Scooty Nickerson
Data Journalist at The Boston Globe
Data Journalist @mercnews @EastBayTimes. MSc Applied Data grad @lse_london
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2 days ago |
bostonglobe.com | Jonathan Saltzman |Scooty Nickerson
White people account for about 68 percent of Massachusetts residents with obesity but make up 82 percent of patients taking the drugs, according to the analysis, which relied on tens of thousands of insurance claims and data on assets. Women make up 51 percent of the state’s obese residents but about 71 percent of GLP-1 users. And nearly one-third of people taking the medicines have household incomes of $200,000 or more.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Danny McDonald |Scooty Nickerson |Sean Cotter
It was an immigration case with potentially wide-ranging implications: a Tufts graduate student swarmed and then taken into custody on March 25 by masked ICE agents outside her Somerville apartment. Four days earlier, the Trump administration had quietly revoked Rümeysa Öztürk’s student visa, according to court filings.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Scooty Nickerson
“Household budgets are strained by higher energy bills,” she said. “If your home isn’t well insulated, you are spending too much to keep warm.”But just how expensive are energy costs in Boston? Federal data tracking average prices across the nation show that Boston metro’s prices are much higher than the national average. The average electricity price in the Boston metro area was 31 cents per kilowatt-hour in December 2024, the most recent data available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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2 months ago |
bostonglobe.com | Dan Glaun |Scooty Nickerson
Boston’s record on crime and safety has drawn national attention in recent weeks, as Mayor Michelle Wu prepares to testify before Congress about the city’s policies on immigration enforcement. President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan has attacked Wu and police Commissioner Michael Cox over the city’s immigrant friendly policies, including city law that, in accordance with a state court ruling, prevents police from enforcing immigration law.
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2 months ago |
bostonglobe.com | Shannon Larson |Scooty Nickerson
But there is no need for serious alarm — air travel remains the safest way to travel, aviation safety experts say. Serious fatalities and injuries on passenger flights of aircraft registered in the United States are exceedingly rare — and have dropped — according to data from the National Transportation Safety Board.
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