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Tom Lyden

@LydenFreeAgent

Journalist. No longer here (on Twitter-X). Cultivating my own garden in the Sierra foothills. For inquiries: [email protected].

Mariposa County, California Beigetreten Ağustos 2008
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California Free Agent@CAFreeAgent·
Yosemite National Park is officially closed due to heavy snowfall, road closures and potential avalanche conditions. Closure remains in effect until Midnight Friday. Those with lodging reservations may still enter the park via Hwy 140 (Arch Rock) entrance.
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No vehicle reservations required for Yosemite Firefall in February. Supt. McPadden says he's recommending no vehicle reservations for summer too, but Interior Dept. must decide. Link below.
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@stephenrodrick It was a wonderful tribute that captured her and the profound loss. So many of the vignettes I've heard from her life have a common theme of humor and grace. You really captured that. People really needed this story.
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I met Melissa Hortman in 2024. She was smart and kind. I heard about her murder in a LA hotel room and it dropped me to my knees. So I went to Minnesota and talked to her kids, parents, and friends. This is not true crime, this is Melissa in real life. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
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Back in the saddle again! I’m helping out the @MariposaGazette with a story about the local DA, who resigned last week after the paper provided the sheriff with text messages from a Merced man who says he sold methamphetamine to the DA 40 to 50 times. Free links below.
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@MikeEdgerly53 Moved to Minneapolis September 1993. Husband always rubs it in, reminds me I will never be part of the club.
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Mike Edgerly@MikeEdgerly53·
@LydenFreeAgent I moved into my house in Sept 1991 after moving north from KY. Four weeks later I was shoveling snow off my roof. I had never shoveled snow before. In hindsight, it was glorious..
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@plattMSP Totally agree. Mayo, and other health care companies, are also reliable advertisers. Those marketing dollars go somewhere.
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A former Wisconsin school superintendent offered the district $44K to make problems and police go away. fox9.com/news/former-wi…
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For two years a former Wisconsin superintendent accused of forging continuing education receipts said it was a "witch hunt." Today he was charged with 17 felony counts for stealing $290K. fox9.com/news/former-wi…
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Johnson resigned from the school district May 23 after we began digging into the story. After our initial story in January he resigned from another job with the Chippewa School District. He is not in custody. Initial court appearance will be November 21.
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According to the charges, Johnson claimed $75K for reimbursement for classes he never took, and $125,000 in annual stipends for the cost of graduate courses. He also claimed $38K as the districts special education instructor when he lacked the credentials.
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The former superintendent of the Glenwood City School District, Tim Johnson, was charged this afternoon with 17 felonies for his theft of $256,000 via theft, forgery, and money laundering. I first revealed the investigation in January. fox9.com/news/wisconsin…
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Tim Johnson arrogantly denied everything when I first approached him 18 months ago and said it was a witch hunt. And the school board president, Lisa Kaiser, backed him up all the way. Kaiser, and the rest of the board, has a lot to answer for obfuscating.
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None of this would've been exposed without Amy Dopkins (who is owed a HUGE apology for the grief she got), former school board member Nicole Miller, and new superintendent Patrick Olson. Good people who did the right thing.
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Tim Johnson was charged today with 14 felonies: theft, money laundering, forgery, and misconduct in public office. The nature of the crimes were outlined in a forensic audit requested by the new superintendent, Patrick Olson. In August fox9.com/news/glenwood-…
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Dopkins and I determined the receipts were forged because they didn't match similar receipts and they were for classes that didn't exist.
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