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Many parents appear to be keeping their children out of public school, especially from kindergarten. The declines could mean less state funding for school districts.

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Hotel rooms would be "ideal" for housing an overflow of evacuees from shelters practicing social distancing, but few towns have them lined up in the southeast, where coronavirus infections are raging.

New Mexico faces a long and potentially devastating wildfire season, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Saturday, as Southwestern wildfires cause destruction and force people from their homes.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Genevieve Judge, a spokesperson for Sarasota County, about what the municipality is seeing the day after Hurricane Milton plowed through overnight.

Connect Transit gave more than a million rides during the pandemic. The head of the board for Bloomington Normal's bus system says that alone makes the case transit is a community must have as ridership rises again. Plus, progress to rework the Pantagraph building into a transfer center.Racial violence. Family trauma. The price of security. It's pretty heady stuff for a comic book movie. Scott Jordan is one-half of WGLT's Psych Geeks team -- dissecting the release of Marvel's "Black Widow" and its place in the always changing popular culture. Blues Traveler plays the Corn Crib. Jon Norton has the interview about the group's early dreams and new realities.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that officials in Macon County in western North Carolina want to build an industrial park on the site of an ancient Cherokee burial ground. The county is one of the poorest in the state and the burial ground is the only site suitable for development. The Cherokees are understandably upset, but don't even have standing to take the matter to court. County officials have already refused an offer from an archeological preservation society to buy the site.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports from Democratic party headquarters in Palm Beach County, Florida, where voters are coming in to sign affidavits calling for an inquiry into the voting process in the County. Many voters say the ballot was so confusing that they believe that they may have mistakenly cast votes for Patrick Buchanan instead of Al Gore. They say the returns from Palm Beach County should be considered erroneous.

NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports from West Palm Beach on the latest developments in the Florida Presidential vote recount. Palm Beach and Broward counties continue with hand recounts today, as they rush to meet the Sunday deadline imposed by Florida's Supreme Court. The Court refused yesterday to order Miami-Dade County to resume its hand recount- a blow to the Gore campaign, which had expected to pick up hundreds of votes in that county.

Edith Brady-Lunny was a correspondent at WGLT, joining the station in 2019. She left the station in 2024.