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Michael Gagne is a native of Woonsocket, R.I., who has been covering local government and education since 2012 in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Michael currently covers local government in the city of Danbury and the town of Brookfield in Connecticut for The News-Times/Hearst Connecticut Media. Before that, Michael was a reporter with the Record-Journal in Meriden, covering breaking news, local government, elections and schools, as well as pursuing enterprise stories. Michael was also a reporter for the Republican-American in Waterbury, as well as the Herald-News in Fall River, Mass. Michael studied journalism and political science at the University of Rhode Island.