Jessie Singer

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Senior Strategist/Head Writer, TransAlt and Freelance Writer, Freelance

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Metro New York, Transportation

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Author of THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS -- a Slate, Mother Jones, Fortune Magazine and The Economist best of book of the year. Now in paperback: bit.ly/3IsxS4f

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Opinion | Don't call the deadly Bronx apartment fire an accident. It's a failure of government.

Jessie Singer is the author of the forthcoming book, " There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and …

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Opinion: We Should Ban Cars From Big Cities. Seriously.

In the coming days, politicians will try to convince you that what happened on the West Side Highway in Manha…

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Wayne Barrett, the Voice's Great Trump Reporter, Dies at 71

In late September, Wayne Barrett stood behind a lectern at a party in his honor and pulled on a familiar red …

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The Sex Scandal That Put Bush in the White House

Pat Buchanan is on the tube again, co-hosting a Crossfire facsimile on MSNBC. Just a celebrity commentator no…

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The Ghost Bikes

Louis CK and Jerry Seinfeld are on the West Side Highway in New York City, driving a tiny antique car with ra…

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But Was It an Accident, Really?

America's death rate is on the rise. So is dodging the blame.

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I Build Ghost Bikes - Here's What It's Taught Me About Who Dies on a Bike

The first time I ever made a ghost bike, I said I hoped I would never do it again. My friends and I were not …

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How To Build A Fire

For a year, I lived in a trailer in the woods outside Austin, Texas. Rather, I lived in the remnants of a tra…

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The Best New York Rat Stories of 2016

Human names have been changed to prevent rat-prisals.

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