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Reflections on a Villanova championship

Here's a fun one. As a Villanova graduate, I was over the moon when the basketball team won the national championship in 2016. I was...

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Mar 27, 20201 min read

One of my favorite articles from my Quad-City Times days. Kale Hyder continues to push forward in his recovery from transverse myelitis,...

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Mar 21, 20201 min read

After the death of a Bettendorf resident from asthma, the community began to question why a local fire station was staffed only by...

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Mar 21, 20201 min read

As a journalist who'd only covered elections in Rhode Island before, knowing that I would be called upon to be embedded at a caucus site...

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Mar 21, 20201 min read

As a Medicaid provider left Iowa, another one was set to come and be a second provider. Iowa privatized its Medicaid system in 2016,...

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Mar 21, 20201 min read

This was an article I had worked on right before my promotion to Narragansett Reporter for the Independent. Years later, it's one of my...

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Mar 21, 20201 min read

This is the first article for the Independent that I remember coming up with the idea for, going to the event and writing it. I saw it...

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Mar 21, 20201 min read