These people gave me what amounted to a death sentence. Donald Trump, in 1989, my case hadn’t even started yet. He took out full-page ads in New York City’s newspapers calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty specifically for my case.
Had this been the earlier part of the century, my name [...]
I met Patricia a few weeks ago covering a drug court graduation. Her story was too good to let it sit on my hard drive, so I put this together, with thanks to Matt, whose instrumentals I stole a while back.
Now check this out: I was old enough to know that I couldn’t eat the mud pies, and I knew I couldn’t turn the stove on, but I distinctly remember thinking, “Oh, I’ll solve those problems later.”
— Afi from Ohio, answering my question about a making a mess for [...]
Just as he dreamed, his vast archive — some 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of film, 3,000 videotapes, 5,000 photographs and piles of manuscripts, much of it tucked away in forgotten or inaccessible corners — is being digitized so that the collection can be accessed online. About 17,000 music tracks will [...]
Spent the week buried in mayoral coverage and haven’t had time to post material from Occupy Wall Street. Above is a gallery of photos taken at Zuccotti Park, where the demonstrators have been camping out, and surrounding areas.
Here’s an audio playlist of my interviews:
A lot of people seem to be [...]
I couldn’t really call myself a journalist if I was in New York this weekend and didn’t try to document what was going on over at Occupy Wall Street. As luck would have it, the first thing I’d see were some women from Holyoke, MA — right in [...]
The Republican put out a special section today focusing on the tornadoes that swept through Western Massachusetts a few weeks ago. Honestly, most of what I’ve been doing at work these past few weeks has been somehow related to the storms and their aftermath.
Because this piece was for a retrospective package, [...]
H.E.F. DONOHUE: You and I disagree about politics. We disagree about sociology. We disagree about history. We disagree about nuclear testing. But I think we agree on the worth—no matter how lyrical it sounds—we agree on the worth of the human individual, and his power and glory.
NELSON ALGREN: Only on [...]
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