Lab Report: ALEC Sets Its Sights on City Hall

Conservatives go local: After decades of catering mostly to state affairs, the American Legislative Exchange Council—one of the country's most influential, well-funded conservative groups—is investing in a new effort to dip into city halls, with the goal of pushing back the local progressivism that's sprouted since the November elections. AP reports:

About that Hyperloop...: Grist counters the widespread skepticism (including CityLab’s) over Elon Musk’s promises for an East Coast Hyperloop, arguing that the project could “utterly transform” the area’s transit corridor and become “one of the single most important steps to reduce carbon emissions and curtail global warming in U.S. history.”