The city mounted 100 cameras on sanitation trucks, flagged 21,000 properties in four months, and set a target of 5,200 enforcement notices a year. Homeowners on fixed incomes are the ones holding the notices. Twice a month, a brush and bulky-waste truck rolls past a house in southern Dallas. It does not stop. Mounted on each side of the cab...
September 10, 2026
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How Missouri Held a Primary on a Map That Was Never Law
Missouri voters cast primary ballots on August 4 in congressional districts drawn by House Bill 1. One month later, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously that HB 1 never took effect and has never been the law of the state. Both statements are accurate. Reconciling them is the whole of Missouri’s redistricting fight, and the answer is not that a...
German Industry’s Revenue Is Recovering. Its Job Cuts Are Accelerating.
Updated with data through September 7, 2026 For ten consecutive quarters, German industrial revenue contracted. That streak ended in the first quarter of 2026. In the second quarter, revenue grew 4.7 percent year-on-year to €556.4 billion the second straight quarter of growth, and by conventional reading, a recovery. Over the same twelve months, German industry cut about 144,000 jobs. That...
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Scored by a Garbage Truck: Inside Dallas’s AI “Blight” Surveillance Program
The city mounted 100 cameras on sanitation trucks, flagged 21,000 properties in four months, and set a target of 5,200...
How Missouri Held a Primary on a Map That Was Never Law
Missouri voters cast primary ballots on August 4 in congressional districts drawn by House Bill 1. One month later, the...
German Industry’s Revenue Is Recovering. Its Job Cuts Are Accelerating.
Updated with data through September 7, 2026 For ten consecutive quarters, German industrial revenue contracted. That streak ended in the...
The Tariffs Hit Every Province But One. On October 19, Alberta Votes.
On September 8, Canada begins collecting tariffs of 15, 25 and 50 percent on more than 700 categories of American...
Flock Became Surveillance’s Bunker Hill. What That Costs a Company Valued at $8.4 Billion
In February, Denver told Flock Safety it would not renew the contract for the license plate readers used by its...
Fewer Kids, More Doubt: Northeast Football Programs Are Falling Below the Minimum
Port Jefferson High School was scheduled to open its 100th season of varsity football on Sept. 4 at Center Moriches....
Florida Pulled the Cameras Off Its Highways. The State Still Sells Your Driver Data.
The Florida Department of Transportation revoked every permit it had issued for automated license plate readers in state highway rights-of-way...
The Cable That Carries Your 911 Call Sits Under an Unlocked Lid
A manhole cover weighs a couple hundred pounds, sits in a public street, and in most American cities is locked...