COVID-19:
Appalachian Coal Communities Brace For Coronavirus: It's Going 'To Wipe Us Out' (HuffPost)
Forced off campus by coronavirus, students aren’t won over by online education (PBS NewsHour/Hechinger Report)
Colleges aren’t graduating enough nurses during COVID-19 pandemic (NPR/Hechinger Report)
GUN VIOLENCE:
How a pistol bought in Mississippi killed a teen in Chicago (Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting)
Weak laws hinder gun trafficking prevention (Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting)
CORRUPTION:
New York gets D- grade in 2015 State Integrity Investigation (Center for Public Integrity)
BAIL/INCARCERATION ISSUES:
Bail disparities across the U.S. reflect inequality (The Guardian)
Tennessee ban on juvenile life sentences is latest to align with U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 ruling (Youth Today/Juvenile Justice Information Exchange)
HOUSING:
ENVIRONMENT:
California’s phoenix: Can iconic cypress species rise from the ashes? (American Forests)
"It has no protections": Scientists fight for wildfire-burned land amid logging threat (The Guardian)
Racial and economic inequity:
FOOD INEQUITY:
“It’s a powerful feeling”: the Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo (The Guardian)
‘It’s humiliating’: US voters struggle with hunger ahead of midterms (The Guardian)
Can Biden’s bet on local meat producers loosen big beef’s grip? (The Guardian)
There are nearly 9,000 breweries in the US, but big beer dominates (The Guardian)
RURAL ISSUES:
He was fatally stabbed at a college party and police still can’t solve the crime (HuffPost)
With unfilled jobs, businesses push rural residents toward college (NPR/Hechinger Report)
How the catfish capital of the world was hit by an Asian fish flood (Guardian US)
Eclipsed by urban counterparts, rural nonwhites go to college at equally low rates (The Atlantic/Hechinger Report)
Rural colleges aren’t supplying the workers rural businesses and agriculture need (Hechinger Report/Guardian US)
This coal plant shutdown shows we can’t ignore communities left behind (HuffPost)
Higher Education:
Parent loans ‘fraught with peril’ (Newsweek cover story)
Many California community colleges won’t drop remedial courses (Los Angeles Times/Hechinger Report)
The shortage of non-white professors is a self-perpetuating problem (PBS NewsHour/Hechinger Report)
Infrastructure plan: Biden aims to create jobs but who will do them? (USA Today/Hechinger Report)
Trump plan would base student loans on employability (Hechinger Report/Huffington Post)
After decades of pushing bachelor's degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople (PBS NewsHour/Hechinger Report)
Student loan crisis shatters a generation’s American dream (The Guardian)
Believe it: Harvard cheaper than Cal State (San Jose Mercury News)
Mexican universities eye U.S. expansion (Hechinger Report/McClatchy)
Mexico faces some primary problems (Times Higher Education)
These groups of Asian-Americans rarely attend college, but California is trying to change that (PBS NewsHour/Hechinger Report)
Tangled financial aid process deepens college affordability crisis (NBC News/Hechinger Report)
When colleges slash tuition, some students actually pay more (Hechinger Report/Money)
Graduates of 4-year universities flock to community colleges for job skills (U.S. News & World Report/Hechinger Report)
Under pressure, college watchdog groups sharpening their teeth (McClatchy/Hechinger Report)
Colleges seek to help students with learning disabilities (McClatchy/Hechinger Report)
Private, for-profit colleges see unaccustomed setbacks (Hechinger Report/CNN Money)
College profs not LOL about students' texting lingo (Contra Costa Times via Chicago Tribune)
Budget fight targets for-profit colleges, but nonprofit Patten gets swept up (San Jose Mercury News)
California colleges enroll thousands who don't meet requirements (San Jose Mercury News)
Cal welcomes elite athletes back to school (Contra Costa Times)
Colleges pit music against math as funding dries up (TIME/Hechinger Report)
As a whole new kind of college emerges, critics fret over standards (Hechinger Report/TIME)
Sports:
A baseball academy in a talent-poor part of Mexico (New York Times)
'There's some crazy-ass people out here': Joc Pederson adjusts to MLB (The Guardian)
How TV rights have made the LA Dodgers the greatest team never seen (The Guardian)
Humboldt State football worth the price (New York Times)
College women's bowling gains in popularity (New York Times)
Concussion testing for Nationals' Harper during game (New York Times)
At Fordham, gym has history if not allure (New York Times)
Latest fledgling league gives players another run at the N.F.L. (New York Times)
Manhattan doesn't have to look far for Its talent (New York Times)
Six players, six countries, one team (New York Times)
A tough transition for women's triathlon (New York Times)
Brooklyn College games seem like family outings (because they are) (New York Times)
In Hamptons Baseball League, housing is difficult to find (New York Times)
Scoops:
Dozen implicated in college grade scandal (Contra Costa Times)
Secret sex partner gets former UC Berkeley administrator fired (Contra Costa Times)
School district's solar decision could leave Chevron in the dark (Contra Costa Times)
College leader's business partner gets $900,000 contract (Oakland Tribune)
Business:
Businesses turn to Airbnb for corporate travel (New York Times)
High Times and agency unite to sell marijuana to mainstream (New York Times)
Airports modernize dining options with farm-to-terminal fare (New York Times)
Start-ups selling seats on private jets don't always make it (New York Times)
For hotels, bedbugs are bad enough, and social media adds to irritation (New York Times)
Virgin America fans ask if Alaska Airlines takeover will mean loss of cool (New York Times)
With literary support, Xerox asserts its modern relevance (New York Times)
Private jets are more available, despite costs (New York Times)
Conventioneers add charity work to golf and speeches (New York Times)
NFL's Peyton Manning wants to make buying insurance sexy (The Street)
Other Stories:
No bids necessary for big solar projects, and that can cost you (Contra Costa Times)
Broussard gets 25 years for killing Chauncey Bailey, Odell Roberson (Chauncey Bailey Project/Contra Costa Times)
Asking the government for public records: filing a FOIA request (TakePart)
Contributed Reporting:
Cuomo's gun law plays well downstate but alienates upstate (New York Times)
Sayreville High School arrests divide a town that lived for football (New York Times)
In death of Long Island high school player, perils of football reverberate (New York Times)
Brooklyn Tech teacher was known as cool friend, until his arrest (New York Times)
They've got Jeter's back (New York Times)