Monday News Roundup

Good Morning Crasstalk, here are your headlines.

ProPublica has a really cool guide to the language of Congressional redistricting. It gives some interesting insight into how districts are created and the tricks legislators use to distort the process.
The Washington Post has been running a great investigative series about waste in The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s efforts to construct affordable housing around the country. Millions has been spent on construction projects that will probably never get built.
Colombian Farc rebel leader Alfonso Cano was killed by government forces on Friday. His death was called “the most devastating blow to the group in its decades-long insurgency,” be President Juan Manuel Santos. The BBC has an interesting obituary.
A textile mill actually reopens in Minnesota. Nice.