Split City<\/a>\u00a0(The Baffler, March 30, 2023) At 53, Bucking the Great Resignation<\/a>\u00a0(Oldster, Feb. 7. 2022) What Happened May 30? A document of escalating conflict in downtown Chicago<\/a>(South Side Weekly) Bridging Chicago’s Food Gap During COVID-19: Why is it so perennially hard to get food to those in need?<\/a>\u00a0(South Side Weekly) Puerto Rico’s new land-use zoning map strikes a nerve with fed-up citizens<\/a> (PRI\/The World, Sept. 6, 2019) Puerto Rico’s Vieques island ousted the U.S. navy. Now the fight’s against Airbnb.<\/a>(PRI\/The World, July 16, 2019) In the Shadow of Lincoln Yards: A $5 billion development threatens one of Chicago’s most beloved venues — and much more <\/a>(The Baffler, January 23, 2019) Rebuilding Puerto Rico, From the Ground Up: Less than a year after Hurricane Maria, can the Fondo de Resiliencia change the country’s food system?<\/a> (Eater, August 22, 2018) In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, thousands of Puerto Ricans have sought refuge in Chicago. Here’s what one woman had to navigate to get her family settled<\/a>. (Belt Magazine, Dec. 26, 2017; picked up by Longform, Jan. 2018) Utopia Parkway: Mining the Midwest for the perfect laissez-faire social order<\/a>\u00a0(Baffler: No. 36, 2017, print and online) In Southwest Michigan, Many Aren’t Shrugging Off the March<\/a> (Belt Magazine: January 24, 2017) Be Afraid<\/a> (The Baffler: December 23, 2016) Seed or Weed: The Evolution of Chicago’s Bloomingdale Trail<\/a> (Belt Magazine: September 22, 2014) Knocked Over<\/a>\u00a0(The Rumpus: September 2, 2012) My Dinner With Charlie<\/a> (Chicago Reader: February 2, 2001) Beast in the East: In Moscow’s Exile, Hard News Jumps in Bed With Misogyny and Mayhem<\/a> (Chicago Reader, July 13, 2000) Recent\u00a0writing Split City\u00a0(The Baffler, March 30, 2023) An analysis of Chicago’s 2023 mayoral runoff election. At 53, Bucking the Great Resignation\u00a0(Oldster, Feb. 7. 2022) After being scammed out of some savings, Martha Bayne rethinks the Gen X play book as it pertains to work and financial security. What Happened May 30? A document of escalating … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":147,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1144\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAn analysis of Chicago’s 2023 mayoral runoff election.<\/p>\n
\nAfter being scammed out of some savings, Martha Bayne rethinks the Gen X play book as it pertains to work and financial security.<\/p>\n
\nA multimedia and print project documenting police violence at the George Floyd protests in Chicago. Part of a package that won a 2020 Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club.<\/p>\n
\nA collaboration with the social justice reporting program at Medill School of Journalism, investigating how food access in Chicago has changed during COVID.<\/p>\n
\nThe latest in a series of reports on land use and property rights in Puerto Rico, this one on the proposed zoning map changes that have galvanized citizens in the wake of the #RickyRenuncia protests.<\/p>\n
\nOne in a series of articles coauthored by myself, Isabel Dieppa, and Kari Lydersen, as part of a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grant we received to investigate property rights and land use in Puerto Rico. (For more, see this article, “Vibrant neighborhood or tourist magnet<\/a>,” in Reuters Place.)<\/p>\n
\nOn the plan that would remake the near north side, the (ultimately failed) pushback it engendered, and the ever-elusive quest for authenticity, urbanism’s Holy Grail.<\/p>\n
\nI spent a week in Puerto Rico with Tara Rodriguez Besosa and farmers and food activists working with the Fondo de Resilienca to help build a more sustainable, resilient Puerto Rican food system.<\/p>\n
\nIn search of housing, schooling, and mental health: In-depth narrative reporting on one family’s journey from San Juan to Chicago in the wake of Hurricane Maria.<\/p>\n
\nIf dystopia is utopia\u2019s twin, and totalitarianism its dark shadow, capitalism is the dog nipping at its heels.<\/p>\n
\nThe New York Times went to Niles and all they found were a bunch of bumpkins. I tried to set the record straight.<\/p>\nEvergreens<\/h3>\n
\nOn the power of fear, and why — in the wake of the election — it’s more important now than ever to learn to master it.<\/p>\n
\nOn seeds, weeds, gentrification, place, and memory. Originally written and performed for <\/span>Theater Oobleck<\/a>‘s June 2014 residency at the <\/span>Hideout<\/a>. Reprinted in the anthology “Voices from the Rust Belt,” February 2018 (Picador).<\/span><\/p>\n
\nOn accidental pregnancy and miscarriage,\u00a0This\u00a0piece is also included in the anthology Get Out of My Crotch<\/a>\u00a0(Cherry Bomb Books),\u00a0published January 22, 2013, the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. (Related: Fresh Air Fail: What Happens When Personal Writing Draws a Spotlight<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\nUnpacking Charlie Trotter’s obsession with excellence. (A Peter Lisagor award finalist, and the piece I blame for getting me into food writing. A revised version of this appeared in the Baffler<\/em> in 2002.)<\/p>\n
\nAn early exploration of the methods of Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames, from their days at the debauched helm of Moscow’s English-language Exile<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"