High Alerts
Rare by design — urgent by definition
A High Alert means a decision is big, fast-moving and hard to reverse: surveillance rollouts, insurance and condo changes, property-tax shifts, voting deadlines, emergency rules or serious environmental threats. Most weeks there are none. When one appears, it means you should look.
How something becomes a High Alert: it must (1) affect a county-wide or multi-county population, (2) have a near-term, hard deadline, and (3) be expensive or impossible to undo. Two editors and a source check are required before the siren goes up. Read the full criteria
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None active — and that’s by design. The siren only goes up when something meets all three criteria above, which most weeks nothing does. An empty page here means we checked and found nothing that qualifies, not that we weren’t looking.