Axios PM: Reveille for summer camps

Plus: 5 youth filmmakers capture start of shutdown | Tuesday, March 09, 2021

Open in app View in browser   Presented By Comcast   Axios PM By Mike Allen ·Mar 09, 2021 Good afternoon: Today's PM — edited by Justin Green — is 550 words, a 2-minute read. ⚡️ Situational awareness: Buckingham Palace says it is taking Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's bombshell accusations "very seriously." Piers Morgan resigned as host of "Good Morning Britain" after comments criticizing the Duchess of Sussex.     1 big thing: Reveille for summer camps Snow covers a basketball court at Camp Fernwood, a summer camp for girls in Poland, Maine. Photo: Robert F. Bukaty/AP   A rush of summer overnight camps are reopening this year in states like Maine, Massachusetts and New York, Axios' Orion Rummler reports. Why it matters: "They know that campers and staff need this experience," American Camp Association CEO Tom Rosenberg told AP.  Between the lines: Camp directors face "external pressures to reopen and do what we've always done" in the face of the pandemic, per the latest annual survey published by the American Camp Association. Camps that reopened last summer were mostly successful, but there were still outbreaks. The bottom line: "Given all that kids have gone through, it's an amazing opportunity for them that gives them a glimpse of normal life in a world that's far from normal," New Jersey resident Elisabeth Mischel told AP.     2. Tech's toughest critics get seats at the table Tim Wu and Lina Khan. Photos: Getty Images An influx of tech antitrust hardliners in the Biden administration signals a new toughness on tech from the Democrats, Axios' Margaret Harding McGill and Ashley Gold report. Lina Khan, well-known in antitrust circles for her ideas about stopping platforms like Amazon from competing directly with sellers, is being vetted as a nominee for a slot as Democratic FTC commissioner. Tim Wu, known for coining the term "net neutrality," was named a special assistant to the president for technology and competition policy.     A message from Comcast Connecting over four million students to the internet     COVID-19 has highlighted the need for digital equity and Internet adoption programs. Since 2011, Comcast's Internet Essentials program has connected over four million students from low income families to low-cost, high speed internet, so students can be ready for anything. Learn more.     3. Catch up quick Former President Jimmy Carter is "disheartened, saddened, and angry" by a Georgia bill restricting voting access. Go deeper. Ahead of schedule: Minnesota is opening up vaccine eligibility to 1.8 million more people, Axios Twin Cities author Torey Van Oot reports. New federal antitrust lawsuit: Real estate brokerage REX sued Zillow, Trulia and the National Association of Realtors. Go deeper. Korean automaker Kia is conducting a safety recall of nearly 380,000 vehicles in the U.S. due to concerns of potential engine fires. Go deeper. Scoop: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy will travel to Texas with roughly a dozen Republican members to assess the growing crisis at the southern border, Axios' Kadia Goba and Alayna Treene report.     4. 🎧 L.A. schools boss on the COVID "tipping point" Photo illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Photo: Todd Williamson/Getty Images   Los Angeles schools superintendent Austin Beutner says he knew the coronavirus had pushed the world to a tipping point in February 2020 when his city jumped from one confirmed coronavirus case to 14 cases in a matter of days. Why it matters: Beutner told Dan Primack on Axios Re:Cap how the second-largest school district in the U.S. prepared to shut down while protecting its most vulnerable families. Axios is looking back at the week of March 9, 2020 — the week high-profile leaders were forced to make consequential choices that upended our lives and society. Subscribe to Axios Re:Cap here.     5. 🎞️ Five youth filmmakers capture start of shutdown Nellie Bernard with her grandson, Marcial Pilataxi. Photo: HBO   Fifty weeks ago, a community-based media center in Manhattan gave handheld cameras to five young New York filmmakers whose families were helping keep the city running during shutdown. The result: "COVID Diaries NYC," a 39-minute documentary available on demand beginning tonight at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and HBO Max. The filmmakers, ages 17–23, show what it was like to live with a postman, a bus driver, a home-health-care worker when the pandemic's first wave was pounding the city. We hear the COVID cough inside a home as a dad gets sick. We live the mental-health trauma of parents and their kids. And we watch a restaurant manager get kicked out of the middle class. "Covid Diaries NYC" is a DCTV production. The executive producers are Carrie Penner, Perri Peltz and Matthew O'Neill. Disclosure: Perri Peltz and Matthew O'Neill are the directors and producers of "Axios on HBO," which is produced by DCTV. See a trailer.     A message from Comcast Connecting over four million students to the internet     COVID-19 has highlighted the need for digital equity and Internet adoption programs. Since 2011, Comcast's Internet Essentials program has connected over four million students from low income families to low-cost, high speed internet, so students can be ready for anything. Learn more.     Axios thanks our partners for supporting our newsletters. Sponsorship has no influence on editorial content. 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