Dusty Christensen
ReporterDusty Christensen is an investigative reporter based in western Massachusetts. He currently teaches news writing and reporting at UMass Amherst.
As an international correspondent, he has covered topics ranging from Ukraine’s nuclear industry to U.S. retirees gentrifying small indigenous villages in Ecuador, reporting for outlets including The Nation magazine, WNYC radio, NPR, Haaretz and PBS.
As a local reporter in western Massachusetts, his work has appeared in newspapers including the Daily Hampshire Gazette — where he was a staff writer for five years — The Boston Globe, The Berkshire Eagle, the Greenfield Recorder and the Valley Advocate.
Reach him at dusty.christensen [at] protonmail.com.
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Officials in Holyoke this week debated how best to move forward after an independent audit released last month found the police department poses a “substantial risk” to the city. -
A newly released independent audit of the Holyoke Police Department finds the HPD poses a “substantial risk” to the city it serves.
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Mayor Joshua Garcia has broken his silence about an NEPM investigation that revealed the city’s police department almost never disciplines officers whom civilians accuse of wrongdoing.
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Nearly a year after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a crowd of 800 packed into the Frederick C. Tillis Performance Hall at UMass Amherst to see the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine perform.
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A decade of civilian complaints against Holyoke police shows that of the 92 times an officer was named, the department upheld those allegations only three times. NEPM obtained the records after a sweeping police reform law in Massachusetts opened up law enforcement misconduct investigations to greater public scrutiny.
