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Raw data: Traffic fatalities in rural and urban areas

2 years 7 months ago
Traffic fatalities have increased 15% since 2013. But the increase hasn't been evenly spread: Since 2013 urban fatalities have grown a whopping 46% more than rural fatalities even though urban miles driven are up only about 10% more than rural miles driven. Why? The question here is not why there are more urban fatalities. In ...continue reading "Raw data: Traffic fatalities in rural and urban areas"
Kevin Drum

Those bully days are over

2 years 7 months ago
After being sworn in as the first woman president of the city Board of Aldermen and its 22nd in history, Megan Ellyia Green told fellow members of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment Mayor Tishaura Jones and Comptroller Darlene Green,…
Alvin A. Reid | St. Louis American

The Czech Republic’s Proposed Version Of Upload Filters Has A Bad Idea That Could Become A Great One

2 years 7 months ago
A clear demonstration that the EU Copyright Directive is a badly-drafted law is the fact that it has still not been implemented in national legislation by all the EU Member States three years after it was passed, and over a year after the nominal deadline for doing so. That’s largely because of the upload filters of Article 17. The requirement […]
Mike Masnick