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  • As we begin sifting through the deluge of year-in-review articles that will be coming out in the next few days, let's take a look back at when buying toilet paper was almost like an Olympic sport.
  • For 30 years, Eugene, Oregon, has been using an alternative to police when it comes to individuals experiencing a mental health crisis or a drug-related episode.
  • Teaching reading to young kids has been made even more difficult this year with face masks blocking students from being able to lip read.
  • Can Substack, the popular service with tens of thousands of newsletters (there’s even one on famous Davids), be a pioneer for the news industry or an alternative to the crazy social media sphere that is Facebook?
  • Nantucketers are turning on each other after hundreds of people tested positive for the virus after the Thanksgiving holiday.
  • A teenager might be heading to the Supreme Court after an expletive-filled Snapchat story concerning her not making the cut for varsity cheerleading was reported to school administrators. The school district is asking about the First Amendment challenge for “the nation’s nearly 100,000 public schools.”
  • Ghislaine Maxwell will not be leaving the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center any time soon after a judge denied her $28.5 million bail package.
  • And finally, please tell me which alternate dimension this dog just jumped into:
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