by Elyse Menger | Jan 12, 2023 | Current Events
This week, we looked at the U-Haul article that declared the top growth states for population based on where one-way trucks are leaving from, and where they are going. But as it turns out, they aren’t the only company that creates this list, in fact, we found 5...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 21, 2022 | CrimeRisk, Current Events
Last week, Starbucks announced that it was permanently closing 16 locations due to crime concerns, five of which are located in their headquarter city of Seattle. They aren’t the only business experiencing higher than average crime. After a string of armed robberies...
by Elyse Menger | Jun 9, 2022 | Current Events, Maps
In a classic good news/bad news scenario, the recently released Social Security and Medicare trustees report says that the funds won’t be going broke quite as quickly as feared. The bad news, of course, is that a deferral of the inevitable by a year or two doesn’t...
by Gary Menger | Apr 14, 2022 | Current Events, Demographics, Menger's Musings
One of the most noted trends during the COVID years has been the explosion in people working from home. In the early part of the pandemic, anybody who could possibly work from home was required to do so, especially if they weren’t deemed to be essential. Manhattan...
by Elyse Menger | Mar 31, 2022 | Current Events, Maps
If you’ve been watching March Madness, then you may have noticed that there is something absolutely mad about the tournament. They section the tournament into four regions: West, East, South and Midwest. As geographers, we encourage this strategy. But how they come up...
by Elyse Menger | Feb 17, 2022 | Current Events
If you’ve been watching the Olympics, you have likely seen a commercial where a young girl watches Olympian Elana Meyers Taylor on TV with a glimmer in her eye that she, too, could be a gold medalist one day. The Olympics make us think that anyone can represent their...
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