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The Daily Bulletin of September 18, 1939, reads "Eastern Idaho State Fair Opens Here Tomorrow" and directly below is a photo of Idaho's Governor, C.A. Bottolfson, working out in the

With the Richmond Police Department’s Vice Squad constantly patrolling its streets and the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority revoking liquor licenses, effectively shutting down places for being “gathering places for homosexuals” and “promoting lewd behavior,” the Block, like its patrons, learned to be fluid shifting its location often as one place closed and another opened.

A recent Planetizen blog claims that news media exaggerate the problems caused by induced vehicle travel. I disagree. A growing body of research indicates that most highway expansions are economically wasteful and contradict community goals.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and many other nineteenth-century antislavery texts, Blake opens with the forcible separation of the slave family. Henry’s wife, Maggie, discovers that her owner and biological father, Colonel Stephen Franks, has arranged to sell her, partly because his wife has become too close to Maggie and partly because Maggie has refused his sexual advances. Returning from an errand for the Franks family, Henry learns that his wife has been sold away from the Franks plantation. Maggie’s parents, Daddy Joe and Mammy Judy, weep, pray for better times, and implore Henry to “stanâ€...

To Save the New York Subway, Send in the Crowds Bloomberg 1 hr ago Devin Leonard (Bloomberg) -- For New York City subway riders, each trip is its own odyssey. Especially in the pandemic, there’s the rush to the station, the tense wait on the platform. The quest for a seat, always a delicate matter, is made more so by the need to socially distance. Straphangers must endure panhandlers and the fear of being confined underground if there’s a delay. Upon arriving at their appointed station, is it any wonder they dash for the street? The last thing riders want to encounter is...