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🌱 How did Cairo’s $1.1 million 3D printer dream fall apart?

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  • How did Cairo’s $1.1 million 3D printer dream fall apart?

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📰 News we're reading

• A $1.1 million 3D printer, a weeping mayor, and the FBI: Cairo's ceremony economy (dmnews.com) — Cairo’s long-promised 3D-printed housing project has stalled, leaving a cracked, unfinished duplex, a vanished $1.1 million printer, and an FBI investigation instead of new homes. The story unpacks how struggling towns like Cairo are repeatedly courted with splashy ceremonies and big promises that rarely deliver, and how residents, officials, and outside developers all get pulled into this cycle of hope and disappointment.
   

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Carbondale

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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Cairo

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