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 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.
It is rare to obtain this much evidence, of corruption this deep. Best snippets here, but read the full — utterly damning — piece from David Barstow: he former executive described how Wal-Mart de Mexico had orchestrated a campaign of bribery to win market dominance. In its rush to build stores, he said, the company … Read more
I’ve been besieged with emails about the NYT’s cover piece yesterday on food deserts, so here are a couple quick thoughts: (1) Food deserts have always been a crude measure Keep in mind that this is a fairly new area of public policy. I’ve long though that food deserts are a crude measure at best; … Read more
In the hubbub of book publication and tour, I nearly missed this survey of Detroit corner stores holding both liquor licenses and SNAP certification. Done by the Restaurant Opportinities Center Detroit (full disclosure: They are sponsoring a book event with me on Thursday) in conjunction with Doing Development Differently in Detroit (D4) and Metropolitan Organizing … Read more
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