Lana "LJ" Juhala slept in the same Phoenix alleyway for over eight years. The neighbors knew she was there. The police and city workers did, too, she said. Yet as far as Juhala knows, she's never been ...

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Back in March 2020, when contact-tracing apps were first being frantically built, they seemed to me like a mirage -- a fantasy embraced by the smartphone-toting, jet-setting class who wanted to ...