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Q&A with Next pandemic threat to
Marie Lewis, economy: A wave of evictions
Auxillary
Captain at The first of the month had
the Salvation come and gone, and now in
Army of early July the man with the
Kenosha clipboard arrived at the
apartments on North
Covid-19 has dealt us a Hopkins Street, a plain two-
story brick building where
one-two punch, resulting in grass and weeds grow
scraggly along the street and
both a health and an broken furniture lies
abandoned around the
economic crisis. On the dumpster out back.

financial side, we are seeing a To tenants he was a figure
of doom. On the second
monetary vulnerability that floor, he stuck a folded
eviction notice in the door of
includes almost one third of Apartment 14, two units
down from where Sorea
homeowners missing their Appling lived. It wasn’t long
before Apartment 14’s
July mortgage payment as well tenant, and the woman in
Apartment 5 downstairs, had
as a wave of evictions coming Tune in to Happenings found new places to live.
our way. Q&A/AM1050 WLIP on
“They say once you get
Fortunately, here in Friday, Aug. 7th at 2:30 your door knocked on by Edward Smith sits in his one-bedroom apartment in downtown Milwaukee on June 17, 2020.
the man with the clipboard, Mr. Smith, an Army veteran, furnished his apartment with the help of the Veterans
Kenosha, we have the when Marie Lewis joins you might as well leave,” says Administration. But he's fallen behind on his rent and worries he might be evicted.
Ms. Appling, a public school
Salvation Army, an the conversation. janitor who has been out of
work since March and
organization that has a storied worries that she might be “tsunami” are apt. As the amplifying a problem that has troubles led her employer to
next. Senate convenes this week long festered in Milwaukee cut her hours, and she fell
legacy of helping people in to consider new coronavirus and other cities. Housing behind on her rent, Ms. Hall-
Her worries are relief, a key question is advocates say evictions are a Davis says. At the end of
need. Recently, the Salvation increasingly shared by whether the resulting bill will symptom of a combination February a payroll check that
renters across the nation. include provisions to help at- of chronic problems like low- would have covered what
Army has been tasked with For several months during risk renters. The expiring paying jobs, too little she owed arrived late, forcing
the coronavirus pandemic a supports – from the CARES affordable housing, and public her eviction. She’s been
disbursing grant funds in an combination of tenant grit, Act passed by Congress in transportation systems that struggling ever since, moving
landlord forbearance, and April – include an eviction are inadequate to take with her 3-year-old son
effort to stave off evictions. federal aid has helped people moratorium for the roughly people to where the work is. among family and friends and
stay in their homes. State or one-quarter of rental Renters often scrape by on waiting for her
Marie Lewis, Auxillary Captain of the Salvation Army of local bans on evictions have properties that get federal margins too narrow to unemployment application to
Kenosha, kindly answered our questions. in many cases offered a backing, plus supplemental absorb even modest be acted on. She’s been
reprieve. unemployment benefits that difficulties. waiting 10 weeks. She hopes
Given that we are in the midst of a pandemic, do you have so far buoyed up to use the money to rent a
foresee an impending wave or tsunami of evictions here Now those eviction bans millions of households. “A good part of our new apartment and buy
in Kenosha County? What is the current situation? Yes I are phasing out along with clients are not in 40-hour another car that can take her
think there will be a huge amount of evictions in Kenosha key government support for jobs, but in a patchwork of to work.
given all the events of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have unemployed workers. With jobs – babysitter, bus driver,
people that are requesting rent assistance daily and many the economy far from hair cutters,” says Peter “Whenever that comes, I’ll
have received their 5 day notices or eviction. recovered, some of the Koneazny, litigation director get my life back together,”
steepest declines in income at the Legal Aid Society of she says.
Would you say most of these evictions could be have been faced by low- Although some states have Milwaukee, where calls from
directly attributed to COVID-19? I don't know if most of income renters like Ms. moved to extend eviction renters appealing for help Options for Congress
them are attributed directly but there certainly are a Appling. By some estimates, bans, the potential for mass have skyrocketed. “You have
significant amount of them that are. Like most of the US the United States could see evictions on an a lot of that. It’s a kind of To stave off the potential
people in Kenosha often live paycheck to paycheck therefore, more than 11 million unprecedented scale looms. constant struggle for many crisis, affordable housing
for those that had business or jobs close for a period of time households evicted in the people. Their head is barely advocates are pushing for
with no income was enough to make them fall behind on rent next four months. Economists say such an above water, most of them.” one or more of the following
and utilities. Fortunately, we were able to step in and help eviction wave could deepen from Congress: a
with pantry to help with the food needs. Kenosha has been “People are going to go poverty, widen racial Evictions are sometimes comprehensive federal ban
wonderful with donations both practical and monetarily to over a cliff,” says Mary inequality, and create severe the result of cascading on evictions to replace the
keep our pantry stocked. God has been good in taking care Cunningham, a housing new damage to the economy circumstances. Iyonna Hall- diminishing patchwork of
of the increased need. expert at the nonprofit that will take years to repair. Davis was working as a protections currently in
Urban Institute, and co- certified nursing assistant in place, rental assistance for
How did the Salvation Army get involved in assisting author of a new analysis on “The issue of inability to a Milwaukee suburb, often tenants affected by the
tenets who have fallen behind with rent payments? The the problem. “We’ve seen for 16 hours at a time, when pandemic, targeted help for
Salvation Army has always helped with rent assistance when this coming. We’ve been pay, poverty, and she started having trouble landlords, continuation of the
funds are available. We ran out of funds quickly when this all racing toward it with the with her car, an old 2007 supplemental unemployment
started. We unfortunately had to tell many we could not clock running out and, so far, unemployment – that existed Cadillac. Taking public benefits at some level, and
help. Gratefully, we were recently awarded grants from both Congress hasn’t responded.” transportation to work was help for local governments,
CDBG and ESFP. Some of these funds are very restrictive as pre-COVID-19,” says “not an option,” she says. which are expected to be
to who qualifies for them and we need a lot of information Analogies like “cliff” or “No bus came near it.” swamped by eviction notices
and have to be very careful when we process these funds. If Raphael Ramos, a lawyer once the moratoriums end.
we are not cautious we could have to repay the grant money Her transportation
if we do not have the appropriate information or if they don't with Legal Action Wisconsin See EVICTION on page 4 for more
meet all the requirements for the funds. One of the
restrictions is that these funds must be used only for COVID and head of its Eviction
related hardship.
Defense Project. “The

difference between now and

then is that the pandemic has

shifted the line of poverty.

There are more people at

risk than before.”

Is rent assistance on a one time basis? What other “Not in 40-hour jobs”
options due renters have if in the arrears with their rent?
Indeed, the coronavirus is
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Lewis Q&A The feds take their Portland

continued from page 2 approach on the road

Yes, these are one time assistance available and they are not President Donald Trump
allowed to have received from any other agency for rental announced plans to send
assistance for COVID. There are very limited number of hundreds of federal law
places to go for rent assistance. We are also limited to only enforcement agents to
paying for one month and the Landlord must state the tenant Chicago and Albuquerque,
will not be evicted for at least 30 days. The problem with that New Mexico, as each city
is if the person is several months behind with rent and we can confronts a recent spike in
only help with one month then it will not assure housing crime. The move follows his
security. The only other thing is if they reach out to their own deployment of federal
personal church to see if they can help or family. officers to Portland, Oregon,
where protests over racial
Could you please tell us the source of these funds? The inequality and police
funds are from a City Development Block Grant/ HUD are brutality have continued
for COVID related assistance for City of Kenosha residents since George Floyd died in
that qualify. We also have funds from Emergency Food and police custody in
Shelter Program/ FEMA. We also get some private donations Minneapolis on Memorial
for the specific purpose of assisting with rent. Day.

