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Whenever Lake Okeechobee gets too high, water managers blast billions of gallons of its nasty water east and west, because they’re afraid a hurricane might blow out its dike and kill thousands of people. That actually happened in 1928, helping inspire Zora Neale Hurston to write Their Eyes Were Watching God. And as I write these words, the water in the lake has risen to its highest level in more than a decade. It’s kind of scary.

The Boomtown That Shouldn’t Exist

MICHAEL GRUNWALD

Most of its current stations are tucked away in public garages and parking lots. But the one public charger Hoboken has on a street, a few blocks from city hall, accounts for 40% of the city’s charging sessions.

How Cities Are Deciding Where Electric Vehicle Chargers Should Go

Daniel C. Vock and Senior Reporter, Route Fifty

Yet unlike the progress we anticipated from other civil rights laws, we shouldn't have expected much to happen from a Fair Housing Act that allowed African Americans now to resettle in a white suburb. Moving from an urban apartment to a suburban home is incomparably more difficult than registering to vote, applying for a job, changing seats on a bus, sitting down in a restaurant, or even attending a neighborhood school.

The Color of Law

Richard Rothstein

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