
Author: Sorana Stanescu
2019 WPI Fellow
Editor, ASOCIATIA MEDIA DORBucharest, Romania
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2019. “The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”
by Sorana Stanescu | Sep 30, 2019 | Homeland Security/Terrorism, Immigration Reform
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It was 8:30am on a hot Saturday morning in the Embassy Suites lobby in Austin, Texas, and Stuart Maue had already put together a sophisticated automatic rifle made of over 15 balloons. He started light, a couple of minutes before, with two balloon-puppies, and quickly...

Small towns matter
by Sorana Stanescu | Sep 22, 2019 | Changes in Journalism, Journalism in the Trump Era, Political Coverage
Earlier this year, President Trumps named Baltimore “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” in a racist attack on Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings. The president suggested that conditions in Cummings’ district are “far worse and more dangerous” than...
The future of journalism is local and collaborative
by Sorana Stanescu | Sep 16, 2019 | Changes in Journalism, Journalism
“Most local newspapers will not survive in the next 10 years or so,” Dean Baquet, The New York Times’ executive editor told us earlier this week. “I worry about who’s going to cover the areas where there is no money.” His colleague, National Editor Marc Lacey added:...
It takes an app and a family to run a farm
by Sorana Stanescu | Sep 9, 2019 | Agriculture, Agriculture and Rural Issues, Global Business, Sustainability
As we spent a couple of days in rural southern Minnesota, the scale and size of what Minnesotans call “an average family farm” surprised me: 180 dairy cattle or 500-acres. In my home country Romania, that is officially considered a large farm. That is a large farm...Recent blog posts
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