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David Olinger

Denver
As seen in: The Denver Post, Tampa Bay Times, Washington Times, Houston Chronicle, Las Vegas Review-Journal, KMGH-TV (Denver, CO), The Gazette (Colorado Springs), The Aspen Times, Durango Herald, The Journal (Cortez, CO) and
Covers:  handguns
Doesn't Cover: life, daily
@DenverPost investigative reporter. E: dolinger@denverpost.com P: 303-954-1498.

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Investigative journalist, The Denver Post. Covered Colorado school massacres, gun shows and the firearms business, redeployment of wounded veterans, failures of witness protection program, probate court abuses, child abuse deaths. Previously worked for the St. Petersburg Times and the Concord Monitor.

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Colorado's deadliest shooters: Male, mostly young, signs of mental illness

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By David Olinger
| The Gazette (Colorado Springs)
Dylan Klebold wielded an Intratec TEC-DC9, an assault weapon originally conceived as a machine gun for South African police. His friend Eric Harris carried a Hi Point 995, a cheap short-barreled rifle. Both also brought shotguns sawed off to spray ammunition widely. Together they fired 188 rounds at Columbine High School, killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 21 others with gunfire. Then they shot themselves. At the time, it was the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
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Hate crimes threaten the American Dream

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By David Olinger
| The Gazette (Colorado Springs)
At first I didn’t realize why Lakhwant Singh was missing from the Two Angels liquor store. Singh, a 61-year-old man with a turban, manned the front counter along with his wife, son and daughter for 15 hours every day, a quintessential long-hours family business. It quickly became my neighborhood liquor store after I moved back to Colorado after a stint in Texas. For two years I chatted with the family about politics, their homeland, the Sikh culture, their son Onkar’s advanced studies.
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Free university land could carry steep ecological price

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By David Olinger
| Tampa Bay Times
Florida is about to put a new university in a swampy, roadless forest bordering the homeland of endangered panthers. The new campus would be built in headwaters of a river flowing into a protected bay. The land was set aside for water conservation until the university accepted it for free from a developer who plans to build a town around it. And it lies in the second-worst area for collisions between automobiles and panthers. Three panthers have been hit near the proposed university town.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Concord Monitor in New Hampshire. Covered basically everything, became an investigative reporter.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

yes

How is social media changing news?

It's speeding news up but damaging newspapers and news credibility

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