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Jay-Z Hires the Ideal Halftime Act, Anthropic Files a Very Long Warning Label

The producer takes the stage, while the Claude developer lists 93 pages of risks for prospective investors.

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Jay-Z Finds the Perfect Halftime Headliner in His Own Office

Jay-Z, a producer of the Super Bowl halftime show, has selected himself to headline the 2027 performance. The rapper has been involved with the show for years but has never performed at the NFL championship game. The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation announced that he will appear on Feb. 14 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The booking combines two coveted jobs: choosing the act and being the act. Most performers hoping for a halftime invitation need somebody on the production side to like their work. Jay-Z had the advantage of already being familiar with the decision-maker's taste. That does not make the performance any less consequential. The halftime stage reaches a vast audience, and the choice of headliner becomes part of the spectacle long before the first note. A producer who books a star can claim credit for recognizing talent. A producer who books himself can claim credit for both recognizing and possessing it. The arrangement also makes the imaginary talent meeting unusually efficient. There is no need to coordinate two calendars or explain the artistic vision across a table. The candidate knows the producer's priorities, the producer knows the candidate's catalog, and both can agree that the other has excellent judgment.

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Anthropic Offers Investors 93 Pages of Reasons to Keep Reading

Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, is planning an initial public offering with 93 pages of risk disclosures. Among the concerns investors must weigh is the threat posed by artificial intelligence itself. One expert quoted in the reporting described it as not an ordinary technology risk. Public offerings routinely ask investors to read about what could go wrong, but an AI company's list carries a special twist. The product attracting attention is also part of the reason the warning section needs so much room. The business case and the cautionary case are sharing the same document, and neither seems inclined to be brief. A lengthy risk section can tell prospective buyers more about uncertainty without settling the question of what the company is worth. Investors still have to assess the business, the technology and the possibility that a rapidly changing industry will develop in ways no filing can neatly predict. The document offers a curious kind of suspense. A reader begins with the promise of a public offering and continues through page after page of possible complications. By the end, the pitch may look less like a glossy product launch than an exceptionally thorough instruction manual for being uncertain. Even the most enthusiastic investor has been assigned homework before the ticker can become the easy part.

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A $5,000 Hamburger Meets a Methane Rule on Its Way Out

Trump jokes about a proposed payment as his administration moves to end a Biden-era emissions restriction.

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Trump Puts a $5,000 Payment on the World's Most Expensive Lunch Menu

President Donald Trump joked that $5,000 payments for U.S. adults would buy little more than a hamburger and perhaps a small dessert. His Mar-a-Lago remark came as the cost of living looms over the midterm elections, giving a proposed cash payment an unusually expensive menu description. A sum presented as help for households sounds different when the speaker imagines it disappearing over lunch. For families comparing the number with rent, groceries or repairs, the joke puts a large payment beside an even larger anxiety: how far money goes when prices keep demanding attention. The remark also leaves two messages on the same plate. The payment is meant to sound substantial, while the hamburger makes it sound barely adequate. A campaign can enjoy the contrast for a laugh, but voters still have to decide what they think about the proposal and the costs it is supposed to address. The small dessert does especially hard work. It suggests that after a $5,000 hamburger there might still be room for a modest treat, an optimistic outlook for anyone whose household budget has less forgiving portions. As a menu, it is extravagant. As a conversation about affordability, it gives the audience plenty to chew over.

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Trump Gives Methane a Lighter Regulatory Workload

President Donald Trump said his administration is terminating a Biden-era rule intended to cut climate-warming methane emissions from oil and gas drilling. The announcement targets restrictions designed to address a powerful greenhouse gas associated with energy production. Methane is a component of natural gas, so an escaping leak is both an emissions problem and a loss of a product that might otherwise be sold. Rules aimed at reducing those emissions put public requirements around a problem that can be easy to overlook when the gas itself is invisible. Trump's announcement offers producers the prospect of fewer restrictions while raising questions about how emissions will be limited without that particular rule. The climate does not distinguish between paperwork eliminated for efficiency and gas that actually stays in a pipe. It is an inconveniently results-oriented customer. The reversal also illustrates a familiar regulatory bargain. Supporters of lighter rules see costs and obligations they would rather remove. Those concerned about warming see a safeguard being taken away from an industry whose operations can release methane. The policy may be described as cutting red tape, but the substance at issue is not red and does not politely remain attached to the paperwork.

