Looking for An Arm and a Leg?
Here’s some favorite work from my public-radio/freelance days — aka More Stories About Buildings And Food.
And public finance, and climate change. Fun stuff!
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Renaissance fair health care
Paying for health care can be like medieval torture. So, Renaissance fair workers got creative. |
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Reversal of fortune: Saving Chicago from its own poop.
When a river isn’t a river. |
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What happens when a sex club tries to call itself… a church? (You know, for zoning purposes.) For Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting. |
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Want to see Chicago’s segregation? Ride the El. And: Take a time-lapse. |
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Corn economics and world hunger.
Our biggest crop? Not a foodstuff. For Marketplace. |
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Where did Chicago’s old-school donut shops go? And: In search of the city’s best. |
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If there’s no state budget, where do tax dollars go?
Strange-but-true answers, from Illinois’ two-year budget impasse. |
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How billiards created the modern world One word: Plastics. |
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“Baudelaire in a Box” celebrates the poet of failure
An oddball marathon celebrates the poet of spleen. For NPR’s |
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Miami condo-buyers aren’t homeowners. They’re traders. |
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The MCC: Chicago’s Jailhouse Skyscraper
For 99 Percent Invisible. |
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Why you can’t help paying four bucks for a latte A neuro-economist explains. For WBEZ. |
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How screwed is Chicago, really?
Will it become a second Detroit? For Marketplace |