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This Kearns 11-year-old just cleared his school's lunch debt.

This Kearns 11-year-old just cleared his school's lunch debt.

Your kid just cleared their school lunch debt So here's the thing about Utah — you see a lot of folks doing quiet good, even when the rest of the news cycle is, well, something else. This week, what really stuck with me wasn't the usual Salt Lake City traffic snarls up I-15 at the Point of the Moun…

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That empty Houston jail is costing you how much?
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That empty Houston jail is costing you how much?

What are we even *doing* with that old jail? So okay— I saw this story about the old Harris County Jail just sitting there, empty, on a prime piece o…

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