1. Where's Scott?Scott Beyer spent his second week in the Oklahoma City area, finding a place in the relatively wealthy northern college suburb of Edmond, OK. This week he wrote for Governing about New Orleans' music noise issue, and profiled a man in Forbes who escaped Cuba by raft for … [Read more...]
More weekend links
1. Cuban dissident blogger (as in, living in Cuba) Yoani Sánchez describes the state of the Cuban real estate market, and discusses new rules that apparently legalize buying and selling houses, though she has her doubts that the government will allow the overt displays of inequality that would … [Read more...]
Cuba Grants Limited Property Rights to Farmers
Cuba reforms turn to state landCuba is to put more state-controlled farm land into private hands, in a move to increase the island's lagging food production.Private farmers who do well will be able to increase their holdings by up to 99 acres (40 hectares) for a 10-year period that can be … [Read more...]