Every day, Americans turn to their local news media to learn about the news in their communities. But how they get the news, which topics they prioritize and how they evaluate their local outlets can vary from one community to the next. To better understand these
differences, Pew Research Center surveyed about 35,000 U.S. adults, allowing for local news profiles of individual communities.

Local results are available for 99 large CBSAs, which are geographic areas that include at least one urban center (see the Methodology). Results for smaller CBSAs are grouped together based on their similarity across factors such as income, race and ethnicity, and voter turnout.

https://www.journalism.org/interactives/local-news-habits/47260/

https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2018/08/never-space-out-on-line-spacing-again.html

‘People think that data is in the cloud, but it’s not. It’s in the ocean.’

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/10/technology/internet-cables-oceans.html

Why do people make such poor decisions about politics? Why are they so often distracted by lies, irrelevant alternatives and specious arguments?

https://theconversation.com/3-reasons-why-people-fall-for-politicians-lies-about-statistics-110014

"That leads to cascading questions. Should homeowners be allowed to rebuild in harm’s way? What standards will insurers insist on to minimize future claims? If homeowners decide not to buy insurance, will government backstop their losses? If government does provide the backstop, why would people buy private insurance? And if public institutions are going to step in, what level should be responsible: local governments, often hit by big losses themselves; state governments, with limited pocketbooks; or the federal government, facing soaring deficits and spiraling disaster losses of its own?"
http://www.governing.com/columns/washington-watch/gov-natural-disaster-recovery-rebuild.html

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature

Insects could vanish within a century at current rate of decline, says global review.

The thing that protects global information traffic is the fact that there’s some redundancy built into the system. Since there is more cable capacity than there is traffic, when there is a break, information is automatically rerouted along other cables. Because there are many systems linking to the United States, and a lot of internet infrastructure is located here, a single cable outage is unlikely to cause any noticeable effect for Americans.

http://theconversation.com/in-our-wi-fi-world-the-internet-still-depends-on-undersea-cables-49936

http://theconversation.com/bike-friendly-cities-should-be-designed-for-everyone-not-just-for-wealthy-white-cyclists-1094

Pew Research Center conducts public opinion surveys in the United States over the phone and, increasingly, online. But these two formats don’t always produce identical results. Respondents sometimes answer the same question differently depending on the format of the interview. This is known as a mode effect, and it’s a subject we’ve been studying for a few years now.

In our latest Methods 101 video, we look at mode effects in more detail and go over some of the ways in which survey answers can vary depending on whether respondents are talking to another person over the phone or filling out an online questionnaire by themselves.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/07/phone-vs-online-surveys-why-do-respondents-answers-sometimes-differ-by-mode/

https://pilotonline.com/news/local/transportation/article_b53d36d4-2af1-11e9-a332-432013218e12.html

Note: There’s a bit of civic engagement here by the neighborhood citizens. This would have impacted traffic coming to ODU!