Some slightly off-the-beaten-path stories you may have missed over the past week:

— The agency is snapping up properties investors are walking away from: “Cambridge Housing Authority in ‘Land-Banking Frenzy’ Amid CRE Downturn” (Banker & Tradesman)

— More manufacturing in Massachusetts? Yep: “VulcanForms raises $500M to build three more factories” (BBJ)

— Not sure about re-incarnation. But inheriting memories? Calling Carl Jung: ”Researchers detail more than 1,500 verified cases of children with past-life memories” (WBUR)

— He’s right. Elizabeth Dionne should be shooting higher: “Chair of the MassGOP a dead end job” (Boston Herald)

— The much-derided RINOs teach MAGA-types a lesson or two on survival: “Why New England’s Republican Governors Withstood the Blue Wave” (NYT)

— Cool new company alert: “Mass. defense company gets $38M to build self-driving submarines” (BBJ))

— One of many self-inflicted economic wounds by the Trump Administration: “The American Brain Drain Claims another Scientist” (NYT)

— And the parents are going along with this: “How out-of-school sports are fueling an absenteeism crisis in Mass. schools” (Globe)

— Regular child-care is for little people: “Nannying for the ultra-rich is increasingly demanding—and lucrative” (Economist)

— From grapes to video content producer: “Welch’s taps early 2000s nostalgia with vertical series starring former Disney, Fox actors” (BBJ)

— Telling it like it is: “Traffic-blocking Masshole Uber driver tries to speed away from cops about to write him a ticket, only he instantly gets stuck in traffic so they walk over and arrest him, police say” (Universal Hub)