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The Trees Keep Their Court Date, and the Iran War Keeps Its Running Tab

A federal judge blocks tree cutting at a D.C. golf course as a military estimate puts war costs at least $47.1 billion.

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Judge Declines to Be the Lorax, Still Keeps the Trees Standing

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes has continued to block President Trump from cutting down trees at a D.C. golf course. In her order, she revisited her earlier line that she was not the Lorax and did not speak for the trees, adding that the court speaks only for the rule of law. The Dr. Seuss reference gives a legal order an unusually leafy public profile, but the judge's distinction is serious. Her stated concern is the law governing the dispute, not a claim to represent the feelings of the landscape. The trees remain standing because a court order remains in force, not because a fictional forest advocate appeared at counsel's table. That distinction has not made the scene any less comic. A proposed change to a golf course has produced an exchange in which a federal judge must specify which children's character she is not. The fairway has acquired a procedural hazard more formidable than a misplaced bunker: it must wait for the legal process. The trees, meanwhile, have managed to become the best-known quiet participants in the case. They have offered no interviews and filed no briefs, leaving the judge to remind everyone that the court's subject is the rulebook, even when the scenery keeps attracting the attention.

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Iran War Bill Reaches $47.1 Billion Before the Final Receipt

The war with Iran had cost the U.S. military at least $47.1 billion as of mid-October, according to a U.S. Central Command estimate obtained by CBS News. The figure gives taxpayers a substantial, if incomplete, measure of the military cost of the conflict. The words at least matter as much as the number. The estimate covers costs through a particular point in time, rather than announcing a final price for a conflict whose future course remains uncertain. A budget can print a number neatly even when the events behind it refuse to fit neatly within a box. For lawmakers and the public, the estimate makes the scale of spending harder to discuss as an abstraction. Military operations consume resources that must be accounted for alongside other demands on the federal budget. The figure does not decide the policy debate, but it does put a very large number in the room whenever that debate takes place. The government's accounting has acquired the feel of a restaurant tab presented while the table is still ordering. The subtotal is already remarkable, the end time is not printed on the receipt, and nobody can responsibly call the current figure the final bill. The next assessment will depend on what happens after mid-October, not on how tidy this one looks.

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Robinhood Meets Expectations, Dollar General's Shelf Tags Meet the Register

A crypto slump weighs on the trading platform, while authorities allege checkout prices exceeded advertised amounts.

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Robinhood Hits Its Revenue Mark and Finds Crypto Has Other Plans

Robinhood's third-quarter revenue met expectations as the company expanded into options, prediction markets and other financial services. Its shares nevertheless fell as a slump in crypto weighed on profits and offset gains from newer businesses. The quarter offered the trading platform an awkward achievement: it could point to growth beyond its familiar products while also showing that one weak market still mattered. A wider menu gives customers more things to do, but it does not guarantee that every aisle will be busy at once. Options and prediction markets helped fuel revenue, according to the reporting, while the crypto downturn weighed on the bottom line. That leaves investors assessing both the breadth of the business and the sensitivity of its results to activity in particular markets. Meeting a revenue expectation is one part of that assessment, not an automatic celebration for shareholders. For a company associated with making financial markets accessible, the reaction was an especially blunt lesson in market mood. The revenue number arrived on schedule, the newer services contributed, and the shares still fell. The platform has built more ways for customers to participate, but it has not found a setting that makes all its businesses thrive in the same quarter. Perhaps that feature will appear in a future update, immediately below the button marked diversify.

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Dollar General's Shelf Tags Face a Difficult Conversation With the Register

Federal and state authorities accuse Dollar General of routinely charging shoppers more at checkout than the prices displayed on shelves, tags and advertisements. The alleged discrepancies put the discount retailer's advertised bargain and the amount demanded at the register in direct competition. For a shopper deciding what to put in a cart, the shelf price is not decorative. It is the number used to compare products and plan a purchase. If a register produces a higher figure, the calculation changes at the point when the customer is already ready to pay. The authorities' allegations concern conduct they say occurred for years. They are allegations, not a finding that every disputed price was improper. Their central claim is nevertheless straightforward: a displayed price and a checkout price should not require customers to choose which one is the retailer's real offer. The comic target is the gap between a store's discount promise and a receipt that allegedly tells a different story. The shelf tag can make an excellent first impression, but the register gets the last word. In the authorities' account, that last word is often a larger number, which is a peculiar way for a bargain to introduce itself. A discount is most persuasive when it survives the trip from aisle to checkout.

