The importance of high-resource neighborhoods

The Dean of Literary Journalism, Malcolm Gladwell, has a piece in the latest New Yorker, Starting Over, that explores what happened to families and individuals who were forced to leave New Orleans after Katrina. We just observed the tenth anniversary of that awful storm, and the story contains some surprising observations. This is some of …

Why can’t this gas pipeline get a little attention?

At a hearing last night in Glastonbury, Conn., residents voiced their concern that an expanded gas pipeline planned through the state would have a far-reaching and dangerous impact on the state’s environment. You can read more about the Atlantic Bridge Project from the company responsible for it — Spectra Energy — here. You can read …

What a difference a day makes, Hartford zoning version

So I wrote this for Connecticut Magazine, about a group of 11 Harford residents (eight adults and three children) who banded together to form an intentional community in a mansion (pictured) in one of Hartford’s chi-chi neighborhoods. Many of the neighbors don’t want them there, and so the board of zoning stepped in. The group …