COVID-19
Covid-19 animal care: curbside service, pet supply delivery, video adoptions
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Animal-related organizations across the Great Lakes region face new challenges in caring for their critters in the midst of a pandemic.
Coping with Covid-19
An essential worker at the Family Dollar
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Manager worries about bringing COVID-19 home.
Coping with Covid-19
Life skills: skateboarding, art appreciation, relationship mending
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Tim Kohlstedt has a greater appreciation nowadays for the angst expressed in Vincent van Gogh’s Night Café: “Everyone in the painting is hunched over. It’s how the world is feeling right now.”
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COVID-19 causes many to look over their shoulders
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COVID-19 has pushed thousands of teachers, executives, journalists, students, health care providers and others to video-chat platforms. While they learn to navigate the technology, they might want to check behind themselves. Their background delivers as much of a message as their words.
COVID-19
COVID-19 pro tip: keep your glasses from fogging
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Steamed by the precautions needed to limit the spread of the coronavirus? Check these tips for keeping your glasses from fogging up when you wear a mask.
Echo
COVID-19 disrupts Great Lakes research, outreach
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Fieldwork, research conferences and outreach programs face an uncertain summer.
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Many university students don’t qualify for COVID aid
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If they are between 16 and 24 and their parents claim them as dependents, they don’t qualify for any check – including the $500 their parents get for younger dependents. Lawmakers are looking for a fix while some college students call foul.
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Michigan residents want to both save and spend stimulus checks
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Whether you decide to save or spend your stimulus check will impact the economic recovery from the COVID-19 disaster. Some Michigan residents want to save it for tougher times, pay off debt, buy stuff or invest in bitcoin.
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Comparing actions by Great Lakes states and spread of COVID-19
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The Michigan nonprofit news service Bridge reports: “Epidemiologists warn that it’s too early in the crisis to make conclusions, but some experts wonder if Michigan’s caseload would be different if public officials moved faster in the early days of the outbreak.”
Echo
Tough talk from a tough generation
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Echo tasked a group of young reporters with asking members of their grandparents’ generation how they are coping with the coronavirus. We wondered how this crisis compares to the significant social disruptions they’ve already weathered during their lifetimes.