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The city’s stormwater woes are felt most acutely in the same neighborhoods that have been historically left behind when it comes to infrastructure investments.MORNING REPORT: THE STORMWATER DEFICIT IS A BIG DEALVOICE OF SAN DIEGOFEBRUARY 8, 2021VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
The problem is compounded by a growing waitlist and the department’s chronic money woes, shortfalls that prompt the agency to lease some of its Oahu lands to commercial interests.THE GOVERNMENT PROMISED TO RETURN ANCESTRAL HAWAIIAN LAND, THEN NEVER FINISHED THE JOBBY ROB PEREZ, HONOLULU STAR-ADVERTISER, AND AGNEL PHILIP, PROPUBLICADECEMBER 19, 2020PROPUBLICA
There’s not a definitive solution to the free-throw shooting woes of Paralympic athletes.WHY ARE FREE THROWS SO MUCH HARDER TO COME BY IN WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL?JOHN LOEPPKYNOVEMBER 30, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
Translating that advice into action will be no easy task in today’s political climate, but the report suggests it’s time to stop blaming technology for our woes.MIT REPORT: ROBOTS AREN’T THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THE FUTURE OF WORK—POLICY ISEDD GENTNOVEMBER 23, 2020SINGULARITY HUB 
The push for more dramatic responses to the city’s homelessness and housing woes line up with the results of recent VOSD polling showing the vast majority of county residents consider those issues among the region’s foremost crises.MORNING REPORT: VOTERS SENT A MESSAGE ON HOUSING SOLUTIONSVOICE OF SAN DIEGONOVEMBER 5, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
The restructuring is the latest chapter in Cathay’s year of woe.HONG KONG HAS COVID-19 UNDER CONTROL—IT HASN’T HELPED ITS FLAGSHIP AIRLINENAOMI XU ELEGANTOCTOBER 21, 2020FORTUNE
When you think of that scale, it puts into perspective that some of the woes we hear about are very minor.THE 2020 ELECTION COULD PERMANENTLY CHANGE HOW AMERICA VOTESBOBBIE JOHNSONOCTOBER 20, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
Sorting out their woes with the man advantage could be the key to the Lightning’s cup chances.THE DALLAS STARS ARE PUTTING THEIR REGULAR-SEASON SHORTCOMINGS BEHIND THEMTERRENCE DOYLESEPTEMBER 21, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
The woes of UBS, which turned 150 years old that year, had taken on the urgency of a national crisis.FROM BAILOUT DEBACLE TO GLOBAL DOMINANCE: INSIDE THE TURNAROUND AT UBSBERNHARD WARNERSEPTEMBER 21, 2020FORTUNE
A Google search led them to the past legal woes of Miller, LNGE’s co-founder and director.RICK PERRY’S UKRAINIAN DREAMBY SIMON SHUSTER, TIME, AND ILYA MARRITZ, WNYCSEPTEMBER 10, 2020PROPUBLICA
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JUNE 13, 2021
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