Since January 1, 2018 there have been 12 days where there was no traffic crash on DLSD. 12 out of 1,760 days.

One of those days was in 2022. Three in 2021. Seven in 2020. And one in 2018. There was atleast one crash on DLSD EVERY SINGLE DAY IN 2019. #depavedlsd

I am impressed by the speed in which ranked-choice voting has basically eroded the two-party system in Alaska.
thehill.com/homenews/campa…

As the downtown loop in Kansas City turns 50 this year, let's not forget how it turned a vibrant neighborhood into a parking lot. Yellow shows surface parking lots, while green are garages.

It should be the most obvious thing in the world that the play-by-play reporting of vote counts as if elections are like sports games is catastrophic, and not only because it advances the careers of sensationalizing morons like Wolf Blitzer.

The owner of the James Sneider Apartments senior home in Chicago has been fined just $1,500 after three residents died on May 14 because the building kept the heat on during a heatwave.
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What backlash? There literally hasn't been one.

This is a real 'all news is bad news' framing.

The Foreign Office's consular service is infamously awful, but this seems especially egregious

JUST IN: The US grew at a 2.6% pace in Q3, a big rebound from the negative growth in the first half of the year. (-0.6% in Q2 and -1.6% in Q1).

The US isn’t in a recession now, but fears are still high for 2023.

The paperback edition of my climate book #RaceForTomorrow is out today in the UK!

Just in time for #COP27 – and a perfect Christmas present for that friend or relative who wants to get stuck into the biggest story of the century.

Order links at simonmundy.com/book

Anyone surprised by Mexican-Americans shift towards the right hasn't spent anytime in working class Mexican American neighborhoods.

A long period of increased wealth (generally associated with entrepreneurial non-academic type work) built on a foundation of 'old school values'

Self driving cars really are the new nuclear fusion eh. Always on the horizon, never arriving on.ft.com/3U0UPzf via Financial Times

Beginning in late September Fox began talking about crime more than the baseline set in the first six months of 2022. It's climbed since.

There's literally no obvious reason except politics. And that gas prices suddenly weren't as useful to talk about.
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

A tough-nosed, nationally known labor leader, ex-Teamsters boss John Coli Sr. rubbed elbows with political elites, rang up $15k tabs at Chicago steakhouses, and cruised on other people’s yachts.
But he cut a different figure in a federal courtroom today:
chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-…

Ald. Ald. Andre Vasquez, Political Account 🌹 Vasquez is the first alderperson to arrive in costume — he's dressed as a cta ghost train/bus & is asking his colleagues to support a measure requiring CTA President Dorval Carter to regularly appear before the City Council.
BACKGROUND: news.wttw.com/2022/09/14/cta…