Reading archive 2023-03-06

Utah wants people to eat invasive bullfrogs. Here’s how to catch them.: What do you need? ‘A little bit of perseverance and not being afraid to get wet and muddy,’ one professional frog-catcher says

A D.C. handyman went missing. His mutilated body was found in a backyard.: Handyman who disappeared months earlier had been killed, police say, his remains left in the backyard of the D.C. home where he had been hired to work - "Johnson, 69, who lives in Maryland and does handyman work part-time, said in an interview with The Washington Post that he went to a police station in D.C. to file a missing-person report and met with two detectives. He said they took his information but told him they could not take a formal report because only relatives or roommates could declare someone missing. A police spokesman said that is not D.C. police’s policy and could not locate a record of Johnson’s meeting with police."

D.C. Council chairman tries to pull crime code bill before Senate vote

The Commanders’ shame offers their next owner a glittering opportunity

The bewildering descent of Scott Adams and ‘Dilbert’: ‘I shook the box intentionally,’ Scott Adams told The Post about the comments that prompted newspapers to drop his comic strip

Listening to ‘The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling’ is exhausting work: A podcast promised clarity from Harry Potter author on how she feels about trans issues. But it falls to the audience to fact-check her.

Amazon says it is pausing construction at HQ2 in Arlington: One set of offices is set to open later this year, but the largest piece of its new headquarters is being put on hold

DeSantis cannonballs into America’s deep blue states for war on ‘woke’ ahead of 2024: The Florida governor has used his trips to highlight his state’s accomplishments — citing statistics that sometimes mask far more complicated debates

Biden scraps reliance on market for faith in broader government role: The administration is pushing businesses to change with a carrot — and a stick - "'There is an increasing willingness on both the left and the right — spurred on by growing levels of progressivism on the left and populism on the right — to use the power of the state to essentially micromanage businesses,' said Neil Bradley, chief policy officer for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. 'The natural result of that is, frankly, crony capitalism and a much more inefficient private sector.'

"The Biden administration’s embrace of industrial policy reflects its view of the lessons of the pandemic, the urgency of the climate challenge and the imperatives of strategic competition with China."

Hells Angels, a synagogue shooting and Iran’s shady hand in Germany