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October 8, 2020
Volume 18 - #19

Katherine
Marks

wants
you to be
counted
before the
October 31st
US Census deadline

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Local census leader Katherine Judge again orders
Marks says that YOU COUNT! census to continue
through Oct. 31 m

Katherine Marks has had a A federal judge in wrote in her Thursday
lengthy 20-year career as an California has ordered the order. "This must stop."
elected official: from April U.S. Census Bureau to
1992 to April 2012. Back in continue its count through On Sept. 25, Koh said the
‘92 Marks, along Everett Oct. 31 after finding that Trump administration must
Butler, became a part of our the agency violated a continue its decennial
local history as the first to previous court ruling. headcount until Oct. 31
people of color elected to instead of its plan to stop
any unit of government in U.S. District Judge Lucy collecting data on Sept. 30.
Kenosha’s history. During Koh of the Northern
that time period Marks District of California said The counting effort
served 10 consecutive 2-year in addition to continuing began Jan. 21, but was
terms as Alderperson of City the census count. On suspended in April due to
of Kenosha’s 8th district Monday, Bureau chief the coronavirus pandemic,
serving the Lincoln, Steven Dillingham said in a forcing it to push its
Columbus and Uptown court declaration that the deadline from the end of
neighborhoods. This year, at agency is complying with a July to Oct. 31.
the request of Mayor John judge's order for the 2020
Antaramian, Marks now census to continue The U.S. Census Bureau
leads the City of Kenosha’s through the end of announced in August that it
2020 Census Complete October would end all door-
Count Committee. knocking efforts and self-
Koh said the agency response filings for the
“The results of the 2020 accused the Trump 2020 census at the end of
Census inform funding and administration of "chaotic, September in order to
planning for new clinics, dilatory and incomplete accelerate its completion.
school lunch programs, compliance" after she
emergency services and issued her initial order last Koh's ruling came in
more,” Marks said in a recent week. response to a lawsuit
interview. “So make sure brought against the Trump
everyone in your household At issue was a tweet the administration by a
is counted!” coalition of groups led by
Census Bureau issued the National Urban League
Katherine Marks took the in August, arguing the
time out of our busy saying that Commerce truncated schedule would
schedule to answer our hurt minorities as an
questions and deliver the ins- Secretary Wilbur Ross inaccurate count could
and-outs of how the US skew the allocation of
Census works. issued an Oct. 5 "target seats in the House of
Representatives.
••• date" to complete
In her 78-page ruling,
What is the 2020 census counting efforts. The Koh said the Trump
count & why is it administration never
necessary? To hear more about the US Census and how it effects our bureau also sent a text explained its decision to
community, tune in to Happenings Q&A, AM1050 WLIP, on fast-track the count by a
The 2020 Census will Monday, October 19th at 2:30 pm when Katherine Marks joins message to employees month and that by doing
provide a snapshot of our so there will be
nation, our states, our cities, the conversation. saying door-to-door inaccuracies in the effort,
towns and villages —who we which goes against the
are, where we live, and so efforts would also end that public's interest.
much more. When we know
how many people live in your day. Koh also ruled against
community, local and state the Trump administration's
government, organizations lunches, education, Head Self response rates "Defendants' Dec. 31 deadline for the
and businesses are better as of October 5, 2020: count to be delivered to
equipped to evaluate the Start, block grants for dissemination of the White House, leaving
services and programs City of Kenosha = 73.1% Total (61.1% online) the April 2021 deadline
needed. Over the next community mental health City of Racine = 67.0% Total (51.2% online) erroneous information; intact.
decade, lawmakers, business City of Milwaukee = 61.2% Total (46.8% online)
owners, and many others will services, hospitals, fire City of Zion = 64.2 % Total (51.4% online) lurching from one hasty,
use 2020 Census data to
make critical decisions. The departments, highway Kenosha County = 73.9% Total (63.1% online) unexplained plan to the
results will show where Racine County = 76.1% Total (63.5% online)
communities need  new construction and Milwaukee County = 68.5% Total (55.5% online) next; and unlawful
schools, new clinics, new Lake County = 76.7% Total (67.9% online)
roads, and more services the  Supplemental Nutrition sacrifices of completeness
for families, older adults, and State of Wisconsin =
children. The results will also Assistance Program, also 72.0% Total (59.2% online) - #3 in nation and accuracy of the 2020
inform how hundreds of
billions of dollars in federal known as SNAP and other State of Minnesota = census are upending the
funding are allocated to 75.0% Total (62.9% online) - #1 in nation
more than 100 programs, critical programs and status quo, violating the
including Medicaid, school State of Washington =
services.  Because of the 72.2% Total (62.4% online) - #2 in nation injunction order, and

current pandemic, there will The 2020 Census can be completed: undermining the credibility
• online at: 
be an urgent need for of the Census Bureau and
https://my2020census.gov/
funding over the next 10 • by phone at:  the 2020 census," Koh

years for programs to help • English : 844-330-2020
• Spanish: 844-468-2020
communities impacted by • by mail:  return 2020 Census questionnaire

COVID-19.

It also determines how

seats in Congress are

distributed among the 50

states. An accurate count

will determine how many

seats Wisconsin and the

other 49 states will get in the

U.S. House of

Representatives. This

representation is based off a

state’s population.

In March of 2020, the U.S.

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In Midwest, Trump’s ‘law and order’
message wins some, loses others

If President Donald York Times/Siena College
Trump’s portrayal of himself poll.
as the avatar of “law and
order” is going to help him In Wisconsin, which Mr.
at the 2020 ballot box Trump won narrowly in
anywhere, it might be here in 2016, he trails Mr. Biden by
the key swing states of the 6.7 points, according to
Upper Midwest. FiveThirtyEight. Charles
Franklin, a government
The target for the scholar and director of the
president’s tough message is Marquette Law School Poll in
white suburban and rural Milwaukee, says that the
voters worried by protests president’s visit to Kenosha
that have, on occasion, led to in the wake of the
arson and looting. And in destruction there improved
2020, Minnesota and his standing in the eyes of
neighboring Wisconsin have Republicans. But in a sense
been at the epicenter of the he was preaching only to the
social justice uproar over choir.
police violence against Black
Americans, after the death of “He’s not driving up his James Pierce campaigns at the Edina farmers market in Minnesota. Mr. Pierce, an executive at Cargill, a global food
George Floyd under an vote margin much, if at all, corporation, is running for Edina City Council. “Our city council has been all white for forever, I don’t know how many years,"
officer’s knee in Minneapolis, because he’s not shifting the
and the shooting of Jacob views of independents he says. "We need a different perspective."
Blake in Kenosha. whose votes might change,”
says Dr. Franklin.
Four years ago, most election, doubling their earlier, former President unprecedented turnout in
Indeed, in Wayzata, a leafy The “Blue Wall” pundits considered it a no- Barack Obama won by rural corners of these states.
town 16 miles from where brainer that Minnesota and outreach to voters and almost 8 percentage points. Still, the 2020 outcome here
Mr. Floyd was killed, it’s not Wisconsin would go blue. may ultimately hinge on the
hard to find residents who President Trump has made Both have long histories of tripling their number of field Mr. Trump has long suburbs.
say the unrest has increased voting Democratic on the considered Minnesota the
their support for President clear in recent days that he national level. offices. Meanwhile, one that got away in 2016, For proof, look no farther
Trump. His uncritical support and in 2020 it may be one of than the 2018 midterms. In
for police and diatribes will not abandon his “law and So many were shocked Democratic nominee Hillary his few potential pickup Wisconsin, incumbent
about “violent left-wing when Mr. Trump made both states. To this point, the Republican Gov. Scott
extremists” appears to be order” rhetoric regardless of states competitive, winning Clinton thought the Badger Trump campaign plans to Walker lost reelection
solidifying and energizing his Wisconsin (and neighboring spend more on ads in largely because he
base. its apparent inability to move Michigan) while coming State was such a sure thing Minnesota than Wisconsin underperformed in the
within metaphorical inches or Michigan. suburbs, with a big decline in
the needle in key states to of winning Minnesota as well. that she never visited over his vote margin in the
To be sure, Mr. Trump traditionally GOP “WOW”
this point. His Twitter feed In 2016, the GOP built an the course of her campaign. stormed through the “Blue counties. In Minnesota,
impressive ground game in Wall” of the Midwest
continues to feature all-caps Wisconsin prior to the She lost to Trump by 0.7 because of his See LAW & ORDER on page 7

bursts of the phrase “LAW percent.

AND ORDER!” on a regular Mrs. Clinton won
Minnesota, long the bluest
Yet overall, polls indicate basis. At a recent rally in Upper Midwest state, by 1.5
that the “law and order” percentage points – the
tactic, reminiscent of the way Moon Township, smallest Democratic margin
Richard Nixon ran for the in decades. Four years
presidency in 1968, isn’t Pennsylvania, a wealthy and
boosting Mr. Trump much in
these northern states – or at mostly white suburb of
least, not enough to win.
Pittsburgh, Mr. Trump

invoked the “violent left-wing

extremists” he claimed are

supporting Mr. Biden.

In Minnesota – a state his “They will rip your cities PROTBALXEMS?
apart,” he said. “They will go
campaign is trying hard to to the suburbs next.”

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charged that if Mr. Biden
Biden by 8.8 percentage “ever got to run this country
... our suburbs would be
points, according to a gone.” (“He wouldn’t know a
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19 has increased
Does the federal wealth of world's
government's budget billionaires
deficit matter?
Even after the in turbulent but trailblazing
In a Q&A column this devastating economic
summer, I wrote about the impact of the COVID-19 times," the report states.
nation's ballooning debt and crisis, the world's richest
deficit. Many of you followed billionaires are increasing "While the COVID-19
up and wanted a deeper dive their wealth, according to a
about federal borrowing, so report Wednesday from crisis dominates 2020, the
here goes. Swiss bank UBS and
PricewaterhouseCoopers. potential for
To calculate the deficit,
take the nation's revenue transformative innovation
(the amount of money that
the government takes in), has never been greater.
and subtract the amount of
money that the government Jill Schlesinger, CFP, is a The 44-page report, "Those that are the
spends. For fiscal year 2020, CBS News business analyst. A titled "Riding the Storm," innovators and the
the Congressional Budget says billionaires' wealth disruptors, the architects
Office (CBO) projects a former options trader and topped $10.2 trillion for of creative destruction in
federal budget deficit of $3.3 CIO of an investment the first time in history at the economy, are still
trillion in 2020 ($3.3 trillion the end of July -- topping increasing their wealth."
in revenue and $6.6 trillion advisory firm, she welcomes the previous record of
in spending), which, comments and questions at higher interest rates on its until those imbalances create $8.9 trillion (2017). It also The report noted,
according to CBO, "is more debt, then investors would inflation. When inflation said the number of though, that some
than triple the shortfall [email protected]. likely lend money to the becomes a problem, federal billionaires has increased billionaires are not
recorded in 2019, mostly Check her website at government, rather than the legislators would step in and by 31, to a total of 2,189, benefiting from the crisis --
because of the economic www.jillonmoney.com private sector, because it would provide economic since 2017. those "on the wrong side
disruption caused by the would be seen as a safer stabilizers. Rosell countered of economic, technological,
2020 coronavirus pandemic due to the 2017 tax cuts. But alternative. If the private by saying that M.M.T. is a societal and environmental
and the enactment of the pandemic recession, sector can't access financing, "beautiful theory", but the trends."
legislation in response." along with all of the spending then growth and devil is in the details and she
associated with keeping the productivity would be lower, does not believe that we "We have seen before The experts noted,
Deficits (and their rarer country afloat, has increased reducing future economic could rely on fiscal policy however, that billionaires
siblings, surpluses) are that share to 98% for fiscal growth. (meaning Congressional how a cohort of billionaire have also given more to
calculated on an annual basis. 2020, which concludes in action) to come to the philanthropy -- with more
The federal debt held by the September, and it is Just in time for historic rescue. innovators and disruptors, than 200 contributing a
public is the amount a expected to surpass 100% deficits, is a new book by combined total of $7.2
country must borrow to in 2021 and increase to economist Stephanie Kelton, The pandemic response active in tech, healthcare billion during the first few
fund its annual deficit. CBO 107% in 2023, which would "The Deficit Myth: Modern may illustrate both of their months of the pandemic.
notes that next year will be a be the highest in the nation's Monetary Theory and the cases: early on, Congress and industry, have
milestone, and not a good history. Birth of the People's acted and spent $2.2 trillion
one: in 2021, the US debt will Economy." Last year, I to spur the economy, while contributed to reshaping
grow larger than the total For years, economists moderated a debate recently, lawmakers remain
economy for the first time have warned that deficits are between Kelton and Marci stalemated on new stimulus. the economy," Josef
since 1946, right after the necessary in extreme times- Rosell, the former chief M.M.T. may not be the
government financed World -and a global health economist for CNBC, during answer, but given that the Stadler, head of the Global
War II. The calculation, pandemic certainly qualifies. which Kelton laid out the Federal Reserve is likely to
known as debt-to-Gross But many of you asked thesis for Modern Monetary keep interest rates at zero Family Office at UBS Jose Maria Vera,
Domestic Product (GDP), is what's the problem with Theory (M.M.T.): budget for a long time, the U.S.
a way to make sense of these persistent, large deficits? The deficits are not three-alarm could be conducting a real- Global Wealth executive director of
huge numbers. traditional answer is that as fires for those governments time, long-term experiment
the government is forced to with their own currency on the impact of debt and Management, and Marcel global nonprofit Oxfam
Debt-to-GDP was already borrow more money, (like the U.S.), as long as deficits on economic
getting pretty big last year, interests rates rise, and there is full employment and growth. Tschanz, head of banking International, said
increasing to 79%, primarily those rising rates "crowd
out" investment in the advisory at PwC Wednesday's report is
private sector. Here's a
simple way of thinking about Switzerland, said in the more proof that the global
crowding out: if the
government has to pay report's foreword. economy works mostly for

