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Mark Mirko
Visuals Deputy DirectorMark Mirko is Deputy Director of Visuals at Connecticut Public and his photography has been a fixture of Connecticut’s photojournalism landscape for the past two decades. Mark led the photography department at Prognosis, an English language newspaper in Prague, Czech Republic, and was a staff-photographer at two internationally-awarded newspaper photography departments, The Palm Beach Post and The Hartford Courant. Mark holds a Masters degree in Visual Communication from Ohio University, where he served as a Knight Fellow, and he has taught at Trinity College and Southern Connecticut State University. A California native, Mark now lives in Connecticut’s quiet-corner with his family, three dogs and a not-so-quiet flock of chickens.
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It was an offer he apparently could refuse: Dan Hurley has reportedly turned down a six-year contract worth $70 million to stay at UConn.
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Photojournalists at NPR member stations have been documenting the demonstrations around the country this week.
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Students gathered on the Storrs campus late Thursday afternoon. Social media showed police at the scene, taking down tents and making an arrest.
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The children, ages 5, 6, 8 and 12, were found inside the house where several other people lived, officials said.
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"Whoever scrawled this swastika and message of white supremacy is a miserable, small, hate-filled person who wants us divided and afraid,” Mayor Luke Bronin said in a statement.
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Quinnipiac, along with Merrimack, Harvard and Ohio State, battled for a ticket to the Frozen Four.
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All summer long, we'll bring you profiles of BIPOC farmers across Connecticut. Hear their stories in their own words.