The air is thick this morning, my first day back to work since vacation. It’s dense with water vapor and a stagnant quality that makes it hard to breathe. It feels like the air trapped by plastic wrapped tight over the top of a bowl of left-overs that mistakenly sat overnight on the kitchen counter. [...]
It’s good to get away, and it’s nice to be back in town.
A few weeks ago, a local listserv debate over the Constitutionality of bike lanes devolved into a rather asinine comparison between vehicular separation and racial segregation. In an effort to raise the level of discussion over whether bike lanes are good for cyclists, local cyclist Steve Goodridge and I wrote point/counter-point Op-Eds for the Herald [...]
Below is a clip showing what traffic looked like on Main St. in either 1939 or 1941. I first saw this clip when Main St. was a one-way street, and it looked odd to me. Only the volume of traffic in the flim looks odd to me now that Durham has re-opened Main St. to [...]