Boomtown is a collaboration between two experienced full-time journalists — Stephanie Nakhleh and Minesh Bacrania - who both live in Los Alamos and believe all Los Alamos citizens deserve to be informed about the complex and nuanced issues that affect our community.
Journalism, like any craft, takes time, energy, and creative thought. Our goal is “slow journalism” — thoughtful, meticulous, and bold research that allows us to write and illustrate the deeper stories. Our project is hosted by substack.com, and starting out, we plan to publish 2 or 3 articles a month.
The stories we publish during our launch phase (November 2023) will be available to everyone at no charge. In the coming months, we intend to transition to a subscription model where some content will only be available to paying subscribers.
By some accounts, Los Alamos is one of the healthiest, wealthiest, and most educated communities in the United States. This sweeping and superficial generalization ignores a variety of soci…
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