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Digital content specialist. Chicago. Formerly @PhillyInquirer. Proud @SyracuseU alumnus. Weather geek (ask me about the dew point!)

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Michael Boren’s Biography

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Michael covers social justice and issues of discrimination, race, and gender in the Philadelphia area. He previously covered crime and police in South Jersey.

Michael Boren’s Journalist Portfolio

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There's a way to detect racial profiling, but most police departments don't use it.

There's a way to detect racial profiling, but most police departments don't use it.

"Every single police department in this country should know who they're stopping and what happens after that …

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What happens after a murder?

What happens after a murder?

More people have been murdered in Camden in the last decade — 464 — than graduated from the city's high schoo…

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Fear of Islamic health clinic stirs debate in Northeast Philly

Fear of Islamic health clinic stirs debate in Northeast Philly

When neighbors learned a health clinic run by an Islamic nonprofit organization was coming to Northeast Phila…

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Heroin use on the rise in Indiana with deadly results

Heroin use on the rise in Indiana with deadly results

How one girl's death illustrates a growing heroin problem across small towns in Indiana

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A mother's last hope

A mother's last hope

She thought jail would be a safe place for her heroin-addicted son. Now she wants reform of a criminal justic…

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Indy-area divers bring hope to surface

Indy-area divers bring hope to surface

A wasteland sits below the surface of many Indiana lakes and ponds. Golf carts, stolen cars, washing machines…

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Opinion: Custer County should uphold conditional use permit for aviation

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By Michael Boren
| Post Register Verified
I want to correct the record about a recent guest opinion piece about our Hell Roaring Ranch in the Sawtooth Valley. That piece contained misinformation and outright falsehoods. Michael Boren First, let me tell you about my background. Our family has been living and working in Custer County since the 1930s. It is a great place to live and helped form my core values of hard work, honesty and my belief in freedom and personal responsibility.
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Pickings from Pike's Past: 50 YEARS AGO: PIKE COUNTY BOARD REDUCED FROM 24 TO 9 MEMBERS

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By Michael Boren
| Pike Press Verified
150 Years Ago June 15, 1871 Recent discoveries in Pike County and in the adjoining county of Calhoun indicate the existence in the south part of Pike, at some remote period, of a large town or home of Indians. Mr. Humphrey, who owns land in extreme southeast Pike County, has opened and inspected 19 graves on a slight elevation above the plain of the Illinois River bottom, near where Bee Creek flows into the same.
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Pickings from Pike's Past: 100 Years Ago: Seventeen high schools in Pike County

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By Michael Boren
| Pike Press Verified
150 Years Ago May 25, 1871 Last Thursday witnessed the closing of the 13th year of this paper’s existence. (Pike County Democrat) The editor of the Democrat, J. M. Bush, left for Springfield to take his seat in the Senate. At a meeting of the soldiers of Pittsfield, held at the Old Flag office, a number of people were named to decorate the soldiers’ graves May 30. Preparatory to closing for the summer season, the examinations and customary exhibition of the public schools was held.
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Awards

Finalist for in-depth reporting

2012 - In-depth reporting

Gannett's third-quarter Awards of Excellence; finalist for in-depth reporting category: For a moving piece on the devastating impact heroin has had on families and small towns in Indiana. Judges said: "Reporter Michael Boren did a masterful job of weaving together details about the tragic death of 18-year-old Cierra Adams, and how heroin has changed life for many in small towns across the Hoosier state. The video accompanying the story was dramatic and well done."

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