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Joe Brandt
I WROTE STUFF
For LX News
Which Anthems at the Winter Olympics Are the Biggest Bops?
Bob Saget's Kindness Shines in Interview with High Schooler
TikTok Wants You to Make 'Ecobricks' From Plastic Trash. Should You?
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Many Unhoused People Would Choose Their Pet Over a Shelter
Mass Shootings Didn't Stop During the Pandemic. We Just Weren't Paying Attention
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The Pandemic Made Us Drive More Recklessly in a Deadly 2020 on the Road
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White Claw Summer Is Over. The Summer of Too Many Seltzers is Here.
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The Future of Your NBA Tickets is Virtual - And Non-Fungible
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For NBC10 Philadelphia
Map tracking reopening plans of school districts closed (or not) in the coronavirus pandemic
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Why So Many More White People Than Black People Have Been Vaccinated
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Interview With a 'Polio Pioneer' from the Polio vaccine trial, who is now a doctor
Oft-updated and searchable breakdown explaining how to get the coronavirus vaccine
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Seizing on the national spotlight pointed at Philadelphia during the 2020 vote counting, I explained some stuff people got wrong about our city.
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Quick-strike takedown of viral misinformation on "poll watching"
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Philly Leaders Say Homeless Camps Are 'Untenable.' Residents Say They've Been a Lifeline
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I can write about sports too! I not only wrote these quick stories during the Flyers pandemic playoff run, but I push-alerted them before our competition could.
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Meat Plant Workers and Your Dinner at Risk in Coronavirus Pandemic
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Coronavirus survivors: an occasional series
After 51 Days on Ventilator, Dad Leaves Hospital, and He Can Talk Again
Recovering from 5 Days on Ventilator, Exton Store Owner Grateful For What's Next
Hear from This NJ Dad in COVID-19 Home Quarantine
13 Weeks After He Was Hospitalized with COVID-19, Montco Painter Heads Home
For NJ.com
Former indie actor finds his toughest role yet: owning this N.J. church
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Couple was about to split the night wife was fatally shot
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A suicide, and a semester-long waitlist, spur calls for change at Rowan University
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Attempted murder accusation against Olympic horseman from N.J. shocks equestrian world
'Gaming buddies' met at bedside of N.J. kid dying from cancer, and they went viral
Westfield principal who died donating bone marrow to stricken teen remembered as 'hero' by thousands
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For The Philadelphia Daily News (and Inquirer)
Short-term art: When murals fall to developers
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Miracle on Market? Tot's tumor shrinks weeks after kiss from Pope Francis
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Some homeless vets ambivalent after city's first Veterans' Day parade
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For The Temple News
Editor-in-Chief sendoff column highlighting transparency issues at Temple
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Bill Cosby resigns from Temple University's Board of Trustees (with Lian Parsons & Steve Bohnel)
More for NJ.com
Frank Nucera trial
For 3 weeks, I reported from the federal courthouse in Camden, N.J. and wrote several dispatches from the first trial of a former police chief accused of a hate crime.
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School bus safety technology
Why are students left behind on school buses, despite a state law requiring adults to check, and a proliferation of new tech that's supposed to alleviate the problem?
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Students keep being left behind on school buses. Is new tech the solution?
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Photo by Lori M Nichols/NJ Advance Media
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