In addition to homelessness, I covered the trials of welfare dads, the unemployed who gave up looking for work, the indigent elderly who ate in soup kitchens and hitchhiked, and the immigrants, mentally ill, and disabled, among others, who coped with poverty and welfare reform.
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In addition to homelessness, I covered the trials of welfare dads, the unemployed who gave up looking for work, the indigent elderly who ate in soup kitchens and hitchhiked, and the immigrants, mentally ill, and disabled, among others, who coped with poverty and welfare reform.
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Poverty stories: Homes Without Toilets
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In addition to homelessness, I covered the trials of welfare dads, the unemployed who gave up looking for work, the indigent elderly who ate in soup kitchens and hitchhiked, and the immigrants, mentally ill, and disabled, among others, who coped with poverty and welfare reform. IN BOSTON, 2,500 SAY THEY LACK PLUMBING. It's crazy people are still living in these illegal, primitive apartments, but it's a catch-22," said Giovanna Veitch, the family's social worker who runs a neighborhood outreach program fo...
Poverty stories: Evicting the Mentally Ill
http://davidabel3.blogspot.com/2005/05/evicting-mentally-ill.html
In addition to homelessness, I covered the trials of welfare dads, the unemployed who gave up looking for work, the indigent elderly who ate in soup kitchens and hitchhiked, and the immigrants, mentally ill, and disabled, among others, who coped with poverty and welfare reform. Evicting the Mentally Ill. Now, for the first time, judges are successfully persuading landlords to keep their disabled tenants. Their new weapon: teams of social workers in Boston, Brockton, Springfield, Northampton - and soo...
Poverty stories: Reforming Welfare
http://davidabel3.blogspot.com/2005/05/reforming-welfare.html
In addition to homelessness, I covered the trials of welfare dads, the unemployed who gave up looking for work, the indigent elderly who ate in soup kitchens and hitchhiked, and the immigrants, mentally ill, and disabled, among others, who coped with poverty and welfare reform. Job Mandate Nears For Welfare Rolls. Like thousands of welfare recipients throughout the state, Jaime Morrow may look back in a few years and think how easy she has it now. For me, it means I might have to choose between work and ...
Poverty stories: Lure of the Reverse Mortgage
http://davidabel3.blogspot.com/2005/05/lure-of-reverse-mortgage.html
In addition to homelessness, I covered the trials of welfare dads, the unemployed who gave up looking for work, the indigent elderly who ate in soup kitchens and hitchhiked, and the immigrants, mentally ill, and disabled, among others, who coped with poverty and welfare reform. Lure of the Reverse Mortgage. REVERSE MORTGAGES LURE MANY SENIORS. Interest rates for reverse mortgages - so called because the bank pays the borrower for many years instead of the other way around - are now at a half-century low ...
Poverty stories: Combating 'Overhousing'
http://davidabel3.blogspot.com/2005/05/combating-overhousing.html
In addition to homelessness, I covered the trials of welfare dads, the unemployed who gave up looking for work, the indigent elderly who ate in soup kitchens and hitchhiked, and the immigrants, mentally ill, and disabled, among others, who coped with poverty and welfare reform. A Two-Sided Solution for Near-Empty Triple-Deckers. But these days, the Vineses are preparing for something they have not had in a while - company. I've been here so long I might as well stay until I'm gone," said Mary Vines, who ...
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Random: Plugging Leaks
http://davidabelrandom.blogspot.com/2013/12/plugging-leaks.html
What led a man to write a 1,905-page suicide note? What does it mean to have a library without books? What happens when the state makes it easier for neighbors to seek restraining orders against each other? Over the years, I have written a wide range of stories that don't fall into neat categories. Here are the highlights. With gizmos and grit, technicians detect leaks, protect labyrinth of water pipes under Boston. December 20, 2008. Over the past decade, as erosion and widespread construction have weak...
Kosovo War Stories: Risking the Gunships
http://davidabel5.blogspot.com/2005/06/risking-gunships.html
For 78 days in the spring of 1999, some 1,000 NATO aircraft flew more than 38,000 sorties in an effort to force Serbian forces out of Kosovo. I covered the war from Washington and Macedonia, writing about the first Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from a non-U.S. ship, the flood of refugees to flee Kosovo, military plans to launch helicopter gunships, etc. Gunships poised for battle, but risks may keep them grounded. By David Abel The Boston Globe 5/22/1999. The reason: The copters, which cost $14 million ...
