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Reporter, energy & environment, @wvpublic . @UKJAMschool . Dog dad who got a second chance. Son & grandson of immigrants. He/him.

Charleston, WV
Joined June 2009
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The Louisville mayor just fired the police chief.
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If anyone else said that, wouldn’t we call him a piece of trash?
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Here’s video of Trump Advisor Stephen Miller in high school screaming he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” Would be a shame if it went viral... again.
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Lot going on in this CDC briefing. We're told to expect 'community spread' of coronavirus, much like what's happening in South Korea and Italy. Schools may need to close, mass public gatherings may need to be modified, postponed or canceled. 'Significant disruptions' possible.
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Advice for young reporters: 1. Cover a city government or a statehouse. There are plenty of reporters covering Congress. 2. Get a dog. 3. Hydrate. Class dismissed.
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The Sandy Hook shooter's first victim was his mother.
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The gunman was a student at Uvalde High School, and shot his own grandmother before going to the elementary school and killing 14 students and a teacher, according to local reports
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Good on @TexasTribune for cutting through the hogwash about the state’s power emergency.
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To clarify, four of five members of this energy regulatory panel were appointed by Trump. All five members rejected his plan to subsidize coal and nuclear power.
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Unanimous & binding decision from FERC rejecting Trump plan to prop up coal & nuclear power:
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Curtis L. Tate 🤷‍♂️
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A quick reminder that on the same day David Dinkins was elected the first Black mayor of New York, Douglas Wilder was elected the first Black governor of Virginia.
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From 1989: RIP David Dinkins
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Curtis L. Tate 🤷‍♂️
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Putting the @Ford announcement into perspective: The Kentucky campus will employ 5,000 workers. In 2020, there were only 3,500 coal mine jobs left statewide.
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It was malpractice to not teach about this in school. It still is.
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CLIP: Complete statement from 107-year-old Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre: "I'm here seeking justice and I'm asking my country to acknowledge what happened in Tulsa in 1921." Full hearing Tulsa Race Massacre now on C-SPAN2.
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Did Elon buy Southwest and I missed it?
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@jbouie Imagine being so tone-deaf that one day of paid sick leave is a 'sweetheart deal.'
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Have you bothered to confront the leaders who have let the subway deteriorate to the breaking point? Unless you do that, you’re not even remotely serious. Get off the platform.
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Subway fare beaters are costing New York millions — so @InsideEdition decided to confront them.
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@Realronmexico99 @ByRosenberg @EdwerderRFA Except that information is losing. Disinformation is winning.
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If it weren't for the efforts of @BostonGlobe @GlobeSpotlight investigative reporters, we wouldn't have known the extent of Bernard Law's role in the cover-up of decades of child sexual abuse by priests in Boston. Remember that:
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Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson shared with me a photo of his great-grandfather, Richard Goodwin, who was a Pullman porter on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Goodwin was also an officer in the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
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I've come up with a drag name for George Santos. Lies A. Minelli
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@ziplamak This is how it went down for me a few years ago. Lost my grandmother and my sister in less than a year. Mom had major surgery, then COVID. I lost a dear friend, got a divorce, walked away from my career, came back, and left again. Still recovering.
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Curtis L. Tate 🤷‍♂️
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@jpeebles @JillGeisler Replace him with ... Ida B. Wells?
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As @KevinMKruse reminds us, you'll learn far more by paying attention to history than to cable news pundits.
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Crowd of a few hundred chants 'shame on Mitch' outside American Legion in Lawrenceburg KY.
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Who covers your school boards, town councils, planning commissions, neighborhoods, police and fire departments, mayors and community events? Local journalists. Thank them.
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@goldengateblond @ashtonpittman If only money could buy brains.
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White southerners did this to black southerners for nearly a century after Reconstruction.
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Fox News @JonScottFNC "To the Muslim community, if you don't want to be portrayed in a negative light don't burn people alive/set off bombs"
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Required reading for those covering Pence and coronavirus: @courierjournal reporting on the largest HIV outbreak in America, in the small town of Austin, Indiana. Here is the package. Save it and cite it.
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@samjmintz Just amazing that he, of all people, turns out to be a menace to public safety in Baltimore.
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@soledadobrien Losing my younger sister, my only sibling, to an aggressive and untreatable form of breast cancer is an agony that will far outlast this impeachment trial.
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City officials in South Charleston, West Virginia, knew Union Carbide was monitoring the groundwater near an industrial landfill in 2010. According to testimony in federal court, it appears the public didn't find out for almost a decade:
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In a just media environment, Nikole Hannah-Jones would have tenure, Emily Wilder would still have her job and Chris Cuomo would no longer have his. But we know how it really is.
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Irony of Trump's budget for Appalachia: Clinton pledged to finish region's highway system but he proposes to eliminate agency that built it.
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@MadScientistFF Call me collect.
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I’m still giddy that a high school newspaper broke big news in Kentucky today. We need to support our high school and college newspapers.