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Senate Campaigns Speak Two Dialects, Teachers' Union Rewrites Its Political Syllabus

Out-of-state donors fill campaign accounts, while NEA President Princess Moss calls for issue-based advocacy.

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Senate Campaigns Raise Local Voices at National Donor Volume

Candidates in several competitive U.S. Senate races have built substantial campaign accounts with out-of-state donations. The messages aimed at those donors differ markedly from the ones candidates use back home, where the actual voters live. Money from outside a state can help a campaign pay for ads, staff and other operations inside it. That gives candidates an incentive to appeal to people who cannot vote in the contest while also persuading the people who can. The two audiences may hear the same candidate emphasizing different stakes. For a donor elsewhere, a Senate race can represent control of Congress or a national political cause. For a voter in the state, the choice also arrives through local concerns and the everyday experience of being represented. A campaign capable of speaking to both may consider itself versatile. A voter comparing the two pitches may call it an interesting translation exercise. Neither audience is imaginary, and outside contributions are a common part of competitive campaigns. But the arrangement makes the geography of political persuasion especially elastic. A candidate can spend the morning explaining why a race matters to the nation and the afternoon explaining why nobody understands the state better. The campaign's address remains local even when a great deal of its audience is watching from another ZIP code.

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Teachers' Union Tries to Take Party Labels Off the Political Homework

National Education Association President Princess Moss wants to steer the nation's largest labor union toward issue-based advocacy and away from party politics. Her proposed direction shifts the emphasis from partisan identity to the matters the union wants to advance. For an organization representing educators with varied political views, the distinction offers a way to talk about shared concerns without making a party label the first item on the agenda. It is a change in emphasis, not a claim that schools or public policy can somehow be separated from government. That is where the assignment becomes interesting. An organization can focus on an issue rather than a party, but it must still address officials who belong to parties and make decisions through political institutions. The label can move to the back of the folder while the debate stays very much on the desk. Moss's approach also asks a large membership to consider what unites it across disagreements. Advocacy built around issues may give members more room to agree on a goal without agreeing on every candidate. It may also require more explanation whenever a policy dispute lines up with familiar partisan divisions. The union's new syllabus, in other words, does not cancel politics. It asks the class to show its work before circling a party name.

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ICE Partnerships Double, Student Voters Get a Lesson in Having Two Addresses

An advocacy group reports rapid growth in local enforcement partnerships, while a Montana fight highlights registration rights.

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Local Officers Join ICE Partnerships Faster Than the Accountability Debate Can Catch Up

The number of state and local officers working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement has doubled over the past eight months, according to a report from FWD.us, an immigration reform advocacy group. Its finding points to a rapid expansion of cooperation between federal immigration authorities and local agencies. The report's source matters: FWD.us participates in the immigration policy debate while documenting the growth it says it found. The figure nevertheless identifies a significant change in the scale of the partnerships and invites questions about what responsibilities local officers are taking on. Local policing and federal immigration enforcement answer to different jurisdictions. When agencies work together, residents may want to know how that cooperation operates and how local resources are used. Supporters can see a way for agencies to coordinate; critics can worry about what happens when the boundary between federal and local work becomes less clear. The speed of growth makes that discussion more urgent. A partnership count can double on a chart with a pleasing upward line, but the chart cannot explain every agreement or settle the public argument over enforcement. Growth may be the easiest result to display, while the harder civic question is what each new partnership means on the ground. The membership drive is easy to count. The consequences require a longer meeting.

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Student Voters Discover Their Address Is Apparently a Debate Elective

Students who study outside their hometown have a right to choose where to register to vote, and advocates say a Montana legal fight illustrates how often that right is misunderstood. The choice can involve registering where they attend school or at home, depending on their circumstances. The question is more than a paperwork puzzle. Students may spend much of the year in a college community while retaining ties to a hometown. Where they register determines which local contests appear on their ballot, as well as the state and federal races they can participate in from that address. Advocates say the Montana dispute is a reminder that people do not always understand the options available to student voters. A student can have a campus address and a hometown connection at the same time, which makes the bureaucratic urge to declare one place the only imaginable home a little too tidy. College already requires students to navigate housing forms, class schedules and financial paperwork. Voting adds another form, but it should not require pretending that moving away to study erases every other connection. The real choice belongs to the eligible student, not to an imaginary committee determined to settle the philosophical meaning of home before accepting a registration. Even a dorm room can be an address without passing an oral examination.

