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Why Coffee Is Not As Dangerous For Your Heart As You Think (Arnold’s Pump Club)

A surge of new townhouses is outpacing buyer demand, leaving a surplus of listings and suppressing sales prices (Charlotte Ledger)

North Carolina promised a ‘battery belt.’ Where are the factories now? (News & Observer)

16 Highly Unusual Cities Built In Unlikely Locations (Daily Passport)

The cultural works becoming public domain in 2026, from Betty Boop to Nancy Drew (NPR)

Public Domain Day 2026 (Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain)

The One Hour Studio (Austin Kleon)

Investors, analysts react to Trump’s single-family home buying ban (Multifamily Dive)

The Last Days of the Southern Drawl (The Atlantic)

Quotes

“My dad has always had a southern accent: His words fall out of his mouth the way molasses would sound if it could speak, thick and slow.” – Annie Joy Williams, The Atlantic

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