Janelle Nanos

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Janelle Nanos

The two women met a decade ago when they were both pregnant, and quickly bonded over the struggle to find child care. Kennedy had worked in health policy in Washington D.C., and Muncey had been a teacher and administrator at Boston Collegiate Charter School in Dorchester. Their first thought was that they’d collaborate to design a new kind of school.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Hilary Burns |Janelle Nanos

Harvard’s alumni span the political spectrum, and donations have surged since the university said it would stand up to the Trump administration, which has frozen $2.2 billion in federal funding for what it says is egregious campus antisemitism. But some major donors, including those with buildings named after them on the hallowed campus, have been frustrated with the university’s response, according to interviews with donors and administrators.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Katie Johnston |Janelle Nanos

And amid the chaos, business owners are beginning to wrestle with a difficult question: Who’ll fill all their jobs if immigrants go away? With many businesses — from construction and landscaping to hotels and gift shops — gearing up for spring, the Trump administration’s revocation of protections for various immigrant groups is straining an already-tight labor market.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Janelle Nanos

The mission, should I choose to accept it, came from my editor last Thursday: Amid the trade war sparked by President Trump’s tariffs, could one bypass all the chaos by simply purchasing American-made products? Or is it so hard to do, and so much more expensive, that it would end up being even more stressful? I nodded gamely. After covering retail for the better part of a decade, I knew exactly how this would play out: not well.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Janelle Nanos

Five years after COVID shut down Boston, things feel, by and large, normal again. There are lines at lunch spots, crowds at the Garden, college kids at the bars. But the city isn’t the same. But more than anything, we just don’t mix like we did before. A Northeastern University study of cellphone data found that when COVID hit, inhabitants of Greater Boston became far less likely to interact with people of different socioeconomic backgrounds.