Category: Written Work

  • Meet the people behind the curtain on Election Day

    It doesn’t matter if turnout is high – more than 1.8 million Connecticut residents in the 2020 presidential election, or low – around 741,000 voters in municipal elections last November. Read more »  

  • Fast fashion lures shoppers, difficult to avoid

    Glance around a mall, concert hall, or college campus and chances are you will see at least one piece of fast fashion clothing — often without even knowing it. Read more »  

  • Breaking the Cycle with Marilynn B. Winn

    “There’s nothing you can tell me about the system and how it operates,” says formerly incarcerated Marilynn B. Winn. “I have experienced it, I have lived it, breathed it, ate it, slept on it—I’m a part of it.”  Read more »  

  • Battle of the Bands: Opportunity for homegrown talent

    Progression is the band’s goal. “I’d love to be touring, I’d love to be on a label,” McDonald said. “I want a bathrobe and slippers that have the Ruby Leftstep logo.” Read more »  

  • Online Sports Gambling Common Among Young Men

    Over 39 per­cent of peo­ple who active­ly gam­ble is under the age of thir­ty-five. White men in this these age group gamble the most out of any oth­er demo­graph­ic group. Read more »  

  • Relief for Detroit Auto Dealers as UAW Strike Settled

    Despite being in the heart of Motor City where the auto­mo­tive indus­try is at the pulse of the city’s eco­nom­ic suc­cess, the ram­i­fi­ca­tions of this strike did not take out Detroit’s GM auto deal­ers as it had dur­ing the 2019 strike. Read more »  

  • ESPN Enters Sports Betting Business

    By Luke Owen | UConn Jour­nal­ismDecem­ber 8, 2023 STORRS — Bran­don Sund­blade is a dai­ly sports bet­tor who relies on sports jour­nal­ists to pro­vide accu­rate and time­ly updates so that he can place informed bets. “I fol­low every major NFL and NBA jour­nal­ist on Twit­ter. I have their post noti­fi­ca­tions on, too,” Sund­blade admit­ted. “If Read more »  

  • Playing Outdoors Better for Children than Screens

    Because children are spending more time indoors on their devices, children are spending less time outdoors where the imagination can literally run wild. Read more »  

  • UConn Professor Michael Dietz pushes for green stormwater infrastructure

    By MAINA DURAFOUR | UConn Jour­nal­ismDecem­ber 1, 2023 Pic­ture this – heavy rain pound­ing down dur­ing vio­lent storms in the mid­dle of sum­mer, fol­lowed by days of intense heat. Many of us are expe­ri­enc­ing this every year. When the sun shines again, you may think the water has left – but heavy rain has a Read more »  

  • Book Ban Attempts Increase in Connecticut

    By Alli­son Lemas­ter | UConn Jour­nal­ism Novem­ber 30, 2023 BROOKFIELD — As Jer­mey Far­rell ner­vous­ly stood before the Brook­field Board Edu­ca­tion on July 19, 2023, a board that over­sees his old high school, he knew the fight to keep “This Book Is Gay” acces­si­ble to stu­dents was much more than a debate with­in his home­town. Read more »