The Justice Department opened a record number of civil rights investigations of police departments, which led to reforms that are still changing cities. Trump abandoned those efforts. Biden has said he’d go even further than his old boss.
Peddocks Island’s summer cottagers are the last people who live on a Boston Harbor island. Their community has an expiration date nobody knows.
It’s been 30 years this month since the unsolved Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist first rocked Boston and the art world. Ever wonder what will happen if the 13 stolen artworks are recovered? For the first time, Gardner security chief Anthony Amore offers a step-by-step guide.
By helping worker-owned cooperatives launch, the city is trying to boost its lower-income residents.
Read the story at POLITICO Magazine.
More of my coverage of urban jobs efforts:
Detroit’s Plan to Make Sure Redevelopment Boosts the Whole City
A groundbreaking law requires new projects to hire locally and build neighborhood amenities.
Her voters, convinced the Democratic Party had abandoned them, helped turn the state red. Can she find the right message to woo them back?
Read the story at POLITICO Magazine.
I’m writing about the New Hampshire primary for the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism’s Manchester Divided wire service.
In the 1868 impeachment trial, the power to end a presidency created intense pressure on the senators who would cast the deciding votes.
The city is fighting diet-related illnesses in its poorest neighborhoods one fresh tomato at a time.
‘Zero Waste’ might be the impossible dream, but San Francisco isn’t giving up.
Read the story at POLITICO Magazine.
With schools across 10 states, the P-TECH program prepares its students for good jobs that corporations pay well for.
Read the story at POLITICO Magazine.
More of my education coverage:
How Kalamazoo Is Fine-Tuning Its Groundbreaking Free College Program: Scholarship money doesn’t remove all the barriers to getting a postsecondary degree.
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