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Journalist covering climate & health. 2015 Nieman fellow. ✏️ in WaPo, @nytimes & others. Prev: @KHNews, @statnews, @newhavenindy, Scripps fellow @CUBoulder.

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'No one is coming.' Hospice patients abandoned at death's door

'No one is coming.' Hospice patients abandoned at death's door

An analysis by Kaiser Health News of 20,000 government inspection records revealed that missed visits and neg…

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Ambulance trips can leave you with surprising - and very expensive - bills

Ambulance trips can leave you with surprising - and very expensive - bills

One patient got a $3,660 bill for a four-mile ride. Another was charged $8,460 for a trip from a hospital tha…

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Dying at home in pain doesn't keep relatives from stealing the pills

Dying at home in pain doesn't keep relatives from stealing the pills

Nothing seemed to help the patient - and the hospice staff didn't know why. They sent home more painkillers f…

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'Put The Fire Under Us': Church Spurs Parishioners To Plan For Illness And Death

'Put The Fire Under Us': Church Spurs Parishioners To Plan For Illness And Death

"It would feel like murder to pull her life support," a young woman tells the doctor. The woman sits by a hos…

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As Trump Targets Immigrants, Elderly Brace To Lose Caregivers

As Trump Targets Immigrants, Elderly Brace To Lose Caregivers

BOSTON - After back-to-back, eight-hour shifts at a chiropractor's office and a rehab center, Nirva arrived o…

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Unlocked And Loaded: Families Confront Dementia And Guns

Unlocked And Loaded: Families Confront Dementia And Guns

As America copes with an epidemic of gun violence, there has been vigorous debate about how to prevent people…

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Toast on the Coast: A Community Celebration Supporting Pensacola Beach Elementary School

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By Melissa Bailey Verified, Melissa Bailey
| Local Pulse Pensacola
What started as a conversation among a small group of Pensacola Beach Elementary School parents has grown into a community-wide celebration that welcomes supporters from across the Gulf Coast. Toast on the Coast, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was created by parents who recognized a need—and believed that the broader community would rally behind a good cause.
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Trump's fast-tracked deal for a copper mine heightens existential fight for Apache

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By Melissa Bailey Verified
| CBS News Verified
Trump’s executive order on mining has Boundary Waters advocates fearing the worst OAK FLAT, Ariz. — Carrying eagle feathers and chanting prayers, Western Apache runners hit the road on a roughly 80-mile journey this month to try to save their sacred land from being fast-tracked by President Trump into a copper mine. This nationally watched battle, which hinges on religious freedom, awaits the U.S. Supreme Court.
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As water levels drop, the risk of arsenic rises

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By Melissa Bailey Verified
| The Columbian Verified
When John Mestas’ ancestors moved to Colorado over 100 years ago to raise sheep in the San Luis Valley, they “hit paradise,” he said. “There was so much water, they thought it would never end,” Mestas said of the agricultural region at the headwaters of the Rio Grande. Now decades of climate change-driven drought, combined with the overpumping of aquifers, is making the valley desperately dry — and appears to be intensifying the levels of heavy metals in drinking water.
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