Maybe there’s something I’m not understanding, but $89,000 buys you an automatic toilet. In Seattle.
According to the New York Times, which monitors such activity, the city of Seattle spent $5 million fours year ago to install five automated public toilets around town. Now it’s, well, shitcanning the whole project and selling the commodes on eBay.
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Special Teamz gotta have it

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
Many millions of mixtapes before the present, Edo G had to have it: “When you’re in like food in your stomach, they wanna stick with you,” he said, “But when you’re out like Elvis, they wanna dick you.” Boston was (and is) an aspiring satellite city for hip-hop, [...]

Economic evangelist wows business gathering
Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class spoke–is still speaking–to the Downtown Long Beach Associates annual gathering. His point: Long Beach is poised to take advantage of an economic change bigger than the switch from agriculture to industry: the rise of creative types.
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The Boston parade that took its case for banning gays to the Supreme Court and won, later banned certain veterans as well.
As Will Swaim writes below, the organizers of the Long Beach Veterans Day Parade can rely on a 1995 Supreme Court decision in a case originating in Boston, which declared such events to be [...]

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