Has there been any communication or dialogue with The president’s self-styled Federal officers’ actions at protests like this one on July 20th in Portland are raising the
landlords? Yes, part of the process is to have the Landlord “law and order” campaign prospect of a constitutional crisis — one that could escalate as weeks of demonstrations find
come in and pick up the check and sign the agreement to not targets cities led by “liberal
evict for 30 days. Sometimes, there are calls to the Landlord Democrats” who he accuses renewed focus in clashes with camouflaged, unidentified agents outside Portland’s US
to work out an agreement on behalf of the client. of failing to crack down on courthouse.
street violence and civil
What are they saying? Most of them have mortgages and unrest. Local and state President Trump has sought state’s U.S. congressional the agents have stood guard
bills to pay on the unit as well and cannot always let things go officials have criticized the to portray as lawless. delegation, including Sens. Jeff outside a federal courthouse
for a long term. Some are management companies and do effort as an election-year Merkley and Ron Wyden, that protesters defaced with
not have any say in the situation. ploy as he lags in polls behind How have Oregon’s introduced legislation to graffiti, one of several federal
Democratic challenger Joe elected officials responded limit the role of federal buildings in the city
How serious is the current homeless situation and will Biden. to the presence of federal forces in cities. vandalized in recent weeks.
it only get worse? Kenosha has always had a homeless officers?
problem. Some of it is that the rental rates in this area are Federal statutes enable a The president dispatched Videos have also shown
high. The other problem is that once someone has been Portland Mayor Ted more than 100 personnel officers engaged in less
evicted it is very difficult to get into another rental unit. president to deploy Wheeler blamed the agents from the Department of passive acts: tear-gassing
Landlords do not want the risk. It is hard because sometimes for inflaming protests and Homeland Security (DHS) to protesters, among them a
the situation is not the fault of the individual but sometimes government forces to states called for their withdrawal. Portland under an executive “wall of moms” and Mayor
things that could not be controlled. It makes the homeless Gov. Kate Brown seconded order he signed last month Wheeler; beating and
situation harder to come out of once evicted and in that under certain conditions. But that demand and labeled to protect federal buildings pepper-spraying a Navy
demographic. their patrolling of streets “a and monuments. Clad in veteran; firing “less lethal”
the actions of agents in blatant abuse of power.” camouflage and tactical gear,
What options do families have if evicted? That is a very Democratic members of the See PORTLAND on page 7 for more
difficult question. We do have Shalom Center but they are Portland have triggered
usually full because of the great need. There are a couple
other options for special groups with other agencies. We do demonstrations and
not have a shelter nor do we hunt for apartments for
individuals. That is outside the area we have staffing for. Some litigation, raising questions
will move into family or friends homes, or live in their cars or
get a motel for a short time. We had requested grant money among law enforcement and
to be used specifically for motel stays for desperate times or
the bitter cold. But we were denied. It is heart wrenching legal experts about what
when you have a family or single mom with a new baby or
young kids and no place to go. awaits Chicago,Albuquerque,

How is the Salvation Army holding up during this and other cities that
COVID-19 crisis? God has been very good to us during this
crisis. It was certainly a challenge especially in the beginning. TAX
I have only 2 employees so we rely on volunteers heavily. All PROBLEMS?
of our program volunteer helpers were told to stay home. It
was getting new volunteers to help make pantry boxes and CAN HELP YOU WITH A FREE 060420
pick up food and generally keep things running. We have had NO OBLIGATION TAX STRATEGY SESSION
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when everything was shut down but now that people are SERVICES WHICH INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
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establishments with checking health, wearing masks, social
distancing and closing the building to outside people and • Audits
doing pantry out the door. We did resume our Sunday
morning Adult Sunday School and Church services and Filing back Tax Returns?
Monday night Bible Study. Now, we are open by appointments
for the rent assistance. We will be participating in a "Stuff the you have to be compliant before
Bus" event at Walmart on August 7-9. Individuals can a settlement can be negotiated!
purchase school items at Walmart and place them in the
donation bins at the front of the store. This year more then “I contact the IRS and/or State on your behalf,
others there will be need for help. I would personally thank so you don’t have to.”
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or to go into debt - for virtual learning that opening.) Unsubsidized Loans (aka "Stafford Loans"). a reasonable amount of debt. College funding
may not fit the style of the student? A few Direct loans have slightly better terms, but expert Mark Kantrowitz recommends that
colleges are extending discounts for the Paying for the privilege students can only borrow up to $5,500 per students should borrow less than what they
arrangement, but many more are not - some year, while unsubsidized loans allow will earn in their first-year salary. For parents,
are even charging more, even as millions find Presuming that you buy the concept of borrowing up to $20,500 (less any subsidized Kantrowitz cautions that borrowing for all
themselves in a far worse financial condition college attendance, there's the thorny issue amounts received for same period) children should be less than annual income,
than they were when financial aid was of paying for it. With many universities depending on grade level and dependency including cosigned loans.
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Eviction housing is problematic In the pandemic, people of Mr. Smith, a disabled Army know about the assistance.
anytime. Doing it in the color are more vulnerable veteran and former And housing advocates
continued from page 2 coronavirus order as midst of rising coronavirus because they’re more likely paratrooper, says he fell so wonder what happens when
cases makes the potential to work the low-wage jobs far behind because he had to the money runs out.
Many of those provisions unconstitutional and health fallout much worse, most at risk during the pay funeral expenses for his
are in the HEROES Act, a $3 says Ms. Cunningham of the pandemic, such as hospitality father, who died in May at a In the meantime, many
trillion package passed by mandated that new policies Urban Institute. “It’s really and retail positions, where nursing home in the Chicago small landlords, too, are on
House Democrats in May. reckless during a pandemic people can’t work from suburbs. Mr. Smith says his the financial brink, unable to
Republicans in the Senate, go through a legislative rule- to have people lose their home.And it’s not clear how father, who was 90, had withstand a long-term dive in
however, say the Democrats’ housing when we’re all trying many of those service jobs tested positive for the rental income.Yet some have
measure is far too costly. making process. to socially distance.” will come back as the coronavirus. “I had to help shown leniency because of
economic recovery shows bury him,” he says. COVID-19.
Some housing groups are Mr. Ramos and others saw Evictions already hit signs of slowing.
optimistic Congress will act. evictions in Wisconsin jump people of color Mr. Smith, a tall, friendly “The mom and pop
“It’s brink negotiations,” says 40% over the previous year Among Americans in landlords are doing what
Bob Pinnegar, president and in the first week after the general, the problem of man who wears an American they can to keep good
CEO of the National state eviction moratorium eviction is huge, affecting flag face mask, says he talked tenants,” says Lisa Owens,
Apartment Association, ended.They are now running about 2.3 million households to the building’s management executive director of City
which represents the rental 14% higher than last year. in a year, according to the after receiving the letter. Life/Vida Urbana, a tenant
housing industry. He expects Eviction Lab. In the next four “They said they’re going to advocacy group in Boston.
an acceptable package will “There are a lot of people months, the figure could hit be sending out eviction
emerge. in this building who are more than 11 million, notices at the first of the Ms. Appling, the school
under the threat of eviction,” according to a new data month,” he says.“I told them janitor, was astonished to
Affordable housing says Ms. Appling, a slender analysis tool by global I’ll try – if I can set up a hear from a friend that
woman with close-cropped advisory firm Stout Risius payment program.” But he’s another landlord had
advocates are more blond hair and a silver Ross LLC. worried. He’s applied for forgiven tenants a month’s
crucifix around her neck. rental assistance. rent. Moreover, many
optimistic about local “Ever since March, these In Milwaukee, on the ninth landlords know that tenants
people haven’t been able to floor of a downtown Lifelines in a storm can apply for rental
initiatives. go to work.” apartment building, Edward Wisconsin is spending $25 assistance.They are willing to
Smith was alarmed recently million of federal COVID-19 wait. But not all landlords are
The “cancel rent” For families, wide ripple to get a notice that he owed relief money to help tenants so lenient, and as Ms.Appling
movement, for example, effects more than $3,000 in rent. avoid evictions. The problem has observed, evictions can
notched a victory recently is that many renters don’t happen suddenly and
when Ithaca, New York, Eviction has big disproportionately. In ruthlessly. She’s been spared,
passed a resolution calling on ramifications for families. It but only for now. Furloughed
the state to cancel rent for makes it much harder to Boston, a report last month from her job on May 4, she’s
residents and small rent from other landlords, been able to borrow enough
businesses for three months. pushes families into from relatives to pay her
substandard and more $525-a-month rent. And yet
Massachusetts is the latest crowded housing, and has from City Life and the there’s a limit to what she
state to renew a pandemic- been shown to have negative can borrow. She’s applied for
related ban on evictions. Its effects on everything from Massachusetts Institute of unemployment benefits but
moratorium, which had been physical and mental health to has received nothing, even
set to expire in August, will education for children who Technology found that in after months of waiting. She
now stretch through the fall, have to move from school to doesn’t know when she’ll be
due to an order Tuesday by school, says Emily Benfer, a nonsubsidized housing, more called back to work.
Republican Gov. Charlie law professor at Wake
Baker. Forest University and co- than a third of evictions “I’m good for this month,”
creator of the COVID-19 she says hopefully.
housing policy scorecard set happened in predominantly
up by the Eviction Lab, a By Richard Mertens
research project at Black neighborhoods, even & Laurent Belsie
Princeton University in New
Jersey. though only 18% of the