"COVID-19 accelerated the richest few -- and
this trend dramatically by
demonstrating the value of against the vast majority of
the digital world they
helped to create, they the world's population.
were able to decisively pull
ahead of the pack as they "COVID-19 has been
increased their wealth tragic for the many but
while others' fell." good for a privileged few,"
Vera said. "The economic
The analysis said crisis we are suffering
because of the pandemic
scientists, computer has been fueled by a rigged
economic model.
programmers and
"The world's largest
engineers are
corporations are making
revolutionizing industries
In-store traffic expected to slow up to billions at the expense of
25% this holiday season at "a pace never seen
low wage workers and
before," and that their
funneling profits to
work in the tech and
shareholders and
In-store traffic for the six "While COVID-19 compared with 46.5% health sectors has helped
is reshaping the way last year, the forecast billionaires -- a small group
weeks of the 2020 holiday U.S. consumers are predicts. increase fortunes.
currently shopping of largely white men in rich
season is expected to be and will shop for the "Black Friday in the "Today's billionaires live
2020 holiday season, past was so big, it was nations."
down between 22% and retailers should typically double the
remain optimistic," traffic of Super
25% from last year, retail Sensormatic Saturday," said Brian
Solutions President Field, ShopperTrak's
research provider Bjoern Peterson said senior director of
in the statement. retail consulting
ShopperTrack announced. "Since the beginning practice. "It's not
of the pandemic, we've going to be that way
Johnson Controls' noticed a shift toward this year."
weekday shopping as
Sensormatic Solutions consumers take advantage Retailers have stocked
of the new remote work shelves with holiday items
released the annual reality while also before Halloween to avoid
consciously avoiding the last-minute crowding.
ShopperTrack list of historically large weekend Companies have also
crowds. We expect this spread out sales events to
predicted busiest shopping trend to continue into the give shoppers more time to
buy gifts.
days in the United States. holiday season. U.S.
consumers continue to be
The day after more purposeful in their
Thanksgiving, known as shopping journeys, so
Black Friday, Nov. 27, is retailers need to make sure
predicted to be the busiest they capitalize on every in-
shopping day, followed by store visit."
the Saturday before
Christmas, Super Saturday, The 10 busiest shopping
Dec. 19, and the day after days will account for 34.2%
Christmas, Dec. 26. of holiday traffic this year

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Trump confronts twin challenges:
health and credibility

All presidents shade the Conley that he “may not a steady diet of false or be irresponsible to give out Mr.Trump urges government President Trump and the
truth, spin, dissemble, over- entirely be out of the woods too much information, approval of a vaccine by presidency as an institution,”
promise, or outright lie at yet.” The White House has misleading claims, because it could be Election Day. On Tuesday, the adds Ms. Kumar, an emeritus
times. Sometimes they lie to its own medical unit, staffed misinterpreted.” Food and Drug professor at Towson
protect national security or 24/7, the doctor noted to intentionally or not – Administration released University in Maryland. “The
to hide embarrassing reporters as he defended Still, in the presidency – tough new guidelines for the White House staff is
personal conduct. the decision to allow the including potentially leading the American institution emergency release of a responsible to the
president to go home. with the biggest megaphone coronavirus vaccine, which presidency as an institution,
But with just four weeks the public not to believe the on the planet – perhaps the are designed to boost public not just to Donald Trump.”
until Election Day, as most precious commodity of confidence in the vaccine –
President Donald Trump president during an all is credibility. but will make it unlikely that Mr. Trump’s decades
himself faces down the a vaccine is released before running privately held
coronavirus that has killed emergency such as a 9/11- “There are three keys to Election Day. The White businesses that don’t answer
209,000 Americans, a long- credibility,” Republican House had reportedly to shareholders have likely
building lack of credibility style attack, communications strategist Whit Ayres says he blocked the new guidelines fed his impulse as president
with a majority of the public tells clients. “Never defend for two weeks. to treat White House staff
may be his biggest weakness. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump experts say. the indefensible, never deny the same way – as
the undeniable, and never employees loyal only to him
Only 34% of American tweeted that he was “In past presidencies, lie.” and not as public servants,
adults believe President there was a presumption she suggests.
Trump has relayed truthful “looking forward” to that what you were being Anyone who violates one
information about the virus, told was at least accurate, of those guidelines, much That said, among White
according to a Reuters-Ipsos debating Democratic even if incomplete,” says less two or three, will House staff there’s
poll taken after his own Kathleen Hall Jamieson, destroy their credibility, Mr. frustration that some
diagnosis was revealed last nominee Joe Biden in Miami director of the Annenberg Ayres says. He points to Dr. information about infections
Friday. Public Policy Center at the Anthony Fauci, the nation’s within the building was not
on Oct. 15, the latest sign of University of Pennsylvania. top epidemiologist, and reported in a timely manner.
Mixed messages coming “The presumption has now Republican Gov. Mike Some staff have become
from White House officials, a president projecting good shifted to doubting DeWine of Ohio as public infected themselves, as have
including Mr.Trump’s chief of everything that one is told.” figures with “enormous some members of the press
staff and physician, muddied health, and that he’s eager to credibility and resulting corps. Mask-wearing is now
public perceptions about the popularity” – both examples more common within the
president’s own health status return to the campaign trail. of how it’s possible to Mr. Trump’s push for a White House, but still not
early in his three-day stay at maintain credibility during a vaccine, under Operation universal, staff say.
Walter Reed Medical Nearly four years into the An atomized media pandemic. Warp Speed, has met with
Center. Dr. Sean Conley, the Trump presidency, chronic growing skepticism by the Mr.Trump himself still sets
White House physician, later credibility challenges have environment already marked It’s also essential, Mr.Ayres American public. An NBC the tone on the mask
acknowledged that he made the president’s health says, to remain fact-based News/Survey Monkey poll question. Upon his return to
withheld certain specifics to situation – and larger public by political polarization, when making highly released in mid-September the White House on
lift the president’s spirits. messaging around the consequential decisions, showed only 39% of Monday, he pulled his mask
pandemic – all the more disinformation, and such as whether or how to Americans said they would away from his face and
By Monday evening, Mr. potentially destabilizing. reopen the economy and be willing to get the vaccine, entered the building,
Trump had made a triumphal From misstating the crowd freewheeling social media schools before a vaccine down from 44% the month maskless, with staff standing
return to 1600 Pennsylvania size on Inauguration Day to becomes widely available. before. nearby.
Avenue, despite an claims that Mexico will pay has made efforts to keep the
acknowledgment from Dr. for the wall on the U.S. The vaccine question itself By Doug Struck
southern border, Mr. Trump public accurately informed has become politicized as
has racked up thousands of
false statements, some all the more difficult. “This White House has
merely comical or obvious been challenged from the
exaggeration, others more A mutual distrust between beginning on its credibility,”
consequential. the White House and its says Martha Joynt Kumar, a
press corps can also lead to political scientist who has
misfires. observed White House
operations from inside the
As a showman and “The messaging around building’s press quarters for
salesman, Mr. Trump can be Trump’s health wasn’t as decades. “It’s a sad situation
excused some hyperbole crisp as it could have been that people believe they
and imprecision, his because [officials] didn’t can’t believe a president.”
defenders say. But there can know who they could trust,”
be larger consequences to says a GOP strategist “There appears to be little
feeding the American people regularly briefed on White
House and campaign understanding of the
strategy. “They felt it would
difference between

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Marks each year to the 50 states I’ve been a community and families . Throughout 2020 Census. The best
impacting everyone from our the years I added lesson I’ve learned
youngest to our oldest. advocate and activist since I neighborhood revitalization, throughout my career is to
programs for youth and listen and be a better
continued from page 2 was 13 years old. I’ve young adults, strong listener. I found it very
emphasis on equal and difficult to understand where
How did you become dedicated my life to helping quality education, specifically a person is coming from if
involved in the Complete for our children of color. you don’t first listen to them
Census Bureau sent every once every-decade count of Count Committee for the and empowering others to And now I’ve added the – learn their story. It’s
household in each state an everyone living in the US Census? valuable work I’m doing with important.
invitation to complete a country. It is mandated by be self-sufficient . It’s just Keeping Kenosha Beautiful,
simple questionnaire about Article I, Section 2 of the Kenosha Parks Alliance and By Katherine Marks
who lives at their address on Constitution and takes place who I am and what I do. In
April 1st. People have the every 10 years.
opportunity to respond Mayor John Antaramian the Lincoln neighborhood
online, by phone, or by mail. Is it mandatory to
Data collection for the 2020 participate in the 2020 asked me be the Team Lead were I grew up and still live,
Census is planned to census? 
continue through Saturday, for the City of Kenosha’s I was surrounded by adults
October 31, 2020. Responding to the 2020
Census fulfills a person’s civic Complete Count who most would say were
duty because it’s mandated
by the U.S. Constitution. The Committee after the common folks but I call them
United States has counted its
population every 10 years previous team lead resigned amazing grassroots
since 1790.
and took a new position with organizers. Whether they A brief history of
How will the Census the US census
results affect the every day another business. were Black, White or
person?
Hispanic, they wanted and
Completing the census by
Is completing a 2020 answering just 9 questions Does gender and race fought for a better Kenosha, The U.S. Constitution complexity of the
Census safe? can help our community for have any importance in
the next 10 years. completing the census? better neighborhoods, requires only that the decennial census,

