'Gringos out!': Mexicans protest tourists and gentrification
Locals in Mexico City are unhappy about being priced out of central neighbourhoods.
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Locals in Mexico City are unhappy about being priced out of central neighbourhoods.
Everything is going to hell without the comfort of a hand basket, but I just bought a ticket to see the Price Sign O’ The Times concert film in IMAX tomorrow evening. I only saw him live once and this will not be the same, but it is still amazing!!
Totally necessary military presence on the god damned metro
Baltimore-Washington Parkway inside city limits
More absolutely disgusting evidence of DC becoming a police state
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
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The average student is $19,000 in debt
10.8 million students owe more than $44,000
Two-thirds of student loan debt belong to women
About a third of all undergraduate students received a Pell Grant
41 million people attended college but never graduated
I commute from Alexandria, VA, to Baltimore, MD. In 19 years have dealt with traffic. I have seen accidents. But nothing prepared me for the daily blockade of police and national guardsmen standing in the right lane of a major DC artery, slowing traffic, peering into cars, and pulling people over.
IDK but perhaps I should stop telling co-workers I have been burned out for years. (Too late)
Half a semester's syllabus plus all of the assignment descriptions and due dates is better than no syllabus, right?
Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.