The last moments of winter
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- About 60,000 commuters couldn't get home tonight after Amtrak signaling at Union Station, Chicago, broke down.
- Writing for New Republic, Matt Ford calls Michael Cohen's testimony to Congress today "the art of the deal you can't refuse."
- David Frum (among others) points out that for all the GOP's impugning of Cohen's character, no one actually refuted the facts of his testimony.
- The Economist's Gulliver column speculates that US carriers have started competing over in-flight entertainment, even as they race to the bottom on other amenities.
- Deeply Trivial discusses an article in The Verge about consultants who have been traumatized by moderating posts on Facebook.
- "Ask the Pilot" Patrick Smith is not heartbroken about the end of Airbus A380 production.
- Citylab's Kriston Capps asks, "are dog parks exclusionary?" (And uses data from Chicago to answer.)
- Crain's outlines how Chicago's Loop and South Loop community areas don't have an apartment glut—they have a shortage.
- And if you liked the Coen Brothers' film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, you might like two of the stories they adapted: Stewart Edward White's "The Girl who Got Rattled," and Jack London's "All Gold Canyon."
And now, good night to February.
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