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Jessie Blaeser

Jessie Blaeser is a data journalist at Grist. Her work has also been featured on Inkport.org and Catalyst Media, and she is a certified NetGalley member.

• EPA issues rare veto, bringing Alaska’s Pebble mine to a halt
• EPA’s proposed air pollution standards for soot could save thousands of lives

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Harriet Jones

Harriet Jones writes from Washington D.C.

• D.C. voters end substandard tipped minimum wage, again
• Affordable housing and police reform define D.C.’s at-large city council race

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Brett Marsh

Brett Marsh is a photographer and multimedia journalist who writes for Grist.org.

• Even small rise in temperature could ravage North American forests, study finds

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Haleluya Hadero

Retail and Tech reporter at Associated Press with a focus on Amazon.

• Another Amazon warehouse could go union, this time in upstate N.Y.

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Karen Dolan

Karen Dolan directs the Criminalization of Race and Poverty Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. The focus of her work is on anti-poverty issues, juvenile justice, criminal justice reform,...

• Biden’s inflation bill isn’t Build Back Better, but it’s a good start

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Marcy Gordon

AP reporter in Washington, covering business, financial issues, occasional scandals, pandemic fallout, and tech policy/politics.

• For first time ever, corporate stock buyback manipulation will be taxed

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Dylan Manshack

Dylan Manshack is a multimedia journalist writing from Texas.

• Americans could beat lung cancer if U.S. lifted blockade of Cuba
• Meet the billionaire who canceled student loan forgiveness

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Brian Lopez

Brian Lopez is the Public Education Reporter for The Texas Tribune.

• Rural Texans—even conservative ones—unconvinced by Republicans’ public school privatization crusade

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Paul Roberson

Paul Roberson J.D; LLM

• To Chile, with love: Remembering those lost under the Pinochet regime

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