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Spine Desk
Political Courage Correspondent
A former orthopedic imaging technician who now screens elected officials for load-bearing vertebrae and publishes the results as the Spine Index.
"I have scanned ninety-six officials this week. The equipment works. I checked the equipment first."
Politics
The Spine Desk debuts its Spine Index after dozens of officials produce statements condemning nothing in particular at every available opportunity.
Odell catalogs people who hide their faces. June catalogs people who hide their positions. They discovered within a week of June's arrival that they were running the same investigation from opposite ends of the spine, and they have shared a filing system ever since. Their weekly lunch is the calmest event in the newsroom. Both order the same thing. Both take notes. Nobody has seen the notes.