Glamour • May 25, 2012
I’ll admit I love zoning out to a(n admittedly mindless) beach read as much as the next girl. But more often than not, I find digging in and engaging with an immersive true story even more rewarding. If you’re looking forward to spending the long weekend flipping your brain switch into the “on” position, consider these 6 books (or ebooks!) to do the trick.
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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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
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
I don’t have much to add to the thoughtful comments from this (now-a-month-old) post, but love the data visualization. What I would love to see someone do is a price/quality comparison between different stores, really get a handle on how much better (or not) nutrition and cost are based on geography. As I’ve mentioned before, … Read more
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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