rental housing was in those

In Wisconsin, by contrast, neighborhoods. That’s partly
a two-month ban set by
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers a result of poverty and low
expired May 26. That month,
the Republican-majority income, the researchers said,
state Supreme Court threw
out Governor Evers’ but the most telling

predictor was the

neighborhood’s racial

Pushing people into more composition.
crowded, substandard

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Aid for US economy is expiring –
at just the wrong moment

When the coronavirus hit going to be driven by a bit worse,” says Vadim
this spring, Souren and Susan improvements in public
Etyemezian made a sweeping health, and that’s the only Elenev, an economist at Johns
decision to close three of sustainable way for the
their specialty nut stores – economy to recover.” Hopkins University’s
all in high-end locations
around Boston – and As states struggle to business school who studies
consolidate around their contain the COVID-19
store in middle-income pandemic, the onus falls on financial crises. But federal
Watertown. Congress to provide a new
round of relief. rescue efforts have cost

Speed versus precision much more than an ideally

The bipartisan $2 trillion targeted program, he says,
CARES Act, which in April
sent relief checks to families citing his own research with
and made loans available to
businesses, helped spark an other economists.
economic rebound in May,
It’s a sign of the topsy- but not to pre-pandemic Yet crafting cheaper, more
turvy nature of the levels. targeted programs – such as
coronavirus recession. The to help small businesses stay
closed Fastachi nut store in “Absent those programs, afloat and avoid layoffs – is
posh Wellesley is stripped things would have been quite hard. Experts say it would
nearly bare; even the counter involve government picking
is gone, leaving electrical and choosing which
wires sticking out from the industries, and perhaps
base. At a nearby which businesses, need
intersection, 4 of 10 shops federal support.
are either empty or
advertising for tenants. See ECONOMY on page 7

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The Warsaw Ghetto beat an epidemic.
Scientists say they know how.

To some witnesses, it
simply didn’t make sense.

“This is really an irrational
phenomenon,” wrote the
Polish historian Emanuel
Ringelblum, in notes found
after his execution by the
Gestapo. “There’s no
explaining it rationally.”

It was November 1941 in

the Warsaw Ghetto, the

sliver of Poland’s capital that

the Nazi occupying

government had

transformed into a squalid

holding pen for the area’s

Jews, Romani, and others

deemed undesirable. Typhus

had raged through the

community all through the

summer and early autumn.

But then, just as infection

rates were expected to have

skyrocketed as winter

approached, cases fell

dramatically.

“I heard this from the Polish actor Krzyztof Gosztyla stands next to the Warsaw Ghetto monument in January 2006 ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
apothecaries, and the same
thing from doctors and the term “flatten the curve” in calories per day. Throughout Ghetto,” which chronicles social distancing became there, they must’ve been
hospital,” Ringelblum wrote relation to COVID-19. “We 1940 and 1941, famine killed ghetto inmates’ struggle basic practice and common working hard, because that’s
that month. “The epidemic should take heart and thousands. With no money, against a series of public sense. And community what the model shows,” Dr.
rate has fallen some 40 per inspiration from the courage, physical energy, or a place to health calamities. kitchens were set up by Stone says.
cent.” bravery, and unity of doctors, bury them, residents left the volunteer groups and food
nurses, and patients alike to corpses of loved ones This community smugglers to help feed the
The Warsaw Ghetto combat an infectious foe.We unburied in the streets. established a health council, starving population.
need to do that today, and procured vaccines as much
should have been an optimal they did it under much more Such overcrowding, filth, as they could, held public Social distancing methods
dire circumstances.” and poor hygiene fostered a lectures on preventative have been used for a long
site for an outbreak. More breeding ground for typhus. health, sanitation, and time, Dr. Markel says. Before
A pretext for oppression Official numbers suggest that hygiene, set up an vaccines and other modern
than 450,000 mostly Jewish there were a total of 20,160 underground medical school, medicine, “these public
The Germans’ fear of a cases, but the researchers and conducted scientific health methods were really
inmates were crammed into typhus outbreak provided an behind the new Science studies. Dr. Offer says, there were the only tools in the
excuse for the formation of Advances paper dug into toolbox,” he says. “And yes,
1.3 square miles, making for ghettos. Influenced by and other historical reports and “In the Warsaw ghetto political tensions and they work.”
promoting anti-Semitic ideas estimate that 80,000 to there were excellent and
a population density of Jews being disease-ridden, 110,000 residents were devoted medical experts, conflicting ideologies among
in the autumn of 1940 the infected. They suggest that who tried to do what they
between 5 and 10 times that Nazis forced the Jews living the official numbers are likely were trained and studied for, some different groups in the
in Warsaw and the low because residents were in unbearable conditions,
of today’s busiest cities. Nazi surrounding areas into a tiny afraid to come forward in which, of course, endangered ghetto. Still, she says, the
restricted area, and sealed it fear of repercussions from them as well,” says Dr.
authorities deliberately kept off with a wall. the Nazis. Some 20,000 Dreifuss. medical leadership “managed
residents died of typhus, and
resources from entering the “The ghettos were in no many more died from The political leaders of the to negotiate these
way treatment, but a tool to hunger while suffering from Jewish Council had to do as
area, all the while using fear separate the Jewish the illness. the Germans dictated, says differences, creating Typhus in the Warsaw
population from its Dr. Offer, who teaches Ghetto is another example,
of disease in anti-Semitic surroundings, and imposed “They’re surrounded by Holocaust studies at collaboration, even amidst but it may have been easier
more misery on the Jews,” Nazis, at best they’re going Western Galilee College and to motivate such behaviors
party propaganda. says Havi Dreifuss, a to get moved to a Tel Aviv University. But the great tension, and thus because people’s lives were
professor of history at the concentration camp, and at new health council already so disrupted and
Nevertheless, typhus rates in University of Tel Aviv and the worst they’re going to get advocated for a succeeded in establishing a overturned.
head of the Center for shot,” says Dr. Markel. “And decentralized approach to
the Warsaw Ghetto were Research on the Holocaust they knew this.” fight the epidemic.While the medical system.”
in Poland at Yad Vashem, Nazi authorities forced
plummeting. Israel’s official memorial to But the Nazi’s efforts to draconian quarantines and
the victims of the Holocaust. ghettoize Jews in Warsaw mobilized punitive sanitation
The only explanation, inadvertently created a hub squads, she writes in an email And it worked. Three “In the ghetto,” Dr. Markel
according to research Officially known as the of doctors. There were to the Monitor, the health times as many people would
published today in the Jewish Residential District in about 800 physicians among council focused on likely have contracted typhus says, “there was a
journal Science Advances, is Warsaw, the ghetto was those imprisoned there, and education and independent had it not been for these
that the inmates did it immensely crowded. The many more nurses and empowerment whenever behavioral measures taken, remarkable, almost
themselves, by sheltering in Nazi authorities blocked scientists, according to possible. Cleanliness was according to the new paper.
place, promoting and most food from entering the Miriam Offer, author of encouraged and often inspirational esprit de corps
enforcing hygiene, and ghetto, at one point allowing “White Coats in the enforced. Self-isolation and
practicing social distancing. at most rations of 200 of this community in the face

