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Dusty Christensen
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Indy journalist | Investigations editor at The Shoestring | Contributor
at New England Public Media | Teaching future muckrakers
at UMass Amherst and Smith College


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We won an award!🥳🗞️🎙️Last week, @nenpa.bsky.social honored Greta Jochem and me with their top yearly honor, a Publick Occurrences award, for our reporting with @nepublicmedia.bsky.social and The Springfield Republican on how easy it is for Massachusetts police to seize, and keep, people's property.
October 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Opvee’s marketing comes amid a nationwide debate about how to compassionately and effectively respond to overdoses. It’s a conversation that has taken on added urgency as some $50 billion in opioid lawsuit settlement money pours into communities nationwide. How they will spend it, though, depends:
February 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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December 3, 2024 at 4:23 PM