Trust Project Awards, New Nicknames Picked, Debt Ceiling Talks
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Formerly Incarcerated Women Seek Justice for Prison Rape; Spotlight on Bedford Case
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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Stone’s Throw: Big Donors, Small Donors, Our Local Congressmen and Reform
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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Opioid Crisis: What the Massive Settlement Money Means for Our Communities
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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Carmel Restaurant Owner Targeted with Anti-LGBTQ Hate
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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Homework Overload: Balancing Education with Sanity
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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Standing Up Against Threats – A Tale of Two Journalism Projects
‘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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This Column About Nothing Spotlights Several Significant Somethings
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 MoreTouché! Fencers, PR Pros, and Landscapers, Oh My.
The 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
Read MoreCheever Recollects, Antonaccio Hosts, Hochul Comments
This is a sample from our award-winning bonus content Examiner+ newsletter. Way back in 2007, when freelancing for a brief period of time, I secured a green light on a story pitch to a now-defunct local Gannett business magazine for
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