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Ohio's Data Centers Meet the Neighbors, Texas Campaigns Double Their Mileage

A Republican leads opposition to rapid computing growth as Trump makes two Texas campaign stops before the midterms.

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Ohio's Data Center Boom Discovers That Neighbors Also Have Processing Power

Ohio's rapid data center buildout has drawn opposition from many residents, including a lifelong Republican who has become a leading voice in the backlash. The issue has entered the midterm campaign, with candidates from both parties trying to address voters' concerns. Data centers support computing services, including the infrastructure behind artificial intelligence. Their expansion brings large projects into communities where residents must live with the practical consequences of construction and the demand for resources. A national promise of technological growth can look rather different when its physical form arrives near someone's home. The politics are not neatly sorted by party. A lifelong Republican leading the pushback complicates any easy assumption that support for business growth settles every argument about a particular development. Candidates from both parties now have reason to listen to voters who want answers about the pace and effects of the buildout. The industry can talk about the future in terms of computing capacity. Residents get to talk about the future in terms of their communities. Both are looking at the same large buildings, but only one group has to fit them into a daily landscape. That gives the campaign debate an unusually tangible feature: the cloud has a street address, and the neighbors would like a word.

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Trump Makes Two Texas Stops as a Republican Stronghold Requires Extra Attention

President Trump held two campaign rallies in Texas on Tuesday, a week before the midterm elections, as Republicans worked to keep Democrats from winning in the state. The stops came amid a closely watched contest between Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico. A presidential visit brings attention and campaign energy, and two stops in one day make the amount of attention difficult to miss. The schedule also says something about the race's importance: a state long associated with Republican strength is receiving the kind of late attention campaigns reserve for contests they cannot afford to ignore. For the campaigns, rallies are opportunities to motivate supporters and put a message before a larger audience. For voters, they are part of a final crowded week of appeals, appearances and competing claims about what the election will mean. The arithmetic of the itinerary is simple. One president, two rallies and very little time left before voting ends. Whether that produces the desired result remains for voters to decide. In the meantime, the campaign has demonstrated that a stronghold can still demand an unusually vigorous maintenance schedule. Texas has not changed its size for the occasion, so the presidential calendar must do the stretching instead.

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A Hospital Rule Opens the Conversation, the WNBA Schedules Lunch With the Finals

Donation discussions can begin earlier, while the Atlanta Dream objects to a weekday afternoon championship game.

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Organ Donation Rule Opens a Door Earlier, Leaving Families With a Delicate Conversation

Transplant teams can now discuss organ donation with families before they decide whether to continue life-sustaining medical care for a loved one. Previously, such a conversation was forbidden at that stage. The change moves an exceptionally sensitive discussion earlier in the process. The timing matters because families facing decisions about life-sustaining care may also be asked to consider donation. An earlier conversation can provide another opportunity to discuss the subject, but the circumstances remain emotionally difficult and the family's decisions remain deeply personal. The rule change does not make the conversation easy simply by making it possible. Medical teams still have to navigate a moment in which time, uncertainty and grief may all be present. A policy can unlock the door; it cannot tell a family exactly how to walk through it. There is a bureaucratic irony in a change that sounds so small on paper. The new permission concerns when people may speak, yet the words involved carry consequences far beyond an administrative schedule. The serious task is to make room for a discussion without letting the calendar become the loudest voice in the room. Even the most carefully written rule cannot supply the patience and care that such a conversation requires.

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WNBA Gives the Finals a Lunch Break and the Dream Wants a Better Reservation

The Atlanta Dream criticized the WNBA for scheduling a Finals game on Thursday afternoon, prompting reactions from Flavor Flav and Hillary Clinton. The dispute turns a championship schedule into a question about when fans can actually watch. A weekday afternoon game meets a very different calendar from an evening event. Some viewers may be available, while others have work, school or other commitments. The Dream's complaint puts those competing schedules beside the league's task of staging its biggest games. The appeal of a championship is that it feels like an occasion. The difficulty of a lunchtime start is that many potential viewers already have an occasion booked, usually under the less glamorous title of work. A fan who wants to follow the game may have to fit the league's marquee event around a meeting that was scheduled without consulting the standings. Public reactions have given the timing debate a larger audience than an ordinary calendar dispute might receive. The league gets the attention it wants for its Finals, although some of that attention is now directed at the clock. The Dream's objection is a request for a championship-sized spotlight, preferably one that does not have to share the table with a sandwich and an unread afternoon agenda.