Federal law keeps Census Responding to the census better and equal education, decennial census be a Congress enacted
is not only your civic duty, it
responses safe, secure and also affects the amount of The Office of Management better programs and better population count. Since legislation creating a
Federal funding Kenosha and
confidential. The law is clear the State of Wisconsin and Budget (OMB) is the living conditions. I call them the first census in  1790, permanent Census Office
receives and how our
– no personal information communities plans for the business division of the all my heroes. Because I’ve however, the need for within the Department of
future. An accurate count of
can be shared. Under Title our community helps inform Executive Office of the been mentored and trained useful information about the Interior on March 6,
how hundreds of billions of
13 of the U.S. Cod, the dollars might get used each President of the United by the best, unknowing to the United States' 1902. On July 1, 1902, the
year for public services like
Census Bureau cannot clinics, schools, public transit, States that administers the me they were preparing me population and economy U.S. Census Bureau
and hundreds of programs.
release any identifiable Nearly each American citizen United States federal budget for the role of being an became increasingly officially "opened its
benefits in many ways from
information about billions of dollars distributed and oversees the elected official. I always say, I evident. doors" under the

individuals, households or performance of federal didn’t choose it – it chose leadership of William Rush

businesses, even to law agencies. The OMB states, me. The decennial census Merriam.

enforcement agencies. "many federal programs are Throughout your career, steadily expanded

put into effect based on the you have been involved in throughout the nineteenth In 1903, the Census

The law states that the race data obtained from the several community century. By the turn of the Office was moved to the

Census information decennial census (i.e., organizations, which century, the demographic, newly created Department

collected may only be used promoting equal experience have you found agricultural, and economic of Commerce and Labor. It

for statistical purposes and employment opportunities; to be the most successful segments of the decennial remained within

no other purpose – the assessing racial disparities in and satisfying? census collected Commerce when

responses to the Census health and environmental information on hundreds Commerce and Labor split

cannot be used against in risks). Race data are also I have found them all to be of topics. The work of into separate departments
rewarding in many different
one in any way. critical for the basic research ways for many reasons. Each processing these data kept in 1913.
experience with the many
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Law & Order

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Democrats flipped two So we need a different
perspective. We need
previously Republican multiple perspectives,” he
says.“Given everything that’s
congressional seats in the been going on politically, I
wanted to have a bigger
Minneapolis suburbs – impact in society.”

victories that helped them

regain a majority in the U.S.

House.

The president’s “law and To illustrate how, he tells a

order” message is likely a story about political lawn

thinly-veiled attempt to stop signs.

this suburban vote erosion Supporters had been Colleen Miner provides voting information at the Edina, Minnesota farmers market. She says that after the death of George
before November.And in the putting his signs up at night Floyd she was "stunned" to realize racism was still a problem in Minneapolis. “I feel ashamed that I didn’t know about it
Milwaukee and Twin Cities so they’d have an impact before, but I know it now,” she says. “And I’ve got to do something about it.”
suburbs it may be working when people woke up and
to some extent. Local saw them.They had about 20
Republicans say it is left, so Mr. Pierce decided
particularly appealing to one evening to take them
white women, a voter group out and deliver them himself.
that was soft for the party in The sun had set, and his wife
the 2018 midterms. Stephanie looked at him and

“Sure, there are some said, “Well no, you can’t do to Vote” sign. that the Midwest is a hotbed, shorts sipping on a large iced down the ballot – are too
says Christy Clark-Pujara, a Starbucks drink, says she soft on crime.
women who are on the that.” Ms. Miner has always historian at the University of made herself vote for Mr.
voted herself, but that was Wisconsin-Madison. Trump in 2016 because she “It seems like the cities
fence, but that is getting “So, I did a post to thank the limit of her political didn’t like Mrs. Clinton. But with Democratic leaders,
slimmer and slimmer my supporters and say that I activism. No more, she says When she travels to the now, she says she’s excited they’re just letting this run
because of Kenosha,” says had this conversation with – the turmoil of American U.S. coasts, Ms. Clark-Pujara, to vote for the president in rampant,” says Mickey.
Nancy Kormanik, president my wife saying I shouldn’t go politics since the election of a Black woman who has lived November. She believes he “Whether that reflects on
of the Republican Women of out, and I talked about why,” President Trump has woken in the Midwest her entire knows how to get the Biden personally, I don’t
Waukesha County in he says. her up. life, says people are surprised economy back on track, and know – but it sure reflects
Wisconsin. “This is all to hear where she’s from. unlike the Minneapolis on the party.”
happening too close for Mr. Pierce grew up in “I think of Minneapolis as And when she’s on campus mayor and Minnesota
comfort.Too close.” Montgomery,Alabama. In the a well-run, fair and just city – in Madison, locals are governor, he will put a stop As for the polls showing
Deep South, racism was so and after George Floyd, we surprised to hear she’s a to protest-related violence. Mr. Biden with durable leads
Ms. Kormanik says her overt that he just had lower find out it has a huge amount professor. in both Wisconsin and
membership has tripled over expectations for the people of racism. I was stunned “They even had to board Minnesota, Ms. Kormanik, of
the past three years, now who lived there, he says. In because I’m in Edina, I’m in “A lot of times the media up here in Wayzata for the the Republican Women of
totaling around 145. And 10 the Midwest, when he this bubble,” says Ms. Miner, uses the term ‘Midwest’ to [George Floyd] protests, and Waukesha County, says they
of those new members were encounters similar attitudes, periodically interrupting mean ‘white,’” says Ms. that was really sad,” says are likely inaccurate because
spurred to join after the it affects him more. herself to ask passersby if Clark-Pujara, adding that her Doreen, who declines to of “shy Trump” voters who
events in nearby Kenosha, they have questions on how own field of Midwest racial give her last name. “I think won’t tell pollsters who they
she says. “Because here, I have a to vote by mail. history has really only the whole state will go red in really favor.
higher expectation of developed over the past 15 Minnesota for the first time
But suburbs are changing people,” he says. “I feel ashamed that I years. in forever,” she adds. “The majority of women
didn’t know about it before, in Waukesha County are not
all over America. They are In certain communities, but I know it now,” she says. “So when we envision, as a Further down the block, confrontational. They will
people think racism is a thing “And I’ve got to do nation, the Midwest as this Nanci is walking toward her show their support at the
becoming more racially and of the past, that they’ve something about it.” white space, something like car with her husband and polls and they will bring their
come far and evolved, Mr. Kenosha feels surprising,” mother, carrying a bag of families to the polls, but they
economically diverse, Pierce says. Midwest racism she says. leftover food from their will not come out and say
seafood lunch on the water. who they really support,”
changing their political Over the past several Perhaps it shouldn’t. Last She says they spent lunch says Ms. Kormanik. “The
years, with the rise of the year, Milwaukee was rated talking about the presidential women here are the silent
outlooks. That’s happening ubiquitous cell phone #1 in the country for racial race – all agreeing that majority.”
camera, filmed incidents of disparities by 24/7 Wall violent protests in nearby
even here, in the prosperous lethal police force against Street, a Delaware-based cities this summer made By Story Hinckley
Black Americans – often by financial news and opinion them more determined to
suburbs of the states at the “One of the things I do to white officers – have company, with nearby vote for Mr.Trump. Although Tune in to
surfaced across the country, Racine,Wisconsin, coming in they live just 20 minutes Happenings Q&A,
top of the Mississippi River. try to shake people out of often invoking outrage, second and Minneapolis outside of Minneapolis, she AM1050 WLIP, on
sometimes inciting violence. coming in fourth. Nine of the says they don’t go into the Thursday, October
James Pierce for City that thinking is, I say, ‘You top 10 cities on the 24/7 list city anymore due to the 15th, at 1:30 pm when
Council know, I’m 51 and I’m the first Many of the most viral are located in the Midwest. recent destruction. Christy Clark-Pujara,
person in my family who was incidents occurred in the Associate Professor
From a distance, the very born with the right to vote,’” Midwest. “The silent majority” “All of this violence in and Graduate Advisor
tall Black man stands out in he says. these Democratic cities – in the Department of
the largely white crowd at In 2014, for example, In the suburbs the Democrats don’t do Afro-American Studies
the farmer’s market in Edina, But there’s another thing Michael Brown, a teenager, surrounding Minneapolis and anything about it,” she says. at the University of
Minnesota, a suburb of that’s different about the and Tamir Rice, a child, were Milwaukee, a number of “Trump is for law and order, Wisconsin Madison
Minneapolis that is 88% Midwest, he adds. People are both shot by white police white voters said they and so are we.” joins the show to
white, according to the 2010 willing to do something officers in Ferguson, approve of President Trump discuss this story.
census. He is wearing a navy about it – to try to make a Missouri, and Cleveland, and his “law and order” Outside the post office in
shirt that says, “James Pierce change to beat racism back. Ohio, respectively. In 2016 rhetoric. If anything, some Elm Grove, Wisconsin, a
Philando Castile was killed said, recent events had only small town that proudly
for City Council.” His wife Stephanie is at by a Hispanic police officer solidified their intention to proclaims itself “Rated #1
while inside his car in a vote for him in the 2020 suburb by Business Insider in
It is Mr. Pierce himself, the heart of a virtual book suburb outside St. Paul, election. 2014,” Mickey, an
accompanied by his wife and club consisting of herself and Minnesota.And this year saw administrative assistant with
daughters, who are also 19 white women, and that’s the death of Minneapolis’ Strolling along downtown short blond hair, says the
wearing similar “James all they talk about. It was George Floyd and shooting Wayzata, Minnesota, past a recent unrest in Kenosha has
Pierce” shirts. They have formed when friends of Kenosha’s Jacob Blake. boutique aromatherapy shop only confirmed her suspicion
come to the market to reached out to her following and salons selling $48 that Democrats – up and
campaign while perusing ripe the death of George Floyd. While cases of racial shampoo, Doreen, a tanned
injustice happen across the mom in white Bermuda
tomatoes and flower “They are reading books, country, “it’s not surprising”

bouquets. Mr. Pierce is an finding articles, and then
executive at the global food getting on these calls every

corporation Cargill, and three weeks and saying,

hopes to win an Edina City ‘What can we do

Council seat on November differently?’” Mr. Pierce says.

3. Across the parking lot at

“Our City Council has the farmers market, Colleen

been all white for forever, I Miner, president of the group

don’t know how many years. Edina Indivisible, sits in a

lawn chair in front of a “How

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my turn Republicans will hold that

majority. Democrats,

however, could boycott to

prevent a quorum. But in

those circumstances, could

litigation force the Supreme

A close election Court to intervene to
would be become
a 2021 nightmare order a quorum?

