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A story with layers
Clayton Collins
I meet weekly with the two members of our multimedia team. In the spaces between audio and video work, Jingnan Peng and Mackenzie Farkus both like to write. In a conference room recently we were discussing the story they were reporting for today鈥檚 Daily.聽
It鈥檚 about eminent domain, and about affordable housing as a NIMBY 鈥� 鈥渘ot in my backyard鈥� 鈥� issue. It has a twist: It鈥檚 about a legal bid to take land 鈥� not to build, but to prevent building. But in our chat about the core players, all descended from Italian immigrants, something deeper emerged: At its root, this was a story about about two very different definitions of the American dream.
