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Traffic Insights

The book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt was published a decade ago at this point. And since it includes extensive discussion of technology like autonomous vehicles and instrumented driving, some may be inclined to pass it over as too dated, but it has […]

Union County COVID Diary — August in Retrospect

This article was originally published in The Daily Item on Sunday, September 6, in the Opinion Section. We know that COVID-19 does not affect all demographics uniformly, but new analysis from the independent journalism site, the Marshall Project, paints a stark picture of disparate racial impacts. Plotting excess deaths (not specific to COVID-19, but during […]

Vaccine Access Coming into Focus

People have questions right now and have been wondering why we have not posted much about vaccinations, schools returning in person, the new COVID variants, or local stats. There is a lot of uncertainty right now on all of those counts and we have all along tried to only provide information when we could be […]