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Managing editor of @insider_ct overseeing all things politics, business and sports at @hearstcmg. Past: @hartfordcourant @record_journal

Meriden, Conn.
Joined November 2010
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Really touching gesture from UConn to recognize Carl Adamec on press row during today’s season-opener Carl started covering UConn women’s basketball during Geno Auriemma’s first season in 1985. This is the first season without him on the beat Thinking about him heavy today 💜
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Our UConn basketball season preview special section is out on news stands (remember those?) today and tomorrow. Good stuff in there. Check it out!
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Dan Hurley got a leather candle the other day "because it’s the winter and we’ve got to be tough like leather.” Anyway, here he is talking to @ManthonyHearst about maybe coaching into his 60s at UConn and navigating college basketball in 2026. ctinsider.com/sports/uconn-m…
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Clinicians at CT's only state-run psychiatric hospital for kids agreed a 17-year-old was ready to leave. A probate judge ordered her discharged. DCF had nowhere to send her. Since then: a night in an emergency foster home, two days in DCF offices, weeks in an ER. 🧵
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The day before Tyreek Hill hosted a youth football camp in Meriden, he swung at his pregnant wife's stomach, dragged her by the hair and threw her phone at her, she told a court this week ctinsider.com/connecticut/ar…
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After Ned Lamont vetoed the housing bill last year, we asked for his emails and text messages. It took quite a while, but they arrived. And here's what we learned about 3 weeks of Ned Lamont texts. via @AlexPutterman and @jacquelinerabe ctinsider.com/projects/2026/…
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After more than a year of asking for text messages, they were finally released. This story takes a look at Lamont, Eversource and energy. We have another story with far more topics on the way. Good reporting by @AlexPutterman and @jacquelinerabe ctinsider.com/projects/2026/…
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Texts show Eversource's CEO urged Gov. Lamont to let the utility hire his just-ousted top aide to negotiate an $807M storm-cost settlement — an arrangement ethics rules restrict & would have sidestepped the consumer counsel who protects ratepayers. ctinsider.com/projects/2026/…
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Connecticut has one psychiatric hospital for the children private providers won't take and other hospitals can't safely handle. It's licensed for 50 beds. This summer, hospital leaders capped it at 24 — while children waited to get in. We asked for the records. 🧵
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“Regardless of how I got there, it was a lonely ride,” Diamantis said. “There’s been nothing fun about any of my trips. Whether it’s to Florida or leaving Florida to come here." via @KenDixonCT ctinsider.com/connecticut/ar…
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Always fun to team up with @AlexPutterman! On why the WNBA's Connecticut Sun relocation may be the end of major-league professional sports in the state of Connecticut "We're at a tremendous structural disadvantage in Connecticut" ctinsider.com/sports/article…
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