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Distinguished University Professor K. J. Ray Liu

The map on the Baltimore City Department of Public Works website looks sterile, but the problem it illustrates is most definitely not.Colored dots peppered across the graphic show locations of sanitary sewer overflows, the wastewater that spills in homes, streets, or the environment due to a pipe break or blockage, ranging from the small and mop-able to the overwhelming in odor and damage.

COLLEGE PARK (10/14/20) — As voters worry whether a slowed-down U.S. Postal Service can handle a surge of mailed ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic, University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism professors and USA Today have forged an investigative partnership to measure mail performance in real time in critical swing states.