In mid-March, Girl Scouts of Alaska posted an update on its newly launched COVID-19 Info page, telling parents and troop leaders that it was putting a "pause"—its word, its quotation marks—on Girl Scout cookie booth sales, and gently encouraging everyone to postpone any in-person cookie sales that were planned before the end of the month. Four days later, it took a harder stance, suspending all "physical selling and delivery" of cookies, so if any customers were waiting for the self-care that only five or six boxes of Samoas can deliver, they're out of luck until after the pandemic. "We understand that this will ... (full story)