• Quibi will shut down ‘on or around’ December 1st - The Verge
• Walmart sues United States government over opioid case - Al Jazeera English
• 'Zoom towns' are exploding in the West

Quibi will shut down ‘on or around’ December 1st - The Verge

• Quibi will shut down for good "On or around December 1st," according to a new blog posted on the company's support site.
• The announcement comes one day after company executives declared Quibi was shutting down for good.
• It's unclear where Quibi's content will be available after the app shuts down.
• The company does recommend following the Quibi hashtag on Twitter for any news about its library catalog.
• It's unclear how many of those shows Quibi owns the rights to, or for how long, but Katzenberg said he believes there are interested parties.
• Quibi's executives are currently in the process of trying to wind down the company and figure out how to get investors back part of their money.
• Some people predicted Quibi would ultimately fail before the company even launched.

Walmart sues United States government over opioid case - Al Jazeera English

• Retail giant Walmart Inc announced on Thursday that it had filed a lawsuit against the United States government, seeking clarity on the roles and legal responsibilities of pharmacists and pharmacies in filling opioid prescriptions.
• Walmart said certain officials in the US Department of Justice are threatening to sue the retail giant, claiming pharmacists should have refused to fill otherwise valid opioid prescriptions.
• "We are bringing this lawsuit because there is no federal law requiring pharmacists to interfere in the doctor-patient relationship to the degree DOJ is demanding," Walmart, which runs one of the largest pharmacy chains in the country, said in a statement.
• In its lawsuit against the DOJ and the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Walmart said federal authorities are seeking civil penalties related to its alleged failure to submit suspicious order reports, adding that this potential move would be "Unprecedented".
• On Wednesday, a West Virginia court ruled that Walmart must turn over information about federal and state investigations into its opioid-related practices to hospitals suing the company for allegedly contributing to the epidemic.
• Opioid addiction claimed roughly 400,000 lives in the US from 1999 to 2017, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Critics of the pharmaceutical industry said opioid makers hid the addiction and abuse risks of prolonged use from consumers, spurring the crisis.

'Zoom towns' are exploding in the West

• The coronavirus pandemic is leading to a new phenomenon: a migration to "Gateway communities," or small towns near major public lands and ski resorts as people's jobs increasingly become remote-friendly.
• Gateway communities in the West had already been feeling a strain, according to Danya Rumore, an assistant professor at the University of Utah who led the study.
• They identified 1,522 towns that fit this description, conducted in-depth interviews with public officials from 25 of those communities, and then surveyed an additional 333 officials.
• "More than 80% of survey respondents from towns of all shapes and sizes said that housing affordability is moderately to extremely problematic for their community." Second homes and short-term rentals were a main cause for concern.
• "The local workforce is simply priced out.... People who work here can no longer afford to work here," said one community development director.
• Now, it's bracing for even more remote workers due to COVID-19, says Rumore, who is from Sandpoint and is currently looking into how the virus is affecting these gateway communities.
• While the name "Zoom town" is a wink to the past, the researchers wrote in the paper that these small communities with big city problems might just be a peek into the future, as "Valuable laboratories for novel planning approaches and planning innovation."