Morning Reads for Tuesday, February 20

Good morning! “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” is 50 years old! Here he is persuading (the initially prickly) Senator Joe Pastore (D-RI) why it is so important to fund educational public television:

• The St. Simons Land Trust received an anonymous $1 million donation.
• President Carter discusses his fears during his wife Rosalynn’s “very serious” surgery this weekend.
• Lake Lanier reached full winter pool for the first time since 2016.
• All the lonely people, where do they all belong? Loneliness is as unhealthy as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
• This article on how Uber is raising funds for infrastructure in cities and states across the country is particularly relevant to HB 930 discussions here in Georgia.
• Republicans in the Virginia House of Delegates are ready to support Medicaid expansion.
• A woman who recorded a stranger having a hissyfit on a Delta flight, and then posted the video of that stranger online, where it went viral, now realizes that sometimes it can make you feel bad to post a video of a stranger having a hissyfit online, and maybe (hopefully) also how to not make her social media posts public.
• A Pawnee corn that hasn’t been grown in generations is back.
• A recently rediscovered copy of the Declaration of Independence was sold for beaucoup dollars.
• Supreme Court Justice and Pin Point, Georgia, native Clarence Thomas, in his own words.
• Learn about the Gullah Libation Ceremony.
• At the Olympics four years ago, Bob Costas had a whopping case of pinkeye. Never forget.
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