Jessica Wynn
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8,464 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 4d ago
Jessica Wynn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In 2018, Tulsa, Oklahoma, created what's called a healthy food overlay district in North Tulsa, which is a predominantly black neighborhood.
where dollar stores had become so concentrated that some were less than a block apart from each other.
That's insane to me.
to just even think about.
And under the new rule, any new dollar store has to be at least a mile from the next one.
So Birmingham, Alabama adopted a similar policy the following year.
And since then, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Cleveland, and more than a dozen other cities have passed measures to limit how densely dollar stores can open.
Yeah, right.
I mean, it's dispersal rules.
One per mile, not three per block.
mean, it's too early to know how well these policies work.
My guess would be probably.
If you can't go to one, then that's good news.
But the idea is straightforward.
Instead of spending public money trying to lure a grocery store into a neighborhood, these cities are trying to stop dollar stores from crowding out
grocery stores in the first place.
I mean, that's a real concern.
You know, dollar stores do provide value on staples.
But the argument is that they provide that value at a
from taking root.
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