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NPR
The American opioid crisis is far from over, but early data indicate the number of deaths are beginning to level off, according to Alex Azar, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, citing "encouraging" results in overdose trends.
In a speech on Tuesday at a Milken Institute health summit, Azar walked through statistics suggesting deaths were plateauing and he highlighted efforts he says may be turning the tide in the drug epidemic.
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Government Technology
Car enthusiast McKeel Hagerty’s future changed in March 2017.
He was at a car event in Vancouver, British Columbia, when a stranger involved in developing self-driving cars took Hagerty by the elbow, looked him in the eye, and laid forth the future.
“‘I’m putting you out of business,’ he said to me,” Hagerty recalled. “He said, ‘I’m serious. You have to find something else to do.’ Then, he repeated it, ‘I’m putting you out of business.’”
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Business Insider
It's shaping up to be another record-breaking year of wildfires in California. As of October 20, more than 7,100 fires have burned a combined total of more than 1.5 million acres across the state, the National Interagency Fire Center reports. The state also set a new record for its largest single wildfire to date when the Ranch Fire burned through 410,203 acres this fall.
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Government Executive
Enabling notifications is essentially giving other people permission to schedule blocks of time in your day. Specifically, in 23-minute chunks.
Researchers have found that it takes, on average, 23 minutes and 15 seconds to get back to the task at hand after a distraction. And notifications are serial offenders.
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Route Fifty
After local authorities in Austin, Texas issued a boil-water advisory for all Austin Water customers and warned that it may be in place for 10-14 days, the agency on Tuesday said things may be back to normal by the end of this weekend. “Based on the most current information we do not anticipate our water issues to last beyond a handful of days,” according to Greg Meszaros, Austin Water’s director.
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You can’t plan for a crisis while having one! We can all agree that “winging it” isn’t a successful plan, but relying on organizational charts for your internal FEMA claims crew may be just as unsuccessful. To identify the necessary traits, skills, and abilities ahead of a disaster, click here.
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Governing
Governance is about the guidance of collective behavior to promote the public interest. The most basic and important goals are productivity (the efficient creation of value), equity (the fair distribution of value), and trust (the shared belief that the authority needed to create and distribute value is used competently and in the public interest). As with so many things these days, we look to technology to power our way to meeting these goals.
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Huffington Post
When Luis Barrios climbed out of a canoe and trudged through knee-deep waters into his parents’ modest home in north Houston days after Hurricane Harvey hit last year, he was shaken. There was debris everywhere. The few pieces of new furniture his parents had recently bought were soaked beyond repair.
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By Catherine Iste
 Leaders must be clear, firm and consistent. In this article are three steps to ensure you are drawing the line at the right time, the right way and for the most benefit. For example, integrity is a big word to throw around at work. Most of us do not work in an environment that tests our ethics regularly. Yet it is because of this, many supervisors do not know where to draw the line. My specialty and favorite kind of work challenges are those that push me to think about ethics, integrity and the impact the lack of these characteristics can have on the work environment.
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Homeland Security Today
Over the past few decades, tornadoes have been shifting — decreasing in the Tornado Alley of Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas but spinning up more in states along the Mississippi River and farther east, a new study shows. Scientists aren’t quite certain why.
Tornado activity is increasing most in Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa and parts of Ohio and Michigan, according to a study published Wednesday.
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Government Technology
As John Paul drove to Stamford in mid-October in yet another autumn deluge, he kept his hands tight on the wheel despite the car crammed with the latest technologies to keep it in a safe cocoon within its own lane.
As a traffic safety manager for AAA, Paul knows there’s no substitute for an alert driver — but he is in a better position than most to hazard a guess as to when that substitute may surface, and says the day could be coming sooner than anyone might think.
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