Sandy Jorgensen

Nearly 40% of DC residents don’t have a car. They may have waived the fines, but let’s please shovel our walkways in front of homes/condos/apts and businesses. If we just wait on Mother Nature, we’ll be walking in the street until March.

Minnesota softball has a Title IX problem: defector.com/minnesota-soft…

A 12-year-old girl was hit by a car that had 94 unpaid tickets worth $19,770 from D.C. traffic cameras. Victims of traffic violence in D.C. say the city needs to get drivers who rack up tickets off the roads. wapo.st/3znzICA

There's something that's been wearing on me recently... It’s what feels like the ever-constant presence of the little girl watching the game or waiting for the autograph and the frequent comment or insinuation that this is “the why”. Listen, she's not the why.

I wrote about a local-yokel DC controversy that's weirdly not so local-yokel... politi.co/3TpMO8t

Opinion: We Should Pair Miner and Maury Elementary Schools hillrag.com/2024/01/26/opi… via @HillRag

I went to a labor fight and a hockey league broke out! My story on the new PWHL, its union and women's hockey's first-ever collective bargaining agreement: defector.com/womens-hockey-…

Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else. This paper find that for every 1,000 pounds a car weighs over a Toyota Corolla, the chance of killing another person goes up by 46%! Heavier vehicles lead to 28k more US deaths. doi.org/10.1093/restud…

Can we solve homelessness? A program at Union Station is a huge step wapo.st/3u5PTS4

2023 Club Women's Div. Player of the Year: Washington DC Scandal's Claire Trop -> ultiworld.com/2023/11/03/202…

With today's hearing on bills to curb dangerous driving, I want to highlight troubling data we received in pre-hearing questioning. Here are the numbers of speeding violations, which validate every resident’s experience with how common speeding is.

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“This is not going to save every one of the 42,000 lives that are lost every year, but it’s a start,” Jessica Hart said. “It’s a start in changing the way we think about vehicles.” Mom of 5-year-old killed on bike convinces thousands to demand change wapo.st/3EZXQdu

“It was really important to have that exposure young; you’re not as encouraged to go into STEM sometimes.” When she’s not making history in ultimate frisbee, Claire Trop is in the lab as an atmospheric physicist.

AJ Merriman unraveled his 6-foot-2 frame on the turf, tucked his dreadlocks to fit on the disc’s surface and shut his eyes. On this Saturday night, his teammates on the D.C. Breeze, the city’s professional men’s ultimate team, were looking for a win over a regional rival. He had more at stake. wapo.st/3ORtz6H

CHAMPIONS 🏆 Washington D.C. Scandal wins the 2023 #USAUltimate #USOPENCHAMPS, defeating San Francisco Fury 15-13!

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After crash that killed three, D.C. bill targets dangerous drivers wapo.st/3XNAQqP

I think a big issue is why people feel like WMATA “asking for money” is a thing - every city transportation department, public school district, sanitation department, whatever is always “asking for money” because it’s publicly funded. So is a transit agency.

"Just like pedestrians, bicyclists who are struck by SUV drivers endure significantly more severe injuries — particularly to the head — than those struck by the drivers of smaller cars, according to a new study" ggwash.org/view/89406/stu…