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Property Casualty 360
One in five worker deaths a year is in construction. Given this sobering statistic, construction site risk is a critical challenge, and the industry is slowly turning to new technology, specifically the increasing use of sensors on the jobsite, as part of the solution. A new study finds that while contractors continue to struggle with construction site risks, they recognize the benefits of using Internet of Things (IoT) technology to mitigate them.
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Governing
Nearly four years after Sandra Bland was found dead in a Texas jail cell in 2015, a newly uncovered cellphone video offers a new perspective into the controversial arrest and has led her family to call for a new investigation. The footage shows former state Trooper Brian Encinia knew she was holding a cell phone — not a weapon — and she was recording him during part of the confrontation, in which he threatened her with a Taser and yelled, "I'll light you up."
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Mother Jones
Dockless electric scooters have become a controversial new transit option in cities across the country. A new study suggests another reason pedestrians perceive them as such a menace: Nearly 30% of the people injured riding electric scooters had been drinking alcohol, according to the Centers for Disease Control’s first-ever study of scooter-related injuries. The study covered 87 days of fall 2018 in Austin, where the number of scooters in the city went from zero to 15,000 last year.
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Route Fifty
Lush greenery is synonymous with the Pacific Northwest, especially in Portland, Oregon, recognized as one of this country’s top ten cities for trees. But new research shows that the landscape outside front doors is not the same for all residents. Heejun Chang is a geography professor at Portland State University and one of the authors of a new study that found low-income neighborhoods in East Portland to be more susceptible to extreme heat spikes and flooding than wealthier areas of the city.
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Government Technology
Though still a few years away, a Louisiana House committee considered and advanced legislation that would set up the legal and regulatory framework for driverless trucks operating on the state’s highways. Starsky Robotics, a San Francisco-based company, is developing the technology that allows trucks to drive down the road autonomously using standards for wireless broadband.
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Governing
As the nation’s opioid epidemic persists, it’s become common to hear of police officers carrying and administering naloxone, the overdose antidote often referred to by the brand name of its original nasal-spray version, Narcan. First responders have saved thousands of lives with it. So it came as a surprise to many when The Washington Post reported in January that not only were District of Columbia police officers not carrying the drug, but that Mayor Muriel Bowser was opposed to the idea, calling it “not the right solution” for the city.
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Government Technology
San Francisco could become the first city in the nation to ban any city department from using facial recognition under a proposal that says any benefits of the technology outweigh its impact on civil rights, and Oakland, California, may not be far behind. In San Francisco, a Board of Supervisors committee is scheduled to vote on the Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance, which would make it illegal for any department to “obtain, retain, access or use” any face-recognition technology or information obtained from such technology.
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