Walmart pulls out of Somerville and Watertown sites

Wicked Local Watertown • May 19, 2012

WATERTOWN – Walmart is suspending its push to build a superstore in Watertown and its plans to build a grocery store at the old Circuit City site at Assembly Square in Somerville.

“One of the primary deciding factors on any given site – whether it’s in an urban, suburban or rural market – is that it makes sense from a business perspective and contributes to our bottom line,” Walmart spokesman Steven Restivo said in an interview Friday. “In the case of the Somerville and Watertown sites, we made a business decision that the projected cost of investment would exceed our expected return.”

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Cook’s Tour of Our Food Industry

The Progressive Populist • May 15, 2012

When journalist Tracie McMillan decided to go undercover for a look at our food supply chain, she likely didn’t expect to be sidelined by tennis elbow. Turns out when you’re cutting garlic all day long there’s a high risk of epicondylitis, which cut short one of the many jobs McMillan took on to trace the paths food takes between farm and table.

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Tracie McMillan: The undercover journalist

Culinate • May 10, 2012

In an effort to illustrate the American food system from the inside out, and learn more about the people who work and eat within that system, journalist Tracie McMillan worked undercover in Walmart’s produce section, in California produce fields, and at an Applebee’s kitchen.

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Join Tracie McMillan @ Brooklyn Food Conference this Sat; Chicago and NYC later in May

  Tracie McMillan This Saturday @ Brooklyn Food Conference Is this email not displaying correctly? . SATURDAY Brooklyn Food ConferenceDAYTIME: Learn Plenary @ 9:30 a.m. Workshop @ 12:30 p.m. Brooklyn Tech High School (DeKalb and South Elliott Place) EVENING: Party After Party 6- 9 p.m. 70 South Elliott Place Sponsored by Families United for Racial and … Read more

I am honored and delighted to inform you

I am honored and delighted to inform you that I’ve been selected as a U-M Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow for 2012-13. http://ow.ly/aMEcE

Why @Target ‘s expanding grocery business makes me queasy http://ow.ly/aMjNK #PlayingCatchup

What I find most interesting about Target’s expansion as a grocer is that its produce offerings (not unlike Walmart’s) tend to be slim and of not-the-best-quality-ever. I’m completely comfortable with people making use of canned and frozen produce, but there’s something about shifting our food supply away from things-we-can-eat-as-they-are and toward things-someone-else-makes-and-sells-us that makes me incredibly … Read more

U-M Names Knight Wallace Journalism Fellows

University of Michigan News Service • May 8, 2012

The Knight-Wallace Fellows program at the University of Michigan has named 12 American and seven international journalists for the academic year 2012-2013. The group is the 39th to be offered fellowships by the university.

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