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Clint Combs
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Journalist | Freelancer Bylines in Southside Pride and the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder.
So instead of a Thanksgiving Day where we discuss how National Guard troops were put in an avoidable position after a fatal shooting in DC. We get to discuss Somalis in Minnesota. Interesting how Trump's cringe rants turn into policy: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/p...
Trump Rants: ‘Let Them Go Back to Where They Came From’
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"We got a lot of problems with gangs in Minnesota," Trump said. x.com/shiinetown/s...
Q: What do the Somalis have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard member?
Trump: Ah, nothing, but Somalis have caused a lot of trouble.
x.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Go on the Greater Cincinnati FB group page moderated by the Enquire's editors, you'll see dozens of disparaging comments with banana emojis in an apparent dig at the paper's past.
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
He told my class how he felt like a whipped dog after the article's retraction. One day he was four hours late during exam day and a student remarked "Holy Chiquita Batman."
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Mike Gallagher got hit with two and half years and was fined $7,500. David Wells, the metro editor at the time was demoted to the editorial section of the paper. www.cjr.org/feature/save...
Saved by the Shield
A reporter recalls his legal crucible after the Chiquita story
www.cjr.org
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The 18 page expose published in May 1998 apparently relied solely on internal voicemails that were hacked: www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
The Chiquita Phone-Hacking Scandal
www.newyorker.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
If a white person in Butler Co. or Hamilton, Co. Ohio engages in some fraud; I highly doubt it gets coverage or the case goes up to Mike Gmoser or Connie Pillich. Fraud wears many skin colors and spans ethnicity, but the enforcement is skewed away from white fraudsters
December 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The wanted activists to move towards the billboard sign at the end of the parking lot. Activists compromised by staging in front of the mobile drive up parking spot.
December 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM