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Who Destroyed This Iconic African-American Mural in Philadelphia?
The mural celebrating printmaker Dox Thrash is now a big, ugly square of paint.
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Car Elevators: Not Just for Rich People
Automated parking garages are now popping up on both coasts. Could this save dense cities space?
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Why Are States Passing Up Billions in Federal Transit Funds?
The GAO reports that only a tenth of $53 billion in flexible transportation funding went to transit in the past five years.
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Maps
To Get America Growing Again, We Have to Look to Our Most Productive Metro Areas
The United States is not just as a single national economy but a collection of city and metro economies, and they're growing at starkly different rates.
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Videos
Can a Paint Job Change a Neighborhood's Future?
Philly Painting mobilizes the community to bring a new look to a blighted neighborhood.
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The Global Gateways That Connect America to the World
Just five metro areas move nearly 40 percent of all U.S. international passengers.
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Democracy in America
The Skyrocketing Costs of Running for Mayor of a Major U.S. City
While the 2012 presidential election will likely be the most expensive in history, a similar money-race is happening on the local level.
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This Could Boil Down to Turnout in Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Miami
America's major cities lean Democratic, but these swing state metropolises could end up playing a deciding role.
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The Needlessly Inscrutable Geography of Scientific Funding
Data are scarce, but a look at grants from the National Institutes of Health gives us at least a partial picture.
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14 Stunning Sandy Statistics
A by-the-numbers look at the wreckage left behind.