Two tragedies and two massively litigated. Weather Harlan Ullman is UPI's Concurrently, the Senate that office, presumably the person would become
laws could very likely turn and other environmental Arnaud de Borchgrave picks the vice president. A acting president until the
the forthcoming disasters could also affect Distinguished Columnist, a two-thirds quorum of 67 1947 Presidential election were resolved,
presidential election into a voter turnout. It could take senior adviser at the Atlantic members present is providing continuity. That
January nightmare that weeks or longer to resolve Council and author of the required, again subject to a Succession Act applies, in could risk a split ticket with
directly threatens the not only vote count but the upcoming book, "The Fifth boycott. Senate rules do a president and vice
Constitution and the legal challenges to Horseman:To Be Feared, not state how or if a which the speaker of the president of different
American political system. candidates for Congress Friended or Fought in a quorum may be ordered. parties. Some might
and the presidency. But be assured if there House is next in line, (idealistically) argue that
The New York Times' MAD-Driven Age." were a majority party, it would be one means of
reporting on President Despite the political would try to find a followed by the Senate closing the intense partisan
Donald Trump's tax returns firestorm over the urgency Harlan Ullman joins parliamentary workaround divide.
adds another level of to confirm Ginsburg's Happenings Q&A on or loophole to choose president pro tempore. But
uncertainty. successor, that vote will Thursday, Oct. 22nd at their candidate. If the A combination of
take place possibly before 2:30 on AM1050 WLIP. House cannot determine a that act would likely be unprecedented events and
The coronavirus the election, giving the winner, and the Senate has ambiguous law will test the
pandemic, the death of president a 5-4 and possibly commission chose the selected a vice president, Constitution and make this
Supreme Court Justice 6-3 majority, depending winner. that person becomes acting election unlike any in the
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the upon how the chief justice president. nation's history. Jan. 20
Electoral College Act of votes. And make no The Electoral College could arrive with no
1887 and the Presidential mistake: There is a very Act of 1887 determines With a highly contested challenged on several legal obvious means of breaking
Succession Act of 1947 are good chance the court will how electors are election, only the most these possible deadlocks. A
ingredients in a potential decide the presidential determined, by whom and powerful incentives or grounds, whether justified conclusive electoral victory
political nuclear time bomb election as it did in 2000. who is or is not seated.Yet equally strong forces could by either presidential
made even more given many unresolved induce a deadlocked Senate or not, questioning the candidate would be in the
destructive by the worst In normal and abnormal ambiguities in that act over to decide on a vice nation's best interests.
toxic and divisive partisan times, presidents are each of these questions, president. Perhaps if it were legitimacy of the speaker to Should that not happen, the
environment possibly since elected in one of three there would likely be major clear that one or the other nation too easily will be in
1860. ways: the Electoral College, legal battles challenging of the candidates was become acting president for a January nightmare.
where at least 270 votes interpretation of this law certain to win and the
Why? First, the pandemic are needed: the House of Senate were controlled by when this president's term
means much of the voting Representatives if the In the House, regardless the same party, then
for all offices will be by Electoral college is stymied; of size of the delegation, electing the vice president expires on Jan. 20.
mail. No matter how or as in 1876, when both each state gets a single vote has a certain logic. And if
efficiently carried out, many paths were blocked, a for president. Twenty-six the Senate were divided Under certain bizarre
races will be hotly congressional compromise votes are needed, provided 50-50, would the vice circumstances and if an
contested and probably whereby a 15-man a quorum of two-thrids, or president, who is president 1876 Compromise-like
34 states, is present. If the of the Senate, cast the solution cannot be found,
117th Congress maintains deciding vote? the United States could be
the same composition, without an elected or
acting president. There is
no rule book for this
contingency. One other
possibility, admittedly
remote, could resolve a
deadlock.

If there is no president or If the Senate could agree
vice president to assume on a vice president, that

The ultimate leaders have been infected, challenges. That is at the man — than a man who has
October surprise too. Wearing masks, heart of one of Biden’s learned something he can
frequent handwashing and campaign ads about the share with others who have
President Trump’s It will necessarily curtail practicing social distancing death of his first wife and gone through what he is
his personal appearances does help. It is why the daughter in a car accident. experiencing. He would also
infection with COVID-19 for a time. How long and number of daily cases is We admire such people. It be able to credibly comfort
whether it alters plans for a declining in a few places is part of the American those who have lost loved
adds to a year no fiction second debate depends on (although in the past few story and in our DNA. ones to the virus, instead of
his progress. It may also days some states are orchestrating photo op
writer could have bring some sympathy to reporting slight upticks in Lesson number three antics, like his fast trip
him if he responds in a way new cases and hospital could be the greatest of all. outside the hospital on
contrived. The image of that encourages mask admissions). If the president can Sunday to thank
wearing and other practices demonstrate some humility, supporters. This was bad
Trump last Friday walking that have shown to be Readers may email Cal it might resonate with many optics and an even worse
effective in warding off the Thomas at people. example.
out of the White House coronavirus.
[email protected]. There is no greater This should not be seen
wearing a mask and Look for Cal Thomas’ new testimony than the one as a political tactic, though it
book “America’s Expiration who can say, “I once was would have obvious
traveling by helicopter to Date:The Fall of Empires and The president might also blind, but now I see.” It is a political benefits, but
Superpowers and the Future story from Scripture found something genuine in a city
Walter Reed National appeal to former Vice in John 9:25 about a blind and in a political climate
of the United States” man Jesus heals. The man that is increasingly phony
Military Medical Center President Joe Biden, who explains to skeptical and cynical.
If he recovers — and Pharisees that he doesn’t
was an optic we have not everyone with an ounce of properly pulled Trump know anything about the The year 2020 has been
goodwill for a fellow human Man who healed him; all he filled with numerous
seen with this president, being should hope he does attack ads last Friday knows is that he now has surprises. Seeing a “new,” or
— he should not engage in his sight whereas before he at least a slightly different
and it was sobering. A Wall Street Journal triumphalism, as if he is afternoon, following the didn’t. President Trump emerge
Superman, but deliver a triumphantly and humbly
Trump usually makes editorial had it right: “The nationally televised address White House The president was from this personal
remarks to the press, but saying what he has learned initially off Twitter and out challenge, would be the
this time he gave no more shame is that America’s from the experience and announcement, to take the of public view. He has a ultimate October surprise.
than a thumbs-up. Before what the country can also chance, if he will seize it, to
departing he tweeted a media have peddled the learn. virus off the table as a emerge — if not a different
brief video thanking
Americans for their fiction that every new The first lesson is that no campaign issue and stop the
support. one is guaranteed complete
COVID case represents a immunity from the virus. blame game, though CBS
Democrats and foreign
failure of policy. Their line News reports, “It may take

now is that Mr. Trump’s a little time to pull all of the

infection is karma because ads down.” It would be a

he didn’t take the disease rare moment of

Will this experience seriously enough. In cooperation between

produce changes in his remarks Friday, Joe Biden fellow countrymen.

campaign? More also came close to indulging The second lesson is that
Americans have sympathy,
importantly, will it inject a the karma explanation, even empathy, for people
who have overcome
dose of humility into his while disclaiming

personae? partisanship.”

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specific barriers stood out: 35% of the the ADRC.
ADRC voting calls were questions from
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Train gift may
derail family

Dear Amy: About eight gift, it is theirs to do with as You can email harmonious home? — In a home? case over lunch or sent
years ago, I gave my 4-year- they please, and it does not Amy Dickinson at Quandary links in emails. I never did. I
old grandson a train set for bother me. [email protected] This is the very essence have a couple of
Christmas. He enjoyed it or send a letter to Dear Quandary: I have of “none of her business.” relatives/friends who post
and we played with it The problem is, my wife Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, an idea: How about your Your relationship with your on FB extolling their
together for several years. of four years does not Freeville, NY 13068. wife keep her thoughts to grandson predates your support for the candidate I
He eventually outgrew it. agree. She thinks it was You can also follow her on herself, thereby ensuring relationship with your wife. find objectionable, and my
extremely rude of my Twitter @askingamy both a solid relationship, as It is separate from your choice is just to scroll by
Now, he is 12. He grandson and his parents to well as a harmonious wife.You have every right to and not engage.
recently discovered the sell a personal gift that I got or Facebook. conduct your relationship
train set in the closet. He him for Christmas without with the boy the way you My husband says, “You’ve
wanted to sell it to get at least consulting me about parents (she has indicated choose to. Furthermore, I been treated unfairly and
money to buy some it. that she will). I don’t want happen to agree with your poorly, so consider it done
AirPods, which cost about her to create hard feelings. stance regarding the gift. It and move on.” Still, there’s a
what he could get for the I told my wife that even was not a family heirloom. deep hurt over this.
train set. So, with his though it might have been Not only that, if it does It has been recycled, and
parents’ help, he put it nice for them to tell me come to that, should I side now another child will Your suggestions? —
online, sold it, and got the that they were going to do with my son and his wife enjoy it. Hurt
AirPods. this, I honestly do not care. because I agree with them,
causing my wife to be mad If your wife has the gall to Dear Hurt: You seem to
I think this is great! I I am worried that my wife at me, or side with my wife, bring this up to the boy’s believe that others should
believe that once you give a is going to say something even though I disagree, just parents in your presence, use Facebook, and respond
about this to the grandson's to make a more you should say to her, to postings, the way you do.
“Well, I completely disagree But when you post opinions
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Dear Amy: A friend of somewhat disingenuous.
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Security Margenau has the answer.

My inbox has been president misspoke. Contact him at
inundated with emails from thomas.margenau@comcast.
worried senior citizens But then, just a couple of net.To find out more about really means to say is he President Donald Trump or the last five years, about
who tell me they have days later, on Aug. 12,Trump Tom Margenau and to read plans to end the obligation President Joe Biden will 10,000 of us have been
heard that President told another group this: that people making less appoint some kind of signing up for Social
Donald Trump will end "We'll be terminating the past columns and see than $8,000 per month bipartisan commission on Security every single day.
Social Security if he is (Social Security) payroll tax features from other Creators would have to eventually Social Security reform. And that trend is going to
reelected and that the trust after I, hopefully, get pay the deferred Social continue for the next 15
funds will dry up in 2023 elected. We'll be Syndicate writers and Security tax payments. The last time that years.
and all Social Security terminating the payroll tax, cartoonists, visit the Creators happened was in 1982,
checks will stop going out. so that will mean anywhere But then, at a subsequent following Ronald Reagan's And the solution to that
from $5,000 to even more Syndicate website at press conference, Trump election as president.At the demographic challenge is
I can't imagine the per family, and also great for www.creators.com. told reporters: "If I'm time, Social Security was not a payroll tax cut (unless
president has plans to end businesses and great for victorious on Nov. 3, I plan facing an economic crunch it is accompanied by
Social Security. But it jobs." I can hear many of you to forgive these taxes and not too dissimilar to the massive and immediate
doesn't help that he puts saying, "Huh, what does that make permanent cuts to one that plagues the system benefit cuts). The solution
his famous foot in his Well, this led to a mean?" So, now let me the payroll tax. So, I'm going today. The commission, will likely involve another
famous mouth and says clarify the clarification for to make them all headed by Alan Greenspan, mix of long-range benefit
things that people can firestorm of controversy.At the readers of this column. permanent." came up with a mix of cuts and payroll tax
interpret to mean exactly In early August, as one part reforms that included some increases. I will bet the
that. Trump recently made the request of some of an economic stimulus So, you tell me. Is Trump benefit cuts and some tax retirement age will be
some rather unfortunate plan, Trump issued a memo just being Trump and increases. For example, the bumped up to 68 or even
remarks about the Social Democratic senators, the stipulating that people who shooting off his mouth and retirement age was raised 70 (not for near term
Security payroll tax that has make less than $8,000 per saying things he really from 65 to 67. And the retirees but for younger
caused all the uproar. And Social Security month would not have doesn't mean? Or does he schedule for some already people, giving them time to
his aides have been Social Security taxes indeed have plans to ask planned payroll tax plan). And I'm guessing
scrambling to come up with Administration's chief deducted from their Congress to either cut or increases was moved up a either the payroll tax will be
excuses and clarifications. paychecks. That tax break eliminate Social Security few years. (Those are just slightly increased or the
actuary issued a letter began on Sept. 1 and will payroll taxes. If the latter, two of about a couple wage base (the amount
On Aug. 8, the president end on Dec. 31. And it is then how can he justify dozen changes the subject to Social Security
told a gathering of stating that if the payroll tax considered a tax "deferral." another statement he commission tax) will go up significantly.
supporters, "If I'm In other words, the tax made: "We're not going to recommended.) And these will be just two
victorious on Nov. 3 I plan were terminated on Jan. 1, payments would be touch Social Security. I said of a package of reforms that
to make permanent cuts to "deferred" to a later date -- from day one that we're And those reforms will keep the Social Security
the (Social Security) payroll 2021, the disability trust meaning they would have to going to protect Social worked. Social Security has system solvent for
tax." be paid back at some point. Security and we're going to been running in the black generations to come -- no
fund would be permanently (The president does not protect our people." With for the last 40 years. But matter who is sitting in the
Because our Social have the authority to all due respect, Mr. now we face the baby White House.
Security system, like almost depleted in about the change or eliminate the President, you can't have it boomer crunch. For about
every other social Social Security payroll tax, both ways.
insurance system in the middle of calendar year but he can order a deferral
world, operates on a "pay- of the payment of those And now let me add a
as-you-go" basis, meaning 2021 with no ability to pay taxes.) dose of sanity to any
that the income derived discussion of the future of
from today's tax collections disability benefits after that. Social Security. I will bet my
is used to fund tomorrow's next dozen Social Security
Social Security benefits, any And the actuaries further checks that no matter who
such major cuts to the wins the upcoming
Social Security tax would estimated the retirement presidential election, either
have to result in major cuts
to Social Security benefits. and survivors trust fund

The very next day, White would become permanently
House economic adviser
Larry Kudlow told depleted by the middle of
reporters that the
calendar year 2023, with no

ability to pay retirement

and survivor benefits after

that.

