we all know -- nadine burke's book coming out this week, about trauma and how incarcerated parents canng trauma. in kansas, officials are examining a 20-year difference in the life expectancy for neighborhoods that are only two miles apart. two miles apart, 20-year difference between 63 and 83 in those neighborhoods. yet data, yet again. we have commissioner carter here that will discuss what is happening in ramsey county as a supervisor. there they're called commissioners. we know that equity will not happen without common facts upon which we can rely upon to make difficult decisions. we cannot have uncommon facts about how we're going to divvy up these resources. we're supposed to be the city that's forward-looking, experimental, and innovative. why on earth, i keep asking, 2 we not combine cross systems, indicators of well-being, to determine resource allocation? why don't we have equity metrics in each department? we'll hear more about that, i think, from commissioner carter. so before i take my seat, i want to read an excerpt, an op-ed from david brooks in this week's "new york ti