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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/05/2026
From @theathletic.com: The Pulitzer for audio reporting went to the staff of “Pablo Torre Finds Out” for an investigation into how the Los Angeles Clippers seemingly evaded the NBA’s salary cap by funneling money to a star player. Watch the series on YouTube: nyti.ms/4ncOXCT
Text card reads: Watch the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Series Hosted by Pablo Torre.
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Ben @benchin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
So the @orioles.com have been promoting their City Connect 2.0 jerseys all week -- from the stoop to the yard. Yet the game debuting them won't be broadcast to local fans on MASN. Feels like the tone deaf changes to the ticket package options they also made this year. @afkostka.bsky.social
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Ben @benchin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Absolutely awful call. We need full ABS for these moments.
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Ben @benchin.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Heineman not sliding into third and Muncy struggling to stretch is like every moderately close play in slow pitch softball.
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Ben @benchin.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The backup catcher is on 2nd as a pinch runner, the 9 hitter was intentionally walked to face the third different 1 hitter. This game really is something.
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Ben @benchin.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Listening to @ewpod.bsky.social Episode 2282 and it's like the Twilight Zone. Ben is criticizing special rules for Ohtani and @megrowler.fangraphs.com is tempting Swiftie fate calling Taylor Swift average. Baseball is back!!
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Lamar’s mom calling the plays tonight
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Ben Conarck @conarck.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
NEW: A 33 y/o died after suffering an apparent medical episode at Central Booking. Trayvon Ocain's family first learned of his death from other detainees. They're questioning the response by officials at the jail, which is under scrutiny over its healthcare www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/cr...
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33-year-old dies after apparent medical episode at Baltimore jail
Trayvon Ocain, 33, died in a facility that is under scrutiny for its health care system. His family wants answers.
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 03/01/2025
Behind Baltimore’s downturn in gun violence: Hard to ‘untangle’ forces driving declines
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In Baltimore, another year of historic decreases in gun violence has experts hopeful
Experts in gun violence prevention, city officials and anti-violence workers attributed the decline to a variety of factors: statewide and national efforts to fight “ghost guns,” political stability...
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
One chopped off part of a newborn’s finger, and choked two nurses in a rage. Another drained the wrong side of a patient’s chest, and lied about it on the chart. These are the unemployed doctors who get jobs in state prisons. A look at NY, with @reuvenblau.bsky.social for @thecity.bsky.social
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Doctors Sanctioned for Glaring Medical Mistakes Find a Place to Practice in NY State Prisons
They’ve been judged guilty of medical misconduct, negligence, incompetence and even felonies. An investigation by THE CITY reveals that 10 such doctors found work treating incarcerated patients.
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Jessica Gallagher @jessicagallagher.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
A drug treatment program in Baltimore that makes millions of Medicaid each year puts patients in apartments it runs, where many have relapsed, overdosed and, sometimes, died.
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Ben Conarck @conarck.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
New: A federal judge on Friday ordered Maryland to turn over records that could shed light on how often people with severe mental illness are getting out of their cells at Central Booking. He also rejected Md.'s choices for independent medical monitor. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/cr...
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Maryland must turn over contested Baltimore jail records, loses medical monitor fight
Maryland has spent nearly half a million dollars on a private law firm to try and exit a decades-old lawsuit. So far, it has little to show for it.
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Alissa Zhu @alissazhu.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
In the past year of reporting on overdoses in Baltimore, a treatment program kept coming up. We looked into it: At least 13 deaths deaths since 2022. This year a mom died, then her baby starved. It operated in the shadows & got paid millions by the state. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/pu...
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They entered treatment. Drugs, overdoses and deaths followed.
Baltimore addiction programs draw patients with free housing while collecting millions. Some say one company offered little help.
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Ben Conarck @conarck.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
New: Maryland has the worst racial disparity in the country for the over-incarceration of Black people. Today, a commission formed by Maryland's AG and public defender released 18 recommendations on how to fix it. Here's what they came up with: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/cr...
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Maryland over-incarcerates Black men. Will these proposals help end it?
Black Marylanders make up about 30% of the state’s population but more than 70% of the people incarcerated in state prisons, the most pronounced racial disparity of its kind in the country, and a dubi...
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Ben Conarck @conarck.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
BREAKING: Maryland releases a damning audit of its corrections department and private for-profit healthcare vendors (Corizon/YesCare an Centurion). @pwoodreporter.bsky.social and I have the scoop. Threading key findings and reactions here: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
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State failed to scrutinize prison health care companies, audit finds
The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services did not sufficiently check in on its health contractors to ensure that patients were getting timely care and having their complaints investiga...
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Ben Conarck @conarck.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Wednesday: Maryland's spending board will vote on whether to approve $123K in legal fees owed to plaintiffs' attorneys in the class action challenging Baltimore jail healthcare. The case, brought decades ago by ACLU/local groups, has a long history. h/t @brendawintrode.bsky.social
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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 26/11/2024
2024 Was a Great Year for Bunts
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2024 Was a Great Year for Bunts
As an unrepentant bunt enjoyer, this season delivered everything I could ask for.
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Ben Conarck @conarck.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Private-equity-owned Wellpath, which has several contracts with Maryland jails, recently filed for bankruptcy. We've seen this movie before. Corizon's controversial Texas Two-Step bankruptcy blocked some formerly incarcerated people from collecting payouts www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/cr...
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He won $770K after a jail doctor botched his wrist. A bankruptcy could block most of it.
Earlier this year, a correctional health care company declared bankruptcy. Now, a formerly incarcerated Marylander is missing out on compensation he won in a trial.
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