Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
Angie Schmitt’s Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (2020) is a must-read
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Outdoor Dining? This Is A Building With Four Walls And A Roof!
Restauranteurs are finding it hard to figure out how to adapt to the winter months.
Read moreHandbuilt: Gratitude and Resilience In The Strangest Year On Record
LAST NIGHT, MY PARTNER AND I SAT AT THE DINING TABLE THAT CAME INCLUDED WITH OUR 1895 HOUSE in Southwest
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COVID, Bad Data, And The Rural-Urban Media Divide
In recent weeks, a lot of Americans in major metro areas have looked at the daily COVID case counts around
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Oh, It’s A Coup All Right– They’re Just Really Bad At It.
US President Donald Trump, in refusing to concede the election, is essentially amounting to a coup. Given the limited amount of competency of the administration, it alone is perhaps not terribly concerning– unless, you know, we combine this with the chaos created by COVID, and the threat of state violence.
Read more2020 Took No Prisoners; Didn’t Even Spare Clearance Sales
COVID has sweeping effects on retail, leading to questions about why we spend time in stores like Marshalls in the first place.
Read moreIndoor Air Quality and COVID
Green building is increasingly focusing less on hi-tech lightbulbs alone and more on a holistic building that is not only
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A Tale Of Two Protests
A screaming couple brandished guns at St. Louis protesters walking past their mansion, while in Detroit, a bootstrapped protest roused a multiethnic, LGBTx crowd to bike around Southwest Detroit.
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Did Cities Ever Need Tech, Anyway? Seattle vs. the Post-COVID Economy
Long a sleepy seaport town, Seattle was enjoying a fraught, decade-long flirtation with explosive growth– and inequality. Will COVID bust up the party forevermore?
Read moreThinking Beyond The Gun: Lockdown Protests Distract From Meaningful Policy Debate
[Guest contributor Calley Wang writes about media narratives around the lockdown protests– and about what kinds of things we should
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