| Trump Tower meeting draws attention to campaign lines of legality Posted: 07 Aug 2018 01:54 PM PDT ![Trump Tower meeting draws attention to campaign lines of legality]( "Trump Tower meeting draws attention to campaign lines of legality") Of all the incidents in the Trump Russia saga, perhaps none has been as intensely scrutinized and speculated about as the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting. Numerous threads of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation may run through the meeting between a Kremlin-linked lawyer and Donald Trump Jr. and other Trump aides. What was the nature of contacts between Russian nationals and lower-level Trump campaign officials prior to its occurrence?
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| Charlottesville teen goes from targeting a statue to taking on the system Posted: 07 Aug 2018 01:31 PM PDT ![Charlottesville teen goes from targeting a statue to taking on the system]( "Charlottesville teen goes from targeting a statue to taking on the system") Life's been a lot busier for Zyahna Bryant since the events of Aug. 12, 2017. A year before, Ms. Bryant – then 15 – had started an online petition to remove the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from a park in downtown Charlottesville. It wasn't her first foray into activism: she was just seven when her grandmother took her to campaign for Barack Obama.
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| A yearning for wholeness in local news Posted: 07 Aug 2018 12:47 PM PDT ![A yearning for wholeness in local news]( "A yearning for wholeness in local news") When the Daily News, a 99-year-old print tabloid that considers itself New York's "hometown newspaper," laid off half its journalists last month, the reaction was swift. The public outcry, while not matched by the necessary subscriptions to maintain the newspaper in its old glory, nonetheless revealed just how much consumers of mass media – a term first used for newspapers – still want to feel connected to their hometown and to each other. Recommended: As news ownership consolidates, will local TV become more partisan?
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| Women flip the pay gap in this Georgia town. Here's why it's not a model Posted: 07 Aug 2018 12:16 PM PDT ![Women flip the pay gap in this Georgia town. Here's why it's not a model]( "Women flip the pay gap in this Georgia town. Here's why it's not a model") Stroll the streets and peek into the shops here and you'll see hints of why this Atlanta suburb is one of the few places in the United States where women outearn men. An art gallery that doubles as community space was the dream of its woman owner.
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