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2 months ago | 
binj.news | Maya Shaffer |Kenneth Lipp |Andrew Quemere |Adam Sennott
Images above from “The Western Mass Police Department That Has Hosted Two-Dozen Events At A Chick-Fil-A” (November 4, 2019) By Maya Shaffer Since before we even published our first feature, we set out to use BINJ as an incubator to produce and distribute longform reporting.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
andrewqmr.substack.com | Andrew Quemere
On Friday, I was featured on NBC10 Boston for a story about the Massachusetts State Police’s frequent refusal to comply with the state’s Public Records Law. The segment was part of the new series, “Commonwealth Confidential: The State of Policing,” which takes an in-depth look at the countless problems with the state’s largest law-enforcement agency.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
welcometohellworld.com | Andrew Quemere |Luke O'Neil
by Andrew QuemereThis article was a collaboration between the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Horizon Mass, and The Mass Dump. Please consider supporting them with a subscription or a donation. James Lucien didn’t feel like a father when his son was born. That feeling didn’t come until two years later, when the young parent got home from work and woke the child from a nap.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
horizonmass.news | Andrew Quemere
James Lucien didn’t feel like a father when his son was born. That feeling didn’t come until two years later, when the young parent got home from work and woke the child from a nap. “He looked at me like he just won a million dollars,” Lucien recently told a crowd inside the Massachusetts State House. “I picked him up.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
hard-drive.net | Andrew Quemere
I’m sick of hearing millennials whine about how they can’t afford homes. The truth is, everyone in this spoiled generation would be living it up if they hadn’t let older kids trick them into giving up their most valuable Pokémon cards. The Pokémon Trading Card Game’s original 1999 Base Set provided millennials with the most valuable assets they’ve ever had their hands on. Twenty-five years later, some holographic cards from this set can be worth tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
hard-drive.net | Andrew Quemere
Gamers who love Stardew Valley are in for an absolutely incredible treat: They will really enjoy playing more Stardew Valley. Since Stardew Valley’s 2016 release and rise to popularity, there’s been an explosion in farm life sims and other so-called cozy games. Fans looking for a similar experience now have a seemingly endless number of options — but why bother with any of them when you could just play more Stardew Valley?
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
andrewqmr.substack.com | Andrew Quemere
Content Warning: This story includes discussions of death, suicidal thoughts, illness, drug and alcohol addiction, and sexual harassment. If you or someone you know may be considering suicide or is in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. It was the early morning of July 4, 1984. Beverly police officer Duane Hathaway was driving down Rantoul Street when he heard the owner of the Sunray Bakery screaming to get his attention.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
andrewqmr.substack.com | Andrew Quemere
Things are looking a little awkward for Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn. Ever since a Fall River police officer shot and killed 30-year-old Anthony Harden in November 2021, Quinn has been on a quest to keep records about the shooting from the public — even after his office closed its investigation and issued a report saying the shooting was justified.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
andrewqmr.substack.com | Andrew Quemere
Fighting public records [requests] and refusing to give information that is clearly public is starting to cost real money in tax dollars to everybody. And that’s money that could presumably be used for other government services or much more valuable things. And I know as a journalist who’s been involved in filing public records lawsuits, I don’t want to sue agencies.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
andrewqmr.substack.com | Andrew Quemere
“He … loved to go skateboarding, loved to spend time with women,” Eric Mack said of his younger brother Anthony Harden. “[He] was more of an overgrown kid than anything else.”On November 22, 2021, Fall River police officer Chelsea Campellone fatally shot the 30-year-old Harden in his bedroom less than three minutes after entering his apartment. Two years later, Mack still has questions about why Campellone killed Harden.
