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With the number of new coronavirus cases trending down and vaccinations going up, company executives grapple with bringing staff back to the office.

Shavonn "Nanny" Smith says she cried all day after seeing Wednesday that —  in a situation that might have racial implications — an arsonist had destroyed the advertising banner outside the struggling soul food restaurant she owns in East Topeka. Smith, who is Black, recalled that an earlier banner outside her small restaurant, Nannys Soul Food, had been incinerated the same way. "I was broken," she said. But her fellow Topekans subsequently "came and lifted me up," Smith said ...