Happened upon a growing afternoon President’s Day protest in Union Square.

I went there for WTO protests in the late 90s, the candlelight vigil after 9/11, protested the Iraq War with my law school classmates there, but this is the first that seemed like it was not being led by youthful energy.

When cities clear homeless encampments, workers often take people’s belongings — including important documents, survival gear and irreplaceable mementos.

Over and over, people across the U.S. told ProPublica they were devastated by such losses: https://propub.li/3WScD3g

Move-in days are the best days, and H4EN has had over 100 people who have walked through that door now. This is the Cleveland way to resolve unsheltered homelessness.

1. For decades, local grocery stores thrived. Then in the 1980s, the government stopped enforcing a key antitrust law. Rapid consolidation followed, which gave rise to food deserts and a spike in grocery prices. Our new graph shows the dramatic impact of this policy shift.
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Here’s to traditions that bring us together.

Ran with a large bunch of bananas this weekend that will clearly cost a lot more on Jan 20. No wonder they split up by mile 4.