Your weekend must reads📰

How's your bracket? Mine's a dumpster fire.🔥

Good morning, friends! I'm John Riley, editor of The Short List weekend edition✨, and while I was ice cold with my picks in the NCAA Tournament, I've got the hot hand when it comes to bringing you great reads from USA TODAY. Here we go:

💵Are banks safe?: The failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank have raised concerns about the financial health of the U.S. banking system, despite assurances from President Joe Biden, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and other officials. The stocks of other regional banks plunged last week, and online searches by Americans asking if their money is safe surged.

• Graphic: The Silicon Valley Bank collapse explained
• 'A wake-up call': Did this law lead to SVB collapse?
• Is it a bank bailout?: Biden fights comparisons to 2008 crisis

🌊Florida's shores under siege: Florida's beaches are going through a rough patch. A red tide, or a harmful algae bloom, has bedeviled much of the southwest coast lately. Meanwhile, an usually heavy blanket of sargassum, or seaweed, is threatening to create a stinking mess along hundreds of miles of beaches.

• Health worries: How safe is it to eat the fish and other seafood?
• Hot spots: Where is red tide now? See map

🔵Remarkable women: Sometimes the heroines in our lives go unrecognized. To help remedy that, USA TODAY’s Women of the Year project honors local and national leaders who make a positive impact in their communities every day. Stories will be added to this project through the end of March.

The program is the continuation of our 2020 Women of the Century project, which showcased remarkable women in American history in the century since they won the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment.

• Meet the Women of the Year: All the national and state honorees
• Leaders in Congress: Record numbers, record diversity and new power
• Fight for equal pay: U.S. women's soccer team made gains for all women
• 'You are good enough': Our Women of the Year give advice to their younger selves

We're not done here: See more great reads below.👇 Thanks for reading!