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It's good to finally know what we thought happened last Thursday actually happened. But it's frustrating that it took a week to get official confirmation.
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@tanzinavega It could be worse: I was dealing with the loss of my sister, extended unemployment and a divorce in the months before the pandemic started.
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Another observation: Pete is a good retail politician. He shook the hand of every construction worker we saw on the tour and many of the residents (and also a dog). He didn't do all the talking in the roundtable. He seemed genuinely interested in what local leaders had to say.
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I'm watching a room full of white male senators ask questions about the CROWN Act in WV. And yes, it's as bad as you might expect it to be.
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The contrasting scene inside the American Legion Hall where @SenateMajLdr is about to speak. Protesters outside outnumber folks in here.
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I've seen school buses crushed by trains and ravaged by fire. But I'm struggling to understand what physical forces it took to separate this bus from its chassis:
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@franklinleonard And free speech until they don’t like the speech.
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The 1980s were a great time to be a grade-school student who was interested in space. The shuttle missions, Voyager. We remember the day of the Challenger disaster but also when the missions resumed. And we had our own teachers who were trained as astronauts.
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If you're one of Appalachian Power's West Virginia electricity customers, good news. The state Public Service Commission has denied a request to recover $297 million from ratepayers. For now, that's $18 a month the average residential user won't pay.
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Folks in my profession have not exactly had a great deal of stability or certainty in recent times. But they’ve risen to the occasion. Value is subjective, as the stock market proves. You can’t put a price on steady, competent, informative journalism.
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Manchin’s dream of Amtrak’s Cardinal running daily instead of three times a week through WV moving a little closer to reality.
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As @WesleyLowery and @reveal remind us, the FBI didn’t just conduct surveillance on Martin Luther King Jr. It spied on the whole civil rights movement.
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@FitzFox5DC @APStylebook Actually, that dressing is dehumanizing to the French.
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Today is my last day at @usatodaytravel . The past 14 months have thrown a lot at me, and it's time to turn the page. I have an idea of what I want to do next, but nothing's set in stone. I will continue to be on here in the meantime.
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@liberalgirl70 @TSA_Northeast @TSA @JFKairport As somebody who’s cared for a number of cats, I absolutely believe this can happen.
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I think @SecretaryPete looks younger in person.
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John Kerry was confirmed as SecState 94-3; Hillary Clinton 94-2. Rex Tillerson's going to squeak through.
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I'll say it again: I don't remember this much interest in rail safety after a train loaded with American oil set a small Canadian town aflame and killed 47 people, even when similar, though nonfatal incidents began happening on the U.S. side of the border.
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‘Engagement’ has become an unhealthy obsession for traditional newspapers. It betrays their public interest mission by elevating the loudest voices over the most reasonable ones.
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Hate and rage sells. Savvy people know better than to engage with Lin Wood, even to call him names, but enough people will engage, and higher engagement = more advertising $$. Mastodon has no algorithms, which is why I prefer Mastodon. I dislike rage engagement.
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The tornado carried this photo from Dawson Springs, Kentucky, to New Albany, Indiana. That’s about 150 miles.
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And we just learned from the mayor that the officers’ body cameras were not activated, in violation of department policy.
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More horrible news: Law enforcement dispatched to clear a crowd this a.m. in Louisville shot & killed the owner of a nearby BBQ restaurant, David McAtee. Police say they were shot at 1st; an investigation is underway. McAtee used to feed police for free.
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In spite of what some have (predictably) tweeted, Keystone XL would not fix the Colonial Pipeline situation. Colonial carries refined petroleum products to East Coast markets. Keystone would carry unrefined Canadian crude to the Gulf Coast. Not the same thing.
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Kentucky's @GovAndyBeshear is one of seven governors telling Americans to stay home for Thanksgiving in a @PostOpinions op-ed with Ohio's @GovMikeDeWine and Indiana's @GovHolcomb , both Republicans.
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Today will be my last time covering a hearing in Trenton involving @NJTRANSIT . Later this month, I'm packing up and moving to Memphis. It's been an interesting two years, and I will continue to follow what happens with transit in this region.
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And with that, it's time to put the --30-- on 16 years of daily journalism.
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Honored to receive this from @njpa last night, surrounded by other winners from @northjersey , @AsburyParkPress and @cpsj .
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@ScottNover @ashtonpittman Regardless, Elon has no business lecturing anyone about accuracy.
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Thank you, @KentuckyRAG , for the warm welcome today to the @courierjournal newsroom. I’ve joined @USATODAY as senior travel reporter and will be based in Louisville, a city I know well in the state where I grew up. It’s good to be back in a familiar place.
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I’ve asked everyone to read and subscribe to their local newspaper. Now, I’m also going to ask everyone to support my new newsroom, @wvpublic and @OVReSRC . High-quality journalism is worth the investment, in whatever form it takes.
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I just had to write a sentence that describes 1996 as 'more than 25 years ago' and I almost couldn't do it.
