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October 21, 2020

One NYC Teacher on the Joys and Anxieties of Returning to the Classroom

From Clorox wipes to new ways to use tech, a lot has changed about school this year

October 20, 2020

Florida College Student Aims to Get Young People Involved in 2020 Election

In April, University of South Florida student Sarah Glaser created Florida Students for Biden; the organization has now grown to 14 campuses around the state

Political signs on Mount Harmony Road in Bernardsville, N.J.

October 15, 2020

Yard-ageddon: Political Signs Paint N.J. Town Red, White and Blue

Political signage is hugely popular in the rural town of Bernardsville, N.J.

Prudential Center

October 14, 2020

Newark Makes the Prudential Center a ‘Super Polling’ Site

Officials announced that the venue, which can hold almost 20,000 people, will have voting booths and a ballot dropbox for the Nov. 3 election

October 14, 2020

Podcast: ‘Countervail’ on Reporters and Personal Social Media Accounts

Do public figures lose all rights of privacy to scrutiny by the public? In this episode of Countervail, Dawn Heinbach and Lilian Manansala discuss the suspension of Felicia Sonmez when she re-tweeted a story about the sexual allegation against Kobe Bryant. Because she re-tweeted the piece shortly after Bryant's death, the reporter was not only harassed and threatened online but suspended by the Washington Post. Where is the line between a reporter's personal rights on their social media accounts vs the publisher's right to control how their news staff represents the company?