GIS

Is your kid’s lunch bought locally?

I started digging around for information on local health after someone mentioned my county had an abysmal diabetes rate and I saw a local story about a city getting its fifth McDonald’s. My attention soon turned to availability of food in schools and the USDA’s Farm to School program. My district has almost 40% of […]

Just Vaccinate

California had 136 cases of the measles with the latest outbreak, with the unvaccinated and too young to vaccinate being a majority of the cases. Recently, a report in Science said that the measles, basically, erased immunity memory and created a window of opportunity for other diseases. Basically, if you had the measles, there’s a […]