Out d'Coup | Back from Vacation; Gas on COVID Pyre; Georgia Off Rails; LV Stands Up; APSCUF Survey; PASSHE Returning; Trump Sues PA; Free Will, New Trail, Pizza Boy

<p>You might want to get that midnight train out of Georgia if you can find a State that will have you. <a href='https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/16/892109883/georgia-gov-brian-kemp-sues-atlanta-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-over-face-mask-or?ft=nprml&f=1001'>Georgian Governor Kemp</a> says that no municipality can impose a mask ordinance, and he’s willing to sue Atlanta’s mayor over it. </p> <p>We’ve got <a href='https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/17/portland-protests-federal-arrests/'>secret Federal police are roaming the cities of ‘Merica</a>.</p> <p>Teachers across the country are beginning to organize and protest against their state’s push for in-person school this fall. Yes, they want to get back to teaching; no, they will not throw their bodies into the COVID pyre to accomplish it. </p> <p><a href='https://lvstandsup.org/'>Lehigh Valley Stands Up</a> is tearing things up in Allentown.</p> <p>Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee have filed a series of lawsuits in Pennsylvania aiming to suppress hundreds of thousands of voters in the Commonwealth.  They’re going after technicalities with mail-in ballots, dropboxes for those mail-in ballots, and allowing out-of-county poll watchers to intimidate voters of color in urban centers. </p> <p><a href='https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/07/most-faculty-at-pas-state-universities-believe-face-to-face-classes-this-fall-are-unsafe.html'>APSCUF survey</a> shows that 70% of faculty are seriously concerned about returning to face-to-face instruction. 60% of respondents said the fall should be all remote instruction where possible. Over 40% reported having some type of underlying medical condition that the CDC puts them more at risk.</p> <p>PASSHE Chancellor Greenstein basically lays his cards on the table, calling for the <a href='https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/07/pa-state-system-of-higher-education-exploring-costs-of-combining-some-universities.html'>merger of 6 state-owned universities</a>. His plan looks