Useful tools of insurmountable odds.”

This remarkable story of Biomathematician and lead Indeed, says Dr. Offer,
author Lewi Stone of Tel Aviv “what was needed primarily
an oppressed community University and RMIT was hope, creativity,
University and his co- dedication and thinking out
rallying together to combat a authors examined the of the box, as well as a set of
scientific literature on values of humanity, daring,
public health crisis holds typhus, conditions in the public responsibility, and
Warsaw Ghetto, and the unity to overcome the
obvious implications for reported typhus rates there epidemic and save lives.”
to graph different scenarios
today, as the novel of what may have caused the
epidemic to collapse. The
coronavirus pandemic only scenario that fits with
what happened, he says, was
continues to claim thousands the community mobilization Regardless of how the
and behaviors described in
of lives around the world historical documents from typhus epidemic
the ghetto.
daily and debilitate national disappeared, she says, “This

economies. also gives us hope that

“It’s one of the great COVID-19 will not be with
medical stories of all time,”
says Howard Markel, the us forever.”
University of Michigan
physician and medical By Eva Botkin-Kowacki
historian who coined the
“Inmates and the doctors

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Portland Economy

continued from page 3 continued from page 5

munitions at demonstrators, agents in Portland. She For example, many say the Another battle is shaping
leaving one man with a government shouldn’t be up over extending special
fractured skull; and emerging argued that their lack of wasting money on businesses unemployment benefits.With
from unmarked vehicles to that would go bankrupt an extra $600 a week for the
pull protesters off the recognizable police anyway. So should the unemployed, researchers
streets and haul them away. government help Wellesley found that two-thirds of
uniforms, failure to identify Town Taxi? Having already recipients were earning
lost its local business to ride- more from unemployment
themselves when arresting hailing companies like Uber, than when they were
the company remade itself working, which has drawn
protesters, and use of into an airport limo service. widespread criticism.
But when the pandemic
The state’s attorney unmarked vehicles make slammed the airline business,
general filed a federal lawsuit demand for airport rides
July 17 against DHS and them indistinguishable from evaporated.
other federal agencies that
asserts the officers violated “lawless militia” or For now, the most
the civil rights of Oregonians important thing is to get the
by seizing and detaining them “kidnappers.” relief out speedily, says Dan
without probable cause. Sichel, a professor of
The absence of identifying economics at Wellesley “The $600 weekly
Michael Dorf, a details about the officers College and former Federal unemployment bonus has
constitutional law professor sows confusion, according to Reserve economist. caused a not-insignificant
at Cornell University, Edward Maguire, a professor number of businesses to
explains that federal law of criminology and criminal “The more one tries to have a hard time getting their
grants authority to the justice at Arizona State get things targeted, the more employees to return to
government to deploy its University, and an expert on difficult it is to get those work,” writes Rachel
forces to protect federal policing protests. “If people checks out quickly,” he says. Greszler, a research fellow at
property or when state don’t know who you are,” he The Heritage Foundation.
officials request help to says, “you’re defeating their Partisan divide in
enforce state laws. ability to hold agents and Congress Yet many economists see a
agencies accountable.” strong case for some level of
Getting money to needy expanded benefits, given that
The arrests conducted by What is likely to happen individuals is much easier the 11.1% unemployment
DHS agents away from in Chicago and than aid to businesses – and rate as of June remains
federal property – and the Albuquerque? has proved more effective. higher than at any time since
opposition to their presence But here again, big decisions the Great Depression.
from state officials – muddy Agents from the FBI, DHS, loom for Congress over
the legal picture. “There’s at and other federal law targeting and total dollars. Whatever Congress does, A sign indicating proper social distancing measures is displayed
least some reason to suggest enforcement agencies will economic relief is at best a ahead of an April 23rd vote in the House of Representative
that what’s happening may head to both cities. Their The Democratic- partial plan for reviving the
not be justification for stated mission appears controlled House has already economy. Flattening the on coronavirus economic relief. Key provisions of federal aid are
execution of federal different from that of the passed a $3 trillion package pandemic is key, and the expiring, including a $600-per-week expansion of benefits
authority,” he says. officers sent to Portland, that would expand relief- survival of businesses hangs for unemployed people.
with a focus on combating check amounts that low- and in the balance.
violent crime and greater middle-income families with Fear of the pandemic products and services, and
coordination with local children would receive. And The toll on businesses could suppress demand for 15% remain temporarily
officials and police. the Trump administration has some businesses for months closed. When the latter two
Why are federal agents signaled support for another Even if state and local to come. “It looks like groups were asked in a
wearing military-style round of checks, but it’s reopening dates have been survey in late June when they
uniforms and using The mayors of Chicago unclear if the Republican- governments allow pushed out,” says expected to fully reopen,
unmarked vehicles? and Albuquerque have voiced controlled Senate will go Christopher Stanton, an 60% said September or later.
wariness about the along with such a generous businesses to open, the economist at Harvard
impending arrival of federal package when it reconvenes Business School who studies Souren Etyemezian says he
agents. In Chicago – where next week. social-distancing restrictions entrepreneurship. and his wife are now pushing
more than 400 homicides to boost online sales for
DHS officials have called have occurred so far in 2020, can make it difficult for Using surveys from their Fastachi nut company
the camouflage uniforms an almost 50% increase from Alignable, an online network to help make up for the
“standard” and “appropriate the same time last year – stores to reopen. That’s one for small business owners, he reduced store sales.
for any operational Mayor Lori Lightfoot told says half of small businesses
environment,” and further reporters that city officials reason the White family have fully reopened, with the “We didn’t feel retail is
claim that the removal of “welcome actual partnership same products and services going to come back as it used
name badges protects but we do not welcome closed its popular small as before the crisis. But to be at least for two years,”
officers against potential dictatorship.” another third have reopened he says.
harassment. The agency’s bakery and café in Wellesley, with fewer or different
acting deputy secretary has By Laurent Belsie
described the use of which had been in operation
unmarked vehicles by law
enforcement as “so common less than a year. “With social
it’s barely worth discussion.”
distancing, we didn’t want to

open,” says Brian White,

manager of White’s Bakery

and Café.

