Short problem hours: 1.5
fake-news-ms.py hours: 2
street.py hours: 4

That's really a wild guess on those street.py hours, BTW.

I was able to get street.py working without using the hints!!  However, I then read then hints
and saw some ways I was able to clean up my code.

I was reading about the Haskell programming language and it looks like recursion is one of the
cornerstones of functional programming.

Also, I'd never done anything with IDLE's debugger but I figured out how it works.  It was fun
to step through the various levels of recursive calls.  I found that a key point when using it
is to check the box for "Source" in the Debug Control dialog.