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Extra Extra: The doom loop is hitting Boston
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Good Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where outdoor roadway dining is live, but a shell of what it once was.
Here's what else is happening:
- New York City's SNAP program offers $2 coupons for produce that can only be spent at farmers markets and farm stands, which isn't much use to the vast majority of SNAP recipients who shop at supermarkets and grocery stores.
- A Delta connector pilot whose plane was destined for LaGuardia Airport mistakenly contacted air traffic controllers at JFK during an incident last month.
- Running home from the club > run club.
- New York state is now home to 600 legal weed shops.
- President Donald Trump conceded that an Army helicopter "probably shouldn’t have been" flying past Kid Rock's house, but said it was ultimately fine because he likes Kid Rock.
- Major League Baseball appears to have a new worst umpire.
- J.D. Vance wrote a new memoir about converting to Catholicism.
- Bad news for Boston.
- And finally, knock it off:
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