Overnight News: Everything Ants ever wanted in cities was put there by Ants. How hard do you think that stuff is to move to the suburbs?

City dirt was waning, anyway, before the pandemic. With every Uber ride, every Door-Dash delivery, the commercial corner was losing value – along with the car dealership sitting on it. The virus rushed this transition, but suburban car-culture was being replaced by suburban delivery-van culture, regardless.

But the riot-borne exodus that no one can talk about so no one can document will have affected commercial corridors and inner-city neighborhood market centers worst. As we have discussed, people fled from spaces that are easy for rioters to get to: Neighborhoods accessible on foot or by public transportation.

So, arguably, commercial dirt already suffering a slow and steady leak has now been abandoned by the half of the traffic that had money to spend.

Fear hides in silence and shadows: Drop you keys in an empty mall to figure out why you’re never going back. Empty streets invite predators – who keep the streets emptied. Once-active city streets are now home only to the homeless – who will do their own part to keep offices emptied.

What’s actually left? Live performances and restaurant meals? And you were planning to go to those by bus…?

The Ants in the suburbs will have all they ever wanted of the city, and the city will have the Grasshoppers it foolishly put first.

In other news:

CNBC: Despite national protection expiring, some states will continue banning evictions.

The Federalist: Crime Is Spiking In U.S. Cities Because Democrats Literally Asked For It.

The Daily Wire: Report: 9 Of The 10 Worst Cities For First-Time Home Buyers Are In California.

City Journal: Hosting Mostly Debt: Cities have borrowed billions to build convention facilities, an industry with a cloudy future.

Karol Markowicz: Masking kids and closing schools is irrational, unscientific child abuse.

Christopher Bedford: Masks And CRT Are Just The Start: It’s Time To Break The Public Schools (And Here’s How).

Joy Pullman: A Guide To Long-Term Strategic Thinking For Parents Who Oppose CRT In Schools.