The world's most feminist city – how Umeå in Sweden became an idyll for women
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Meet Chicago's Rat Queen (w/ Rob Scallon) | Rats pt. 1
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Isle of Dogs [area in London's Docklands] unilateral declaration of independence: a revolt, a joke, or a tactical stroke of genius
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The 24-hour city: In a push to bolster nightlife, cities are changing laws to keep bars, restaurants and transit systems operating round-the-clock
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British Columbia, Canada: Family pets will no longer be considered property during divorce proceedings
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San Francisco and Grants Pass Oregon lawsuits about homelessness highlight this question: Do those who reject shelter choose homelessness?
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The red US state brain drain isn’t coming. It’s happening right now.
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Links forged half a century ago with Gaza City mean that support for Palestine goes well beyond gesture politics in Tromsø, Norway
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Residents of Luleå, Sweden welcome new campaign encouraging them to say hello to each other during dark winter months
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An enigma who lived frugally left his New Hampshire town millions it never knew he had
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Ontario to ban Canadian work experience requirement in job postings
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The war in Ukraine is heightening tensions between Russians and Norwegians living on Svalbard | Focus on Europe
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Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ neighbors have no voting rights to stop it
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Lord Sugar documents east London’s rubbish mountains
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Abortions rose in most US states this year, new data shows
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Brazilian delivery workers take their fight to get app users to pick up their orders to local legislatures
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Copenhagen's mayor has urged foreigners not to buy weed in the city's Christiania neighborhood where a thirty-year-old man was shot and killed
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The new (improved?) face of public housing in Maryland
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One thousand inmates at a Wisconsin prison have been confined mostly to their cells for months, with little explanation
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The trees on Xenia Street
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AP psychology effectively banned in Florida over lesson on sexual orientation, gender identity
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New Florida standards in schools
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Abortion laws are driving academics out of some US states—and keeping others from coming
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The manufacturing backlash: No factory in my backyard
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The invisible victims of American anti-semitism
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Residents of Christiania in Denmark may vote to end open cannabis trade over fears of rising gang violence
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Residents of Greenland have switched to daylight saving time this weekend for the very last time
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Child labor laws are under attack in states across the country
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The most lawless county in Texas
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Why a gang of Spanish grannies covered an entire street in woolly blankets
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Scotland to become first country in world to provide free period products
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In Iceland, traditionally a land of cat lovers, bans and curfews are redefining the human relationship with domestic cats
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Adolescents in the US are chronically sleep-deprived, in part because most schools start too early. This summer, California will become the first state in the nation to require later start times.
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A case study in NIMBY entitlement: The former mayor of Beverly Hills is so mad about duplexes
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An unprecedented California program is already fulfilling its promise to house the most vulnerable
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Gavin Newsom signs bills aimed at creating more affordable housing in California
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Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-language city – Juhana Vartiainen says too many highly skilled foreigners shun Finnish capital because of difficult language
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California will discourage students who are gifted at math
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Getting plowed - Exposing the bid-rigging, violence and sabotage at the heart of an unlikely racket: snow removal (2012)
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Bakersfield, California just ended chronic homelessness
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At least twenty municipalities have changed local laws to allow backyard chicken coops since the pandemic started
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He fought wildfires while imprisoned. California reported him to ICE for deportation
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Ohio has stopped kicking workers off unemployment after a hacker targeted its website
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Michigan Governor Whitmer announces plan for free college tuition for front-line workers battling coronavirus
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Momentum builds for NYC teacher ‘sickout’ mutiny over de Blasio’s refusal to close schools
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What happened when Tulsa paid people to work remotely
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Clearing up the confusion around Prop 13 on the 2020 ballot
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Denser housing is gaining traction on America’s east coast
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Bay Area students and teachers rally for school funding and Prop 13 reform
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To solve the problem of a dwindling population, one small Finnish municipality took a big step – pay its citizens to have babies
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