Month: April 2025

Predictive Modeling of Maternal Morbidity: Insights from a Decade of Regional Birth Data (2010–2020)

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Author: Dr. Cary WoodsAffiliation: Managing Partner, HarnessAI (Public Health Informatics & Predictive Analytics)Contact: [email protected]: May 2025 1. Abstract Maternal morbidity remains a critical public health challenge in the United States, particularly among vulnerable and underserved populations. This study analyzes a decade of Indiana birth records (2010–2020), comprising over 813,000 records, to explore the predictors of Read More “Predictive Modeling of Maternal Morbidity: Insights from a Decade of Regional Birth Data (2010–2020)”

Why Our Cities Are Quietly Breaking Down

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There is a quiet, slow erosion happening across American cities. It is not an earthquake or a sudden crash. It is more like rot in the beams of a house, hidden until, one day, the walls sag and the structure fails. For generations, we built a civic infrastructure based on assumptions that once felt unshakable: Read More “Why Our Cities Are Quietly Breaking Down”

From Gasoline Alley to the Grid: What GM’s Formula 1 Engine Means for American Manufacturing

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When you live in Indianapolis, motorsport is more than spectacle, it’s civic texture. On Memorial Day weekend, the roar from the Brickyard isn’t just noise. It’s history echoing at 230 miles per hour. The Indianapolis 500 remains the world’s most prestigious single-day race. Formula 1, on the other hand, is something else entirely. It is Read More “From Gasoline Alley to the Grid: What GM’s Formula 1 Engine Means for American Manufacturing”

America’s Innovation Economy Runs on Unpaid Labor

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A funny thing happened on the way to the startup revolution. We built an entire mythology around the entrepreneur, but forgot to fund the human being behind it. For decades now, the entrepreneur has been hailed as a kind of American folk hero. Gritty, self-reliant, bootstrapped. A doer, not a dreamer. The stories are everywhere: Read More “America’s Innovation Economy Runs on Unpaid Labor”

From Wall Street to Cell Blocks: The Monetization of Detention in a Globalized Fear Economy

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The architecture of mass incarceration is evolving, and it is wearing a suit. This week, a plan emerged from the shadow corridors of militarized entrepreneurship. Erik Prince, the controversial founder of Blackwater, is now proposing to detain and deport undocumented immigrants by building a for-profit prison system not on American soil, but in El Salvador. Read More “From Wall Street to Cell Blocks: The Monetization of Detention in a Globalized Fear Economy”

For the Woman Who Believed We Could Go Further

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Today is my mother’s birthday. She’s not just the woman who raised me. She’s the woman who raised four college graduates, each of us with a degree from a historically Black college or university. That is not a coincidence. It’s the result of vision, grit, and a relentless belief in the power of education as Read More “For the Woman Who Believed We Could Go Further”

The Disappearing Dial Tone: Why Basic Customer Service is Now a Premium Feature

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Tornadoes ripped through Central Indiana last night, leaving wide swaths of the region without power. In times like these, communication becomes a lifeline, literally. Yet for too many families, that lifeline has frayed. My parents, both older adults, lost their landline service. When I attempted to report the outage to AT&T, I found myself in Read More “The Disappearing Dial Tone: Why Basic Customer Service is Now a Premium Feature”