Happy Friday. Montana has become the first state to ban TikTok, the Chinese-owned social video app popular with American teens and some adults. Montana's Governor Greg Gianforte signed the state bill into law earlier this week. The law would restrict downloads of the app within the state's borders. Critics argue the new law limits Montanans' right to free speech. Legal challenges are likely.

Here are some other works of journalism that caught my eye before this work week's end. Take a look at this:

• Communication Boards: Students with autism and other developmental disabilities often have trouble communicating with teachers and peers. Kanawha County Schools are installing visual boards at some local schools to help ease communication difficulties. Matt Lackritz, a reporter for local TV station WSAZ, recently shared a story about how the newly installed communication board at Mary C. Snow West Side Elementary's playground is helping students and staff alike. “The iPads are great for the classroom or for transitioning between classes in the cafeteria, but this is a way (the communication board) to still keep that method of communication without having to worry about the iPad,” Michelle Robinson, a KCS speech-language pathologist, told the station. (Matt Lackritz, WSAZ)
• A Tick-y Situation: Warmer weather means more disease-carrying ticks and experts with the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department (KCHD) want to bring awareness to the potential dangers of these sometimes deadly parasites. WV Metro News's Katherine Skeldon was one of the reporters who attended the health department's first-ever “Tick-Talk” at Coonskin Park earlier this week. "Anytime you’ve been in the woods, check yourself really good when you come out of the woods, try to get those ticks off of you before they have a chance to burrow in,” KCHD Health Officer Dr. Steven Eshenaur said at the event. You can read Skeldon's full report on Metro News's website. (Katherine Skeldon, WV Metro News)
• Confronting Climate Change: Some Arizona farmers are having a hard time watering their crops, mainly caused by a historic drought in the Colorado River, the area's main source of water. But as NPR reporter Ximena Bustillo reports, many rural communities in Arizona and other parts of the American West tend to lean Republican politically, often putting them at odds with climate activities who tend to be more aligned with Democrats. Still, farmers of all political opinions want a solution. "We're not anti-environmental at all. That's how we make our living," one Arizona farmer from a longtime conservative family told Bustillo. "If we screw up making our living, then we don't have anything. So we have to take care of what we got." (Ximena Bustillo, NPR)
• Name Game: What's in a name? That's what Boston Globe Magazine editor Young-Jin Kim asked in a recent essay. I came across the essay after seeing a post on the newspaper's Instagram. "What becomes of a name that renders others into a state of buffering?" Kim is quoted. "And if we're predisposed to react negatively to difficult names, can a person avoid coming to hate their own?" Check out the Instagram post, then read Kim's thoughtful essay. (Young-Jin Kim, Boston Globe Magazine) 
• Russia-Ukraine War: After a period of relative calm, Kyiv is once again the target of Moscow's wrath. Missles rattled the city on Thursday, according to a report on the New York Times website. Debris from one intercepted missle sparked a fire in one part of the city, the newspaper reports. Still, Ukraine's air defenses intercepted 29 of 30 missiles fired at Ukraine overnight, the country’s military told the Times on Thursday. (Andrew E. Kramer, The New York Times)