Tragic history, $10 million reconstruction, and internet infrastructure
Tragic history, $10 million reconstruction, and internet infrastructure
VNN Weekly Digest August 22-28
Here’s a look at the week’s top stories:
The tragic story of Lucinda Hickory
(MUSCOGEE NATION) An Indian girl dead at thirteen years old, just eight months after a newspaper reported her land held an estimated 20 million in gas. Coincidence? Her great-niece Tatianna Duncan thinks not.
Buttigieg tours Greenwood, talks $10 million reconstruction
(OKLAHOMA) U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was in Tulsa this week, highlighting tens of millions of dollars in transportation funding awarded to Oklahoma.
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Updates to internet infrastructure needed nationwide
(NATIONAL) The phrase living in the digital age took on new meaning over the last two years. It's been an ebb and flow of in-person and online events, with little likelihood of things returning to how they were pre-pandemic and reliable internet access a must-have for both work and education.
WEATHER ACROSS AMERICA
(NATIONAL) A slight risk of severe thunderstorms across the Upper Mississippi Valley, showers and thunderstorms likely across the Midwest and the Gulf Coast, and a warming trend begins for the Northwest and the Ohio Valley/Northeast.
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