Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.
Trending today: praise for Paris’ approach to building new venues for the upcoming Summer Olympics. Olympic buildings often fall into disuse and disrepair as soon as the games are done, but Paris is trying to avoid that: 95 percent of their venues are either preexisting buildings or will be specially built so they can be dismantled and repurposed later. (Also, Aaron offers his very simple theory for how to avoid this issue permanently down the road: just pick one place and have the Games there every time. Like, Athens is right there.)
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