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New York's congestion pricing toll has reduced traffic and sped up commutes. Now it's also hitting its revenue goals: $48 million raised in its first month. President Trump still wants to kill it. Free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/n...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u... And so the march towards dictatorship continues

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The cost of Trump being at the Super Bowl: Secret Service: $7M to $10M. Air Travel and Motorcade: $4M-5M. Stadium Security Upgrades: Additional metal detectors, bomb sweeps, security checkpoints: $2M. Local Law Enforcement: Overtime & personnel: $1M. Trump attendance: $15 to $20M. Where’s DOGE?

For Black residents, Altadena represented something more than suburban living. It was a foothold in generational prosperity. Now, the future of the community is in peril, after many residents lost their homes in the Eaton fire. nyti.ms/40aoR8s

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In New Caledonia, mining companies extract nickel for electric car batteries from the soil by razing the forests that evolved on it. Ben Crair writes about how the engines of the so-called green transition could leave Earth’s most verdant corner in tatters.