Show HN: Not Depressing News

It's important to know that bad things are happening in the world, but there's a big difference between hearing that a number of murders happened and reading an hour long story about each individual murder.

Whenever we stay with the in-laws and watch a lot of local news, I am always blown away both by how negative it is, and how uninformative it is.

I think we could replace a lot of news with news from 10 years ago and no one would ever know the difference because almost none of the news affects them personally, but they carry around anxiety with them constantly because they learned implicitly from the news that the world is a scary place. That seems at least as much like propaganda as this.

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As a result, I find obituaries to be a great source of 'good news,' rounding up awesome work by an individual that perhaps played out over decades. It would be interesting to see some 'living obituaries' to capture some of this awesome work in a way which lets the perpetrators enjoy it a bit. (I guess major awards do this; but would be cool to see it on a weekly publication scale.)

The first fact is that there is precious little voter fraud of the type that can be stopped by voter ID laws. Did you hear about the woman from Texas who was recently convicted and sentenced to prison for it? You know why it was in the news? Because it's that rare.

So whatever the costs of more stringent restrictions at the ballot box are, they have to be borne by some pretty slim benefits. And the costs are pretty severe. Thousands of the Native Americans in North Dakota don't have the kind of residential address required by the law, passed by Republicans shortly after a Democrat one her Senate race by 3,000 votes with strong Native American support.

And for many of the ones who do have a residential address, the address the state has on record for them is off by enough to theoretically trigger the provisions of the law, making it unlawful to cast their ballots. I.e., their actual address doesn't match what the government thinks it is, so either they illegally provide the matching address or legally provide the correct address and get their ballot rejected.

Some sort of voter registration obviously makes sense, but do you think this particular law is a good one? Further, do you think it was passed with good intentions?