Travel stories: Egypt: Before the Revolt
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A sampling of first-person pieces from Asia to Latin America to Africa, including accounts of scaling a mountain to Fidel Castro's secret rebel headquarters, nearly getting stranded in the deserts of Namibia, and failed efforts to camp in Iceland. Egypt: Before the Revolt. Click here for more pictures of Egypt. By David Abel Globe Staff 4/15/2011. 8212; In historical terms, it was eons before Tahrir Square became a symbol of liberty. When we met Adel at the cafe and invited him to sit for a drink, he tol...
Academia stories: The Nonbelievers
http://davidabel4.blogspot.com/2005/05/nonbelievers.html
For more than two years, I wrote about academia in New England, covering everything from organized labor's efforts to unionize graduate students to oddball professors pushing lonely causes. Some scoops made national news, including Harvard professor Cornel West's row with Larry Summers, a cheating scandal at Dartmouth, and admissions errors at Northeastern University. In his position, which is endowed, he has helped marry and bury fellow atheists. He has presided over baby-naming ceremonies and organ...
Photographs: My Photo Ops
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With mainly point and shoot cameras, I have shot deserts and jungles, mountains and salt flats, underwater and in the air. My subjects include blue-footed boobies in the Galapagos, the red dunes of Western Namibia, and children at play and adults at work from the Middle East to Southeast Asia and beyond. JESSEY DEARING FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE. While reporting on the inside of the Massachusetts prison system, Globe reporter David Abel tastes the "seafood surprise" at MCI-Cedar Junction in Walpole.
City Stories: Powder Keg
http://davidabelcity.blogspot.com/2006/06/powder-keg.html
As an editor and writer for City Weekly, I looked for the idiosyncratic, stories about those such as a 97-year-old hitchhiker, a hairdresser who very carefully cut the pricey wigs worn by Orthodox Jewish women, a meth dealer who went from driving an Infiniti to the brink of homelessness, and tugboat captains battling with sea pilots for respect on the harbor. By David Abel Globe Staff 1/22/2006. The case exposed a loophole in the city's latest effort to control student drinking. With little fanfare a...
Profiles of the Homeless: Panhandling on Craigslist
http://davidabel2.blogspot.com/2004/01/panhandling-on-craigslist.html
Profiles of the Homeless. Why would a former elementary school teacher forsake shelter to sleep outside in a blizzard? How could someone leave prison without anywhere better to sleep than beside his mother's grave? How could a man go from Harvard to living on a park bench? I spent a year covering homelessness, trying to answer such questions. These are the stories of people I met. Panhandlers move from street to Internet. October 26, 2009. I've always looked on Craigslist for odd jobs, so the idea to pos...
Latin America Stories: Silencing Critics in Venezuela?
http://davidabel12.blogspot.com/2005/05/silencing-critics-in-venezuela.html
From the glaciers of Tierra del Fuego to the ports of the Caribbean, I spent several years chronicling everything from people smuggling in the Dominican Republic to the rise of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to the effects of the drug trade in Mexico and beyond. Silencing Critics in Venezuela? By David Abel The Boston Globe 9/14/1999. But Rolando Salazar, who caricatures the president with studied detail, is not sure if his play is a comedy or tragedy. Chavez says he respects freedom of expression, but you don'...
Military stories: Preparing for Casualties
http://davidabel6.blogspot.com/2005/07/preparing-for-casualties.html
For a year, I lived in Washington and wrote about the military, covering exercises aboard aircraft carriers, the controversy surrounding the Navy's testing range just off Puerto Rico, and arcane issues including problems with submarine warfare and missile defense, the nation's war strategy, and everything from pork in the defense budget to fraud by contractors. Bringing Good Medicine to Bad Places'. By David Abel Globe Staff 10/23/2001. As military planners prepare for the first large-scale US ground com...
Cuba stories: A Cheap Thrill
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Before being deported during the first legal celebration of Christmas Eve, and despite harassment by Cuban officials, I spent several months in 1998 writing about the regime’s flirtation with capitalism, budding dissident movements and the limits of free expression, and the many ironies 40 years after the revolution, including the regime promoting golf and welcoming U.S. tourists. A Sweet Promise Communism Fulfilled. By David Abel Newsday 7/12/1998. So the revolutionaries knocked down an old hospital on ...
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JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE
David Abel dabel@globe.com @davabel 617-359-1004. Nieman fellow at Harvard University. I studied a range of issues at Harvard and MIT, including energy and environmental issues, new media and art history, and documentary filmmaking and narrative writing. (August 2012 to June 2013). Latin America Freelance Correspondent. The Palm Beach Post. The (Mexico City) News. Through Northwestern's internship program, I spent a semester as the paper's Washington correspondent, writing daily stories about immigration...
