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Crime Stats Show Union Gap With Lots Of Work To Do If I told you Yakima was the 16th safest medium sized city in Washington, would you believe it?  Does that match up with your impression of Yakima? Do you feel safe when you walk down the streets of your home town?  Statistically, your city or town may be quite safe and yet you personally may not feel safe based on your definition of what is "safe." Generally speaking, safety means being protected from or not exposed to danger or risk; and might I add regardless of personal feelings.  I say that because some people will say they don't "fee...

Epics / Getty / The Atlantic From California to the Northeast, a funny thing has happened recently in America’s most expensive metropolitan areas: Rents have gone down. Ever since remote workers began fleeing urban cores at the start of the coronavirus pandemic—whether to the Hamptons or their parents’ basements—urban housing markets have been flooded with empty apartments. As a result, the prices that rental units command in certain large cities have dropped dramatically, to the tune of 18 percent in Boston, 19 percent in Seattle, and nearly 25 percent in San Francisco, according to ...

WITH Covid-19 restrictions, the world has felt a bit smaller this year. Measures introduced to prevent the spread of the virus mean Glaswegians have been unable to travel far from the city. The focus has been on the response to the pandemic. But, within the city chambers, there has also been a determination to look outward, beyond travel bans and looming Brexit deadlines. Just one week after all eyes had been on the American election, council leaders in Glasgow joined a virtual meeting with their counterparts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to sign off on an official partnership. The t...

Peduto wins top award for mayoral leadership on climate change With leadership lacking at the federal level, many of America’s mayors have stepped forward to provide some crucial momentum in addressing the crisis of climate change. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto is being awarded first place for the 14th Annual Climate Protection Awards, an initiative sponsored by The U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) and Walmart. Pittsburgh won in the Large Cities category, with populations greater than 100,000. “We’ve seen fires raging in the West, superstorms flooding in the South and the heartland as we...