As Miami-Dade continues to heat up… Why do some neighborhoods in the county have more trees while others bake in hot cement?🧵

#Florida county’s urban tree project unable to shade residents from record heat. The county’s patchwork of tree-planting programs has been unable to keep up with tree loss caused by hurricanes and rapid development. miamiherald.com/news/local/env… via Alyssa Johnson

Excellent work by Ida B. Wells Society fellow and Herald reporter Alyssa Johnson and Miami Herald and McClatchy Media's amazing visuals team.

Stellar, timely journalism by a large Miami Herald - McClatchy Media team, among them Alyssa Johnson Rachel Handley @arbourtrary and Sarah Blaskey

Forget the Lorax! Alyssa speaks for the trees!

"That’s why you have checks and balances, right? It’s easy to put money into a Tree Trust Fund. We had a process for that, but we didn’t have a process for getting the money out," Commissioner Eileen Higgins told Miami Herald in 2022. Must read reporting by Alyssa Johnson miamiherald.com/news/local/env…

Michael Broadway, a Black man incarcerated at Stateville prison in Illinois, died last Wednesday, partly due to extreme heat. While incarcerated, he earned a degree from Northwestern. A reminder that the climate crisis is here. Even if you don’t feel it, the most vulnerable do.

A past due update but I’m happy to share that I’ve begun a new position as the Enterprise Reporter at Capital B News Atlanta. I’ll be focused on long-form, in-depth reporting. My new email is: [email protected]. send any ATL/Georgia tips my way!

New: At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn't access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories. propub.li/3N7xPgN

Shortly after a DOJ investigation found that the Fulton County jail violates the human rights of its detainees, a major program with the county’s court system is coming to an end. Check out Madeline Thigpen and I’s latest story about this for Capital B Atlanta

We've long suspected that Spotify was recruiting fake artists and juicing them in its algorithm and placing them on the most popular playlists. Liz Pelly collected the internal docs + other evidence to finally prove it.

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd done a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me

"Each of you are on notice" Willis wrote in a December letter to the board of commissioners. Read her full letter and story by me and Alyssa Johnson on Capital B Atlanta 👇🏾 atlanta.capitalbnews.org/fani-willis-la…

Metro Atlanta counties have reported that public water lines are lead-free. But the state of pipes on private property is less certain. via Alyssa Johnson atlanta.capitalbnews.org/lead-pipe-chec…