Law

In this case, the villains seem to be the suburban developers, traffic engineers, and road builders, who are sucking the soul of out of American life, one deadly community-killing, butt-ugly, treeless, guard railed traffic sewer at a time. Maybe they don't have bad intentions, I don't know. But the results of their efforts should be a crime.

By the news accounts, Fedora Henderson was dedicated and giving person. Sadly, she was killed by the suburbs.

In a better world, the road designers and suburban big box developers would attend her memorial. In a better state, Virginia officials responsible for those roads would attend her funeral and investigate how their roads contributed to her death. I hope her supervisors and colleagues at Target were able to attend, and maybe reflect on the big box culture of cheap stuff and low wages, and store locations at the fringes of towns or in the middle of nowhere, unsuited for workers or shoppers who cannot or choose not to arrive by car.

None of that introspection will happen, of course. May Fedora Henderson's family and friends be comforted, and may she rest in peace.