In my career, I’ve often considered myself a professional pesterer.
As journalists, we have a license — and a responsibility — to pursue information vigorously, to the point of being obnoxious at times. Often, it takes a while to get said information, but that’s part of the job.
I bring all this up because back in mid-June when I wrote about how long the I-26 Connector project is taking — it started in 2019 — a reader sent in some excellent follow-up questions regarding crashes in the construction zone. He wanted to know how many accidents had occurred in the work zone over the past five years, compared to the five years before the project, and if there had been deaths…