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Extra, Extra: Arizona Superintendent Says Reopening Schools Safely Is "A Fantasy"
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John Del Signore
Published Aug 2, 2020
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- A public school superintendent in Arizona is speaking out against his governor's plan to reopen schools this month: "It’s not safe. There’s no way it can be safe...I’m sorry, but it’s a fantasy. Kids will get sick, or worse. Family members will die. Teachers will die."
- The NY Post marks a grim milestone: There have been more shootings so far this year in NYC than there were in all of 2019.
- After the Mets announced that outfielder Yoenis Cespdes was mysteriously AWOL from today's game against the Atlanta Braves, the team said Cespdes has decided to "opt out" of the rest of the season.
- Some sick bastard strapped a "heavy duty firework" to a goose in Baldwin, Long Island in what appears to be a cruel attempt to blow up the bird.
- Sunday Routine: Urban Flower Farmer edition.
- And ICYMI, the superb Sunday Routine: Beeping Smoke Alarm edition.
- The LA Times looks at how residents of Manhattan Beach are grappling with their seaside town's dark and largely unacknowledged racist past.
- Here are some photos and video documenting last night's celestial alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon.
- Actor Wilford Brimley, star of Cocoon and The Thing, has died at 85 from a kidney ailment.
- And finally, some of us just can't bear to take out the trash:
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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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