Ted Drewes, Jr., the man who made summer come alive in St. Louis, has died at 96. Via Ian play, run(s) stltoday.com/life-entertain…

Print newspapers are back in Martinsville, Indiana. One editor took the fight to a local ghost newspaper - and used paper and ink to win. Read for Indiana Daily Student. specials.idsnews.com/ghost-newspape…

"A pregnant climate reporter? Isn't that a contradiction?" For this week's #BoilingPoint, I wrote about my journey into motherhood at a moment of escalating crises. Thx Sammy Roth for letting me helm your newsletter & Jim Cooke for the striking art. latimes.com/environment/ne…

Just a note that — contra this widely shared tweet — my colleagues’ good story on Trump’s visit to Arlington was on the print WaPo front page today. That story and 2 others (left image) also led our homepage yesterday, and a follow-up story (right image) led the homepage today.

Influencers can do their thing, journalists can do their thing. But a bit ironic that the replies bashing “msm” are reacting to a news update…from mainstream media

Did Jerry Reinsdorf not pay the ComEd bill?

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Incredible Rachel Swan scoop: Police called to crime scenes are increasingly scanning for Teslas parked nearby, hoping their cameras captured evidence. And they’re even resorting to obtaining warrants to tow the cars to ensure they don’t lose the video. sfchronicle.com/crime/article/…

53! Too few hip hop legends are surviving to old age

If elected, Harris would likely conduct a full analysis of U.S.-Israel policy, with advisor Phil Gordon in the lead, reports Yasmeen Abutaleb. She could be open to imposing conditions on some aid to Israel, say people familiar w discussions between the two. wapo.st/4cNatr0

Again, read credible, local journalists. I beg yall. Please stop believing everything you read on social without doing a fact check with a credible source. Armando is doing the work. Follow Armando. Unfortunately, lies spread faster and wider than the truth.

Another one I share every time I see it.

"I happened to be cycling when I realized that my presence aroused a sort of hysteria in bystanders or people passing in cars. They shouted abuse...they threw things..." —Paul Theroux on how drivers react to cyclists and walkers in the US. in re: Gaudreau Brothers tragedy 🧵

"We are still going classroom to classroom and it’s a big high school — looking for bodies," Barrow Co coroner Kenny Cooper told Emily Wax. “It’s terrible. Please pray for us." Follow The Post's coverage of the Apalachee HS shooting: washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09…

Loevy + Loevy's Matt Topic, who leads our FOIA and IP practices, was named one of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence by TIME. time.com/7012833/matt-t…

These are text messages, exactly as they were written and sent, between a mother and her two daughters during yesterday’s shooting at Apalachee High School. The family shared the texts with The Washington Post. Both daughters were unharmed and now safe.

I was not the same after reading this book in college.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

A special time. YouTube was new and novel, Facebook was still limited to students and while cell phones were becoming ubiquitous, camera and internet technology was still pretty Stone Age, so you could have one without being glued to it. Boredom sparked good ideas.

Crews have begun chainsawing and shredding thousands of protected Joshua trees to make way for a sprawling solar field in the Mojave Desert. Century-old trees become a pile of dust. “Once the trees go through the shredders, they vanish” bit.ly/4dSFEm6