CHANGE:

OPEN THREAD: You oughta know how all the pros play the game.

SPELLING CHECK:

HMM: SpaceX plans to launch Starlink mobile service in the US. “SpaceX’s move into retail contracts would be one of the company’s most significant commercial expansions since launching Starlink, which already operates across more than 150 countries worldwide offering high-speed Internet connections through its constellation of satellites.”

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Came Here to Chew Bubblegum and Kick Chickens. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn the proper attire for girls driving drunk in The Villages, how not to mind your own business at Publix, and be left with no clue whatsoever why North Carolina Man broke into a police station.”

NAILED IT:

I ORDERED ANOTHER GROSS OF UNEXPECTEDLIES:

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

More:

There was just one problem…

It violates FAA rules.

So what did they do?

City attorney Miko Brown allegedly urged the airport to fabricate an investigation into the airline’s safety record to cover up for illegally discriminating against the airline for political reasons.

When word got out, Brown and Mayor Mike Johnston flat out denied it.

However CBS just obtained an internal airport memo appearing to reveal the entire thing was true.

Throw the book at them.

HOW TO FIND THE MISSING MIDDLE IN HOUSING: Those aging suburbs around your town are likely not changing from an aging generation whose children have grown up because nobody is selling, even if there were young couples trying to buy. There are reasons for that, especially public tax policies that discourage empty nesters to put up For Sale signs according to the Institute for Family Studies (IFS):

“When seniors are locked into homes their children have long since left, those homes never reach the next generation of parents, and the neighborhoods where today’s adults grew up are closed to their own kids,” according to a deep-dive data analysis from IFS.

Why should anybody care?

“Unlocking those homes would do more than house young families. Aging owners freed to downsize could also move closer to their children and grandchildren, easing the hands-on caregiving that flows in both directions across generations—grandparents minding grandchildren, adult children looking after aging parents—and lessening the public cost of institutional care,” IFS reports.