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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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Most Sampled Artists

Most Sampled Artists

In this day and age, new waves of culture, art, science, history, and technology appear almost out of thin air. Geniuses,…

A Massive Top Down Plan To Fix A Massive Top Down Mistake

A Massive Top-Down Plan To Fix A Massive Top-Down Mistake

This past week, an interesting image was posted by Hayden Clarkin on his Twitter and Instagram: This is a simple graphic of…

Spanish Fork Prioritizes Driver Speed Over Child Safety

Spanish Fork Prioritizes Driver Speed Over Child Safety

In Spanish Fork, Utah, on the corner of Center Street and 900 East, a crossing guard is tasked with the responsibility…

A New Drug Called "Tranq" Is Worsening Philadelphia's Already Out-Of-Control Drug Problem

A New Drug Called “Tranq” Is Worsening Philadelphia’s Already Out-Of-Control Drug Problem

As if Philadelphia didn’t have a big enough problem on its hands with its “zombie streets” in the Northeast lined with…

Living In The Past

Living In The Past

In later posts I’ll strive for a substantive engagement with Ruskin, but I want to make a general preliminary comment here. Ruskin…

Your City May Be Illegally Assessing You For Routine Infrastructure Maintenance

Your City May Be Illegally Assessing You For Routine Infrastructure Maintenance

Part of having transparent local accounting is ensuring that the people living in a community know and understand the public costs…

What Comes Next After Abolishing Parking Mandates?

What Comes Next After Abolishing Parking Mandates?

It should not surprise anyone that parking reform is sweeping the nation. It’s not often that policymakers have an opportunity to…

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