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my turn workers — the very people envision for policing.

measures that many The city of Chicago and
Americans are envisioning its police force will receive
to reform policing.
$3.5 million, according to

Trump went the other the Chicago Tribune. No

America, you’re direction. word yet on Kansas City
being Trumped
Law enforcement and Albuquerque’s cut.

agencies are not stupid. Here’s another tidbit:

They will take federal Under the original 2017

money and resources when plan, in order to receive

The White House threat it is available. Under Trump, funding, cities “must display
to send federal agents
pouring into American the spigot re-opened for compliance with federal
cities is a re-branding and
twisting of an old approach, measures that sound tough immigration requirements,”
plain and simple.
on crime. according to a DOJ

This is hardly shocking, Mary Sanchez President Donald Trump listens during an event about citizens Swirl in budget cuts due handout. What that means
given that creating theatrics positively impacted by law enforcement, in the East Room of the to COVID-19, communities and how it impacts police
that stretch the bounds of picturing the images coming terrorized by gun violence departments that have
truth and ethics is President out of Portland where even White House on July 13, 2020 in Washington, DC. and of course, cities are wisely tried to distance
Donald Trump’s strong suit. the mayor was tear gassed going to be eager to accept from being confused with
by federal agents of the year-old LeGend Taliffero Michigan; Milwaukee; new funds. immigration agents, needs
Department of Homeland would become the victim of to be answered. After all,
Security (not the same as a drive-by shooting as he Nashville, Tennessee; New These prior agreements abuse of the label
agents being sent slept in Kansas City. Now, “sanctuary cities” is a
But Trump is not doing elsewhere) and the city is this city-by-city ramp up of Orleans; Little Rock, might explain why specialty of Trump and his
the men and women in suing to try and get the feds federal law enforcement enablers.
blue, the local law to retreat. effort bears his name — Arkansas; Houston, Operation Legend
enforcement agencies that Operation Legend. And, lest anyone forget,
he claims to love so dearly, Trump is an opportunist. Indianapolis, St. Louis and seemingly ramped up and there’s an election
any favors. And this is a perfect approaching.
example. Kansas City, Missouri. rolled out without the

He’s claiming that the Participating cities had to awareness of Congressional
Black Lives Matters
protests, along with have sustained levels of delegations and the mayor
Democratic-led cities are
The president is leading to high violent In February of 2017, violence far exceeding of Kansas City.
crime rates; hence the need
needlessly escalating for federal forces. Trump issued an executive national averages. It also might explain why Here we are as a nation;
U.S. Attorney General with a president desperate
tensions between police The charge is laughable order directing the U.S. The DOJ promoted a William Barr inaccurately to be re-elected and eager
for the scale of its targeted approach of the claimed that 200 arrests to be seen as the Lord of
officers and their inaccuracy. Department of Justice to so-called prolific violent had been made in Kansas law-and-order even if his
offenders, measures to City under the new rhetoric undercuts the very
communities. He’s sowing The reality is that White “take the lead on Federal identify and prosecute the initiative during its first two uniformed police who
House began to cultivate a relatively low percentage of weeks. Backtracking, DOJ actually do that work.
confusion and conflating federal/local anti-violence actions to support law people in any city who tend
approach three years to commit the most
existing, carefully cultivated before this June when four- enforcement efforts violence.

federal and local policing nationwide and to

relationships with a new collaborate with State,

“surge” of federal agents. tribal, and local jurisdictions later clarified that Barr Readers can reach Mary

It was first announced to restore public safety to cited enforcement efforts Sanchez at
that 200 extra FBI, Drug that began in December [email protected]
Enforcement all of our communities.” None of it is all that new. 2019.
Administration, Bureau of There has long been similar and follow her on Twitter
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms By June of 2017, the plan local/federal coordination. Unanswered, is which pot @msanchezcolumn.
and Explosives and U.S. of DOJ funding is being
Marshalls would be had been dubbed the tapped and how deep is the Mary Sanchez joins
deployed to Kansas City. well. Targeting violent Happenings Q&A on
National Public Safety All administrations have criminals, people will be Wednesday, Aug. 5th at
their priorities. Under 12:30 on AM1050 WLIP.
Partnership program and Obama, there was more
emphasis on the DOJ’s role
eventually included in civil rights protections,
community policing and
agreements between increased use of social

Now the effort is federal agencies and a wide willing to support, but not if
spreading to Chicago and
Albuquerque. People are range of cities including it undercuts the very sort

Compton, California; Flint, of reforms that millions of

Spending as if One year ago when the posterity the burden which approved by any Republican Leader John
there is no debt was “only” $22 trillion, we ourselves ought to committee, or voted on by Boehner praised his fellow
tomorrow I wrote a column about bear.” members. Republicans for adopting a
what the Founders thought ban on earmarks in the
I am not in the habit of of debt. Their words are If that’s insufficient, From the booklet’s 112th Congress: “This
quoting leftist Noam worth repeating: consider James Madison: “I introduction: “A January earmark ban shows the
Chomsky, but this line go on the principle that a 2020 Congressional Budget American people we are
seems relevant when one Thomas Jefferson said: public debt is a public curse, Office report forecast an listening and we are dead
considers our growing “We must not let our rulers and in a Republican average annual deficit of serious about ending
national debt: “When you load us with perpetual Government a greater $1.3 trillion between fiscal business as usual in
trap people in a system of debt.” Alexander Hamilton curse than any other.” years 2021 and 2030, rising Washington.”
debt, they can’t afford the added: “Nothing can more to $1.7 trillion by the end of
time to think.” Cal Thomas affect national prosperity Finally, hear John Adams: the decade, adding $12.4 If only.
than a constant and “The consequences arising trillion to the national debt
Perhaps now is not the clock and ponder the systematic attention to from the continual and bringing it to $$36.2 While earmarks are a
time in the middle of a future. The interest on the extinguish the present debt accumulation of public trillion. That estimate was fraction of government
pandemic, job losses and debt, which also grows daily, and to avoid as much as debts in other countries made prior to the outbreak spending, if Congress
threats of even higher is higher than the nation’s possibl(e) the incurring of ought to admonish us to be of COVID-19 and the continues to spend money
unemployment, to mention gross domestic product for any new debt.” careful to prevent their subsequent health care as if there is no tomorrow,
the national debt. Or, the first time since World growth in our own.” crisis and economic there may not be a
perhaps it is. War II. We have this from shutdown. One estimate tomorrow. America will
George Washington, whose Our modern leaders are suggests that the pandemic drown in debt with no one
One of the common With more borrowed statues are being torn down not listening. will add $8 trillion to CBO’s to rescue us from our folly.
characteristics of the fall of money going out the by people who appear to fiscal year 2030 projection,
past empires and Treasury Department’s know nothing, or care, Citizens Against for a total of $44.2 trillion.” Readers may email Cal
superpowers is massive door because of the about history: “Avoid Thomas at
national debt. Ours is pandemic, and Joe Biden occasions of expense ... and Government Waste The Pig Book documents
currently at $26.5 trillion promising to spend avoid likewise the what it says are slightly [email protected].
and growing by the second. additional trillions, should accumulation of debt not (cagw.org) has just fewer earmarks this year Look for Cal Thomas’ new
Americans should regularly he become president the only by shunning occasions but notes the amount of book “America’s Expiration
consult the real-time debt debt will become an even of expense but by vigorous published its annual “Pig spending on them has Date:The Fall of Empires
greater economic albatross. exertions to discharge the increased. and Superpowers and the
debts, not throwing upon Book,” about some of Future of the United States”
In 2010, then-House
government’s wasteful

spending and earmarks

Republicans promised to

eliminate. Earmarks are

spending added to bills that

have not been authorized,

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Kenosha County Aging & Disability Resource Center community

