Intermountain West Connect reporter for the USA TODAY Network. Covered misinformation, business, sports, metro beats earlier in career. Cooker with fire.
Denver, CO
Joined September 2010
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Professional news - at the start of March, I moved into a new role as the Intermountain West Connect Reporter for the USA TODAY Network, covering trending news in Colorado and Utah. Read me in @coloradoan, (@ChieftainNews & @SpectrumNews. Excited to be covering news close to home
A claim about Nancy Pelosi and pot stocks goes up in smoke when you look at the facts. Fact check: False claim that Pelosi bought cannabis stocks days before Biden marijuana announcement usatoday.com/story/news/fact… via @USATODAY
“It's not going to be the purge." Fact check: Illinois judges can still detain murder, arson suspects after end of cash bail usatoday.com/story/news/fact… via @USATODAY
Fact check: Altered tweet about nuclear weapons wrongly attributed to CNBC host usatoday.com/story/news/fact… via @USATODAY
My first piece for @usatoday. Fact check: New mortgage program not limited to Black and Hispanic home buyers usatoday.com/story/news/fact… via @USATODAY
Excited to have begun a new chapter this week, joining @usatoday as a reporter on the fact check team. had 10 great years covering energy for @mergermarket over two stints but this is an amazing opportunity. Staying in Denver.
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Fusion Power Businesses Hunkering Down… Colleague @ntrela and I just published this to Forbes.com Not only are they trying to bring the energy source for stars down to earth but also make money. #fusionenergy forbes.com/sites/mergermarke…
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Excellent discussion of rise of hydrogen, and related dealmaking by my colleague @ntrela …Podcast: It's a Gas. How High Can Hydrogen Deals Fly? intralinks.com/insights/podc…
Millions of new EVs on the road will mean millions of battery packs that will eventually fail. Some companies think they have a way to recover much of the valuable material in them and make money doing so. Latest @mergermarket on #forbes forbes.com/sites/mergermarke…
Took a look at that other yellow metal that might be getting its glow back #mergermarket on #forbes forbes.com/sites/mergermarke…
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Wyoming’s Powder River Basin holds potential for good oil production in a fossil-fuel-friendly province. In our latest @Forbes column, @ntrela discusses how #MnA from public operators has been put on hold, thanks to lack of investor support. ow.ly/fIYg50vr9Uq
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On Aug 6, Bonanza Creek Energy ($BCEI) sold its Cotton Valley assets for $117m, confirming 04/18 and 11/17 reports by @ntrela @mschoeckPV @Mergermarket goo.gl/pAUS5t
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Roll Ups Smoldering In US Cannabis Industry – Mergermarket's @ntrela and Aram Hovsepian report our data shows globally there were at least 45 deals announced in the cannabis space totaling $1.69b in aggregate value in 2017. More in our @Forbes blog: buff.ly/2HSOxxf #MnA
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Awesome. @mschoeckPV, me, @ntrela published a story today with sector advisors questioning the logic of the deal -- agreeing with the activist's analysis. @Dealreporter @Mergermarket @Activistmonitor $SD teapawt.net/danacimilluca/status/9…
Icahn takes 13% stake in SandRidge, jumping on bandwagon opposing Bonanza Creek deal. Pre-turkey scoopage from @DaveCBenoit @RyanDezember
Global warming is helping miners unleash Canada's once frozen assets in the Arctic #mergermarket #forbes bit.ly/2ztUKeX
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RT if a copy editor has saved you from a mortifying error. Like if you're you're a copy editor and you've got a better way to phrase this.
Whatcha gonna do when Per-mania runs over you? @texastriangle & @fracfarm on west Texas oil #mergermarket on #forbes bit.ly/2mQl8Z1
Margins too slim for pvt companies to do early-stage dev work now done with federal funds #NREL director Keller #SolarPowerColorado