When the Moroccan financier Aziz Nahas decided to buy and regenerate a farm outside Marrakesh about two decades ago, he underestimated how much would grow there. Now, the 10-acre plot produces organic vegetables and fruits as well as hosting an artist residency program and a ceramic studio, all under the name Sanctuary Slimane. In 2021, Nahas’s friend the French restaurateur Benjamin Pastor suggested they partner up to start a cafe and farm shop in the busy Marrakesh neighborhood of Gueliz. Last spring, they opened the coffee shop Blue Ribbon, with offerings including fresh salads served with halloumi or beets and almonds and a bánh mí sandwich on fresh sourdough. In the fall, they added a seating area next door and the Slimane Farm Shop, which sells vegetables and products like honey and dried herbs that are grown and produced on the farm. Up next: Farmers, a restaurant headed by Blue Ribbon’s chef and located in the same building. The 46-seat space, lined with colorful Popham tiles, is scheduled to open at the end of February.
New ‘Report Card’ Rates Best And Worst States For Traffic Safety Laws
29.12.2023 - 22:43 / forbes.com
Ratings that reflect progress across the country to pass 16 important traffic safety laws and countermeasures to combat dangerous driving have been announced.
Six states – Louisiana, Maryland, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington – and Washington, D.C. earned the best rating of green, and 10 states – Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wyoming – received the worst rating of red for lagging dangerously behind in the adoption of recommended laws.
The remaining 34 states garnered a yellow rating, indicating that improvement is needed.
No state has enacted all recommended countermeasures to prevent and reduce crashes, injuries and deaths.
Those are the main findings of the new 2024 Roadmap to Safety report released earlier this month by Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, to address the nation’s “skyrocketing” traffic crash death toll by introducing or strengthening laws and vehicle safety standards.
“The situation on our roadways is horrific as tens of thousands die and even more are injured in crashes every year that are totally preventable,” Cathy Chase, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, said in a statement.
In 2022, an estimated 42,795 people were killed on U.S. roads, about 118 every day, according to the safety group.
“In addition to human suffering, crashes have a significant financial impact, costing approximately $340 billion per year. This means that every person living in the U.S. in essence pays an annual ‘crash tax’ of $1,035. Safety technology, laws and infrastructure improvements are known and proven, yet severely underutilized,” she said. “We have the ability to solve this public health crisis by enacting the solutions in this report.”
Advocates, an alliance of consumer, medical, public health, law enforcement, and safety organizations as well as insurance companies and agents, has issued its annual “report card” for more than two decades, Ms. Chase said, “as a ’how to’ guide and a ‘call to action’ for legislative and regulatory officials, ” both state and federal.
Each state and D.C. is given an overall rating and a specific rating in six categories: occupant protection; child passenger safety; young drivers; impaired driving; distracted driving; and automated enforcement to curb speed.
“If we truly care about the safety of all children in all communities, we must push as hard as we can to make these recommendations a reality,” Mike Rodriquez, deputy chief of the Buffalo Grove (IL) Police Department, said in a statement.
“For young children, this means supporting comprehensive child passenger seat and seat belt use laws and requiring occupant detection and alert technology to prevent ‘hot car’ deaths and
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