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NextGov
States and local election offices need much more financial support from the federal government to create reliably secure election systems that can withstand attempts at interference from foreign governments, according to a new report. After Russian hackers sought to interfere with the 2016 election, Congress in 2018 approved $380 million for states to help them improve election security. States are expected to spend most of the money ahead of the 2020 balloting, but the report from the Brennan Center for Justice cautions that each state faces particular challenges that won’t be resolved before the next big election.
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Route Fifty
Some welcome news at the height of summer swimming season: Children are far less likely to drown in California than they were in the 1980s — and child drowning rates have continued to fall even in the past decade, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The nation as a whole has experienced a similar, though less dramatic, decline, with drowning rates for children age 14 and younger now about one-third of what they were in the early 1980s.
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AP News
Federal safety officials ruled recently that yet another fatal train crash in the U.S. has been caused by easy-to-fix human errors. The National Transportation Safety Board determined the crash of an Amtrak train into a parked train on a side track near Columbia, South Carolina, in February 2018 was CSX’s fault. The board blamed the company for failing to implement a safety plan during track upgrades and its engineer for not following specific steps including filling out paperwork to make sure he flipped a switch after parking the train to shift the tracks back to the main line.
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Insurance Journal
In the past five years, all 50 states have experienced some type of flooding. Flooding has led to disasters throughout the decades, and this year, it is expected to become unprecedented yet again. Despite a long history of flood-related disasters and predictions for the future, many Americans have little or no insurance coverage to protect their homes and personal property from damage caused by floods.
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City Lab
Women are far more likely to suffer serious injuries in a car crash. The danger divide was first quantified in a 2011 study out of the University of Virginia, which found that for men and women who wore seatbelts, women were nearly 50 percent more likely to be seriously or fatally injured in a crash. And now it’s been confirmed by another paper from another University of Virginia research team, published this month, which found that the odds of serious injury or death for female car-crash victims is 73% higher than for males.
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NBC Bay Area
Following two pedestrian deaths in four days in San Francisco, Supervisor Matt Haney will introduce a resolution to the Board of Supervisors that would declare a state of emergency for traffic safety in the city and take immediate measures to rectify it. Several organizations and city officials gathered recently for a rally on the steps of City Hall to speak out against traffic violence and to urge the city to declare the emergency.
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Governing
Anyone who's ever used a crosswalk at busy intersection knows the feeling: You’re about to step into the street, when the pedestrian signal switches from a white walking figure to a flashing orange hand. Do you try to make it across anyway? More and more intersections these days include a countdown timer that shows just how many seconds pedestrians have before the signal changes. Traffic experts say the extra information helps walkers make better decisions; they make fewer risky crossings and speed up if it looks like the light is going to change before they get to the other side.
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Government Technology
In this month’s installment of the Innovation of the Month series, we explore the Abandoned to Vibrant project out of Kansas City, Missouri, which is helping to address abandoned housing issues in the region. MetroLab’s Ben Levine and Stefania Di Mauro-Nava spoke with Jim DeLisle, director of Academic Real Estate Programs and associate professor of Real Estate at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), and Brent Never, associate professor of Public Affairs at UMKC, to learn more.
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