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Editor’s Notebook: Surviving Bear Mountain

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A few people get a second chance

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Editor’s Notebook: The Tricky Origins of the Constitutional County

Chip Rowe by Chip Rowe March 31, 2023April 4, 2023 Why you can trust The Current

The Putnam executive wants a declaration. Where did the idea come from?

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Editor’s Notebook: Looks Like We Made It

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The Current publishes its 500th issue

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Editor’s Notebook: The Meeting Before the Meeting

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The Open Meetings Law (and how to get around it)

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Editor’s Notebook: Behind the (Blue) Veil

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An update on our efforts to see police disciplinary records

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Editor’s Notebook: 10 Years Young

Chip Rowe by Chip Rowe July 3, 2020January 21, 2022 Why you can trust The Current

A decade later, The Current is thriving

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Reporter Michael Turton is put on the spot

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The early results of our search for “confidential” Putnam records

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Putnam has no hotels, but hundreds of rooms

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Life lessons from an unlikely source

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I was concerned about the law, but now I love it

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