Lab Report: Can $50 Million Worth of Bollards Protect New York City?

Preventing the next attack: Responding to Tuesday’s terrorism in Lower Manhattan, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduced the “STOP Act” to fund installation of $50 million worth of protective barriers like bollards and planters around the city—a strategy already in use in several cities worldwide to prevent the use of vehicles as weapons of terror. As Time reports, New York congressmen introduced a similar bill earlier this month:

Election season: While Bill De Blasio and Marty Walsh cruise toward re-election in New York and Boston, several U.S. mayors are facing tough races this month, including incumbents in Cincinnati, Minneapolis, and St. Petersburg, the latter of which is seeing maybe the tightest race contest in the country. Meanwhile, Charlotte and Albuquerque are among the cities with close races to fill open seats, while a runoff in New Orleans will name the city’s first female mayor. (Governing)