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'I hope you feel better,' McConnell says to woman who asked about coal jobs. 'Answer the question, Mitch!' somebody else yells.
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The federal gasoline tax is only 18.4 cents a gallon of the $4.17 a gallon (and rising) national average. Would anyone notice if it were suspended? The highway trust fund would. States impose the bulk of motor fuels taxes.
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Not all superheroes wear capes. Here are two of mine, ⁦ @repjohnlewis ⁩ and my sister, Melanie. She was diagnosed with breast cancer two years and one month ago. Earlier this evening, the cancer won. We are devastated, but we have so many great memories, including this.
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There's still one American receiving a Civil War pension. She's the daughter of a Union soldier:
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I’m proud of all my journalism colleagues who are covering this and wish for their safety. I doubt many of them expected what they’ve witnessed today.
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As I prepare to leave New Jersey, I carry with me a valuable skill not everyone in this state possesses: I know how to pump my own gas.
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Simple answer as to why positive train control wasn’t implemented on the new Amtrak route where train derailed? Because Congress extended the deadline from 2015 to 2018. And did it without a recorded vote. #PTC
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@WesleyLowery White establishment journalist Twitter is in mourning tonight. I think that tells us everything we need to know about how they value those of us who don’t fit.
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I make it a habit to thank the photojournalists I work with. They do outstanding work that stands all by itself. They are essential to the newsroom, and to readers.
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The passengers of Flight 93 likely saved the Capitol from attack and paid for it with their lives. This preventable breach, which put lawmakers, staff, security and journalists in danger, is a stark and sad contrast.
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Just filed my first piece for NPR where I get to say I'm in Charleston.
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We can talk about whether ECP brakes are necessary and appropriate for high-hazard trains, sure enough. But let me rewind the tape a bit to something I got my hands dirty on in the 2013-2015 period: Notifications to state and local officials of hazardous shipments.
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Fully vaccinated.
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@NicoSGonzalez You should win some sort of prize.
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McConnell also breaks with Trump on Russia sanctions: 'If anything, we ought to be increasing them.'
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So much of NJ’s rail and bus transit is oriented toward getting folks into NY and back. The intra-state transit options are comparatively weak.
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Why is there no sound? (It’s on mute.) Why is there no coffee? (You didn’t turn it on.) Today, I might be a little more distracted than usual. It’s been two years since I lost my sister, my only sibling. Not a day goes by that I don’t remember her and miss her.
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We lost my sister a year ago this week to breast cancer. Melanie would have turned 36 today. It’s still tough. I miss her every day. Take care of yourselves, your friends and loved ones.
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This may not get a lot of attention on a busy news weekend, but a U.S. District Court has ruled against Union Carbide. The judge ordered the company to clean up a hazardous waste site, calling it an illegal 'open dump' that required a permit from the EPA.
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One last time on the front page of ⁦ @northjersey
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I rate this as true.
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“Nothing gets done in the U.S. without hardworking American #truckers .” ☑️FACT
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Instead of a 40 under 40, how about a 40 over 40 about folks who have persisted in spite of the obstacles life threw in their path?
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Boarding @amtrak with ⁦ @GovMurphy ⁩ and other officials for a tour of ⁦the Northeast Corridor.
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In case you wondered how the chief critic of voting by mail was planning to vote:
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John Lewis won re-election in November with 84.5% of the vote. That's the popular vote, for those who aren't familiar with winning it.
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Not to knock national political reporters down a peg, but times like these are great for paying attention to the hard work of statehouse reporters. Because they know what’s happening in their states.
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Does Sterling Brown get to finish his speech now? #Emmys
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Retired coal miners were all over Capitol Hill today. But Kentucky's two senators didn't even say hello:
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Congratulations, @AprilDRyan ! @rcfp
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These students shouldn’t have to wait until they’re in college to learn about the displacement and slaughter of Native Americans, of slavery, segregation and lynching, of the Chinese Exclusion Act, or the detention of Japanese Americans. Teach them early, when it really counts.
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Who are we kidding? If we don’t teach our young people the unvarnished history of how Native Americans, African Americans, Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans, among others, were treated in this country, why should we be surprised when they embarrass us? Shame on us.
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The line for questions at #McConnell lunch. He's got another speech to give at 1:30.
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@mtdukes Looks like it ate everything in your pantry.
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Really, how? Record oil and gas production, record LNG exports.
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Joe Biden’s war on American energy has made us more reliant on foreign adversaries for energy. Energy independence is critical to national security. We must end this war by restoring an America First energy policy, which will make us energy dominant once again.
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Newspaper journalists exposed the role of Wall Street firms in torching the economy 10 years ago, yet these same companies are squeezing some of the nation’s most important dailies to death. Who profits from this? Not the affected communities.
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@tatecurtis
Curtis L. Tate 🤷‍♂️
3 years
One final though this evening: My dad was a community college professor for 34 years. Nothing wrong with bringing that perspective to the White House. Nothing wrong at all.
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