Lab Report: Carson Says Good HUD Programs Will Be Preserved

A HUD-spinning tour: In Miami yesterday, HUD Secretary Ben Carson visited an affordable housing complex that wouldn’t exist without the $950 million HOME investment program that the Trump administration now wants to slash. In a press conference, Carson “cautioned against reading too much into reports on the president’s proposed budget,” the Miami Herald reports:

Return to the Second City: “Annex the suburbs”—the strategy a Chicago Tribune opinion lays out for preserving the city’s population and status next to exploding Sun Belt cities like Houston. Along with tax benefits for both sides, there’s precedent from the 1889 annexation that first brought Chicago to prominence.