Lab Report: Digging for the Real Dirt in Amazon's HQ2 Bids

HQ2 transparency: For all the hype over Amazon’s HQ2 bids, so far there’s not a lot of public information out there on what exactly the 238 cities are offering. Enter Muckrock, an investigative reporting nonprofit that’s working to crowdsource “the nitty-gritty details of every bid”—particularly the corporate subsidies cities are promising. Next City reports on the effort:

Mass transit exodus: On Oct. 29, 2015, the New York City subway broke a modern record by carrying over 6.2 million passengers in one day. But then, unexpectedly, ridership dropped—which The New York Times attributes in large part to the “exodus of the exasperated,” as passengers turn away from the crisis-riddled transit system.