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Enterprise crime reporter, Forum News Service. The Vault podcast host. Recently hacked & followers/followed deleted. What a nightmare.

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Trisha Marczak is a staff writer at Mint Press News. She has worked in Australia with several NGOs, and has experience as a staff writer, reporter and editor at various newspapers and magazine publications throughout the Midwest. She is also an award-winning public radio reporter for spot news coverage.

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Trisha Marczak is a staff writer at Mint Press News. She has worked in Australia with several NGOs, and has e…

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Sand Land: Fracking Industry Mining Iowa's Iconic Sand Bluffs In New Form Of Mountaintop Removal

Sand Land: Fracking Industry Mining Iowa's Iconic Sand Bluffs In New Form Of Mountaintop Removal

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Domestic Oil Production Rises - Along With Prices?

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Vermont Governor Signs 'Right-To-Die' Law, Sparking Concerns

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A Combination Of Ignorance And Lobbyists Keep Statehood Out Of Reach For Puerto Rico

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Fracking Well Meltdown Sends 9,000 Gallons Of 'Frack Fluid' Onto Farmland

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16 years later, the mysterious death of a well-known retired Minnesota firefighter remains unresolved

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| Fergus Falls Daily Journal Verified
NEW BRIGHTON, Minn. — Lee Allen Goodwin didn’t have any enemies. The 70-year-old retired New Brighton firefighter was known among locals as a reliable, kind and soft-spoken man. When his wife came on Jan. 29, 2010, to find his body on the basement floor near the stairs, there was no reason for his family to believe his death was anything but an accident or medical emergency. “She started looking around the house and couldn't find him,” Lee Goodwin’s son, Todd Goodwin, told Forum News Service.
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Carla Beth Anderson went missing in 1987. Police believe a $25,000 reward will lead them to the smoking gun Original

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| Duluth News Tribune Verified
WADENA, Minn. — Investigators believe the answers behind the 1987 disappearance of Carla Beth Anderson could be $25,000 away. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety’s Spotlight on Crime announced this month in a press conference the $25,000 reward for information leading to Carla Beth Anderson’s remains or the names of those involved in her disappearance. The 23-year-old was last seen at around 8 p.m. on Nov.
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He was last seen in the summer of 1988. Without a photo for the public, his case remains cold

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| Sidney Herald Verified
DULUTH, Minn. — Wilson Charles Sam is a missing man without a public face. His disappearance in 1988 generated no known headlines. His face wasn’t featured on missing persons posters — and his name never made it to nationwide law enforcement databases, now regularly used to find or identify the missing. More than two decades passed before the first known public acknowledgment of his case. On Nov.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Broadcast journalist for Wisconsin Public Radio. I was in college and spent most of my time crying in the production room.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. Age 6.

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It erases the barrier between writer and reader, creating a greater sense of accountability and responsibility.
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