Trinidad and Tobago
I'm a journalist on a Fulbright Fellowship in the Caribbean, where I write about transportation, urban design, and infrastructure. Before that, I was a staff reporter at the Boston Globe.
Trinidad
On-demand carpooling is but the latest, greatest and buzziest innovation by U.S. ride-sharing companies. Uber and Lyft are betting big on it, while a whole new outfit, New York-based Via, just scored $27 million for a smartphone app that would offer shared rides in central Manhattan.
The two most boring words in the English language: "public procurement." It's the kind of thing you see thrown around in newspaper articles and on evening news segments in which people rarely pause to answer the question: What the heck does this even mean?
We've all seen them: Law enforcement roadblocks erected along the highway, where police officers pull over scores of drivers in an attempt to nab drunk drivers. But what happens after the roadblock? Last Tuesday, I spent a day in the Port of Spain Magistrates' Court to observe the proceedings after a holiday weekend filled with revelry...
Government officials are working to reopen Manzanilla-Mayaro Road, but they’re facing a formidable task: How will they build a road that’s flood-proof for years to come?
A proposed highway has become a symbol of too-rapid development for a university professor in week two of a hunger strike.
The Boston Globe
Suzanne deLesdernier is part of a small but stubborn group of Massachusetts drivers who decline to order an E-ZPass, the state's electronic toll transponders - not because they don't know where to obtain one, or because they don't have a bank account, but because they don't agree with electronic tolling.
Nearly two years after the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority implemented a policy that requires all applicants for The Ride to attend an in-person evaluation at a Charlestown office, rather than mailing a lengthy application and a doctor's note, senior citizens and their advocates say the requirement has deterred the region's oldest and frailest most frail residents from applying.
A long-awaited fleet of MBTA commuter rail cars, delivered 2½ years late by the South Korean manufacturer, is now so plagued by mechanical, engineering, and software problems that it has to be shipped to a facility in Rhode Island to be fitted with new parts.
As chaos unfolded at the Boston Marathon this afternoon, many runners who had not yet made it to the finish line were bewildered when they were redirected from the course without explanation.
It was one of the first instructions 23-year-old Mayor Alex Morse gave to his new secretary. Before arriving at events, he must always know which door to enter. The directive is part practicality - when he attends four, five, six events in one evening, dashing between them for 15-minute stints, he cannot waste time hunting for the right entrance.
Last August, when Harvard administrators announced they were grappling with the largest Ivy League cheating scandal in recent memory, they said they would hear the cases of 125 students within a "few weeks." But instead of learning their fates in September, many of the accused and their families say, they faced a series of delays and drifting deadlines as hearings continued through December.
Elsewhere
LARGO - Surrounded by her son's photographs, coloring books and stacks of folded pajamas, Amy Hari had only one question Thursday as she chose clothes for her 3-year-old son's burial. How? How could her son have drowned when his stepfather was standing 10 feet away?
The diagnosis was Stage 4 breast cancer. The prognosis: grave. "I got the impression that it was just like, 'Well, you're going to come here for chemo every week ... kind of until you die,' " Erin Howarth said with a sardonic laugh. That was in November 2008.
Winding its way along the route of the Tour de France, through Catalonian hills and Swiss ski towns and sleepy Provencal villages, is a 2,200-pound robot hitched to an SUV. And though the robot is part of a new international marketing campaign by Nike, make no mistake: It's a Pittsburgh creation.
It might be better to give than to receive, but for two Pittsburgh families in need of kidneys, it was both the giving and receiving that created a happy ending. After Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC performed the country's first paired kidney donation involving a child on July 8, the two families met yesterday for the first time at the Lawrenceville hospital.
Jane, 41, is a Yale dining hall employee. She has four children - two sons and two daughters - as well as a two-year-old granddaughter, and she lives in Westville, although until last month she lived in Fair Haven. Jane has worked at Yale for three-and-a-half years. And on Sept.
Art major Aliza Shvarts '08 wants to make a statement. Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages.