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The top patent earner in Missouri last year

2 years 4 months ago
Tech and engineering firms were the most inventive patent winners across the U.S. last year—a year marked by growing tension with foreign nations racing to bring world-changing tech like artificial intelligence and space satellites to market. Nearly 160,000 patents were assigned across the U.S. in 2022, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. When [...]
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Building homeless shelters in LA is all but impossible

2 years 4 months ago
Here's a different look at the homeless in Los Angeles: Over the course of more than a decade, LA has managed to add 6,000 shelter beds for the homeless. That's about 10% of the 55,000 needed. Last year they added 1,100, about 2% of what's needed.
Kevin Drum