Once again, Trump's However, in the same
advisers had to scramble to
explain what he supposedly memorandum, the
meant to say. When asked
at a press conference if the president told his Treasury
president really intended to
end the Social Security secretary that he wanted
payroll tax, White House
Press Secretary Kayleigh him to "explore avenues,
McEnany told reporters he
did not. She clarified, "What including legislation, to
he was meaning yesterday is
that he wants permanent eliminate the obligation to
forgiveness of the deferral."
pay the taxes deferred."

So, according to his
economic advisers and
other aides, when Trump
tells people he plans to end
the payroll tax, what he

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books ‘The Last Million’ refugees to leave
Europe after World War II

Notre Dame cathedral The scattered remnants of refuge in Palestine, a prospect visas, echoing more recent pushback
survived fire, war, European Jewry began to emerge in anathema to Britain because its against taking in victims of the Syrian
and Napoleon’s the summer of 1944 from Nazi leaders sought to avoid civil war.
redecorating concentration camps and forest circumstances that would inflame
hiding places. Arab-Jewish tensions in a tiny but Among the DPs Nasaw chose to
On April 15, 2019, the explosive corner of its crumbling quote is the grandmother of
Cathedral of Notre But their liberation by Allied troops empire.The British were willing to let President Donald Trump’s son-in-law
Dame in Paris caught was just the beginning of a new in only 1,500 DPs each month, and senior adviser, Jared Kushner.
fire. Eyewitnesses in the struggle that lasted long after the war prompting efforts to reach Palestine “Nobody opened their doors to us,”
streets and viewers in Europe officially ended in May illegally. Rae Kushner said in an oral history
around the world waited, 1945. Many more non-Jews from interview.“Nobody wanted to take us
shaken and silent, as the places like Ukraine, Poland, and the Almost 100,000 resettled in Israel in.”
spire fell, and were on Baltic states – fearing communist during the fledgling Jewish state’s first
tenterhooks at the repression back home or retribution year in existence. Nasaw writes that Most Jewish DPs didn’t qualify
thought that its towers for collaborating with the Nazis – the exhilaration of finally leaving under the watered-down DP Act
could be next. soon joined them in limbo. Germany gave way to disappointment reluctantly signed by President Harry
for many who found themselves once Truman in 1948. The “blatantly
Author Agnès Poirier Historian David Nasaw tells the again in a war zone that produced its antisemitic” law excluded those who
vividly re-creates the story of those with nowhere to go own mass wave of displacement entered Germany, Austria, or Italy
scene in her superb when the fighting stopped, who among Palestinians. after 1945 – the period when most
history of the 800-year- landed in the first modern refugee Polish Jews arrived – and set aside a
old cathedral, Notre- camps, in The Last Million: Europe’s The U.S. at first refused to raise majority of visas for refugees with
Dame: The Soul of France. As the inferno raged, Displaced Persons from World decades-old racist quotas that strictly agricultural experience or from
firefighters engaged in “hand-to-hand combat” to avoid a War to Cold War. limited the number of Eastern nations annexed by the Soviets.
total collapse of the structure. They succeeded, but the Europeans allowed to emigrate.
fire, which occurred during restoration work, decimated “They stand as living testimony to Sympathy for the victims of what A second DP Act enacted two
the roof and damaged construction scaffolding. In June of the inescapable truth that the later became known as the Holocaust years later attempted to right some
this year, workers returned to the job of removing pieces dislocations and displacements of the still couldn’t overcome fears about of those wrongs, although by then
of scaffolding, after the pandemic had halted war in Europe did not magically end what some Americans saw as an few Jewish DPs remained in Europe.
reconstruction. President Emmanuel Macron has vowed with the cessation of hostilities, but invasion of undesirable Jews.
the cathedral will reopen in 2024. bled into the postwar period and the By the end of 1951, the final million
Cold War that followed,” Nasaw Some legislators also expressed had scattered across the globe,
The determination to see this landmark rebuilt is writes. fear that the ranks of DPs were full of including nearly 330,000 who settled
testament to the regard that the French have for the subversive communist (or at least in the U.S. Of those, roughly 57,000
cathedral. It is more than a historic building: Its history Nasaw, a two-time Pulitzer Prize pro-Soviet) elements. were Jews.
mirrors that of France.“We thought she was immortal, we finalist, has once again produced an
thought she was made of imperishable matter, we thought extraordinarily well-researched book “We want good blood to come to And because Cold War fears about
she would bury Paris, she would see the end of times, long that is well worth reading, and it's on this country. But we do not want any communist infiltration had long since
after we have all turned to ashes,” Poirier writes. a topic of particular interest to me. ‘rats’ – we have enough of them,” eclipsed concerns about Nazi
Senate Judiciary Chairman Alexander collaborators, more than a few of the
Following the harrowing summary of the fire itself, When my mother was a baby, she Wiley, a Wisconsin Republican, refugees were war criminals.
Poirier backtracks to the 1100s, sketching Paris as a city and my grandparents arrived at a warned during the 1948 debate over
teeming with promise. The bishop of Paris, Maurice de displaced persons’ (DP) camp in legislation designed to increase DP By Seth Stern
Sully, hired an architect to prepare plans for a cathedral of Bensheim, Germany, in the summer of
rare, yet discreet, beauty. “We will never know where he 1946. They joined a massive influx of
came from, whether he was the son of peasants ... or a Jews into the American occupation
relative of Louis VII,” Poirier writes of the unknown zone prompted by a new wave of
original architect. Unnamed, too, are the bishop’s serfs, anti-Semitic violence in their native
who were pressed into service as laborers. Poland. The violence was fueled in
part by the unwillingness of Poles to
Poirier details the cathedral’s design innovations, set in part with Jewish property they'd
motion by the original architect and retained by his taken during the war.
successors, including Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in the 13th
century. She writes that the intent was to project a My family spent less than five
spartan, stringent grandeur. “Her serenity was almost months living in the classroom of a
austere.” Descriptions abound of everything from the former private school, a brief way
smallest iron door fittings to the immense, airy nave. station before sailing on a converted
U.S troopship to New York and
The book is filled with a remarkable cast of historic ultimately starting their lives over on
figures. Poirier notes, for example, Napoleon’s meticulous a New Jersey chicken farm.
if gaudy handiwork in making the edifice acceptable for his
coronation, including the whitewashing of walls and vaults But as Nasaw writes, most of the
(which wrecked frescoes) and the covering of interior quarter million or so Jewish DPs
stone with fabrics and marble floors with carpets. weren’t as fortunate. At first, the U.S.
occupation wouldn’t even separate
Leapfrogging from one historical epoch to another, Jewish victims of Nazi horrors from
Poirier describes how the cathedral survived the Hundred those who might have been their
Years’ War, the French Revolution (during which time it tormentors just months earlier.
was temporarily called the “Temple of Reason”), and World
War II. Yet Poirier suggests that it endures not simply for Eventually, Jewish DPs were
the splendor of its design, nor for the backdrop it provided allowed to form their own “island
for European history, but for our common attachment to communities” where they established
it – a deep-seated connection exemplified in the reaction schools, sports leagues, newspapers,
to the 2019 blaze. and courts. Survivors racing to make
up for all they had lost also began to
Despite France’s pride in its secularism, Poirier writes marry and have children at
that the fire brought forth signs of faith: “Notre-Dame, a extraordinarily high rates.
place where the sacred met the secular, reminded us all of
where we came from in an unexpected and powerful way.” It proved somewhat easier to
offload non-Jewish DPs because they
By Peter Tonguette were described as a solution to
European and South American labor
shortages or Australian
underpopulation.

