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It’s bittersweet to read the final result of my latest work<\/a>, printed in this month’s Madison Magazine.<\/p>\n

On one hand, it’s a culmination of six months work that includes my research, my words and my photos. I went to a place few other outsiders get to visit on the beautiful island of the Dominican Republic. Matt Earley was an absolutely fascinating person to work\/travel with, and the people of FEDECARES were nothing short of the nation’s finest ambassadors.<\/p>\n

But that final line, that author bio. Ouch. “Formerly.”<\/p>\n

I miss Madison dearly. It was not a place rich in the kinds of gritty scandals which fertilize incredible journalism, but it was home. Strike that: it is<\/strong> home. I grew up in Wisconsin, and my greatest transformation–from “writer” to “journalist”–occurred under the city’s watchful and benevolent eye. Call it self-denial, but a piece of me shall always consider Madison “home.”<\/p>\n

It’s just that I now live in New Orleans. And, between other projects, I write for the Nola Defender.<\/a><\/p>\n

NOLA is an incredible place. It has no shortage of journalists yet, somehow, has a dearth of journalism.<\/a> Perhaps I can import a little bit of that proud, upper-Midwest, fight-for-the-little-guy journalism to its (sinking) soil and when (or if) my work here is done, return to the warm (if climatically chilly) embrace of cheese curds and dark beer.<\/p>\n

For now, it’s crawdads and daiquiris. And political corruption.<\/p>\n

-JB<\/p>\n

p.s.: It warms my heart to know that they sell Just Coffee at the Co-Op down the street from my apartment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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