Tag: Virginia

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Padel leaving pickleball in the dust?

September 14, 2025

Padel leaving pickleball in the dust? Here’s a race I don’t have a horse in. “Padel, for the uninitiated, is like pickleball’s cooler, jet-setting cousin. It’s a racket sport played on a turf or carpet court about the size of […]

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Connecticut has cut incarceration in half.

August 22, 2023

“In 1999 Connecticut had so many people in prison that it paid to send 500 of them to be incarcerated in Virginia. Nearly 25 years later, the state has not only sliced its number of imprisoned people in half, but […]