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The papyrus, the professor, and a
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The story made international Gospel of Jesus’s Wife.” Listen to women take
headlines in 2012. During an academic on the world in these
conference on Egypt’s earliest Questions about the audiobooks
Christians, a renowned feminist authenticity of the papyrus
historian of Christianity announced a surfaced immediately. Doubts Check out a modern, gothic thriller; mini-biographies
potentially momentous discovery: a were raised about everything from displaced young people; a poignant, multigenerational
second-century papyrus fragment, from the perfectly square tale of female Korean divers; and a fact-based novel
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It had the potential to upend many anonymous donor, whose This multigenerational
fundamental precepts of Roman identity King guarded closely. tale of women living on
Catholic dogma, from priestly celibacy an island off the coast of
to the role of women in the Church Sabar, who initially reported Korea details a world in
and in marriage.What began as a quiet on the papyrus for which women have
gathering of scholars quickly morphed Smithsonian magazine and power and authority and
into an international media circus. later for The Atlantic, delves work hard as deep-sea
News of the papyrus fragment spread into these questions far more divers. Two women and
like a brush fire around the globe, rigorously than did King their friendship are at
followed soon by strong and divided herself. While an article on the heart of a tale in
public reaction. the fragment by King was which war and
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The story of that papyrus, and the bizarre events the pages of the prestigious Harvard Theological Review, American occupation, destroy some lives and alter others.
surrounding it, is the subject of “Veritas: A Harvard Sabar was probing deeply into every nook, cranny and Jennifer Lim sounds a bit perfunctory at times, but for the
Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife.” crevice of the fragment’s story, as well as the story of every most part is an appropriate narrator who understands the
Author Ariel Sabar is an experienced journalist. Here he person and every institution associated with it and with correct pronunciation of local names and locales. The
puts his considerable investigative chops to work and King. novel is a beautifully written, sublime piece of fiction; the
fashions a cautionary tale about experts and expertise that narration is a near miss. Grade: A-
is minutely researched and thoroughly absorbing. Sabar does an exemplary job of not only digging into
every facet, and then some, of the story of Fritz and the “We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from
At the center of Sabar’s story is Karen King, the first long con he pulled on King and Harvard, but in digesting it Refugee Girls Around the World” by Malala Yousafzai
woman to be named Hollis Professor of Divinity at all and synthesizing it into a comprehensible and exciting Read by Neela Vaswani, Deepti Gupta, and Malala
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country. An internationally recognized scholar of biblical readers learn about early Christian history, the vagaries of
history, King is a specialist in non-canonical gospels, Copitic script and grammar, the place of papyrus in written Narration is a problem for this otherwise excellent
documents from the first centuries of Christian history communication, methods of dating antiquities, the young adult collection of mini-biographies introduced by
that early Church fathers considered heretical and psychology of the con artist and a great deal more. and featuring Malala Yousafzai. She details her own
excluded from the New Testament. King’s career had been harrowing account before handing the reins over to nine
built on interpreting these apocryphal works, especially the Why was King susceptible to such a fraud? Had the other displaced people – mostly girls and women – whose
Gospel of Mary, which she believed gave a more accurate papyrus proved authentic, it would have lent great support lives were disrupted by war and terrorism.The stories are
understanding of the role of women in the founding of to feminist ideas she had spent much of her career compelling and Malala is an excellent narrator – her
Christianity. What excited King the most about the newly promoting. An identity crisis at Harvard Divinity School diction is clear, her voice almost lyrical, and her pacing and
discovered papyrus was that it described Mary not only as and the desire to gin up some excitement around the polish belie her age. However, many of the stories are read
Jesus’s wife, but as his disciple, equal to his male followers. venerable, if dusty, institution, may have played a part in by Deepti Gupta, who does not have a pleasing voice and
papyrus drama, though both King and the university have whose various accents are a distraction. Otherwise this is
An email in 2010 from someone unknown to her, but refused to shed any light on the question. Despite the powerful and poignant. Grade: B+
identifying himself as a papyrus collector, brought the controversy, King is still the Hollis Professor of Divinity at
fragment to King’s attention. He claimed it was one of Harvard. “The Turn of the Key” by Ruth Ware Read by Imogen
several papyri he had purchased from another collector. Church; Simon & Schuster Audio; 12 hours
Might she be interested? Initially, King brushed him off. Even if the author burrows a bit deep in the weeds in
Abruptly, a year later, apparently convinced of its some of his research, the rewards for the reader are still Ruth Ware is good at writing creepy tales and this novel
authenticity, she got back in touch. Soon, the papyrus was great. In “Veritas,” Sabar turns a complex, esoteric story about a nanny moving into an apparently haunted smart
donated to Harvard, a Smithsonian documentary was in into a page turner, and reaffirms the adage that truth is house takes a gothic trope and modernizes it. Even better
the works and King was off to Rome to announce to the stranger than fiction. is an ending that you won’t see coming and that reframes
world the fragment that she had named, provocatively,“The everything you’ve just heard. Narrator Imogen Church
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around 60 lbs. and is too heavy standing near it until you feel early the next morning when he into the woods with a stern warning,"
to lift. She's a rescue and we ready to ask her to jump into police tweeted. The department  did
love her, but this is a big it. Hopefully, she will have
problem if we have to go to regained some confidence and Cathy M. Rosenthal is a not identify  the flight the raccoon
the vet. She also will feel like trying. If not, keep
sometimes refuse to go on a working at it until she is not longtime animal advocate, attempted to board or if it had
walk displaying same behavior afraid.
as car, neck down, tail between author, columnist and pet checked a bag.
her legs, and legs cemented to If you still can't get her into
the ground. What can I do? - the car and you can't pick her expert who has more than Potty-mouth parrots
Maurice, Old Bethpage, New up, then consider buying a 25 years in the animal removed from zoo
York portable ramp or stairs for her
to use to get into the car. welfare field. Send your pet
Dear Maurice, Your dog Don't feed her before any car
may not be jumping into the trips and give her travel chews questions, stories and tips to A British zoo said five parrots were
car because she is scared of (available at pet stores) in case [email protected]. removed from public display after the
the car, the destination (the her anxiety is related to
vet,) or the journey (car motion sickness. cuddle her as well. However, birds spent their time in quarantine
sickness). Or, she may be together teaching each other to shout
physically unable to jump into Dear Cathy, I read your several weeks after this wandered into a stranger's home and profanities. The  Lincolnshire Wildlife
the car because she is in pain, advice to Cheryl from Long happened, Honey screamed climbed into bed with a resident. Lisa Park said the five African grey parrots,
is a young pup or is a senior Beach, California, who was and ran off when I pulled a bag Marie Buckley said her family's 18- named Eric, Jade, Elsie, Tyson and Billy,
pet. Or, she simply has never asking about how to get her out to put in the bathroom. I month-old ferret, Thomas,  escaped were given to the facility by five
been taught to jump into a car. puppy mill survivor adoptee to realize that she must have from their home in the village of Ince, different owners in the same week, so
I am going to go with scared accept her husband. I have been put into a bag and leading her to post about the pet's the birds were put into quarantine
since she seems scared to go cared for several puppy mill dumped. Obviously, my actions disappearance on social media. Buckley together before going on display. The
for a walk and was never survivors and currently have had brought old memories to said neighbors reported sighting time alone gave the parrots time to
trained to jump into the car. two in my household. When the fore, so I again began just Thomas  in various locations  around teach one another their favorite swear
Dogs need confidence to do Honey, a Maltese/toy poodle sitting nearby, talking quietly to the neighborhood overnight before she words, park officials said. The birds
things, and your little girl first joined my household it her. In time, she overcame her was contacted by a local man named were put on public display, but soon
sounds like she lacks was Jeze, my older dog, who panic and approached me Patrick Newman the following removed when zookeepers discovered
confidence. You can build was the only one who could again. Today she is well morning. Newman said he woke to find the outcome of their time together.
confidence through training. approach her. Honey would socialized as is her 'sister' Thomas had climbed into bed with “They were all swearing," zoo chief
When she "sits" on command shake uncontrollably whenever another Maltese named Elsa. - him. Buckley visited Newman's house executive Steve Nichols  told
and you reward her that builds a human went near her. I Margaret,Victoria, Australia to bring Thomas home. She said CNN.  "We were a little concerned
confidence. Start doing some began sitting quietly talking about the children." Nichols said zoo
basic training (sit, down, stay) with Honey, not trying to get Dear Margaret, Just like Newman quickly grew fond of Thomas officials are hoping keeping the birds
to help her along. her out from wherever she separated will give them an
had sought refuge, just quietly people, animals can be and presented Buckley with a sign he opportunity to clean up their language
To train her to jump into talking to her. I repeated this before returning to public display.
the car, train her to jump on several times over many traumatized, so when they made bearing the pet's name.
the couch or an ottoman, weeks, until finally, Honey
something sturdy, first. Smack advanced towards me and react oddly to a situation, it Travel plans cancelled
your hand on the furniture and reached out her paw and might be an indicator that
say "jump." Dogs generally touched me. I was careful to something happened to them for this raccoon
understand this and will remain softly talking with her,
comply. When she jumps (or not trying to reach out and in their past. Regardless of the Police at a New York state airport
even looks like she is trying to grab her even though I wanted past trauma, I operate from said they foiled a would-be stowaway
jump), say a reward word like so much to hug her. Soon she the position that they just have when a raccoon was caught trying to
Bingo that lets her know she is was approaching me and lost trust in someone at some sneak aboard a place. The  Niagara
moving in the right direction allowing me to not only touch point in their lives. Your Frontier Transportation Authority
and give her a treat. her but also to pick her up and approach to be patient, speak Police Department said  officers at
softly, and sit quietly with Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Honey is the best way to captured a raccoon last week when the
rebuild trust. It can take days, animal was spotted attempting to get
weeks, or even months to

rebuild that trust, but it's Petco to stop selling electronic
'shock' collarsworth the effort you put into

it to see the transformation

occur. Honey and Elsa are Petco announced it will no longer
lucky to have you as their sell specific electronic "shock" collars
parent. and launched a campaign to curb wider

use of the devices.

The pet store chain issued a
statement saying it will halt the sale of
"all human- and bark-activated
electronic pet collars," removing them
from the company's in-store and
online selection.

"Shock collars have been shown to regulate them to only be available for
increase fear, anxiety and stress in dogs purchase by certified training
and we believe there is a better way -- professionals.
positive reinforcement training," Petco
CEO Ron Coughlin said. The announcement was
accompanied by Petco seeking to
Petco said that pet owners who visit rebrand as "Petco, The Health +
the stores will instead be encouraged Wellness Co."
to seek products and services "rooted
in positive reinforcement training "As a health and wellness company,
methods backed by experts" including our mission is focused on improving
a series of online and in-home training pets lives and we think selling shock
classes from trainers certified by the collars does the opposite," Coughlin
company. said. "It's our responsibility to ensure
that we, and others, aren't putting
The company added it will offer a potentially harmful products in the
free introductory class to customers. wrong hands."

Additionally, Petco launched an
online petition calling on other
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available? especially beer, which can long term to prevent future
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Insulin prices up to 8 times higher in U.S. than other countries

The price of the diabetes insulin is in the U.S. than in U.S. wholesale-acquisition
drug insulin is more than other nations around the price for rapid-acting, long-
eight times higher in the world," RAND senior policy acting, and short-acting
United States than in 32 researcher Andrew Mulcahy insulin increased by 15% to
other high-income nations said in a statement. 17% per year from 2012 to
combined, according to a 2016, based on one estimate.
RAND Corp. analysis "Prices in the U.S. are
released. always much higher than The RAND study used
other nations, even if you
The average price per unit assume steep discounts to manufacturer prices for the
across all types of insulin in manufacturer prices in the
the United States is $98.70, United States," he said. analysis. Researchers
which is just over six times
the drug's average price in Insulin is used to control compiled estimates of
Canada -- about $15.70 -- blood sugar levels in people
and just under six times the with insulin-dependent international insulin prices those in other countries, consumer are likely to be effectively cap insulin copays
average price in Britain and diabetes. The drug is sold in they found. four times the average paid for most seniors on
Japan -- about $16.70 -- the many different forms, with by examining industry data in other high-income Medicare at no more than
researchers said. different chemical properties The final, net prices paid nations, they said. $35 for a month's supply.
and different duration of on insulin sales and volume for insulin is likely to be
And the average U.S. price effects. significantly lower than
is nearly 28 times as high as for 2018, comparing the manufacturer prices in the
that of Turkey, which is about List prices in the United United States because
$3.60, they said. States have increased United States to 32 nations rebates and other discounts
dramatically over the past often drive down the price
"This analysis provides the decade, according to that belong to the paid by individuals, according U.S. prices were generally The Centers for Medicare
best available evidence about Mulcahy and his colleagues. to the researchers.
how much more expensive Organization for Economic higher for analog versus and Medicaid Services has
For example, the average Even if such rebates and
Co-operation and discounts drive down prices human insulins and for rapid- said that plans offering the
by as much as 50%, however,
Development. the prices paid by U.S. acting rather than short or new benefit will be available

Although the ratio of U.S. long-acting insulins, in all 50 states, Washington,
prices to other-country
prices varied depending on according to the D.C., and Puerto Rico, during
the comparison country and
insulin category, U.S. prices researchers. open enrollment between
were always higher and often
five to 10 times higher than In May, the Trump Oct. 15 and Dec. 7.

administration announced By Brian P. Dunleavy

that it had reached a deal

with drug manufacturers to

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rfoecoidpe&s CUBAN PORK
ADOBO SALAD
Nutrition News
with Charlyn Fargo 4 New York (top loin) pork chops, 3/4-inch thick
2/3 cup lime juice
Silver Linings
3 cloves garlic, minced
COVID-19 has changed 1 teaspoon ground cumin
the way we buy groceries and
make meals. Data suggests 1/2 to 1 teaspoon salt
that we are eating more at 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
home, shop for groceries 4 1/2-inch-thick slices fresh pineapple, cored
online more and are more 5 ounces arugula, watercress or assorted baby greens
concerned about preparing 1 (14 1/2-ounce) can black beans, drained and rinsed
foods that support our 1/2 small red onion, cut into slivers
immunity.
3 tablespoons olive oil
A survey for Kroger found Charlyn Fargo is a and sodium in our diet. plant-based proteins. 1 teaspoon honey
51% of respondents are registered dietitian with
cooking and baking more In the midst of all the bad -- We are eating more local • For the dressing-marinade mixture, in a small bowl, whisk together
often than before the crisis; SIU Med School in news about COVID-19, there foods. lime juice, garlic, cumin, salt and pepper. Reserve 1/4 cup of the
40% say they are eating more Springfield, Ill. For are some silver linings. mixture for the dressing in the refrigerator.
comfort and indulgent foods; comments or questions, -- Disruptions in our food
40% say they've bought more -- Eating together as a and activity routines have us • For the marinade, transfer remaining mixture to a plastic bag.Add
packaged foods than they contact her at family is helping our kids have rethinking how we define chops, and seal the bag. Refrigerate for 2-4 hours.
usually do; and 46% say they [email protected] better self-esteem, more wellness.
are snacking more or follow her on Twitter success in school and a lower • Prepare a medium-hot fire with charcoal or gas grill. Lightly oil grill
throughout the day. risk of depression. The bottom line is we can grate. Remove chops from marinade, discarding marinade from the
@NutritionRd. use this COVID-19 season to bag. Grill chops and pineapple directly over heat, turning once, until
In a survey commissioned -- Kids are learning to cook focus on healthier eating, pork reaches 145-160 degrees F, about 8 to 11 minutes, followed by
by the California Prune Some 44% are more and, as a result, will be more learning new cuisines and
Board in May, similar results interested in food as likely to eat healthier as committing to an exercise a 3-minute rest. Plate greens on 4 dinner plates.
were found. Some 47.6% of medicine, and another 52.4% adults. routine. • Divide pineapple, black beans and onion onto plates.Top with pork
us are showing greater say they are more interested
preference for packaged in overall wellness routines -- -- We are eating more chops.
products. Another 33.9% exercise, yoga, meditation -- • For the dressing, whisk the 3 tablespoons of oil and honey into the
believe they are making than before the crisis.
healthier food decisions. reserved dressing mixture; drizzle over salads. Serves 4.
All of us are eating out less,
which means we have more • Per serving: 490 calories; 48 grams protein; 33 grams
control over the fat, sugar carbohydrates; 18 grams fat; 120 milligrams cholesterol; 6 grams

America’s Test Kitchen fiber; 860 milligrams sodium.

