Michele Snow 3/19/25 Michele Snow 3/19/25

Downtown Boston is trying to find its post-pandemic identity. It’s fighting an uphill battle.

People in Greater Boston are less likely to spend time in neighborhoods not like their own than they were five years ago. Here’s why that’s a problem for downtown.

Michele Snow 2/5/25 Michele Snow 2/5/25

‘We really never came back to each other’: Five years after COVID, we’re more divided than ever

After a brief moment when Americans came together to battle a virus, the pandemic accelerated divisions of all kinds. If it happens again, could we unite again?

Michele Snow 11/4/24 Michele Snow 11/4/24

You’ve heard of the ‘urban doom loop.’ Nearly five years after the pandemic, are humans in one, too?

The beginning of the pandemic was nearly five years ago, but we’re just beginning to understand the many ways it has changed our behavior. New England Emmy Award

Michele Snow 12/18/23 Michele Snow 12/18/23

And Still We Ride: MBTA Riders are the 2023 Bostonians of the year

MBTA riders are tired, fed up — and essential. They’re our 2023 Bostonians of the Year.

Michele Snow 6/24/23 Michele Snow 6/24/23

A ‘doom loop’ narrative has taken over San Francisco. Here’s what it means for Boston.

How the City by the Bay has fallen since COVID and hopes to bounce back, and what the capital of the Bay State could learn from watching

Michele Snow 4/20/23 Michele Snow 4/20/23

At Barbara Lynch’s restaurants, growing concern over a toxic culture

Two deaths on the staff at Menton, and the famous chef’s response, are triggering a reckoning in one of Boston’s best-known restaurant groups

Michele Snow 2/18/23 Michele Snow 2/18/23

‘People are leaving’: Massachusetts has lost 110,000 residents since COVID began. Is life better out there?

Citing housing costs and remote work, among other factors, 110,000 more people have moved out of Massachusetts than moved in since the start of COVID. SABEW Award

Michele Snow 10/8/22 Michele Snow 10/8/22

Whales are dying. Ropes from lobster traps are partly to blame. That’s put lobsters — and the people who catch them — in the crosshairs of conservation groups.

A key seafood industry watchdog group urges consumers not to eat lobster because of the impact on endangered right whales. SABEW Award

Janelle Nanos 7/27/22 Janelle Nanos 7/27/22

Millennial. Mom. Mayor. Another way Michelle Wu reflects a changing Boston

Janelle Nanos 7/7/22 Janelle Nanos 7/7/22

In male-led brewing world, a #MeToo moment

Janelle Nanos 7/7/22 Janelle Nanos 7/7/22

From Maine’s warming waters, kelp emerges as a potentially lucrative cash crop

Michele Snow 12/21/21 Michele Snow 12/21/21

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

With the MBTA engulfed by delays, staffing shortages, and service interruptions, a city recovering from a pandemic struggles to bounce back. And everyday riders are feeling the pain. Editor and Publisher EPPY Award

Michele Snow 12/10/21 Michele Snow 12/10/21

A downtown full of delivery warehouses? ‘Dark stores’ are coming to Boston

Fueled by billions in investment, a wave of 15-minute delivery startups are moving into vacant downtown storefronts in Boston and other cities.

Michele Snow 11/20/21 Michele Snow 11/20/21

Death, disrupted: How the Boston-based ‘Warby Parker of caskets’ aims to upend the funeral business

Caskets are a big business for funeral-home operators. Titan Caskets is selling them direct-to-consumer for less.

Michele Snow 9/30/21 Michele Snow 9/30/21

‘September has been rough.’ School districts are scrambling to find food for student meals

Supply chain and staffing shortages combined with vast expansion of free lunch programs are overwhelming cafeterias this fall

Michele Snow 8/14/21 Michele Snow 8/14/21

In a hairier, scarier world, Gillette embraces the beard

‘No longer a wet shave business,’ the Boston-based razor maker is branching out to a wide range of grooming products as more men let their facial hair be

Michele Snow 7/12/21 Michele Snow 7/12/21

Massachusetts restaurants received nearly $1 billion in federal relief aid, but many were shut out

Michele Snow 4/18/21 Michele Snow 4/18/21

‘There will be extraordinary spending’: Retailers anticipate a post-pandemic consumption boom

Michele Snow 3/4/21 Michele Snow 3/4/21

I broke up with plastic, and you can too

“Zero Waste” is a worthy goal—and a hot hashtag—but a giant leap for most of us. Is it possible to do your part to save the planet without going off the deep end?

Michele Snow 2/24/21 Michele Snow 2/24/21

One Block, One World

The pandemic crushed businesses on Boston's Water Street. Even more devastating: The effects ripple around the world. Online Journalism Award Finalist