From KQED's archives:
Asian Influence at Burning Man
By Julie Patel
Sept. 6, 2007
The barren desert of Nevada vibrated to life last week as nearly 50,000 people flocked to Black Rock for the Burning Man festival. It was a week full of art, music and fire. Asian influences were apparent. But curiously, something was missing.

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Empty Promises: Developers Often Don’t Deliver

By Julie Patel, WAMU

Developers made a lot of promises when they wanted to redevelop the Capper Carrollsburg complex in Southeast DC and get taxpayer money to do it.

The project’s 700 public housing units would be replaced, 50 low-income residents would actually get to buy homes, and there’d be a state-of the-art rec center.

Eleven years later, there was no rec center, only half of the public housing units had been replaced, and just a fraction of the former families were back.