A one-hour, one-pot recipe to welcome fall ONE POT PASTA
W/ SAUSAGE,
With kids back in school their casings and browning brightness. had a substantial, tasty meal MUSHROOMS & PEAS
(in some form or another) the crumbles in a Dutch oven that would please the whole
and many parents still with sliced cremini One final step remained: family after a busy day. You can substitute white mushrooms for the cremini mushrooms and 12
working from home, it's a mushrooms. We then stirring it all vigorously for a ounces (3 1/3 cups) of orecchiette for the medium pasta shells, if desired.
perfect time to add a great- deglazed the pot with dry minute. Agitating the For 25 years, confident The pasta will not absorb all the cooking liquid in Step 2; stirring vigorously
tasting, quick-cooking meal to white wine and added the components this way cooks in the know have relied
your recipe rotation. In this pasta and water. Once the knocked starch from the on America's Test Kitchen for in Step 3 helps thicken the sauce so it will coat the pasta.
one-pot recipe, lively lemon pasta was al dente, we turned pasta into the small amount For a nonalcoholic version, substitute 1/2 cup of water for the wine in Step
zest, bright peas and off the heat and stirred in of cooking liquid, rigorously tested recipes 2 and stir in 1 tablespoon of lemon juice with the lemon zest in Step 3.
summery basil combine with frozen peas (no need to transforming it into a sauce developed by professional test
pasta, meat and vegetables thaw), basil, Parmesan, and that lightly cloaked each shell. There is no need to thaw the peas.
for a satisfying, light and lively some lemon zest for cooks and vetted by 60,000
fall dish. In just about an hour, we at-home recipe testers. See Serves 4
more online at www.americas 1 pound cremini mushrooms, trimmed and sliced thin
In the Test Kitchen, we've
found that the best way to testkitchen.com/TCA. 1 pound sweet Italian sausage, casings removed
pull off a one-pot pasta 2 shallots, chopped
dinner is to forgo the
standard approach of boiling, 1 1/4 teaspoons table salt
draining and saucing the 1 teaspoon pepper
pasta. Instead, we cook the
pasta in a carefully controlled 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
amount of liquid that reduces 1/2 cup dry white wine
into a flavorful sauce. (Not
only does it make for a more 12 ounces (4 1/2 cups) medium pasta shells
cohesive dish, it also dirties 4 cups water
fewer dishes.) For this recipe,
that optimal amount of liquid 2 cups frozen peas
was 4 cups for 12 ounces of 1 cup fresh basil leaves, chopped
pasta. 1 ounce Parmesan cheese, grated (1/2 cup), plus extra for serving
2 teaspoon grated lemon zest, plus lemon wedges for serving
Before we cooked the
pasta, we made a flavorful • In a large Dutch oven set over high heat, cook the mushrooms,
base by taking a few links of sausage, shallots, salt, pepper and pepper flakes, stirring mixture
sweet Italian sausage out of frequently and breaking up meat with wooden spoon, until liquid has
evaporated and browned bits have formed on bottom of pot, about
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15 minutes.
• Add wine and cook, scraping up any browned bits, until the liquid

has evaporated, about 2 minutes.
• Stir in pasta and water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-

low, cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, until pasta is al dente,
about 10 minutes (some liquid will remain in the bottom of the pot).

• Off heat, add the peas, basil, Parmesan and lemon zest. Stir
vigorously for 1 minute, until sauce has thickened. Serve, passing

lemon wedges and extra Parmesan separately.

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Rising from pandemic, the business
success stories of tomorrow?

n Feb. 16, Marissa and in the United States. “It curveball like no other. are experiencing wildly Genome found 41% of spring season.When summer
wasn’t a business startups have three months rolled around, he didn’t even
Adam Goldstein launched opportunity,” Ms. Goldstein Recessions usually crush different scenarios. Many or less of cash left, up from bother trying to market the
says.“It was out of a sense of 29% before the pandemic. nearby Flint Hills and
Rafi Nova, a company selling service.” fragile startups and convince entrepreneurs have found One reason is that Tallgrass Prairie National
downturns tend to Preserve to outsiders. Part
backpacks for adventure Then family and friends many would-be themselves in the wrong accelerate existing trends, of the reason was that he
started asking if they could such as the move from on- himself contended with an
travelers. Sustainably buy some of the masks. On a entrepreneurs to hold off industry at the wrong time. site to online retail. ailment in January that has
whim, Ms. Goldstein took a hung on for months. Two
sourced, using textiles woven selfie of herself with a mask until times get better. But in And if Congress doesn’t “You had businesses that tests say it’s not the
and put up a message on her were struggling already,” says coronavirus, but Mr. Cagle is
by Hmong women in website and Facebook page, the midst of this downturn, provide additional Donna Kelley, professor of taking no chances for his
saying,“We have face masks.” entrepreneurship at Babson family or his clients. He’s
Vietnam paid at a fair-trade The next morning, she had the number of new emergency aid – its Paycheck College in Massachusetts and staying at home – and home-
$25,000 in mask orders and a member of the oversight schooling his daughter.
rate, the backpacks might the company has never businesses in the U.S. is on Protection Program loan board of the Global
looked back. In seven Entrepreneurship Monitor.
have been a thing. But the months, the company has 30 the upswing. It’s not entirely option for small businesses “This was the final nail in the
employees in the U.S. and coffin.”
pandemic hit and domestic four more in Vietnam. Now clear why:Are entrepreneurs expired last month – more
expanding into additional When he started his
and international travel products, the company will seizing on an opportunity – than a quarter of small- tourism company four years
move to a new facility on ago in eastern Kansas – not
ground to a halt. Oct. 1, boosting capacity by or just desperate because business owners say they exactly a tourist mecca –
60%. Casey Cagle knew it would
“Nobody was even leaving they just lost their job?. won’t survive more than be an uphill climb. What he
their house, let alone buying From Boston to Silicon didn’t count on was the
a $230 travel pack,” says Ms. Valley, the pandemic has “The crisis is unlike any three months, according to pandemic.
Goldstein, whose business is thrown entrepreneurs a other crisis we’ve seen
in Needham, Massachusetts. before,” says Marc Penzel, Small Business Majority, a The lockdowns killed his
“We probably launched a founder and president of
travel fashion company at the Startup Genome, an national advocacy group that “It’s definitely a 180” turn,
worst time in history.” innovation policy advisory he says. “My mission before
and research firm with surveyed its network of was to boost our local
offices around the world. economy by bringing in
“We’ve never had a situation 70,000 businesses in August. people from the outside.”
where the economy had to Now, he’s urging outsiders to
shut down.” Another 1 in 5 say they shelter at home and not
come – for their sakes as
won’t make it past the next well as for his community.

With few sales and no four to six months. Nearly 1
money left, the couple
decided they at least could in 6 have already considered
put their Vietnamese factory
partners to work making bankruptcy.
face masks, which they could
donate to front-line workers The result is that The dark clouds gathering Typically, business
entrepreneurs, instead of around entrepreneurs are
seeing a general contraction, not unique to the U.S. In its formation doesn’t pick up
global survey, Startup

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Employees work while wearing face masks last month at Rafi Nova in Massachusetts, a company which started out making backpacks and purses when their business opened in February, and
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Rising

continued from previous page startup that aims to teach
coding skills through games.
immediately when the
economy begins to recover, While Bryanne Leeming
says Professor Kelley of was earning her MBA from
Babson. In the Great Babson College, she was
Recession it lagged for two prototyping her idea of
years. teaching children software
coding through play. In 2018,
But after an initial plunge she launched Unruly Studios,
in March, the number of an education technology
“high-propensity” business company in Boston. By 2019,
applications surged in May the firm was selling to public
and for the year is running schools its floor buttons,
12% ahead of last year’s pace, called Splats, which students
according to Economic can program to light up,
Innovation Group (EIG), a make sounds, or collect
Washington-based advocacy points when they are
group. High-propensity stomped on. The idea is to
applications are highly likely teach coding skills through
to become active firms with games. The first quarter of
employees, according to the 2020 was the company’s best
Census Bureau. quarter yet.

That would tend to rule

out one reason for the surge: Third graders at Canterbury School in Florida use programmable floor buttons to play different notes.The floor buttons are
made and marketed by Unruly Studios, a Boston startup that aims to teach coding skills through games.
a flood of applications from When schools began to

suddenly jobless workers close in the spring because of

desperate to find something the pandemic, the company’s

else – perhaps hanging out team began talking to

shingles as freelance educators around the HHeead’lsinerBack!

workers. Another potential country about what they CHRIS BARNES

reason for the surge is that could use to teach online, in Returns center stage.

applications earlier in the class, or in some hybrid October 9 & 10 at 8pm

year might have been backed model. As children were A Kenosha Comedy Club favorite...

up. But as the numbers have more isolated than normal ...Chris Barnes can be best described as a high-energy
comic that will take an audience and keep them laugh-
continued above last year’s during the summer, the ing as he interprets his experiences of life. Barnes is
also the man of many faces; his personality and facial
levels, EIG has grown more company began focusing on expressions will bring an audience to life. He has
worked and laughed with such people as John Men-
optimistic: “Some of the strategies for improving doza, JJ Jimmy Walker, Andrew Dice Clay, Sinbad, Bill
Cosby, and many others. It’s no surprise Barnes has
surge may therefore social emotional learning. become a popular national headliner. Don’t miss him
October 9 & 10!
represent the real thing: This fall, music teachers
With Feature Comedian
entrepreneurs finding began to approach the
Tyler Fowler
opportunity in the crisis,” the company about using Splats

group’s blog said this week. for students to play music

The pandemic has actually on, because the screens are
helped some entrepreneurs.
Already in April, when easier to disinfect than the With your safety in
Startup Genome was mind, we have
surveying entrepreneurs mouthpieces on recorders.
worldwide, it found that 12% moved the comedy
of startups had seen revenue The young company is club to the large
rise by 10% or more. The
paradox of recessions is that rapidly approaching ballroom to acheive
while they typically kill more social distancing.
than the usual number of profitability.
startups, those that survive
tend to be remarkably “September already has
resilient. During the Great been one of our best months
Recession, for example, yet,” says Ms. Leeming. “We
transit giant Uber and have plans to accelerate this
mobile-payment platform fall.”
Square were formed.
The pandemic may well Tyler Fowler's witty and clean brand of stand up
“A crisis always begets throw more curveballs. With at the comedy has made him a favorite around Chicago and
opportunity in more than the market for masks
one way,” says Mr. Penzel of saturated, the Goldsteins are 5125 6th Ave across the US. Regularly appearing at Zanies
Startup Genome. Over half already steering Rafi Nova KENOSHA Comedy Club he was recently named among the
of the Fortune 500 into new areas, offering belt 'Best Of The Fest' at the Cleveland Comedy Festival.
companies were started bags and other mask Tyler's debut album Friends With 401(k) Benefits pre-
during a contraction and accessories and copper- miered #1 on iTunes and Top 10 on the Billboard
over 50 of them were infused anti-microbial gloves.
created in the Great It will soon launch a line of Comedy Charts.
Recession alone, he says, and apparel. The company gives
they are collectively valued at away products and uses part OCT. 16 &17 OCT. 23 & 24 NOV. 27 & 28 JUST
$145 billion. of its profits to fund At 8pm At 8pm ADDED!
nonprofits. At 8pm

