Segments From This Episode

• Lumber is cheap, but building or renovating a home isn’t

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  The price of lumber has plummeted since early in the pandemic, but other building materials are up 30% from 2019.

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• Amid DOJ fraud suit, Boeing is set to buy back Spirit Aerosystems

  by Daniel Ackerman

  

  Spinning it off was supposed to boost profits. Buying it back is supposed to help Boeing regain control of the process.

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• Urban Cipher game teaches players the effects of redlining

  by Amy Scott

  

  “We’re rolling the same thing, but we’re getting different results” — that’s a valuable experience, says creator Lawrence Brown.

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• AI advertising may repel as well as attract

  by Matt Levin

  

  Companies hope AI branding makes them look ready for the future, but that leaves opportunities for “human-focused” marketing.

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• In the era of hand-drawn drafts, one landscape designer remembers: “I was creating a piece of art”

  by Maria Hollenhorst

  

  In the first installment of our series “My Analog Life,” a landscape architect reminisces about drafting by hand.

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• In Massachusetts, land preservation is a waiting game

  by Martha Bebinger

  

  The state Conservation Land Tax Credit gives private landowners up to $75,000 to cover some of what their land would be worth to developers and the cost of appraisals, surveys and legal fees. 

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