1964 Civil Rights Law wasn’t inclusive: news
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the
Americans with Disabilities Act

When the Civil Rights Act was signed into law Carol Schaufel, formerly of the Department of Vocation and the Welfare boards. He also worked in the
in 1964, it wasn’t written to protect persons with Rehabilitation (retired), was one of many who were working to assembly for two years prior to his Senate
disabilities. Nor was the Fair Housing Act of bring disability rights and accessibility to Kenosha in the 1970s. election.
1968. The Urban Mass Transportation Act of
1970 called for wheelchair lifts in mass transit added the bumps (tactile warning devices or “I had a firsthand look at the struggles persons
vehicles. However, transit results weren’t seen otherwise known as truncated domes) so with disabilities faced. The ADA brought
for another 20 years.  visually impaired people could tell where the end empowerment to people with disabilities. They
of the sidewalk was to protect them from had been battling for their rights for years,”
In the 1970s there were, however, many people accidently walking into traffic.” shared Wirch. “They finally felt that they were
working to bring disability rights and accessibility citizens and the government was coming to help
to Kenosha County. “While we were working on changes in them. The ADA was source of pride for people
buildings, such as entrances and restrooms, we with disabilities. Carol Schaufel, Eddie Buttera
At the time, Carol Schaufel, now retired from realized there weren’t any size or weight and Frank Marrelli were instrumental in the
the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, was restrictions on elevators, so we worked to get changes we saw in Kenosha.”
involved with a group in Kenosha called ABLE that changed too,” continued Schaufel. “Frank
(Abolish Barriers to Lifetime Efficiencies). was instrumental in getting many of these Schaufel concluded, “1983-1992 was called the
Started by the late Eddie Buttera, a Kenosha changes in place, including the ramp at the post United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons.
disability rights activist who had Spina Bifida, office.” Kenosha has done a really good job on
ABLE not only impacted and shaped the results accessibility; however, we still have to work on
in Kenosha but led to change throughout “Frank was someone who lent his voice for attitudes. We need to look at what people can
Wisconsin. people with disabilities,” said Senator Robert do, instead of what they can’t do, if we did, we
Wirch of Marrelli. He used his influence with would have a lot more people working.”
w “There were a lot of people who worked to politicians to get things done, resulting in positive
make Kenosha more accessible during those changes. It was easier after the Americans with ABLE helped raise Kenosha’s awareness of, and
early years,” Schaufel said. “Eddie Buttera and Disabilities Act was passed in 1990.” commitment to accessibility.  We can honor and
Frank Marelli, a Kenosha business owner and celebrate their members’ work and the
disability rights activist, went to the City Council New to the Senate in 1996, Senator Robert groundwork of the ADA by renewing and
to get approval for curb-cuts. Eddie also got the Wirch was not new to working in local strengthening our resolve for inclusion—in
funding. We had problems with the first few government. Having spent eight years on the school activities, voting, employment-- and dining
curb-cuts because the slope was too steep, but Kenosha County Board, beginning in 1986,Wirch out (let’s reconsider bar-height tables and step-
the problem was resolved quickly. Later we served on both the Health and Human Services up booths).

The Corona pandemic has been particularly
hard on disabled and older citizens, but it has
also opened our eyes to new ways of engaging
people who are mobility-challenged or
chronically isolated. With commitment and
creativity, we have a great opportunity to build
on the legacy of those before us. 

This July we celebrate the momentous victory
of the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with
Disabilities Act. Let’s continue to work toward
improved civil rights for everyone.

By Paula J. Clark,
Community Outreach Coordinator,

Kenosha County Aging &
Disability Resource Center

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Heart Hospital in
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Thyroid drug may that "subclinical
not help after heart hypothyroidism is a milder
attack, study finds form of hypothyroidism
that's more common than
If a heart attack survivor the Queen Elizabeth true primary
Hospital in Gateshead, U.K. hypothyroidism." According
also has an underactive to Hirsh, subclinical
hypothyroidism "affects
thyroid, treating them with approximately 5% of the
population."

supplemental thyroid Mild or subclinical Hirsh said that the study
hypothyroidism -- which appears to recommend
hormone probably won't affects about 10% of adults - against the use of
- means that the thyroid levothyroxine in heart
help, new research shows. doesn't produce enough attack patients with
hormones. subclinical hypothyroidism
The study found that use However, he also believes
that the study's
of the hormonal drug, called related to an arrhythmia levothyroxine does not been diagnosed with methodology provided only
[irregular heartbeat]." improve heart function in a "narrow scope" in
levothyroxine, didn't Management of the patients who've had a heart subclinical hypothyroidism, I measuring the benefit of
condition is uneven because attack and is unlikely to be treatment for the heart.
improve heart muscle there's a lack of good beneficial, Razvi's group would advise that they
evidence either for or said.
function in heart attack against treatment, Razvi's The new British study consult their [doctor] on
team noted. included 46 heart attack
patients diagnosed with survivors who had received whether levothyroxine is
levothyroxine and 49 who
"subclinical hypothyroidism" received a "dummy" likely to be of benefit," he
placebo.
-- an underactive thyroid. added. "The results of our

In fact, "screening for and Dr. Satjit Bhusri is a "The results of this trial trial suggest that all such Also, "the sample size of
the study is quite small, and
subsequent treatment of cardiologist at Lenox Hill will help clinicians patients should have their it is difficult to make a
strong conclusion either
subclinical hypothyroidism Hospital in New York City. A year into treatment, reconsider offering thyroid function rechecked way given this limitation,"
Hirsh said.
in patients who have had a He wasn't involved in the heart function had treatment with after a few weeks.

heart attack to preserve or new research but said that, improved in both groups, levothyroxine to tens of Treatment with

improve heart function is in the United States, the researchers said, but thousands of patients with levothyroxine should not be

not justified," concluded the guidelines for heart patients there was no greater subclinical hypothyroidism started routinely in such

study's lead author, Salman "generally do not improvement in those worldwide," Razvi said in a patients." The study was published

Razvi. He's a consultant recommend checking who'd received university news release. July 21 in the Journal of the

endocrinologist at thyroid function unless levothyroxine. "To any patient who has Dr. Benjamin Hirsh American Medical
had a heart attack and has
Newcastle University and there is an indication that's The findings suggest that directs preventive Association.

cardiology at Northwell

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down Colombia’s largest river

Do animals have Magdalena:
culture? According to River of Dreams
Carl Safina, absolutely. by Wade Davis

