South Shore Line operating on a regular schedule for Good Friday and Easter
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South Shore Line operating on a regular schedule for Good Friday and Easter

If you rely on the South Shore for travel between South Bend and Chicago, you’ll want to know that the regular schedule is in effect for Good Friday and Easter. “The South Shore Line will operate a regular weekday train schedule on Good Friday, April 2, 2021,” the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District says. “All ticket…

Jim Crow 2.0: Georgia outlaws giving water to voters waiting in hours-long lines
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Jim Crow 2.0: Georgia outlaws giving water to voters waiting in hours-long lines

Voting should be a quick and simple process. In many places, you can show up at a polling place, request a ballot, verify your identity, and fill out the ballot in 15 minutes. But states with a history of racial discrimination are often different. They may erect artificial barriers that are meant to deter –…

Humble Comics Bundle: The Best Year of Boom Studios
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Humble Comics Bundle: The Best Year of Boom Studios

The Humble Comic Bundle: The Best Year of Boom Studios just launched today. It is live through Thursday, April 15, 2021. Grab Boom Studios’ top 2020 titles like Something Is Killing the Children Vol. 1, Once Future Vol. 1, and Wynd #1. Plus, your purchase helps support the ACLU & Freedom to Read. Pay $1 or more. Normally, the total cost…

CDC head sounds the alarm as COVID-19 cases grow in multiple states
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CDC head sounds the alarm as COVID-19 cases grow in multiple states

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said Monday that the nation was at “a fork in the road” in determining the trajectory of the coronavirus pandemic and warned of “another avoidable surge” of COVID-19 cases as states loosen pandemic-related restrictions. “The apparent leveling off of cases and hospital admissions after the consistent…

Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month: Heavy menstrual bleeding could indicate bleeding disorder
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Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month: Heavy menstrual bleeding could indicate bleeding disorder

Girls and women who suffer from heavy menstrual bleeding often do so in silence, brushing off their symptoms as normal. Many assume long periods or frequent pad and tampon changes (every 1-2 hours) are just part of being a woman, so they quietly grit through the inconveniences and count down the days until their cycles…

NICTD board meeting scheduled for March 29
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NICTD board meeting scheduled for March 29

The Board of Trustees of the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District will hold an executive session on Monday, March 29 at 10:30 AM Eastern Time. A public session follows at 11:30 AM Eastern. The Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District operates the South Shore Line with service from Millennium Station in downtown Chicago to the South…

Elkhart County reports first case of more contagious UK COVID-19 variant
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Elkhart County reports first case of more contagious UK COVID-19 variant

The first case of the more contagious B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant has appeared in Elkhart County. According to the Elkhart County Health Department, the Indiana Department of Health Laboratory notified the county that the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant was collected over the weekend. The variant is from mutations that were first found in the United Kingdom. It…

Can we please get rid of the abomination that is Daylight Savings Time?
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Can we please get rid of the abomination that is Daylight Savings Time?

It’s early Sunday morning. Our clocks “spring forward” an hour even as the position of the Earth relative to the sun barely changed. Thanks for nothing, Daylight Savings Time. Like millions of Americans, I wake up groggy. That grogginess (and grumpiness) spills into Monday and the rest of the week as our internal clocks have…