Monthly Archive for February 2008

It’s amazing how sometimes you enter these little worlds where people are extraordinarily passionate about something that is just light-years from your own day-to-day life. I just finished reporting a story about whether kindergarteners should spend a whole day or just a full day in school. The data don’t really say for sure one way [...]

Save our suburbs!

A lot of urban planners are heavily into the idea of revitalizing the city — fewer have spent time on the suburbs. Here’s a story I wrote for Miller-McCune about efforts in Baltimore to revive inner-ring suburbs: Addressing the Silent Crisis of Declining Suburbs Since the 1970s, the cry has been to “Save Our Cities” [...]