The below article was originally published on SB Newsmakers with Jerry Roberts
In a high-concept, meta digital journalism experiment, Newsmakers dispatched both the oldest (>79, cough cough) and the youngest (22) members of our massive global staff to the Arlington Theatre on Tuesday night, to cover the Arts & Lectures talk by Pete Buttigieg, former U.S. Transportation Secretary and failed 2020 Democratic presidential contender.
Buttigieg is one of his party’s best speakers and political athletes and, at a time when many Democrats are demoralized and dispirited, his brand of plain-spoken Midwestern decency and optimism attracted a huge crowd that filled the Arlington…