Apr 20, 2018

Financial advice, food deserts, and puppies

John Schwartz of the New York Times on how he got his financial life in order. Plus, what makes a food desert, how supply and demand works with rescue puppies, and what to do about a water source that crosses under the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Sharing water across borders can get complicated — and expensive

by Lizzie O'Leary

Jul 21, 2017

At the U.S.-Mexico border, two of the region's largest urban areas share a water source — and it's become a race to the bottom.

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What rescue puppies teach us about supply and demand

by Peter Balonon-Rosen

Dec 7, 2017

Puppies sometimes make cross-country journeys to meet adoption demands.

Kelly Brown drives the Brother Wolf van through Rutherford County, North Carolina on her way to receive dogs for the trip to Connecticut.

Timothy O'Connell for Topic

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How to be an astronaut

by Eliza Mills

Dec 8, 2017

Advice from a former International Space Station Commander.

Attired in a training version of his spacesuit, astronaut Doug Wheelock, Expedition 24 flight engineer and Expedition 25 commander, awaits the start of a spacewalk training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Courtesy NASA Johnson Space Center

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The unexpected challenges of living in a food desert

by Paulina Velasco

Jan 5, 2018

A Food Empowerment Project study found that a lot of people are time poor as well as cash poor.

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

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When grocery stores close, this legal phrase can prevent new ones from opening

by Peter Balonon-Rosen

Jan 12, 2018

When grocery stores close, critics say restrictive covenants — clauses in grocery store leases that says a landlord can't rent the space to another grocer — can lead to food deserts.

Restrictive covenants are clauses in a grocery store's lease that says a landlord can't rent the space to another grocer.

Joe Raedle/Getty Images

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It's time to get your financial life in order

by Paulina Velasco

Apr 20, 2018

Tax season may be over, but that doesn’t mean you should stop thinking about your finances. That’s one conclusion from John Schwartz of the New York Times, who decided that after many decades of keeping his nose to the grind and ignoring his letters from Vanguard, he should take a step back and look at […]

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