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Instead Of Hating Your HOA, Make Your City Take Responsibility

Instead Of Hating Your HOA, Make Your City Take Responsibility

Homeowners associations (HOAs) are notorious punching bags, shamed for bullying widows to mow the lawn or telling residents what color they can paint their front door. But long before you ...

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Incremental Development: How To Avoid The Bust By Avoiding The Boom

Incremental Development: How To Avoid The Bust By Avoiding The Boom

If you’re among the large number of Americans who want to see rents come down and stay…

US Long-Term Care Costs Are Sky-High, But Washington State’s New Way To Help Pay For Them Could Be Nixed

If you needed long-term care, could you afford…

5 NSF Projects Transforming How Researchers Understand Plastic Waste

The U.S. National Science Foundation champions research on…

‘I Worked For Abramovich?’: Soccer Players Were Owned By Oligarch Via Offshore Deals

Former Chelsea owner locked young players across Europe…

Chinese Organized Crime’s Latest U.S. Target: Gift Cards

Chinese crime rings already dominate the illegal marijuana…

US Says Two ‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Hazardous, Tells Polluters To Pay

The US Environmental Protection Agency on Friday classified…

How To Avoid Human-Made Pandemics

How do you pitch a news story about…

Are Rents About To Crash?

Are Rents About To Crash?

America is in the midst of a housing crisis. If we listen to…

Here’s How We Get Housing That’s Both More Affordable AND Better Quality

Here’s How We Get Housing That’s Both More Affordable AND Better Quality

For a season of life, my husband and I owned and managed a small, century-old apartment building in Winnipeg’s inner…

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Seafood Waste Isn't As Bad As Previously Thought

Seafood Waste Isn’t As Bad As Previously Thought

A new study shows seafood food loss and…

Band-Aids Pose Cancer Risk Thanks To 'Forever Chemicals'

Band-Aids Pose Cancer Risk Thanks To ‘Forever Chemicals’

Major medical bandages, including from brands Band-Aid and…

Spent Nuclear Fuel Mismanagement Poses A Major Threat To The United States. Here’s How.

Spent Nuclear Fuel Mismanagement Poses A Major Threat To The United States. Here’s How.

Irradiated fuel assemblies—essentially bundles of fuel rods with zirconium alloy cladding sheathing uranium dioxide fuel pellets—that have been removed from…

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Totality Ready: US Braces For April 8 Solar Eclipse Frenzy

Totality Ready: US Braces For April 8 Solar Eclipse Frenzy

US communities along the path of the April 8 total solar eclipse are preparing for the year’s biggest astronomic event,…

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Language: Why We Hear More Than Words

Language: Why We Hear More Than Words

It’s a classic complaint in relationships, especially romantic ones: “She said she was okay with me forgetting her birthday! Then why…

The Second Housing Bubble Of The 21st Century Is Over

The Second Housing Bubble Of The 21st Century Is Over

The 21st century, only 23 years old, has already had two giant, international housing bubbles. It makes one doubt that we…

Appalling Cobalt Mining Conditions In Congo

Appalling Cobalt Mining Conditions In Congo

There is one part to the “green” EV revolution that we have written about – but that no one else is…

Earthquake Prediction Is “Impossible”—Unless Politics Requires It

Earthquake Prediction Is “Impossible”—Unless Politics Requires It

Millions of cell phones and tens of thousands of hospitals, mass transit systems, airports, utility companies, and other vital infrastructure on…

12 Years Of The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Countries

12 Years Of The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Countries

Every year, the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) scores countries on how innovative their economies are with the Global Innovation Index….

Most Cities Can’t Set Their Own Speed Limits — But Maybe They Should

Most Cities Can’t Set Their Own Speed Limits — But Maybe They Should

In a move that could be a model for other U.S. states, Oregon may soon allow cities more leeway to set…

Congress And Industry Leaders Call For Crackdown On Hospice Fraud

Congress And Industry Leaders Call For Crackdown On Hospice Fraud

Following a ProPublica-New Yorker investigation into the hospice industry, members of the Comprehensive Care Caucus and national trade groups are demanding…

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