Ecologist Carl Safina’s latest book focuses on the scarlet offhandedly proposed a journey
macaw, the sperm whale, and the chimpanzee, but his down the Río Magdalena.The project
concerns range far more widely than a trio of animals. In was immediately embraced, and off
“Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, he set.
Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace,” he writes about culture,
the structures of societies, and what makes us who and Led intermittently by a handful of
what we are. talented and passionate Colombians
in a kind of expeditionary tag-team of
Safina’s three animals are cannily chosen for their variety: journalists, professors, artists, Davis
an enormous seagoing mammal, an exotic bird, and one of makes his way from one end of the
humanity’s closest genetic relatives. Safina has observed river to the other. Like the very
these animals in their natural settings; in addition to nature of the journey itself, the
fascinating dispatches from the ethological front lines, large narrative swings back and forth and
chunks of “Becoming Wild” also double as first-rate nature side to side, allowing the serendipity
writing. of the moment to fill in the adventure
with compelling human interest
We meet chimpanzees, about which Safina warns against stories and representative anecdotes,
thinking about in purely human terms. “We see in them and of course histories. Davis is a
partially formed prehumans caught between being and tireless raconteur, and he includes
becoming, a harbinger of humankind,” Safina writes, noting, details and descriptions of many of
“Chimpanzees are not our ancestors; the last species the key moments and figures in
ancestral to chimpanzees and humans is extinct. Chimps Colombia's history, such as Sebastián
are our contemporaries. They are complete chimpanzees, de Belalcázar, Alexander von
not half-baked humans.” It’s a theme sounded throughout Humboldt, Simón Bolívar, Jorge
the book. Eliécer Gaitán, and Gabriel García
Márquez, to name but a few. He
The main reason for this caution is also one of the writes in a style and from a
central endeavors of “Becoming Wild”: deconstructing the perspective that is both haunting and
idea of human exceptionalism. For centuries, scientists and self-deprecating.
philosophers have pinned that exceptionalism on one thing
after another: Humans are the only animals that have You can’t read Wade Davis without He does this not only by traveling A word of warning: Davis does not
language, humans are the only animals that make tools, etc. thinking of Joseph Conrad’s fictional on and along the river – through the spare his readers from the abject
These have all boiled down to the same notion, that only narrator, Charles Marlow, as the two Alto, Medio, and Bajo provinces – but truth. There are stories about
humans have culture. men share the same fascination for also through stories,“living narratives pogroms of native populations,
adventure into terra incognita. “Now strung together with historical slaughter of innocent townspeople,
Safina’s book shows what naturalists have known for when I was a little chap I had a accounts deliberately selected to horrific environmental devastation,
centuries: Nothing could be further from the truth. Human passion for maps. I would look for reveal and celebrate the true wonder catastrophic natural disasters, and
beings have only recently begun to recognize the animal hours at South America, or Africa, or of a country that has long been more. The history both near and far
cultures around them. “Humans use language so much that Australia, and lose myself in all the overlooked and misunderstood.” of Colombia is often heart-wrenching
it swamps our own ability to recognize subtle and not- glories of exploration,” reminisces However, it would be a gross and violent.
subtle nonverbal signals that we ourselves continually Marlow in Conrad’s “Heart of understatement to call this book a
display and respond to,” Safina writes. “The world is awash Darkness.” river journey. It is far more than that. But of course, as he writes, in
in layers and waves of communication.” “Magdalena” is a devotee’s Colombia,“a butterfly is just a flower
But that’s where their commonality pilgrimage. that has learned how to fly.That’s why
“Becoming Wild” teems with communication of all kinds, ends. Where Marlow describes the [there are] so many.” This is a magical
with complex, empathetic creatures solving the problems wild and remote places and peoples Davis first visited Colombia when land, despite its sometimes sordid
of the planet in terms that denigrate he was 14, spending the summer with history, and the Río Magdalena lies at
see BECOMING WILD on page 15 for more them as savage, primitive, and a Colombian family in the mountains its heart. There are still many
superstitious, Davis does the above the city of Cali. He fell in love wonders to behold, including river
14 SMART READER July 30, 2020 opposite – extolling the virtues of with the nation and its people, finding manatees, amazing creatures which
these outlier regions and cultures as them “charged with a strange still exist in the ciénegas and sloughs
vital realms chock-full of exotic biota, intensity, a passion for life, and a quiet in the Bajo Magdalena region. Local
majestic geography, extraordinary acceptance of the frailty of the human communities believe that Colombia’s
art, and empirical wisdom, all of spirit.” Six years later he returned on very existence is inextricably linked
which is essential for the health of a one-way ticket “and no plans save a to the health and well-being of these
the planet. promise not to return to the United fascinating creatures.
States until Richard Nixon was no
This is the central theme of many longer president.” In reality, the Río Magdalena is not
of Davis’s works, including “The well. Its “drainage as a whole has lost
Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard It was his travels throughout close to 80 percent of its forest
Scientist's Astonishing Journey into Colombia during this period that cover,” writes Davis. He notes that 32
the Secret Societies of Haitian inevitably led him to Richard Evans million Colombians flush waste
Voodoo, Zombies, and Magic,” “One Schultes, the famed explorer and directly into the waterway, and avers
River: Explorations and Discoveries ethnobotanist, and a Colombia that fish stocks have “collapsed by 50
in the Amazon Rain Forest,” and “The devotee himself. Davis would go on percent in thirty years.” So what is to
Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom to study under Schultes at Harvard be done? Davis’ proposal aligns with
Matters in the Modern World.” In his (and later wrote about him in “One the viewpoint of a Colombian
most recent effort, “Magdalena: River River”). A few years ago, Davis was fisherman he interviews, who says his
of Dreams,” Davis takes his reader on invited back to Colombia to help country must “clean and bring life
an epic journey down the remote promote an illustrated book series back to the Río Magdalena. All of it.
reaches of the Río Magdalena, called “Savia Botánica.” It was during That’s what [Colombians] want. And
Colombia’s Mississippi. discussions about this series that he that’s what the country needs.” Davis’
desire to revitalize the river of his
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It has been said that the central task of a biographer is Becoming Wild
revision. It was part of Larry Tye’s mission in his 2016 book
“Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon,” and that continued from page 14
revisionism becomes doubly important when it comes to
the subject of Tye’s new book, “Demagogue: The Life and of their worlds. Some birds, Safina reminds his readers,
Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy.” have toolmaking skills equal to anything possessed by
apes. “New Caledonia crows make hooked tools,
Demagogue: something even chimpanzees don’t do,” he writes. “Apes
The Life and Long Shadow don’t have much, if anything, over macaws and ravens.”
Juvenile macaws spend years learning tool-fashioning from
of Senator Joe McCarthy their parents. Sperm whale clans include each other in
by Larry Tye sonic webs extending over half the planet, webs full of
syntax and vocabulary and even regional dialects.
As Tye points out immediately, McCarthy is part of a The end came quickly after that. Public opinion turned Chimpanzees mirror all the interpersonal complexity of
comparatively tiny cast of characters in American civic against McCarthy, the Senate voted to censure him, and he humans.
folklore who are characterized as purely evil – as died at age 48 in 1957. Tye narrates all of this in greater
cautionary tales. With McCarthy, revisionism hits a brick detail and with greater sympathy than any previous Safina imparts a naturalist’s sense of unending wonder.
wall. On a fundamental level, he is undeniably biographer, and he recognizes not only the uphill task of “Over the towering kapok tree shines one bright planet,
unsalvageable. even partially defending McCarthy but also the dark the indelible sight of Venus above the Amazon,” he writes
associations with the present political moment. at one point. Marveling at the sheer beauty of macaws, he
Tye mostly seems to know this. “I seek not to redeem asks,“How could such profligate colors exist? Why would
the Wisconsin senator but rather to unmask fanatics and Tye draws a link between McCarthyism and Trumpism. birds evolve such beauty?”
fabricators on all sides in a way that presents a truer, more “To make sense of Donald Trump’s rise, reporters
fully dimensional portrait of a figure so central to the swarmed into America’s heartland to interview his angry He also returns to the idea that humans are not the
narrative of America,” he writes. “Pulling open the curtain, white believers,” he writes. “Another vital way to center of the universe. He recognizes that this makes
we find Senator McCarthy revealed as neither the Genghis understand what happened is to look back at the bully who some people uncomfortable. Among its many virtues,
Khan his enemies depicted nor the Joan of Arc rendered by set the guideposts.” The lessons that McCarthy failed to “Becoming Wild” eases such discomfort. It takes the
friends.” learn from the events of his own life, Tye writes, are concerns of Safina’s incredibly moving 2015 book,“Beyond
straightforward: “Stretch the truth often enough and not Words: What Animals Think and Feel,” and puts more
The real man,Tye contends, is somewhere between saint only will people never trust you, but even you will have faces on its common-sense revelations. One of those faces
and sinner, and in order to flesh out his portrait, Tye has trouble remembering what is real. Malign people enough has a bright red cap of feathers; another is as long as your
researched extensively and consulted more archival and they will fight back in kind, with evidence as half-baked living room; and the third has expressions very like your
material than has been available to any previous McCarthy as yours.” It’s every demagogue’s dilemma, he adds: “they own. All have cultures. All have societies. All are kin.
biographer, including information from the FBI, CIA, the can’t help lying and smearing.”
Russian Foreign Ministry, and the personal recollections of By Stephen Humphries
McCarthy’s wife, his family, and the children of his various “Demagogue” does an impressive job of shedding new
victims. light on Joe McCarthy, but the more light is shed, the more Mary Trump's book
repulsive he appears.“The more we learn,” Tye writes,“the sells 1.35 million copies
All of this research allows Tye to correct the biographical fewer heroes this story has.” in its first week
record on a few comparatively minor points, but mere
corrections do not provide a ringing defense. McCarthy’s By Kevin O’Kelly A tell-all book about
postwar career only makes it more difficult for anyone President Donald Trump by
trying to find a relatable human being underneath the Author Larry Tye joins his niece has sold a record
myth: He became a senator from Wisconsin in 1946 and Happenings Q&A on 1.35 million copies in its first
ostentatiously hunted Communists and gay men in a series Friday, August 7th week, the publisher said.
of public accusations and charges, which culminated in his at 2pm on AM1050
participation in the Army-McCarthy Senate hearings of WLIP. The figure for Mary Trump's
1954. The hearings were a public sensation. “Gallup found book, Too Much and Never
that an astounding 78 million Americans understood the Enough: How My Family
basic charges and countercharges,” Tye writes, “which was Created the World's Most
substantially more than could name their senator, their Dangerous Man, includes pre-
congressman, and probably Lassie.” orders and sales of printed
copies and ebooks. Simon &
And although Tye stresses that the McCarthy revealed in Schuster said it's ordered a
the private hearings is even worse than the one Americans 17th printing of the book.
saw on live TV, there’s a certain poetic symmetry in the fact
that just as McCarthy’s rise to brutish, bullying power "Mary Trump's memoir has transcended the usual
happened on camera, so too did the beginning of his fall. ceiling for political books to reach a larger audience of
On June 9, 1954, the Army chief counsel Joseph Nye Welch people who want to read stories about unusual families,"
famously asked McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency, Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp said in a statement.
sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” As Tye
writes, “The question hung in the air of the hearing room "We knew Too Much and Never Enough would make
and living rooms across America, and became the news and offer fascinating psychological insights into the
watchword of the Army-McCarthy saga. ...The audience at president, but we're moved to see how deeply the book
first seemed stunned, then, defying the chairman’s long- has touched readers and thrilled to have people compare
standing admonition, it burst into loud and long applause in the book to The Godfather."
support of Welch.”
Mary Trump's book is No. 1 in the United States, Britain,
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1. Too Much and Never Enough (Trump) 1. The Order (Sliva) presidency.
2. White Fragility (DiAngelo) 2. Peace Talks (Butcher)
3. How to be an Antiracist (Kendi) 3. Where the Crawdads Sing (Owens) The Room Where it Happened, another tell-all from
4. The Room Where it Happened (Bolton) 4. The Vanishing Half (Bennett) former national security adviser John Bolton sold 780,000
5. Untamed (Doyle) 5. 28 Summers (Hilderbrand) copies in its first week earlier this month. A Higher
6. Alexander Hamilton (Chernow) 6. Sex and Vanity (Kwan) Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership, a book by former FBI
7. Begin Again (Glaude) 7. The Guest List (Foley) Director James Comey, sold about 600,000 in its first
8. So You Want to Talk About Race (Oluo) 8. Camino Winds (Grisham) week in 2018.
9. The Color of Law (Rothstein) 9. Utopia Avenue (Mitchell)
10. The Splendid and the Vile (Larson) 10. A Walk Along the Beach (Macomber) Robert Trump, the president's brother, went to court
this month to block the book citing a confidentiality
agreement Mary Trump signed in 2001. A New York
Supreme Court judge ultimately ruled that Mary Trump
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Pet World animals

