Email: dan.libon@patch.com

Birthday: May 13

Bio:

For all but five years of my life, I have called Foxborough, Massachusetts my home. Despite moving away to Florida in 1996, my family returned to Foxborough at the end of 2001 where I have lived since. A graduate of Foxborough High School, I attended nearby Wheaton College where I majored in political science and history.

After spending 2009 and 2010 working on political campaigns around Massachusetts and Rhode Island, I began writing for a local sports blog called Noontime Sports run by Patch correspondent Matt Noonan. Soon that led to my first jobs as a freelancer for the Foxborough Patch in February 2011. In October 2011, I became a regular freelancer for the Wrentham and the Norton Patch. I have written on everything from the Foxborough casino issue to high school sports to school committee meetings.

In my spare time I enjoy playing sports and catching up with my friends, going running, and reading comics.

Your beliefs

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Politics

I am a registered Democrat. With that being said, it would be foolish of me to dismiss other ideas or point of views that someone else may believe in.  Despite my personal biases, I prefer to set them aside in the name of writing a fair story and understanding multiple perspectives of an issue.

Religion

While I was born and raised Jewish, I can’t say that I’ve been to temple lately. I have found that personal faith is simply that. As long as one’s faith does not infringe on the faith or legal activities of others, then I have no problem with the idea of faith,