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Interesting Things Around the Internet

• In a Detroit auction, less than 20% of properties are sold, while banks and speculators outbid families for the few worthwhile properties. So that’s a system that’s working well.
• One woman’s story from Broadway, to homeless, to back on Broadway.
• Do you hate your cable company? You’re sure not alone if you do—and Matt Yglesias suggests this is another area where we need a public option.
• A new set of Chamber of Commerce deceptions, this time on transit policy and the Virginia governors race.
• Republicans in the Senate continue to hold up an extension in unemployment benefits, even as 7,000 people lose their benefits for each day of delay.
• Sen. Joe Lieberman is saying he’ll join a filibuster on the public option because it will increase the national debt and be a burden on taxpayers. Just one little problem with those claims: they’re not true. The public option would save the government money and not add costs for taxpayers either. Why aren’t more reporters calling him on this?