CNN (November 7)
“From New York to Miami in the East and Denver and Austin out West, Biden supporters flooded into the streets after CNN and other news organizations projected Biden as the winner Saturday morning, honking horns, cheering, dancing and popping champagne.”
Tags: Austin, Biden, Champagne, Cheering, CNN, Dancing, Denver, Horns, Miami, New York, Streets, U.S., Winner
Time (December 18)
Online shopping may save individual shoppers from going out in the traffic, but overall it’s compounding traffic woes. “Our city streets and parking resources are being swamped by this new retail reality. Cities simply are not designed to handle the daily tidal wave of deliveries produced by our have-it-now online economy.”
Tags: Deliveries, Online economy, Online shopping, Parking, Reality, Retail, Streets, Swamped, Traffic
CNN (August 20)
“Someone gets shot an average of about once per hour. That was the sobering reality in Chicago this weekend, when at least 58 people were shot.” Chicago’s “latest rash of violence happened despite an additional 600 officers on the streets.”
Washington Post (September 25)
“If the federal government shuts down Oct. 1, a depressingly plausible prospect, D.C. residents will feel the impact more than most Americans because the city is barred from spending its revenues absent a federal appropriation. Even though D.C.’s budget is largely comprised of locally raised taxes, in a shutdown only essential services can continue. That translates into fewer garbage pickups, no street cleaning and shuttered libraries and recreation centers.”
Tags: Essential services, Garbage, Government, Libraries, Recreation, Revenues, Shutdown, Streets, Taxes, U.S., Washington D.C.