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Treasury Traders Await the Fed, a Floating Home Ends Its Voyage, U.S. Stocks Travel to India

A bond market pause, an interrupted cruise and a new brokerage menu all put plans to the test.

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Treasury Yields Edge Up While the Fed Keeps the Market in the Hallway

Treasury yields edged higher as traders awaited the Federal Reserve's latest interest rate decision. The move came before an announcement that investors watch closely for clues about monetary policy. Treasury yields are important beyond the bond market because they influence borrowing costs across the economy. A small move before a Fed decision can reflect investors adjusting their expectations, even when the decision itself has not yet arrived. The scene is a familiar one: a room full of professionals with models, forecasts and screens waiting for another group of professionals to finish a meeting. Everyone has an assessment, and everyone knows the statement can change the conversation. The market's patience is impressive, provided patience can include continuous price updates. For now, the yields have moved slightly and the major announcement is still ahead.

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A Three-Year Cruise Ends Early, and the Floating Home Loses Its Address

The Odyssey has ended its voyage because of fuel costs, leaving passengers who had made their homes aboard the U.S. cruise ship without them. The vessel set sail two years ago on a three-year journey marketed as long-term living at sea combined with travel to seven continents. The appeal was a home that moved from destination to destination. The early end reveals the other side of that arrangement: when the voyage stops, passengers can lose both the trip and the place where they were living. Fuel costs, usually an item in an operator's budget, have become a housing problem for the people aboard. A conventional home rarely promises seven continents outside the window. It also rarely depends on a ship keeping its itinerary. The Odyssey sold mobility as a lifestyle, but the conclusion shows how quickly that lifestyle can require a new address on land.

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Indian Brokerages Offer U.S. Stocks, Giving a Global Shopping Menu a Currency Tab

Major Indian brokerages are giving retail investors access to U.S. stocks as India's local market has been battered. Nvidia and Apple are among the American names attracting interest, alongside SpaceX, according to the reporting. The new access connects individual investors to businesses whose products and brands are already internationally familiar. It also gives brokerages a way to offer customers a wider menu at a time when the home market has been under pressure. A familiar company name, however, is not the same thing as a simple financial decision. Cross-border investing brings currency considerations and other costs alongside the fortunes of the business itself. The app can make the distance between markets look like a tap on a screen, while the investor's money still has to make a rather more complicated journey.

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AI Math Requests a Proofreader, a Grand Jury Declines, Israeli Voters Face War and Tides Take the Road

Four developments put confidence, prosecution, wartime choices and coastal planning under pressure.

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AI Math Gets a Human Dispute, and the Proof Is Asked to Do Its Job

A dispute among mathematicians has raised questions about the accuracy of AI work and fears that the technology could undermine scientific checking. AI has produced notable scientific results, but an impressive answer still needs scrutiny. The tension is between the speed of a compelling result and the slower work of checking whether it holds. Mathematics has a particularly demanding audience for confident output: a proof cannot pass merely because it sounds pleased with itself. The machine may supply an exciting claim, but the claim still has to survive the part where other people inspect the work.

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Justice Department Requests an Indictment, Grand Jury Returns the Form Unapproved

A grand jury declined the Justice Department's request to indict former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over her testimony about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Prosecutors had sought charges concerning her account of President Trump's conduct that day. The decision leaves the requested indictment unissued. Grand jury proceedings are secret, so the public does not get a detailed transcript of the deliberations with the result. The prosecution brought a request to a body empowered to consider it, and that body declined. Even in Washington, an official request does not come with its own approval stamp.

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Israeli Election Puts Campaign Promises Beside a War That Will Not Wait

Israelis voted in a national election with the eight-month Iran war looming over the choice of their next government. The result has implications for the war, Gaza and America's relationship with the Middle East. Voters were choosing leaders while confronting a conflict that extends beyond Israel's borders and into international policy. Campaigns can offer plans and promises, but the next government must deal with events that do not pause for coalition talks. The ballot gives voters a say in who takes responsibility, not a button that conveniently makes the surrounding crisis disappear.

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King Tides Take the Scenic Route Through America's Coastal Roads

Record-setting king tides flooded neighborhoods and closed several roads on both U.S. coasts. Waves battered homes near the water in Southern California, while strong offshore winds washed out parts of the Southern Florida shoreline. The flooding disrupted places built around access to the coast, turning familiar roads into temporary extensions of it. For residents, the high water is not an abstract calendar event when homes and routes are affected. The shoreline has reminded local planners that its idea of a boundary is considerably less interested in pavement than theirs.

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