South Side Weekly • 7th July 2021 Surveilling Dissent How CPD used the City’s gun-violence prevention center to monitor demonstrations last summer.
South Side Weekly • 23rd June 2021 Chicago Police Spied on Protesters Why did CPD External Relations approve snooping on a demonstration last summer?
South Side Weekly • 23rd June 2021 The High Price of the City’s Shows of Force Idling trucks ahead of protests in April drained half of Streets and Sanitation’s overtime budget for the year.
South Side Weekly • 6th May 2021 Lightfoot Quietly Lobbied for Qualified Immunity A report meant to make the mayor’s case for qualified immunity showed ten years of CPD lawsuits that cost Chicago taxpayers more than half a billion dollars.
Scientific American • 24th March 2021 Hunger Strikers Seeking Environmental Justice Win Air-Pollution Delay A hunger strike in Chicago and concerns raised by city and state politicians has slowed the planned move of a metal scrapper to a working-class, predominantly Latino community
Scientific American • 1st March 2021 Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests A study also found body-camera use and community policing increased in places with the most active movements.
South Side Weekly • 17th February 2021 Chicago Police Overtime Broke Department Records in 2020 About 6% of cops generated 20% of last year's overtime pay
Scientific American • 11th February 2021 White Chicago Cops Use Force More Often than Black Officers New study of the city's policing also shows differences between male and female cops
Scientific American • 20th November 2020 New Scientist-Candidates for U.S. Congress Fared Worse Than Expected in 2020 Even with big health issues in the headlines, most of these challengers lost, though advocates hope the races gave science a higher policy profile
South Side Weekly • 14th October 2020 Should Protesters be Prosecuted? Foxx and O’Brien Differ Kim Foxx is dismissing certain misdemeanor charges against protesters and prosecuting those charged with felonies. Her opponent says Foxx is allowing crime to “intermix” with peaceful protesters.
South Side Weekly • 2nd September 2020 Mohawk Johnson on Hip-Hop, Activism, and Skating "I think what people need to understand is that regardless of how you feel about the methodology, these people are in pain. Art creates an avenue for that pain"
Scientific American • 8th July 2020 Vaccinations Have Sharply Declined Nationwide during the COVID-19 Pandemic Rates of childhood immunization have fallen across the U.S., raising the risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks
Scientific American • 20th March 2020 How to Triage Patients Who Need Intensive Care A new computer model analyzes when to admit people to intensive care units—and when to move them out—which could help doctors handle the coronavirus surge
South Side Weekly • 4th February 2020 What Happened to the Mental Health Task Force? Public Health Commissioner Allison Arwady has proposed a new task force to “coordinate” mental health efforts
Scientific American • 17th December 2019 Ancient "Chewing Gum" Reveals a 5,700-Year-Old Microbiome Archaeologists reconstructed a Neolithic woman’s complete genome and oral microbiome from a piece of birch tar she chewed
In These Times • 3rd October 2019 Trump Admin Scrubs Websites of Info on Services for Migrant Children Under Trump, government websites are also more frequently using derogatory language to refer to migrant children.
Scientific American • 19th September 2019 Silent Skies: Billions of North American Birds Have Vanished Though waterfowl and raptor populations have made recoveries, bird populations have declined since 1970 across nearly all habitats
Scientific American • 7th August 2019 Brazil's Sacked Space Director Speaks Out on Attacks on Science Ricardo Galvão discusses his dismissal after Amazon deforestation data rankled President Bolsonaro
Scientific American • 26th April 2019 Is the EPA Stifling Science on Chemical Toxicity Reports? Critics say changes to the agency’s review process will harm public health
