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When the Chicago City Council signed off on the meter deal, they didn’t just trade away parking revenue. They traded away Chicago’s streets themselves. They lost control over rates but also control over the curbs—how they could be used, and by whom.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
I feel—to speak of it would be to contain what it did to me, to make it small. I don’t want to do that.
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
The typical red state gets back 19 cents more for each dollar sent to Washington than its blue-state friends.
Analysis | Do Blue-State Taxes Really Subsidize Red-State Benefits?