Senior Investigative Reporter @wbur in Boston; past: @wwno @wrkf @wamu885.

Joined April 2010
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Hurricanes can unleash toxic chemicals from facilities through storm surge, wind damage and power loss. I looked at this issue for @WBUR and found that most facilities in MA don't have backup power, a safeguard that can help prevent accidents. READ: bit.ly/3Y3lNdo

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congrats sir!
šŸ“°šŸ“° I'm very excited to say that next month I'll be starting at @BostonGlobe as a political reporter covering state and local politics. I'm looking forward to continuing to cover the crazy world of Massachusetts politics, including Beacon Hill and the 2026 elections. #mapoli
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Congrats!
It's true. I'm heading off on a fabulous new adventure at @MSNBC. Beyond excited. And SO grateful to my @washingtonpost family for making me who I am. Rooting for you, my dear friends and colleagues, to keep shining a light, when our country needs you. Best - Carol
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Mid press-scrum on the Ukraine-Russia peace talks today, about an hour after I found out I’d been laid off due to budget cuts at @WGBH and @TheWorld. We’re living through interesting times. Will miss covering it with some of the best people I’ve ever met.
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Interesting to see media promoting specific prop bets to wager on.
This week’s TAIL OR FADE on @FDSportsbook — I pick an o/u player prop, you apply a 50% profit boost token to either side in the tail or fade tab on the app. Today’s pick: I’m going OVER 30.5 points for Jalen Brunson. I think he shows up in a big way. Tail or fade?
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Important to note that the coverage is being pushed by a broadcaster for the Yankees (not Mets.)
The discourse around Juan Soto in NY right now is crazy. Everything he does gets scrutinized. In a game where you fail 7 out of 10 times every failure is being held against him. Everything he’s doing is under a microscope. Is he hustling? What does his body language mean? Should he have laid out for this ball? Some of it is the NY media (loud radio guy screaming at him for walking too much). But a big part of it is the contract he signed. Placed a target on his back. Expectations are impossible to meet. He did nothing wrong for the record. You want to hop around and chase the bag, that’s perfectly fine. Capitalism. America. The market dictates your worth. All that stuff . But it feels like this is becoming a warning to players coming after him with these mega deals. The money is bigger and greener but the grass may not be.
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Listen to Rumeysa Ozturk’s tearful friends describe ā€œa sweet, caring soulā€ who throws interfaith dinner parties and organizes shifts at a homeless shelter. She’s now in an ICE cell in Louisiana; a bail hearing is underway
#FreeRumeysa WBUR's @Patrick_Madden reports: For Ozturk's friends and teachers, her ongoing detention and absence from the Medford campus is personal and painful. wbur.org/news/2025/05/09/rum…
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H̶a̶v̶l̶i̶c̶e̶k̶ Bridges Stole The Ball! #KnicksTape
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"I mean, do they want to dismantle public health?" "We're really talking about deaths." My latest for @NPR is an investigation into a new Louisiana health department policy to ban the promotion of life-saving vaccines.
🚨BREAKING🚨 The Louisiana Department of Health has forbid its staff from promoting COVID, flu or mpox vaccines. It's a dramatic shift in vaccine policy, and a strict and sweeping ban that applies to all aspects of the health department's work. npr.org/sections/shots-healt…
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Morning Mass! ā˜€ļø Knowledge is power. The audit law takes effect today, according to the @SecretaryOfMass. While it’s Mr. Secretary’s right to verbally support legislative leaders’ fight for another 30 days & verbally agree w them that the courts decided this matter — our office encourages taxpayers to reflect upon written guidance from SOS, that aligns w the Constitution, stating verbatim that ā€œthe law takes effect..December 5, 2024ā€. While we recognize & fully accept that some may view the law as ambiguous, this matter has NOT been decided by the courts according to written guidance from SOS, so we are pressing forward with a letter to legislators today, to re-engage on our audit —backed by the Constitution and SOS written guidance that reaffirms our position. #mapoli sec.state.ma.us/divisions/el…
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RT @feliciasonmez: Blue Ridge Public Radio is in the midst of a critical, two-day fund drive to support our coverage of Hurricane Helene an…

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A grave at sea? A sea grave? ...
100 yr old coffin with human skeleton found along the shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Calvert County. @CalvertSheriff @nbcwashington nbcwashington.com/news/local…
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Patrick Madden retweeted
It’s true. For real. @clancygambit is retiring. Congrats, friend.
It’s official. Thank you, ⁦@dcbigjohn⁩ and the talented staff at Gambit, The Times-Picayune & The Advocate — and thanks to the many readers who have followed (and critiqued) me over the years. BTW, I’ll still do my Tuesday Commentary on WWLTV. nola.com/gambit/news/the_lat…
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We audited DCF because we need to do better by our kids who’ve been traumatized and suffer from mental health issues. #mapoli You can read the full report on our website mass.gov/auditor OR in the @BostonGlobe at bostonglobe.com/2024/11/07/m…
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Seriously?!? That’s a travesty.
It just hit me: there are *TWO* reporters left at @wamu885, a station that covers a metropolitan area of 6 million people. That’s one-tenth the size the newsroom was two years ago, and the smallest it has been in two decades.
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How does this happen? Why did this happen? And why won’t officials answer simple questions about it? Bribery doesn’t matter? NEWS - DC contractor guilty of giving bribes still involved in lottery contract - Axios Washington D.C. axios.com/local/washington-d…
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The power of data.
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I wonder why.
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Thou gotta believe. šŸ™Œ
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