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257: IN TWICE THE STEPS. Over the years, I have shot deserts and jungles, mountains and salt flats, underwater and in the air. My subjects include blue-footed boobies in the Galapagos; the red dunes of Western Namibia; children at play and adults at work, from the Middle East to Southeast Asia and beyond. Posted by David Abel. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.
Cuba stories
Before being deported during the first legal celebration of Christmas Eve, and despite harassment by Cuban officials, I spent several months in 1998 writing about the regime’s flirtation with capitalism, budding dissident movements and the limits of free expression, and the many ironies 40 years after the revolution, including the regime promoting golf and welcoming U.S. tourists. A Cuba of Contradictions. By David Abel The Ottawa Citizen 12/13/1998. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba. When the guerrilla warriors' t...
Latin America Stories
From the glaciers of Tierra del Fuego to the ports of the Caribbean, I spent several years chronicling everything from people smuggling in the Dominican Republic to the rise of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to the effects of the drug trade in Mexico and beyond. Tierra del Fuego's Cold, Cruel Sun. Nowhere is the Damage to the Earth's Ozone Layer More Dangerous - Residents Have Sunburns and Cancer to Prove it. By David Abel Globe Staff 4/02/2002. The sun is strong - but it's not warm," said Nicolas Gamarra, 42, ...
Profiles of the Homeless
Profiles of the Homeless. Why would a former elementary school teacher forsake shelter to sleep outside in a blizzard? How could someone leave prison without anywhere better to sleep than beside his mother's grave? How could a man go from Harvard to living on a park bench? I spent a year covering homelessness, trying to answer such questions. These are the stories of people I met. By David Abel Globe Staff 9/16/2002. The changes have upset Jones, a short, Shakespeare-quoting 67-year-old who calls Logan h...
Poverty stories
In addition to homelessness, I covered the trials of welfare dads, the unemployed who gave up looking for work, the indigent elderly who ate in soup kitchens and hitchhiked, and the immigrants, mentally ill, and disabled, among others, who coped with poverty and welfare reform. Preying on the Poor. By David Abel Globe Staff 1/13/2003. Christmas broke me," said Williams, after leaving the branch on a recent night. "I need the money - I've got bills, kids, and life to take care of now.". One of about 40,00...
Academia stories
For more than two years, I wrote about academia in New England, covering everything from organized labor's efforts to unionize graduate students to oddball professors pushing lonely causes. Some scoops made national news, including Harvard professor Cornel West's row with Larry Summers, a cheating scandal at Dartmouth, and admissions errors at Northeastern University. So It Goes For Vonnegut. At 78, Still Shaking up the Establishment. By David Abel Globe Staff 5/05/2001. He should be dead by now. For muc...
Kosovo War Stories
For 78 days in the spring of 1999, some 1,000 NATO aircraft flew more than 38,000 sorties in an effort to force Serbian forces out of Kosovo. I covered the war from Washington and Macedonia, writing about the first Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from a non-U.S. ship, the flood of refugees to flee Kosovo, military plans to launch helicopter gunships, etc. 257: IN TWICE THE STEPS. The Terrain Turns Hostile. Peacekeepers find they're now a military force, with an enemy. In 30 seconds, the radio had gone dea...
Military stories
For a year, I lived in Washington and wrote about the military, covering exercises aboard aircraft carriers, the controversy surrounding the Navy's testing range just off Puerto Rico, and arcane issues including problems with submarine warfare and missile defense, the nation's war strategy, and everything from pork in the defense budget to fraud by contractors. By David Abel Defense Week 8/23/1999. VIEQUES, Puerto Rico. And he promises he won't leave until the Navy does. Ventura is one of scores of full-...
Travel stories
A sampling of first-person pieces from Asia to Latin America to Africa, including accounts of scaling a mountain to Fidel Castro's secret rebel headquarters, nearly getting stranded in the deserts of Namibia, and failed efforts to camp in Iceland. Swimming underground in a sapphire serenity. Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula has thousands of cenotes. Pictured, bathers in Cenote Samula, near Chichen Itza. APRIL 18, 2015. 8220;Where’s the cenote? 8221; I asked in Spanish. My wife, Jess, decided to stay behind wit...
Book Reviews
A critique of fiction from Milan Kundera to Garrison Keillor, biographies about Yeats and Che Guevara, and political works that advocate torture and question monogamy. Barash and Lipton: "The Myth of Monogamy". Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infedility in Animals and People,". By David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton;. W H Freeman;. A SOBER LOOK AT FACTS, FALLACIES ABOUT FIDELITY. This is not the sort of book you want to be seen reading in public. Of course, the ultimate message of David Barash and Judit...
