Journalist who ran for office and biked city streets for startups. News editor at Fortune. Previously covered the Trump hush money trial at Rolling Stone, runner for the NY Daily News and breaking news at MSNBC, NY1 etc. Policy and biz dev at Oonee and Veo
I wrote about how much Americans wagered on sports betting in 2025 and how it’s more than they spent on movies, art, museums and music combined. Read my article @fortunemagazine.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...
Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | FortuneAmericans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.fortune.comSpoke with @benmax.bsky.social about what last night’s primaries means for business and economic development leaders in New York and nationwide. TLDR: a lot fortune.com/2026/06/24/z...
Why Zohran Mamdani's big night as the Democratic party's new kingmaker matters for every Fortune 500 CEO in every city and state | FortuneNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani went three for three in Tuesday's primary elections. What happens next could be a sign for corporate America.fortune.comBefore his election, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani criticized FIFA for encouraging a secondary market. On Friday, the World Cup-inspired jersey drop fell into the same resale trap where people waited on line for affordable $50 kits that sold at a 2000% markup on eBay fortune.com/2026/06/12/n...
'Buy a ticket for 60 bucks and resell it for $6,000': NYC Mayor Mamdani criticized FIFA's resale market, but his jersey drop created the same thing | FortuneThe New York City mayor has been very vocal about FIFA's resale market and how ordinary, working class New Yorkers were priced out of a limited supply.fortune.comWrote about two things very important to me: The Sopranos and urban infrastructure. Unfortunately I had to cut plenty of the sopranos references but if you followed my 2021 city council campaign run, the urban infrastructure points are pretty good fortune.com/2026/05/25/f...
The U.S. campaigned to host the World Cup. Now soccer fans will trade their countries' train system for the U.S.'s 'D' rated infrastructure | FortuneWelcome to the World Cup, where the bus is a school bus, the train costs $98, and there's no sidewalk to the stadium.fortune.comPoured through 100s of pages of filings to follow the power lines in the Lake Tahoe region, sitting in geographical and jurisdictional ambiguity. Now the 49k residents are in between California electricity rates and Nevada power sources. fortune.com/2026/05/12/l...
'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | FortuneRoughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.fortune.comWent through hundreds of pages of documents to find exactly where the power flows through Lake Tahoe. It turns out it’s a big jurisdictional and geographical mess and no one wants to take responsibility
More Perfect UnionNearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. /1
Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. /1
'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | FortuneRoughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.fortune.comLast night’s Met Gala saw a record $42 million raised for The Met’s Costume Institute, but it came from an unusual source for the typically fashion- and celeb-driven event: Silicon Valley. Jeff Bezos was the lead sponsor, forcing some celebs to skip it. fortune.com/2026/05/05/m...
The Met Gala raised a record $42 million as Silicon Valley picked up the tab—and as celebs protested Jeff Bezos' sponsoring of the event | FortuneThe Met Gala raised a record $42 million this year, powered by Silicon Valley sponsors. Other usual regulars decided to skip because of their presence.fortune.comBeen on a NASA x food kick lately. First, Nutella was seen floating on the Orion ship Integrity. Then, the Artemis crew said they wanted Uncrustables and today @smuckersbrand.bsky.social said they’ll give them a lifetime supply fortune.com/2026/04/09/n...
Nutella jumps on the best product placement money can’t buy: A trip to the far side of the Moon | FortuneThe chocolate-hazelnut spread goes where no other spread has gone before. Now the company is eating up the free product placement within the Orion spacecraft.fortune.com
Individual tax returns cost American taxpayers a combined $146 billion in time and out-of-pocket expenses this year—roughly $576 per person in labor hours alone, according to a new analysis from Postal. https://bit.ly/47XcqBx
Americans spend $146 billion and 11.6 billion hours doing their taxes, and most of it is just filling out paperwork | FortuneThere are more than 10,000 forms you have to sort through to file your taxes, and the fear of going to jail over a mistake has never been higher.bit.ly“He basically laid down a credit card right then and there, and said, ‘ Book the flight, book a medical flight,” said Alexandria McMahon, mother of Stella McMahon. https://bit.ly/4sBT9hp
A toddler needed a life-saving flight, and the insurer said no. Then Mark Cuban called | FortuneStella McMahon, 16 months old and fighting T-cell leukemia, needed a medical plane to Cincinnati for a federally funded study. Her insurer said no.bit.lyGot taxes? You’re paying for more than just the tax return. Americans are spending billions of dollars and hours on filing their taxes, and a compliance expert I spoke to said there’s a simple fix: digitize it all. Read on @fortune.com fortune.com/2026/03/24/t...
Americans spend $146 billion and 11.6 billion hours doing their taxes, and most of it is just filling out paperwork | FortuneThere are more than 10,000 forms you have to sort through to file your taxes, and the fear of going to jail over a mistake has never been higher.fortune.comI interviewed the researcher behind the first study quantifying just how dangerous “AI psychosis” is, and how sycophantic chatbot models validate a user’s thoughts, worsening symptoms of delusions and mania fortune.com/2026/03/07/c...
Chatbots are 'constantly validating everything' even when you're suicidal. New research measures how dangerous AI psychosis really is | FortuneIt's free, easy to use, doesn't have a stigma around it, and makes you feel better. Researchers and experts warn that's the problem with chatbots.fortune.com