“Should a corporation poison your family for money?” Steyer asked the crowd. “Climate is the number one priority … not because we want it to be, but because it has to be.”
YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD MATTERS, HELP SAVE LOCAL NEWS ON GIVING TUESDAY
This rolling collapse of news media serving American cities and towns—following their purchase by ever more aggressive giant media conglomerates—now threatens our beleaguered democracy.
ACKNOWLEDGING SOME BRIGHT SPOTS ON THE DARKENING MASS MEDIA LANDSCAPE
Though the response was mostly positive, however cloaked in sadness, there were also criticisms, and for the most part I agree with complaints about how I neglected to identify those working hard to hydrate news deserts and who are launching ambitious hyperlocal startups and hustling between the gaps.
REAL TROOPERS & BEEPER DAYS
Consultants told Mass State Police how to avoid turmoil. The department ignored the advice and spent the following two decades spiraling toward boundless corruption.
FENTANYL IN THE FAMILY
Ben Westhoff’s dive into the ‘deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic’ is the most frightening book of the year, and it’s mandatory reading