Judge Blocks Mississippi From Giving Private Schools $10 Million (mississippifreepress.org) Anger as DeSantis eases voting rules in Republican areas hit by hurricane | Ron DeSantis | The Guardian Poor, less white US neighborhoods get worst internet deals | AP News Local Ballot Measures Underscore California’s Housing Crisis (governing.com) Minneapolis moves forward on community safety office after council's OK (startribune.com) Supreme Court case could help red states defund

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I haven't done this for a few weeks, but here is some SLOG content to read this weekend... Bar Talk: Informal Social Interactions, Alcohol Prohibition, and Invention* , Michael Andrews Economists call the forces that drive people to live in cities "agglomeration." There are a number of types -- reduced shipping costs, the specialization and insurance benefits of market depth (labor, social, etc) and information spillovers, or learning from proximate others. The last of thes