Sunday Reads: Aug. 8
Happy weekend Great Falls. Here’s this week’s reading list.
Smithsonian Magazine: Grazing goats and sheep help uncover historic headstones in Ireland
The New York Times: Montana’s famed trout under threat as drought intensified
Associated Press: Census experts puzzled by high rate of unanswered questions
NPR: A look back at the very first website ever launched, 30 years later
Poynter: More chain-owned news organizations are returning to local ownership (The GF Tribune is not for sale, I contacted the corporate owners and checked)
Associated Press: Summer funding helped school districts address disparities
NPR: Restaurants are dangling vacation and matching 401(k), but many workers aren’t biting
Associated Press: ‘There are only so many beds’: COVID-19 surge hits hospitals
Pew: Population growth sputters in midwestern, eastern states
The Atlantic: A crimson tide of debt
Cheddar: Parking is devouring American cities
Associated Press: US.. hits 70 percent vaccination rate — a month late, amid a surge
CityLab: Where eviction risk is high, COVID vaccination rates are low
The New York Times: New York is pushing homeless people off the streets. Where will they go?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: How the design of your neighborhood could become a campaign issue this year
The Virginian-Pilot: Across America, states are removing Black history from schools. Virginia is doing the opposite.
NPR: Students need to be in classrooms, with masks, this fall, education secretary says
The Washington Post: ‘We can’t take another blow’: Some restaurants may not survive renewed mask mandates
The New York Times: A fight over zoning tests Charlottesville’s progress on race




