Here are this week’s uplifting headlines.
1-5 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
1. Mastercard bans automatic billing after free trials. The credit card company now requires merchants to get a cardholder’s approval, via text or email, at the end of a trial before they start billing. – Source
2. Sober bars help people in recovery stay social – AUSTIN, Texas – Recovering addicts or people new to sobriety often run into a struggle when trying to socialize with friends. A night out at a bar can be a trigger and challenge to their sobriety. “Sober bars” are now popping up all across the nation. – Source
3. Mexican girl bullied for being “weird” has a higher IQ than Einstein, so let’s protect her instead of giving her a supervillain origin story. – Source
4. Austria is turning the site of Hitler’s birth into a police station to repel neo-Nazis. – Source
5. Cambodia to ban elephant rides at Angkor Wat. – Source
6-10 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
6. Bee population recovering due to regenerative farming, producers say. – Source
7. Chicago lawyer and congressional candidate host a mixer for local businesses and unemployed constituents. Twenty-six of them leave with jobs. – Source
8. Shepard Smith, the former Fox News anchor, puts $500,000 behind Free Press. – Source
9. L.A.’s free tree giveaway for yards and streets hopes to bring 90,000 new plantings. – Source
10. Prison sees a change in prisoners after shelter cats are brought in. – Source
11-15 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
11. Kansas City bans gay conversion therapy. – Source
12. School turns leftover cafeteria food into frozen, take-home meals to give to students in need. – Source
13. Victory for Brazil tribe as hotel group cancels plans for the luxury resort: “A Brazilian tribe that has been fighting for 15 years to preserve the land they use to gather food won a victory on Monday when public pressure made Portuguese hotel group Vila Gale cancel plans to build a luxury resort in Bahia.” – Source
14. New Zealand passes historic zero carbon bill with near-unanimous bipartisan support. – Source
15. Free in-state college tuition starting in fall 2020 for anyone from the Pennsylvania foster care system. – Source
