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Tony Wagner

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Tony Wagner is Marketplace's newsletter editor. You can email him at twagner@marketplace.org.

Previously he was a digital producer who helped launch “Make Me Smart,” “The Uncertain Hour” and “This Is Uncomfortable.” After eight years at Marketplace headquarters in LA, he recently relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Latest from Tony Wagner

  • Apr 18, 2019

    Kicking the habit

    Nurse Joie Cantrell checks the Naloxone supply in December at the Virginia Department of Health in Wise. Every participant of the needle exchange program is offered Naloxone, which can reverse an overdose.
    Julia Rendleman for Marketplace

    Many people in Wise County agree that they can’t jail their way out of a drug epidemic, but there’s a lot less agreement on what to do instead. And we find out what happened to Joey Ballard.

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  • Apr 17, 2019

    The future of work is anchor jobs and side hustles

    The Lyft logo is shown on the screen at the Nasdaq offices in Times Square on March 29, 2019 in New York.
    DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images

    A string of IPOs cements the gig economy as part of working life.

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  • Apr 11, 2019

    Supply

    Lt. Ryan Phillips of the Wise County sheriff's office drives through Appalachia, Virginia, on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. Phillips has seen the opioid epidemic up close as a law enforcement officer and life-long resident of Wise County. "I knew them [persons suffering addiction] before they got addicted, so I know they're not just some dope head," he said.
    Julia Rendleman/Marketplace

    It’s not easy being an undercover cop in a county of just 40,000 people. But drugs were making it hard for Bucky Culbertson to run his business, so he made it his business to get rid of drugs.

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  • Apr 9, 2019

    The opioid epidemic in 5 charts

    Dr. Gurcharan Kanwal lost his medical license after an investigation by the Southwest Virginia Drug Task Force found that he was running a "pill mill," or distributing drugs without a legitimate medical purpose, out of this building in Coeburn, Virginia.
    Julia Rendleman for Marketplace

    Putting the numbers in broader context.

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  • Apr 9, 2019

    The Explainathon strikes back

    This isn't literally what Kai and Molly look like trying to answer all your questions, but it's definitely the vibe.
    Ron Burton/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

    It’s our the fifth Explainathon, the semi-biannual challenge when Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood try to answer as many of your questions as possible. This one has everything: Privacy regulation! Social Security! 5G! The college admissions scandal! The dark web! We tackle it all.

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  • Apr 4, 2019

    Welcome to Wise County

    A homemade sign says "Think drugs gets you high give God a try," on a front lawn in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. The town in Wise County has been hit hard by the opioid epidemic.
    Julia Rendleman/Marketplace

    It’s the deadliest drug epidemic our country has ever faced. We go to ground zero, where “nothing changes except for the drug.”

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  • Apr 3, 2019

    Why your tax refund might be lower this year

    Armando La Rosa directs people to the Liberty Tax Service office as the deadline to file taxes looms on April 15, 2016 in Miami, Florida. 
    Joe Raedle/Getty Images

    … And why that’s not so bad, even if it feels that way.

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  • Mar 28, 2019

    Sentencing

    Keith Jackson's former home in northeast Washington, D.C.
    Jared Soares/Marketplace

    The drug bust and the trial were a “farce,” but the full force of the law still came down on Keith Jackson — and thousands of people like him. That didn’t end the crack epidemic, so what did?

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  • Mar 26, 2019

    How do drug epidemics end?

    Used needles rest in a bin at Virginia's first-ever syringe exchange program at the Virginia Department of Health in Wise County Friday, December 7, 2018. Wise County is a sort of "ground zero" for the country's opioid crisis, and our podcast "The Uncertain Hour" has been reporting from there. 
    Julia Rendleman/Marketplace

    In its new season, The Uncertain Hour is trying to find out.

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  • Mar 22, 2019

    What happened to Keith?

    Washington DC's Spingarn High School, where Keith Jackson attended before his arrest, November 2018. 
    Jared Soares/Marketplace

    One day, early in the semester, Keith Jackson didn’t show up to class. He’d been arrested for selling crack, but for his classmates, that wasn’t the surprising part.

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