Cop shootings have torn apart Cleveland. Jawanza Colvin says the way to heal the city is to root out racism from the legal system.Read the story at POLITICO Magazine.
I’m writing about Boston’s future — how we’ll get around, how we’ll build — for Next City. Longer features coming soon. Some news pieces:
Greater Boston will have to absorb over 100,000 more commuters by 2030, leading to “virtual gridlock.” (June 15)
Massachusetts Cuts Costs, Moves Forward With Green Line Extension (May 10)
How a therapist and his comedian daughter F-bombed their way to the bestseller list.
While John Adams resisted the British with petitions, speeches and essays, the secret society behind Boston’s Liberty Tree threatened to lynch the king’s stampman.
Read the story at SmithsonianMag.com.
For years, Curly Haugland’s command of the GOP rulebook made him a pariah. This year, he could be the establishment’s last hope to stop its nightmare nominee.
Three Cambridge biotech startups are vying for control of a revolutionary gene-editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9. On the line are a billion-dollar market, a potential Nobel Prize, and, yes, the power to resurrect an extinct species.
When nature knows best.
The most eloquent celebration of Grand Coulee Dam’s ambition and power didn’t come from FDR or Truman, but Woody Guthrie.
Twenty-six years after the artwork was stolen, the museum’s security chief thinks he knows who did it. What has him stumped is where the paintings are now.
Will the Tamir Rice case cost prosecutor Tim McGinty his job? And what does his challenger have to say about police shootings?
Read the story at Cleveland Magazine.
Erick Trickey 