A mall owner used to make money by keeping the malls full.
Real estate groups and venture capital took over.
And now, it pays more to keep the malls empty.
#malls #economics #politics #retail #taxlaw
Governments and companies moved most of their records to cloud storage.
They destroyed the physical records to save money.
But then found out that digital doesn't always last.
https://www.plainmeaning.com/Articles/Power/16_going-digital-is-making-history-disappear.html
#politics #ai #tech #government #history
"The Promise" was the only hit of the British band When in Rome.
It was different from earlier New Wave songs.
But it was New Wave enough to be the last of the genre even if most don't view it that way.
https://www.plainmeaning.com/Articles/Picks/4_the-last-song-of-the-new-wave.html
An Irish musician made a song named after a South American river.
The song can make you think of travel and escape.
But researchers have known for over a hundred years what else music generally can make you do. Read more on Plain Meaning: https://www.plainmeaning.com/Articles/Picks/5_a-song-that-flows-and-takes-you-with-it.html
There is an area in the Gulf that has no fish.
And the Mississippi River itself has suffered from algae blooms impacting drinking water.
It was caused by a product that could have been made differently but wasn't.
Read the full story on Plain Meaning
The Freedom of Information Act was meant to make to make abuses open for correction.
For a brief period, it did just that.
But now the government cut off information. And even made its rules about it secret.
https://www.plainmeaning.com/Articles/Power/12_what-happened-to-the-freedom-of-information-act.html
#plainmeaning #politics #government #foia #policy
Government secrets are lost to criminals and adversaries every year.
Many view government sloppiness as the problem.
But the real cause is the line that private corporations crossed in relation to the government.