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Route Fifty
The mayors of Denver, Baltimore and Boston participated in a thought experiment of sorts on Sunday imagining the future of their cities 10 to 20 years from now.
Denver, for instance, is in the process of responding to and managing population growth and traffic congestion, said Mayor Michael Hancock, which requires thinking ahead about how to move people rather than vehicles.
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Property Casual 360
Out of Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day, July Fourth is the most dangerous for auto accidents, according to personal insurance auto claim data from 2012 to 2016 from Travelers Cos. The data reveals there are 7 percent more auto accident claims over Fourth of July and the three days leading up to it, as compared to Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends.
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CNBC
Wildfire season is just getting underway, but the recent heatwave, dry conditions and abundant growth of grasses from heavy winter rains is already spelling danger for California.
According to Cal Fire, more than 19,000 acres of land had been scorched in the year-to-date period through Thursday — representing a threefold increase over of the amount burned in the same period a year ago.
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Governing
States that legalized marijuana sales have higher rates of car crashes than neighboring states that don’t allow pot sales. At least, that’s what researchers from the Highway Loss Data Institute, an insurance group, concluded, after scouring 2.5 million insurance claims that drivers filed over the last three years. The group found that Colorado, Oregon and Washington all saw increases in damage reports compared to other states.
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Government Executive
Learning to master feedback is every first-time manager’s bogeyman. It’s also an issue for many experienced managers. Experienced doesn’t mean good.
We avoid it, dilute it or (metaphorically) beat people over the head with it.
We think that people don’t want to be told what they’re doing wrong. Or right.
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HuffPost
In a disaster, we say tune to local TV and Radio Stations for information from your community officials. In the age of social media, is that still relevant? To over half of your audience, the answer is yes, 57 percent of people surveyed said they rely on local TV and radio stations in an emergency. The local news stations are the first informers in emergencies and disasters.
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By Lucy Wallwork
 Urbanist circles are awash with new buzzwords — "everyday urbanism," "post-urbanism," "tactical urbanism," "urbanism without effort," and so on. Here, I introduce an intriguing one that is only slowly gathering popularity. This is "sensory urbanism." But what exactly does it mean? Sensory urbanism is a reaction against ways of thinking about and designing cities that are overdependent on our sense of sight.
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Nextgov
Watching the news and the debates during the past week felt pretty deflating. You must have heard about the entire who knew what when regarding the attempted Russian interference during the election. Much of what was said was fairly well known but with the new drips and drabs of information coming out into the open the past few days, political opportunism was bound to happen.
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Government Technology
A utopian image of the future involves shared fleets of electric-powered, driverless vehicles rapidly picking up and dropping off passengers, reducing traffic congestion and pollution in the process.
Gov. Jay Inslee seemed to embrace that vision this month when he signed an executive order promoting tests of self-driving cars on Washington roads.
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The Associated Press via The Washington Times
Civilian drones are forcing firefighters to ground their aircraft, slowing their ability to fight Arizona wildfires.
The Arizona Republic reports another unauthorized drone was spotted Sunday, temporarily halting aerial efforts to put out a fire northwest of Flagstaff.
Public Information Officer with the Bureau of Land Management Dennis Godfrey says it’s the second drone that has been observed at the fire.
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