2007 or the spring of 2008, I remember pounding the pavement in Mount Kisco, and coming across
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