Summary: On today’s Gist, thick-as-bricks Lego thieves come a-tumbling down.<br>Hurricane recovery has been a disaster in Puerto Rico. <a href="https://www.npr.org/people/4624985/laura-sullivan">NPR’s Laura Sullivan</a> wanted to know why. So she found documents revealing a FEMA in shambles. She traced Puerto Rico’s economic troubles back to a <a href="https://taxfoundation.org/tax-policy-helped-create-puerto-rico-s-fiscal-crisis/">1996 tax vote</a>. And she explains how the island’s remaining wealth was wiped out by years of shady municipal debt deals. Sullivan’s report for NPR and Frontline is called “<a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/blackout-in-puerto-rico/">Blackout in Puerto Rico.</a>” You should really watch it. <br>In the Spiel, is it spring yet?
