cam rodriguez 🔎
@camrodriguez
meddling kid / journalist. map nerd, midwest defender, chicago fanatic. 🇲🇽🇺🇲. data @wbez.org & requesting a lot of docs over @foiaday.bsky.social tips? love letters? heycamrodriguez@gmail.com
got a FOIA response back today that was a 2,500 page PDF that is 1.9 GB large
these were taken a week apart from each other here in chicago. it smells like smoke in the newsroom
el perrito está triste. el me dijo "estoy triste porque Inglaterra. viva la raza. oasis hay *uno* álbum bueno pero blur es mejor."
anyway today was so so so sweet. very fun. i <3 CPM (cam public media)
all timer of a "has a chronic illness" text that i just sent, lowkenuinely
like, please. Nancy's has nothing on me and my baked mushroom tetrazzini
Storm stats for your Friday: as of this morning, Chicagoans have called in 13,000 complaints to 311 since Wednesday night, per OEMC! That includes nearly 12,000 calls about downed trees, which are blocking 450 streets. Brought to you by @wbez.org, by way of my weather radio. 🌧🌞📻
This morning, on @wbez.org, and again at ~10 am — there have been at least 11 dooring crashes since 2018 on the stretch of Halsted between 31st and 35th. Traffic crashes of all kinds have nearly doubled since 2016.
catch me, @gracehauck.bsky.social and @knibbs.bsky.social @ the mouse arts & letters club this coming wednesday! 🐀🔎📰
really grateful to be doing what i'm doing. more tk about the reporting of the story and a full thread of findings this week. i've been in a bit of a flare so i had to take a step back. a very long sprint of reporting, editing, data analysis and fact checking will do that!
more promo, details and context shortly, but... where are our favorite places to pick up print copies of NYT? because, well:
this weekend i did some plant chores, learned new stretches from physical therapy, built ikea furniture, deep cleaned, made tomato sauce with fresh herbs from the garden, saw a movie with a friend, did a lot of napping, doubled my inventory of ice packs, edited, researched, made a new fave mocktail
today's reporting lunch.... chia seed pudding (not pictured) and pierogi (in a deli container with an additional container with crema)
have never heard about this man until now but I did make quite a face reading this jam-packed sentence
got to the newsroom and immediately spilled half a la colombe draft latte all over my pants
i have immensely appreciated the photographic skills of lou's dog walker
full photo. i think i might not be in the tax bracket to understand this kitchen perhaps
wait I am confused here. two dishwashers? pull out trash bin or some sort of cooler? I get separate sinks, maybe one is a hot water faucet. but separate dishwashers, two fridges. two sinks. kosher kitchen?