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A New Playbook Looks To Help Rural Communities Utilize Opportunity Zones

The blueprint provides a six-step process to attract capital to rural communities.

Why is Kroger buying Albertsons, and how will it affect shoppers?

Kroger’s plan to acquire supermarket rival Albertsons in a nearly $25 billion deal would create a grocery juggernaut with more than 4,500 stores in 48 states.

Public Lands Month 2022: The Wrap – Backcountry Hunters & Anglers

We hope you enjoyed Public Lands Month – the stories, the giveaways, and the opportunities to raise your voice in support of our lands and waters. Now that the dust has settled, we’ve had a chance to evaluate the impacts of your hard work last month. And we have some exciting numbers to share with you:

Talking Headways Podcast: Tapping the Public Wealth of Cities

The most famous discussion about this is likely from Dag Detter and Stefan Folster’s book, “The Public Wealth of Cities.” But it’s a topic that has generally been under the radar for a while. So first I want to start with Ben. Where did you first find out about this idea of public-asset inventory and why was the idea so compelling?

Housing market correction? Here’s what experts think is ahead for the real estate market

There are now 210 out of the top 400 housing markets across the country that are “significantly overvalued” – or overvalued by more than 25%.

Opendoor’s iBuyer Model Is a Canary in the Economy of Housing Coal Mine

The company is losing huge sums of money on cookie-cutter homes—suggesting a fundamental weakness in the US housing market.

Fintechs to Start Issuing 7(a) Loans Up to $5 Million If New SBA Rule Change Is Approved

The change, if greenlighted, would lift a 40-year moratorium to expand the SBA’s lender base.

Charter schools fail at astounding rate, report says

The study, Broken Promises: An Analysis of Charter School Closures from 1999-2017, also shows how initial investment in developing charter schools was often squandereed. Nearly $1 billion of the overall $4 billion given through the U.S. Department of Education’s Charter Schools Program, “was given to schools that never opened as well as to many that were opened and then closed,” according to the research.