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- Texas Comptroller Susan Combs rolls out new “Debt-at-a-Glance” sites on how much local governments owe.
- China’s congested cities are experimenting with delivery drones.
- Seattle’s awaited study on ride share options finds that there’s indeed increased demand for passenger service, but a good deal of it comes from people eager for an alternative to taxis.
- AlMaqarr is a new co-working space in Cairo, geared at university students who need shared spaces to discuss what they’re up to.
- If you can’t beat ‘em: one pair of Napa B&B owners object to Airbnb’s lack of health department checks but are listing their place to see for themselves.
- Officials in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood say that Airbnb rentals there might be getting too popular, and are considering cracking down.
- A onetime mayor of Tulsa, Okla. hoping for her old job back is arguing that the city should have to put all of its contracts online.
- Might bike share be the solution to San Francisco’s last mile problem?
- The vast majority of New Zealand’s local councils are now using a social check on how their parks are performing.
- Trend watch: The marriage of mobile pop-up shops and back-to-school supplies.
- And the director of the Boston Bikes program has a plan to make her city “the Copenhagen of the United States.”
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.