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• D.C.’s 1776 and New York City’s General Assembly partner up, tying together the two centers of gravity for those cities’ tech entrepreneurship scenes. (We profiled 1776 here.)
• New Orleans starts reclaiming its vacant lots.
• A bit of leftover reporting: Boston officials say they have about 600 parents using their rebuilt Where’s My School Bus? site. It isn’t all that many, but it is a good test for game time when the first big snowstorm hits.
• The Washington Post profiles the kitchen incubator Union Kitchen.
• Baltimore chef Spike Gjerde is bringing together Johns Hopkins and the food vendor Bon Appetit to give students locally sourced and “micro-produced” foods.
• Locals from Silver Lake, the Los Angeles neighborhood having a debate over Airbnb rentals, point out that the “officials” cited in reporting are members of the regularly ignored neighborhood council.
• Tech and politics writer Tom Slee argues that “sharing economy is not an alternative to capitalism, it’s the ultimate end point of capitalism in which we are all reduced to temporary labourers.”
• Meanwhile, here’s a washing machine designed to facilitate someone else doing your laundry at their house.
• Uber sticks with its rapid iteration approach to product promotion, this time offering DeLorean rides in San Francisco.
• D.C. Council transportation committee chair Mary Cheh makes the case for just doing away with solution-specific regulatory silos like the Taxicab Commission.
• And Lyft’s founders say that they’re finding a “changing tide” when it comes to how cities think about regulating ride share.

Nancy Scola is a Washington, DC-based journalist whose work tends to focus on the intersections of technology, politics, and public policy. Shortly after returning from Havana she started as a tech reporter at POLITICO.