Unruly Studios “I never want to take Only Plus, we are
advantage of the pandemic removing
Third graders at and the hurt and the $12 seats to Special Event
Canterbury School in Florida suffering,” says Ms. Goldstein. No Pricing
use programmable floor “And so we try to create MiDnriminukm! comply with
buttons to play different products that really help the 25%
notes. The floor buttons are people like the masks and TIM BENKER
made and marketed by then take that a step further seat mandate
Unruly Studios, a Boston and make sure that our & adding
products can get into
everyone’s hands, whether an additional
they can afford it or not.” show on

Saturday at
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How a president and pandemic intertwined

President Donald Trump’s between the picture of away.
handling of his coronavirus vitality that Mr. Trump tries
diagnosis has been to cultivate and accurate It’s not certain the Trump’s
characterized by a reports about the details of coronavirus diagnosis will
reluctance to release key his health challenges. White have a significant effect on
facts, an aggressive approach House physician Sean the political race. In today’s
to new treatments, public Conley only confirmed polarized age most voters
appearances meant to reports that the president decided long ago whether
convey vigor, and a relentless had received supplemental they’d reelect the current
insistence that things are on oxygen after news of the president, and polls have
the upswing and normality is incidents leaked out through been remarkably stable
only a short distance away. the press. On Sunday Dr. despite the roller coaster
Conley said he was trying to ride of 2020 news.
In other words, it is very reflect an “upbeat attitude”
like the way President Trump and “it came off as if we were “The small amount of
has dealt with the trying to hide something, undecideds out there, I don’t
coronavirus pandemic as a which wasn’t necessarily think this will affect them,”
whole since it first took hold true.” says Vince Galko, a
in the United States some Republican strategist at the
eight months ago. Meanwhile, the virus Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
continued to spread through office of Mercury, a public
When a future historian the West Wing. Press strategy firm.
Secretary Kayleigh McEnany
addresses how the tested positive for the However, the spread of
coronavirus, as did two of the virus through the White
wealthiest nation on earth her aides. House may refocus attention
on the pandemic per se, and
bungled its response to the the way the administration
has dealt with it. Polls show
coronavirus they could do that’s one of Trump’s worst
issues.
worse than use the
“I think that this ... has
president’s personal Presidents often thrown the Trump campaign President Donald Trump drives past supporters gathered outside Walter Reed National Military
downplay illness into complete chaos. Their Medical Center last Sunday. Some other U.S. presidencies in the past have downplayed
experience as a lens through whole strategy will be experiences of ill health for the nation’s chief executive.
questioned and scrutinized,”
which to view what went Throughout U.S. history says Andrew Feldman, a
presidents have often Democratic consultant at
wrong – and, perhaps, what downplayed ill health, Feldman Strategies. in which says, “Don’t be wearing a mask and taking wrapped around the
sometimes to the point of afraid of Covid. Don’t let it other precautions. Despite president’s persona, what he
went right. concealing debilitating issues The Trump campaign dominate your life,” hints at Mr. Trump’s inconsistency is and is not doing, how he
from the public. Woodrow hopes the Amy Coney the way the Trump campaign wearing masks, Mr. Gomez thinks and talks about it, that
In his desire to win Wilson suffered a severe Barrett Supreme Court might end up framing the still supports the president, his diagnosis has become a
reelection the country’s stroke in 1919 and was nomination will energize subject. and said he trusts that the focal point of national
chief executive almost virtually incapacitated for their supporters in the government made as good discussion.
seemed to try to will the the remainder of his second crucial last days before Nov. The view from an effort as possible
virus away, downplaying its term. Ronald Reagan was in 3. Mr. Trump and his Milwaukee protecting Mr.Trump. Many members of the
effects while focusing on much worse shape following surrogates have continued public feel like the president
reopening the economy. But an assassination attempt in to push “law and order” In the key swing state of “He has worn masks. It’s has been irresponsible in his
that approach has now 1981 than voters realized at messages designed to win not like he’s never worn a messaging about pandemic’s
affected the president the time. back white suburbanites, Wisconsin at least some mask,” says Mr. Gomez. risks and how to prevent
personally. particularly women, many of them, says Joshua Tucker, a
whom remain worried about voters interviewed in For some other Wisconsin professor of government at
civic unrest in the wake of residents, the president’s New York University. Mr.
It’s an outcome that’s mostly peaceful Black Lives Milwaukee agree that Mr. response to the pandemic Trump has belittled Joe
almost Shakespearean, says Matter protests. has fallen short of what Biden for wearing masks,
Ryan Enos, a professor of Trump’s coronavirus would be expected of a held large rallies without
government at Harvard But in the end, the world leader. social distancing, and
University in Cambridge, Now, because of increased election was always going to diagnosis could actually admitted to journalist Bob
Massachusetts. The COVID- media coverage and a norm be about a pandemic that “I think he’s been terrible Woodward that he
19 virus has affected not just that the public be kept at has taken the lives of some make him a positive example since Day 1 on this virus, knowingly downplayed the
the U.S., but China and the least somewhat informed, 209,000 Americans, and downplaying it from Day 1. seriousness of the pandemic
rich nations of Europe. The much more is known about continues to spread for the nation. And now he’s got it. It’s just in order to maintain calm.
most successful efforts so far the state of presidential throughout the U.S. and poetic justice to me,” says
have been collective. health in real time, says John upend daily life. “I think him getting it is Dennis Petrovic, a retired These cues matter to his
Fortier, Director of only good because I think UAW worker from Racine. supporters. Consider the
“In many ways, it was just Government Studies at the “As long as the he’s going to get better and group of Trump loyalists who
supreme hubris by Trump,” Bipartisan Policy Center. coronavirus continues to go recover. And it’s going to Mr. Petrovic, an gathered outside Walter
says Dr. Enos. around like it has, it’s hard to show that people [can] independent who usually Reed Medical Center, many
But realistically this change the subject,” says recover,” says Marilyn votes for Democrats, voted of whom waved flags and
transparency can only go so Democratic public affairs Doermann, a nurse from for Hillary Clinton in 2016 held signs – and didn’t wear
far. The White House press consultant Mathew Littman, Menomonee Falls. and plans on voting for Joe masks.
pool doesn’t go in to see a former speechwriter for Biden in November.
In fact, Mr. Trump has also presidential blood pressure Joe Biden. “And now that Ms. Doermann says Mr. It’s possible the
sought to accelerate a push readings. Much is still based [Trump] has it, Kayleigh has Trump has handled the virus “He didn’t take it coronavirus might now
by U.S. companies to on trust – and trust in Trump it – how do you change it? response well. She voted for seriously,” Nick Puibello, a change President Trump. He
develop vaccines. Yet he has communications among You can’t.” Hillary Clinton in 2016 but project manager at a bank would take a more active
repeatedly scorned the use many reporters remains low, says she plans on voting to who considers himself a role in fighting the virus,
of face masks and talked given the administration’s But it’s also possible that reelect Mr. Trump this moderate Democrat, said of having seen up close the
publicly about the virus past misstatements. Trump emerges as a November. Mr. Trump’s pandemic costs. But that’s the sort of
fading quickly away. sympathetic figure, perhaps response. reversal for Trump that
more credible now due to Ceasar Gomez, a self- might take a big change in
his real experience with the After trying to play down character, says Dr. Tucker. “It
virus. His tweet announcing employed Milwaukee the virus threat in general, really would take a mea
his release from the hospital, “he tried to play down his culpa here. But again, it’s a
On Monday the state of resident sporting a “Latinos own infection,” says Mr. mea culpa that could save
the president’s health Puibello, a Milwaukee lives,” he says.
remained unclear. In mid- “I don’t think we’re going for Trump” hat on Sunday resident who voted for Mrs.
afternoon he announced via to get too much further Clinton in 2016 and plans on By Peter Grier,
Twitter that he would be behind the curtain,” says Mr. afternoon, agreed with the voting for Mr. Biden next Noah Robertson, Story
leaving Walter Reed Medical Fortier. month.
Center in the evening, and idea that the president’s Hinckley, & Nick Roll
was “feeling really good.” America’s response to the
Doctors not associated with pandemic response was pandemic has been so
the case, however, felt his
departure might be As a matter of policy, the skillful.
premature, since Mr. Trump U.S. government would not
appears to have experienced want adversaries to know “I think he’s doing good,
something more than mild too much if a president is both with his case and
symptoms. physically weakened. As a nationwide. What can you
matter of politics, the do?” said Mr. Gomez, who
current administration – like didn’t vote in 2016 but plans
probably any – would want on supporting Mr.Trump this
to project an image of as year.
much strength as possible
There is clearly a tension with the election only weeks Mr. Gomez, who said he
doesn’t generally associate
with any political party, was

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Positive local

business news  

with Meridith Jumisko

There is no doubt this is Market locations in the
Milwaukee area.At the time
an uncertain time for of this writing, we're
awaiting news on where
Kenosha's locally owned their next local physical
location will be after their
businesses and shop closed in late
September.
organizations. And yet, Meridith Jumisko is
In restaurant news, El Public Relations Director
progress continues. Here is Camino Kitchen is now
open at 9900 77th Street, at the Kenosha Area
a sampling of what's new off of Highway 50. The Convention & Visitors
restaurant offers a SoCal Bureau. Contact her at
this year. menu with Mexican [email protected] or
favorites, gourmet burgers,
This was the first summer wings, rice bowls, drop her a tweet
that the Kenosha margaritas, craft beer, and @MJ_Kenosha
Community Sailing Center more. Its sister restaurants
(located at the Kenosha are La Fogata Mexican Grill Restaurant Group. Also photo visitkenosha.com
Yacht Club) offered kayak, and Waterfront new this year in the same
fishing kayak, and stand up Warehouse, under the neighborhood is The Down On the first floor is the (This museum has not yet remember your mask and
paddle board rentals. Also Roots Hospitality Group. Town'R Saloon at 707 56th new location of PUBLIC re-opened.) maintain social distancing
this summer, the new Street. The restaurant Craft Brewing Co., which when in public; be
Kenosha Public Market The dining venue at The features Southwest cuisine, has relocated from down The Kenosha Public respectful of the safety
debuted. Its indoor season Apis Hotel & Restaurant craft cocktails, and a the block. The larger space Museum has re-opened restrictions that individual
starts October 10 at has opened at 614 56th rooftop bar. Its sister allows the craft brewery to with new visitor policies in places are setting; be
Lakefront Dugout, 620 59th Street in Downtown restaurant is Kaiser's Pizza operate a restaurant and place for safety. A new patient as everyone is
Street. You can shop in Kenosha – complete with a & Pub. have five times its current exhibit at the museum is adjusting to new
person on Saturdays or via rooftop deck. Led by brewing capacity. open through October 30: operations.
the KPM2GO Online Executive Chef Danielle Masters of Their Era -
Store. Weybright, the focus is on Another historic Our local museums also Prints from the Ronald L. Check out
fresh ingredients and have news to share. Back in and Mary K. Ruble
shareable plates. Its sister Downtown Kenosha early March, before the Collection. The show VisitKenosha.com – and
restaurants are Buzz Café, Kenosha History Center features prominent regional
Exciting food shop Sazzy B, and The Garage, of location is seeing new life: closed due to the and international artists sign up for our Visit
updates include: a local the Grease & Honey pandemic, a Bain wagon significant to the
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Experience has opened at permanent collection. printmaking. Selections
Pleasant Prairie Premium building at the corner of During the late 19th from the show, along with Newsletter – to stay on top
Outlets. You can explore century, the Bain Wagon additional prints, will be
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