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Bend, Jackson, Portland, Santa Cruz
As seen in: Wyoming Public Radio, Here & Now Anytime, NPR, The Atlantic, Flipboard, KING-TV (Seattle, WA), KGW-TV (Portland, OR), Marketplace, KXTV-TV (Sacramento, CA), Task & Purpose, WFMY-TV (Greensboro, NC) and
Covers:  Housing, homelessness, state & local politics, health equity, education, impacts of climate change, economic disparities, etc.
Reporter #MtnWestNews/@WYPublicRadio I Past: @891KHOL

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I’m an independent journalist reporting on inequality across the American West. I write everything from breaking news to magazine features. My stories focus on individual human narratives to illustrate systemic issues related to housing and homelessness, health equity and the uneven effects of climate change. My work has appeared in The Atlantic, High Country News, Mother Jones, Portland Mercury and Street Roots. I also fact-check features for Eater, with the Vox Media Network.

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'Our Next Option Was the Back of My Pickup'

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Some gravel and mountain bike trails could get a boost from the feds

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By Hanna Merzbach Verified
| KSUT FM Verified
Long-distance biking could soon become more accessible in the backcountry. The federal government is asking the public to identify trails that are over 80 miles long and in need of attention. The U.S. Department of the Interior will eventually choose at least 10 existing trails and 10 potential ones at some stage of development for more resources. They must be mostly for mountain or gravel biking, though they can have some road connectors.
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Money may not buy happiness, new state report shows Original

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By Hanna Merzbach Verified
| Wyoming Public Radio Verified
This just in: money may not buy happiness. That’s a key takeaway from a new report measuring quality of life in all 50 states as the nation celebrates its birthday. The State of the States report shows that economics don’t necessarily determine well-being. That’s the case in Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming, said Tulane University economics professor Douglas Harris, one author of the report.
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Four nuclear reactors meet Trump’s ‘critical’ July 4 deadline Original

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By Hanna Merzbach Verified
| Wyoming Public Radio Verified
The Trump administration says it has surpassed a major milestone in nuclear energy. It wanted to help bring at least three privately-developed nuclear reactors online by the country’s birthday. A fourth went “critical” in the early morning hours of July 4. Antares was the first company to “go critical,” or turn on its relatively small test reactor. That happened in early June at Idaho National Lab in the eastern part of the state's high desert.
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