Today's OneWord: Changes

There were going to be changes to the city plan, the mayor told the crowd via Facebook Live that day. Changes that no one wanted, but everyone needed. Changes that involved taxes and spending cuts, deficits and surpluses, and all that economic jingle-jangle that the mayor did not expect the citizenry to fully understand. Leslie Sherwood certainly understood, though. As a world-renowned economics professor who had grown up in this city, she was incensed by what she deemed "inane witchcraft and wizardry."

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