Hi, welcome to Latitude News. I'm Maria Balinsky. Here at Latitude News we like to say that we're telling stories that bring the world home. What does that mean? Well, we look at how our American lives are being affected by what's happening in the rest of the world. We ask how people in other countries are dealing with the issues that we're talking about here in the US. Because if you scratch the surface of any American community, you're going to discover a host of international connections like the Columbus Ohio ice cream company that's just invested in a vanilla bean farm in Uganda or the former NASA engineers in Florida who found employment at home with a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer or the thousands of American high schools using a Scandinavian anti-bullying program. How do we find these stories? Well, that's where you come in. At Latitude News, we want to create a new model of journalism with you at the center of the reporting experience. No passport needed. Here's how it works. You tell us about your global connection or put to us your question and our team of journalists will take up the chase and report the story. Simply put, we're crowdsourcing editorial ideas. Want to see it in practice? Back in February we wrote a story about Poles returning to Poland from New York. After reading the story, one of our users asked us to look into reverse migration in other communities. So we did. We also like to stop people in the street. Could I get your first and last name? It's Dana Morse. How much vacation time do you get? I get none. I'd like to be on the same thing that your fans are doing. And that comment from post office Square and Boston led to this. So now it's over to you. Send us your questions and your leads and be our partner in reporting global stories that matter to you.