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Governing
The House appears close to reviving a debate over whether to regulate the driverless vehicle industry, but all of the concerns that torpedoed past efforts remain: Namely, how best to balance safety of new technology and the freedom to innovate. Though a GOP-led House in 2017 passed by voice vote a bill aimed at creating a regulatory framework for the self-driving car industry, a Senate version of the bill died in 2018, largely over Democrats’ concerns about the safety of the burgeoning technology.
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Relief Web
This is a composite before and after image of Tacloban City's downtown and airport areas before and after Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) hit the Philippines. The maps were released by the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) on November 11, 2013.
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Route Fifty
Hundreds of county jails in the U.S. are paid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain immigrants facing removal proceedings. On a typical day in 2017, for instance, Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, California, operated by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, held about 500 individuals for ICE and received $118 per person per day, bringing in a total of $59,000 a day.
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The Newport News Times
When the big quake comes, the siren in Waldport, Oregon, won’t be sounded. But that doesn’t mean the residents will be left without warning. Central Oregon Coast Fire Protection District Chief Gary Woodson said the siren bolted atop the fire hall on Highway 34 in Waldport was not working when he joined the department almost three years ago. “It’s a mechanical siren from the ‘60s,” he explained.
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The Dallas Morning News
On Feb. 16, 1955, The Dallas Morning News ran a front-page story about the horrors of atomic war as described by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Eleven months earlier, as the Cold War escalated, the U.S. detonated a bomb dubbed Castle Bravo in the first of a series of thermonuclear tests at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands.
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Next City
Dutch cities are rightly famous for their dual-purpose parks and playgrounds that double as flood protection, where what might be a basketball court most days becomes a temporary water retention pond during a big storm. Half a world away, Surat, India, along the Tapi River, is similarly concerned about floods. But instead of basketball courts, the Gujarati city has devised temples surrounded by so-called water plazas.
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Route Fifty
Landlords in Seattle would no longer be allowed to evict low- and moderate-income renters during the winter under a measure approved by the city council this week. If the legislation becomes law, Seattle will be the first city in the country to ban evictions during certain months of the year.
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The New York Times
When the ground shakes in Puerto Rico and it is time to head for higher ground, the people in the northwestern coastal city of Aguadilla find out the old way: the shrill of whistles. Aguadilla is one of two dozen cities on the island that do not have emergency alert sirens, even as hundreds of earthquakes have rattled Puerto Rico for weeks.
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