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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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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Quick thoughts on @NYTimes cover story on food deserts

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

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