What We're Working On: Tuesday

Published June 22, 2010

Wondering where your fundraising dollars go? Here the people and stories our journalists are chasing on a warm Boston Tuesday:

  • Bob Oakes and Lisa Tobin are examining whether the city has succeeded in making the Rose Kennedy Greenway a gateway to the waterfront. Their story kicks off a new WBUR series about Boston Harbor called “Look Out.” (Don’t miss Adam Ragusea’s related but different story from Radio Boston a few weeks back.)
  • Curt Nickisch is comparing and contrasting the way local Brazilian and German communities watch the World Cup. Should be a lot of fun. Later today he’ll cover Venture Summit East at Harvard, a conference for VC’s. Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker will speak there at noon.
  • David Boeri is repackaging his story on the budget troubles of Gardner, the defunct chair capital of the world, for NPR. Good story, worth a listen.
  • Sonari Glinton is reporting on potential state budget cuts to special education.
  • Bianca Vazquez Toness is covering a planned protest of a state amendment that would bar undocumented immigrants from in-state tuition.
  • Andrea Shea is profiling the key players in Massachusetts’ struggling creative economy.
  • Kevin McNicholas, a WBUR freelancer, is covering a new conference with opponents to legalized casino gambling in Massachusetts.
  • Intern Carolyn Cruthirds is attending a news conference with the Boston TenPoint Coalition, where leaders will declare a gang violence ceasefire as part of the semi-annual “Season of Peace.”
  • I’m trying to book Marc Rotenberg, the Internet privacy guru, for a Radio Boston story about Google’s Street View cameras collecting personal data from home Wi-Fi networks. The Massachusetts attorney general is now involved.

All plans subject to change, etc.