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Reuben Schafir

@reubenschafir.bsky.social
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Based in Portland, ME, I cover Indigenous communities for @pressherald.com through Report For America. Always open to tips at rschafir@pressherald.com

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Reuben Schafir @reubenschafir.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Sometimes I get the write stories that are just a whole lot of fun. This was one of those.
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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 21/12/2025
To fight loss, Passamaquoddy speakers are talking new life into their language
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To fight loss, Passamaquoddy speakers are talking new life into their language
Elders say it's not too late to save their mother tongue, and a younger generation is stepping up to help.
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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 17/09/2025
Penobscot Nation to reclaim 1,700 acres in rural Maine as tribe grows land holdings
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Penobscot Nation to reclaim 1,700 acres in rural Maine as tribe grows land holdings
The Appalachian Mountain Club is repatriating the parcel to its former Indigenous stewards as part of a larger acquisition finalized Tuesday.
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News Guild of Maine @newsguildofmaine.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
We, the workers of the statewide Maine Trust for Local News are excited to kick off our new campaign to bring the entire company under One Big Union. As our work grows increasingly unified, so should our representation. It's time to bring the whole company together. Sign out petition here!
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Support One Big Union at the Maine Trust for Local News
Under nonprofit ownership, the Maine Trust for Local News is building a business model that could be a roadmap to sustainability for local news organizations across the country. We are here because we...
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sandra fish @fishnette.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
about that $25 million public records request. #copolitics via @coloradofoic.bsky.social coloradofoic.org/a-25-4-milli...
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A $25.4 million CORA request - Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition
The bill from the Pikes Peak Library District in El Paso County wasn’t $25,000. It was $25 million. More precisely, it was $25,377,971.43.
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Reuben Schafir @reubenschafir.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The Dec. 5 gasoline spill from a leaking pipeline in La Plata County was bigger than first reported—a lot bigger.
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23,000 gallons of gasoline spilled into their yard; now, this Durango couple can’t go home
Heather Houk was at work one December afternoon when her husband called to say they had to evacuate their house. By the time she returned to their 3-acre property on the Florida Mesa around 5 p.m., fi...
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Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition @coloradofoic.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
"The Durango school board’s third legislative priority this year: to limit 'extreme or gratuitous' paperwork-generating records requests and legal inquiries." via @reubenschafir.bsky.social www.durangoherald.com/articles/dur...
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Durango schools want to address ‘bad actors’ who wield transparency laws
The 26 requests to inspect public records received by Durango School District 9-R in the last two years – just over one per month – does not exactly sound like an onslaught, according to Jeff Roberts,...
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Jeff Roberts @jeffreyaroberts.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Looking back at the past 12 months, there weren’t a lot of wins for the public’s right to know. #coleg #copolitics
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CFOIC’s 2024 year in review: a more opaque legislature, pricier public records, closed disciplinary records, child autopsies, police officer database and CORA ‘abuse’    - Colorado Freedom of Informat...
Coloradans in 2024 lost ground in the never-ending battle for access to government information.
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Reuben Schafir @reubenschafir.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
From the inbox today… I don’t know how to handle such charms!
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Michael Bennet @bennet.senate.gov · 23/12/2024
Ten years after it passed, the Hermosa Creek bill continues to remind us all of what our democracy can do at its best.
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Hermosa Creek federal protections turn 10
Sandwiched between the Animas River and the Dolores River divide sits a patch of dense, coniferous forest named for and defined by the exceedingly cold and clear Hermosa Creek. Nearly all of the water...
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Reuben Schafir @reubenschafir.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
“We may be having to look at what those statutory mandates are that seem to pile up year after year after year from the Legislature, with very little recognition that 64 counties in Colorado are the ones that pay,” La Plata County Commissioner Marsha Porter-Norton said. 1/2
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KUER @kuer.org · 05/12/2024
Some worry that if the states aren’t able to settle their differences, other water users who aren’t part of the conversation (tribes and environmentalists) could get left behind.
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Colorado River states hold an uncomfortable reunion this week in Vegas
As the Colorado River Water Users Association gathers, the seven river states are like kids coming home to a family reunion. Policy watchers are frustrated with their level of disagreement.
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Reuben Schafir @reubenschafir.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
“What these places all share, is, increasingly, they have a question of who belongs” Pt. 2/2 of my series on Silverton and how the towns former mayor pursued his own development ambitions while in office out today
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Change in Silverton was inevitable – how it happened may not have been
SILVERTON – The former mayor of Silverton came under fire soon after he stepped into office. At a meeting in late April 2020, one of Shane Fuhrman’s first as mayor, then-Trustee Molly Barela cited his...
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Reuben Schafir @reubenschafir.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
“He was living his dream,” Katrina said of her older brother. “… Mt. Cook was one of those incredible dream-come-true mountains.
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Durango alpinist Kurt Blair presumed dead on New Zealand peak
Durangoan Kurt Blair, an internationally certified mountain guide known throughout the San Juan Mountains as an affable, empathic and highly skilled professional, is missing and presumed dead on Aorak...
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Reuben Schafir @reubenschafir.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
In Silverton, a developer saw unmined potential. Then he was elected mayor The product of many months of reporting, out this weekend www.durangoherald.com/articles/in-...
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In Silverton, a developer saw unmined potential. Then he was elected mayor
SILVERTON – Shane Fuhrman’s social media presence would stoke the coals of envy in any skier who longs for snowy bliss. His Instagram page features high-resolution footage of Fuhrman, the former mayor...
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Reuben Schafir @reubenschafir.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hanging out with Colorado Parks and Wildlife yesterday as wildlife officers released 3 black bear cubs back into the wild after 5 months in rehab.
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