How the Maker Movement Could Reinvent Baltimore

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1. How Baltimore’s vacant industrial buildings can spawn a new maker movement.

By Anthony Flint in CityLab

2. “How is it possible…not to think that we have witnessed a lynching?”

By David Remnick in the New Yorker

3. The in-house think tank for Congress costs taxpayers millions every year. Make its reports accessible to all.

By the editorial board of the New York Times

4. This game helps citizens understand the cost — and tradeoffs — of running a city.

By Jay Cassano in Fast Co.Exist

5. Can we afford to let Russia bail out Greece?

By David Francis in Foreign Policy

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