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Feature: Prisonville, Fla.

Feature: The Case of the Missing Pen

Feature: The Mouse Who Loved Me

Feature: Food Not Bombs

Published in both Broward and Miami.

Feature: Losing Battle

When Hank Battle rolled up at the upper-crust Pine Crest School in January, nobody knew what had hit them. My first dalliance with anonymous sources. Plus: recent graduates go on the record about participating in Hank Battle’s secretive—and feared—group of student advisors.

Feature: My Father’s Bones

Plus: more about the “confession” that a jury may never get to see.

Story on the Daily Kos

Here’s the link—up to 4,000 Facebook shares and counting as of this writing.

Headaches, Part II

From a taped statement of a police interview. Goodness, it’s like Lorca meets Beckett. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: (Unintelligible) your mother (unintelligible). A: Who? Q: We—we can (unintelligible). UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: (Unintelligible). Q: Stop and take a breath. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: All right. A: (Unintelligible). UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: (Unintelligible) that. A: (Unintelligible) you want. (Unintelligible) you [...]

Trump’s Potemkin Village

A brief and surreal visit to the Trump Hollywood. The view from the picture widows is so gorgeous that at first, it’s all you notice. The sprawling condominium — white floors, white walls, white ceiling — opens in a glass rectangle over a white balcony that frames the ocean and sky, two strips of rippled [...]

Headaches

Well past my tenth hour of reading through discovery materials and depositions in the State Attorney’s Office. And lo, this gem: Q: Okay. Now, at that point, does he go into describe to you what the plan was for what was going to happen next or? A: I don’t know if he told me at [...]

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    Stefan is a staff writer for Village Voice Media in South Florida. A native of rural New Jersey, he attended college in Chicago and spent two years in Portland, Oregon while figuring out what to do with his life. He started his journalism career at KBOO Community Radio and the Portland Mercury. Send an email.
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