The Final Installment: Air Quality and Cumulative Impacts
Part III of a III Part Series
By H. LYNN ADELSMAN and ROB HENDRICKSON
It’s hard to know exactly which toxins are in our air and how much we inhale. What we do know is some of our neighbors have trouble breathing at certain times of day. We know too many children with asthma and heart problems; elders with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and other lung issues. We know the smells of certain buildings; the heavy air in our parks; the sounds and feelings of our streets.
As we look at this article’s map, we can see it isn’t just one thing giving rise to these experiences when you live in the Phillips community.
A map highlighting pollution sources in Phillips. This includes an experimental traffic exposure layer based on 2022 Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) from MnDOT with values displayed as percentages of the highest value found in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Dispersion was modeled using vehicle counts from all roadways and convolution with a non-normalized, Gaussian kernel using the following parameters: raster cell size = 50 meters, sigma = 16, max bandwidth = 500 meters.*
… Read the rest “The Final Installment: Air Quality and Cumulative Impacts”A Letter to the Community
Beloved community,
We at the alley are devastated by the loss and violence being experienced in Phillips as of late. There are few words to say that haven’t already been shared a thousand times already, and we are hurting alongside of you.
The heaviness of life in Phillips has reared its head often this past year. We grieve for the fentanyl and drug epidemic, our houseless neighbors, our Muslim neighbors in the wake of the mosque vandalizations a few months back, the shootings that have left multiple communities mourning, and those experiencing a constant state of fear because of violence in the neighborhood or at home. These most recent tragedies have reminded us that we haven’t offered enough space in this community newspaper to hold these griefs. It’s hard to remember, or even to see, the ways in which we care for each other in dark moments. It’s sometimes harder still to see why small acts of care would even be worth it.
We are a community newspaper, and often don’t have more to add to the official facts about events, especially since we almost solely rely on articles written by community members – but we have always attempted to be a space for discussion, debate, and sharing.… Read the rest “A Letter to the Community”
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