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Investigative reporter @CTMirror. Send tips, hate mail to [email protected]
Hartford, CT
Joined June 2009
Special @ctmirror investigation: Connecticut has one of the largest shares of older adults in the country and a sizeable insurance presence. Yet, an industry at the intersection of elder care and insurance is in turmoil 𧔠https://t.co/I0F4vp9Ztk
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With rate hikes often exceeding 50%, coverage is increasingly unaffordable. And as complaints mount, legislative reform has been slow.
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@FOX9 @CTMirror The FOX 9 recipients are @nateoneal and Casey Hooker. The CT Mirror recipients are @JNCWriter, Andrew Brown, @davealtimari and Katy Golvala. @AngelasInk of @SpotlightPA received an honorable mention for her work investigating elder abuse in Pennsylvania.
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The National Press Foundation established the AARP Award in 2023 to recognize excellence in reporting on issues related to aging.
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.@FOX9 and the @CTMirror have won the 2025 AARP Awards for Excellence in Journalism on Aging in the large and small categories, respectively. Both winners covered the troubled industry of long-term care insurance. https://t.co/TZMlmhPZvX
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48 hours of homelessness in Connecticut: The faces and stories of a growing crisis | âWhere do people go when thereâs nowhere to go?â a social worker asked. https://t.co/IHeDOSNsgz by @insider_ct
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With affordable housing hard to find in Connecticut, the number of people who are homeless â young and old, in cities and towns â is rising fast.
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Trump ordered to pay SNAP benefits; CT officials still want to help
ctmirror.org
The rulings didnât stop CT state legislatorsâ demands to reserve hundreds of millions to shore up SNAP and other human service programs.
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Follow @Andy_Ed_Brown for updates from the trial of former deputy state budget director Kosta Diamantis, accused of using his position to solicit tens of thousands of dollars in bribes from construction contractors.
Plenty of media and a sketch artist are in the courtroom this morning for the opening arguments of the criminal trial for Kosta Diamantis https://t.co/7vNdn8q4k2
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Union to Lamont: Don't invest our pension funds in Connecticut Sun
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CT's largest state employee union urged Gov. Ned Lamont to focus on overdue wage agreements for public-sector workers, not basketball.
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Trump's DOJ is pushing allegations of voter fraud that have been compiled by a group that CT's election watchdog agency has admonished for wasting the state's time and resources. https://t.co/m3Wr3R0r5p
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A CT nonprofit that has filed dozens of unsubstantiated voter fraud allegations now has a powerful new ally: the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Only a few states require public schools to develop plans for evacuating students with disabilities in an emergency, even as schools across the country face increasing risks from climate-related disasters and school shootings. Read my latest story: https://t.co/zHAOx35cNl
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Schools across the country face increasing threats, but many students with disabilities donât have a way to evacuate.
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This CT recovery coach could lose his job to federal cuts. What will happen to his clients? https://t.co/JgBTPYzDzK
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Meanwhile, CT DPH promised the state's water utilities that the agency would not release their lead service line inventories online. The CT Mirror did that for them for the 60 largest water utilities in CT. You can search those addresses here: https://t.co/GBI2gEsC4V
This is something I just noticed. Some states like Minnesota provided a website where people could search to see if their property has a potential lead service line:
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Amazing work by my colleagues. Check if your home is one of many in Connecticut with lead pipes.
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Honored to have been interviewed for this important piece. It is crucial that we break out of the false narrative that wealthy neighborhoods are protected from lead-in-water contamination. They are not. It is also crucial that we remember the following: https://t.co/xmKVx7Ibaf
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency predicted much of the countryâs leftover lead plumbing would be found in lower-income and minority neighborhoods, where there is older housing stock and a lack âŠ
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ICYMI: The @CTMirror partnered with the @pulitzercenter to report on lead water lines in CT. My colleagues and I obtained new data that shows there could be thousands of century-old water lines supplying homes, apartments and other buildings. https://t.co/ibcoqyiMf5
ctmirror.org
Up to 8,000 lead service lines could still be supplying CT residences and other properties. This data is the first public look at the scope.
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A majority of the suspected lead lines are located in lower-income neighborhoods in Bridgeport, Willimantic, Middletown, New London and Waterbury â places that have significant Black and Hispanic populations and are designated by the state as environmental justice communities.
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