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By Catherine Iste
 Even strong leaders need to recalibrate occasionally. Whether it is a head-clearing weekend getaway or an out-of-office conference, taking a physical break from the workspace can recharge our minds and reinspire our thinking. However, what if getting away is not practical? Here are a few steps you can take today, so you can lead better tomorrow.
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Government Technology
It's not too late to get a flu shot.
That's the message New Yorkers need to know from the New York City Emergency Management Department's latest podcast series.
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, deputy commissioner for the Division of Disease Control at the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, was the featured guest on the latest episode of "Prep Talk."
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Property Casualty 360
For many across the country, driving is a necessity in order to complete their day-to-day functions.
Their car takes them to work, to get the groceries, pick up their kids and so on.
With so many people dependent on their cars, it's only natural that drivers experience traffic from time to time.
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Route Fifty
Traffic crash deaths have been on the rise in the U.S. and governors are uniquely positioned to do something about it, according to experts who spoke at an event here Tuesday.
There were 37,461 traffic-related fatalities in the U.S. in 2016, based on National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data. That's the equivalent of about 102 people killed per day, and marks a 5.6 percent increase over 2015, which saw the greatest year-over-year increase in traffic deaths since 1966.
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By Seth Sandronsky
 The U.S. economy added 200,000 nonfarm payroll jobs, as the unemployment rate stayed at 4.1 percent, a 17-year low, in January for the fourth consecutive month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The number of unemployed workers, 6.7 million, remained unchanged in January. However, there was movement in the jobless rates for major worker sectors in January. The unemployment rate for African American workers rose from 6.8 percent in December to 7.7 percent, while the rate for whites declined from 3.7 percent in December to 3.5 percent in January.
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The New York Times
Anchored in flood-prone areas in every American state are more than 2,500 sites that handle toxic chemicals, a New York Times analysis of federal floodplain and industrial data shows. About 1,400 are located in areas at highest risk of flooding.
As flood danger grows — the consequence of a warming climate — the risk is that there will be more toxic spills like the one that struck Baytown, Texas, where Hurricane Harvey swamped a chemicals plant, releasing lye.
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Future Structure
The adoption of electric cars in California continues to surge, driven by declining costs for both the vehicles and the charging infrastructure, and underscoring the most seismic shift in how cars are powered since they were invented more than 100 years ago.
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By Lucy Wallwork
 Transit-oriented development is a concept that chimes with trendy "New Urbanist" ideals of vibrant, walkable neighborhoods. First uttered by San Francisco-based urbanist Peter Calthorpe in the 1980s, it may not yet be a household term, but it is rapidly gaining prominence in cities across the U.S. and beyond its borders. The TOD concept revolves around making transit hubs into hubs for not only switching from bus to train to bike, but also for land-use intensification.
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Nextgov
Communities across the country may soon regulate traffic patterns, control garbage trucks and run the power grid using the internet of things, but when building “smart” systems, they often find themselves starting from scratch.
Federal agencies may be able to help.
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Emergency Management
From President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech to reports on the shortcomings of U.S. bridges, this is a week when critical infrastructure is in the news — and when people and organizations argue for more funding for that critical infrastructure.
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Government Executive
Alan Pentz writes: I often see government programs using a one size fits all approach to managing innovation efforts. Every project has its milestones planned out three years in advance and of course all the right metrics to prove how appropriate the investment is. It's every project manager's dream. Unfortunately, real innovation doesn't work that way. The rise of agile development, minimum viable products, and quick pivots has made this kind of thinking obsolete.
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Futurism
Hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires — the natural disasters that pummeled various parts of the United States and Mexico in 2017 crippled communities small and large. Collectively, these events killed thousands of people, also knocking out power for survivors.
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