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Friday, November 15, 2019

Student-Athletes Make Billions for the NCAA. They Deserve A Seat On Its Board.
by Connor Maxwell
Student-athletes deserve a vote in the NCAA's decision-making process.

You Can’t Eat Your Dreams. Hollywood Expects Assistants to Do Just That.
by Brenden Gallagher
Hollywood’s army of assistants is organizing with #PayUpHollywood.

HHS Proposal Puts Millions of Americans at Risk of Discrimination
by Laura E. Durso and Sharita Gruberg
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: A new proposal from the Department of Health and Human Services would give grantees a license to discriminate using billions in taxpayer dollars.

Why an All-of-the-Above Transportation Strategy Doesn’t Work
by Kevin Degood
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: When regions adopt an all-of-the-above approach, they often embrace the language of smart growth without the substance.

What We’re Reading

Raise the Roof. Curbed's Suburbs Issue is a fantastic look at the changing face of a much-despised part of America. We particularly enjoyed an examination of increasing diversity in the subsurbs and a cautionary tale about the seductions of home ownership.

Pay Your Dues. Opportunity Zones struck again in Florida, where a superyacht marina qualified for special tax treatment. Meanhwile, South Dakota has risen as an unlikely tax haven and the rich are loving it.

Underwater. They call this Louisiana town "Flood City"; after 17 floods in 30 years, it's being abandoned. And residents of New Orleans may be facing the same choice. But climate change isn't the only human-made catastrophe with the potential to leave communities in soggy ruins: At least 1,680 dams across the U.S. are in a very hazardous state.

Selling Churros Is Not A Crime

A recent arrest in New York City over selling churros on a subway platform highlighted a world of unlicensed street vendors in New York. Many are undocumented immigrants, and a substantial number are women. Artificial scarcity of vending permits has made this underworld inevitable, but the city council could opt to issue more and relieve the pressure of a very long waiting list and a bustling black market in leasing vending permits.

It would be a smart move: Street vendors make cities safer.

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