Your weekend must reads🗞️
Good morning, and welcome to The Short List weekend edition✨, home to some of the best stories of the week from the Paste BN Network! I'm John Riley, newsletter editor, and wherever you are I hope that the air quality is healthy. Here's a map showing the last wildfire and smoke information.
And now, here are the week's must reads.
How one Illinois town became the symbol of abortion rights
🔵In the year since the Supreme Court's radical redrawing of abortion access, few places in America have been affected as much as small, blue-state towns near red-state borders. As states moved to restrict or ban abortions, some clinics moved or opened anew in these border towns. Such is the case with Choices Center for Reproductive Health in rural and conservative southern Illinois. Read more
- Abortion access: Supreme Court decision reshuffled state map of access
The Class of 2023 lost everything to COVID. Then they fought back.
🏫The Class of 2023 will always be the class of COVID. They're the students who wrestled with virtual classes and the cancellation of their favorite activities. When school returned, they endured masks, swabs and uncertainty. The Paste BN Network spoke with more than a dozen seniors from colleges and high schools across the nation. They talked about their depression, loneliness, and isolation. Also the talents they discovered, their pride at earning a degree and their hopes for the future. Read more
'Our numbers are screwy'
🗳️During Arizona's high-profile "audit" of the results of the 2020 presidential election, the CEO of the tech firm hired to recount 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County was in a panic ― because he had no way to tally up the results. Doug Logan, CEO of Cyber Ninjas, privately admitted in a series of text messages last summer that he could not make sense of the data, The Arizona Republic found. "How plausible is this solution looking? I looped back to look through all of the aggregation data again. It (is) pretty broken. A lot of it doesn't make any sense," Logan wrote. Read more
There are more great stories below.👇 I hope you have a great weekend. See you next week!