Star-Studded global climate summit mobilizes action plans to combat climate change
Aaron Dorman Medill Reports If climate activists and local governments can’t work with Washington on climate change, they plan to work around it. More than 300 U.S. cities including Chicago, New York and Los Angeles have vowed to uphold the Paris Agreement – bypassing the Trump Administration’s intention to withdraw. And now dozens of cities […]
A teen’s fall and death during the last ice age
By Tiffany Chen Medill Reports Yucatan Peninsula. Even the tropical jungle of the Yucatan Peninsula reveal traces of the last ice age. The remains of them mammoth animals of the Late Pleistocene are safe and sound, not buried but submerged in the water-filled chambers in underground caves. Cave divers discovered the skeletons of ice age animals […]
Feral cats hunting down lizards in the Yucatan
By Tiffany Chen Medill Reports Quintana Roo, Mexico – The lush forests, cobalt blue waters and and rich biodiversity leaves the tourists in awe in the Yucatan Peninsula. Yet, over the past 20 years, locals and tourists at the coastal town of Akumal noticed a drop in the population of lizards. And stray cats are […]
Sputnik Coffee Company: A bona fide coffee business burgeoning in Back of the Yards
By Hayley Prokos Medill Reports A small homage to Soviet glory is bringing life to a barren corner of Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. Four enterprising friends have opened a bustling coffee business and café on W. 51st and Hoyne Avenue, calling their business the Sputnik Coffee Company. With few cafés nearby, Sputnik has […]
Ani Zonneveld – Challenging the mainstream narrative on Islam
By Aqilah Allaudeen Medill Reports Earlier this year, a Muslim woman donning a Shalwar Kameez, a traditional Indian outfit, walked down the aisle to marry a Christian man wearing a suit. The celebration welcomed some 200 people from both the bride’s and groom’s families. It ended with the bride and groom saying “I do,” followed […]
Female Founders and Funding
By Alexa Adler Medill Reports Female founders receive less than 3 percent of venture capital funding. In this TV special, Alexa Adler interviews industry experts Nicole Yeary, Samara Mejia Hernandez, Desiree Vargas Wrigley and Sam Yagan to learn more about this disparity. Photo at top: Alexa Adler hosts a TV special about gender related funding […]
Beige Book’s impact extends to everyday individuals, businesses
By Sarah Foster Medill Reports This is the final installment of a multi-part series on the Federal Reserve System Beige Book. Read the previous article: “Despite falling under regional banks’ purview, Fed’s Beige Book excludes territories, commonwealths” Four years ago, Bethany Sanchez received a surprising inquiry: A request from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago […]
Despite falling under regional banks’ purview, Fed’s Beige Book excludes territories, commonwealths
By Sarah Foster Medill Reports This is the continuation of a multi-part series on the Federal Reserve System Beige Book. Read the previous article: “Fed’s Beige Book draws skepticism from economists, academics” Antonio Fernos, associate professor at the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, has grappled with the same question for more than a decade: Why […]
Fed’s Beige Book draws skepticism from economists, academics
By Sarah Foster Medill Reports This is the continuation of a multi-part series on the Federal Reserve System Beige Book. Read the previous article: “Content simple, but impact significant for Fed’s Beige Book report” Bill Bergman isn’t a stranger to Beige Book skepticism. The former research economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago knows […]
Content simple, but impact significant for Fed’s Beige Book report
By Sarah Foster Medill Reports The words remind him of shuffling through yellow pages inside a library, calling auto dealers at random for informational interviews. The phrase evokes scenes of yelling over large stacks of research documents atop his desk — the only way he could communicate with nearby colleagues. These practices were more than […]