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Political Cartoon: Post-Covid Main Street

Daily takes from Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Signe Wilkinson.

Virtual commerce on Main Street.
Virtual commerce on Main Street.Read moreSigne Wilkinson

As I file this cartoon, the President has only announced a council to study how and when to open up the economy. Whatever he finally announces, we have gone dark economically for long enough to see glimmers of our changed cities where the only vehicles are delivering online purchases from some warehouse owned by Jeff Bezos. In my neighborhood, the hardware store, bike shop, and restaurants have figured out ways to safely connect customers with their products. We should be able to do the same for other stores. The city won’t be a city if Bezos is the only merchant in town and many of our citizens won’t have jobs to come back to.

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