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Democracy needs more gumshoe journalists
In September of 1988, the newspaper at which I had worked for barely one month published a special section on the 50th anniversary of the Hurricane of 1938. I was only dimly aware of this historic storm, which had slammed into the New England coast without warning and killed more than 600 people.
That morning at The Day of New London, Conn., I began to r…