with Cathy Rosenthal in the news

Dog who once loved walks now Rescue team carries a check-up and determined she was
doesn't want to go out not ill or injured. The zoo said she
St. Bernard down would be reunited with her cubs once
the tranquilizer wears off.
walk again may require some depressed. mountain
treat-based encouragement. Store seeks home for
Dear Cathy, We have a A St. Bernard, a breed of dog famous rare orange lobster
Coton de Tulear (a small If there doesn't seem to be
breed, white dog) who is any health problems and you The vet says all is well for conducting mountain rescues, was A New Jersey grocery store is trying
almost 10. She is a very sweet, don't think she got scared to find a new home for a rare orange
lovable and intelligent dog. Mia during a walk, she just may be physically, so why does he cry the subject of a rescue when the lobster to make sure it doesn't end up
loved to go for walks, getting older and not want to on a dinner plate. Employees at the
sometimes two to three times walk as much as she once did. so much? He truly sounds like canine collapsed on England's highest Stop & Shop store in Toms River said
a day. All I had to do is say the But she's a small dog with they noticed one of the lobsters in a
word "walk" and she would many years to live, so get her he is dying of a broken heart. mountain. The Wasdale Mountain recent shipment had an orange
run to the door and wait for hips and joints checked coloration similar to that of its cooked
me to put her leash and because that is likely the Please advise us if you can. Rescue Team said in a Facebook post brethren, but was still alive and well.
harness on. problem. The grocery chain said the lobster is
Muchas gracias! -- Gary, the owners of the dog, named Daisy, not for sale and officials are trying to
The problem is, she no Dear Cathy, I'm writing to find a suitable home for the rare
longer wants to go for walks. see if you have wisdom to Berkeley, California. contacted rescuers to report the St. crustacean. A spokeswoman said the
When I take out the leash and share about why our cat cries store has been in contact with Rutgers'
harness, she runs to the other so often. We have four cats; Dear Gary, I once had a Bernard had collapsed and appeared to Department of Agriculture and Natural
room. I cannot figure out why. three cats are 3 years old and Resources about potentially taking the
Any ideas? - Patrick, Muttney, the one who cries, is cat who loved to sing and be experiencing pain in her hind legs lobster. Experts said the lobster's color
Smithtown, New York 15. All the cats get along with is extremely uncommon, but exactly
each other.They are all indoor listen to his voice reverberate while descending Scafell Pike in how rare is unclear.
Dear Patrick, Whenever cats, though our home layout
there is a sudden change in allows them to go outside in the bathtub. But I don't think northwest England. The team said it "Unofficial estimates are in the range
behavior, health problems must 24/7, yet remain within a wall of one in a million, although I have not
be ruled out first. Mia is a around the property, so they that is your case here. Because took a 16 group members about five seen a scientific assessment of the
senior dog and she may be can enjoy sunshine, watching actual proportion they comprise of the
having some joint or hip birds and butterflies and the changes happened two hours to successfully bring Daisy back wild population," Rick Wahle, the
problems that you haven't chasing imaginary things. director of Lobster Institute at the
detected yet and that may be years ago - and your to where her owners could transport University of Maine, told the Asbury
making her walks painful or Muttney is sweet and Park Press.
uncomfortable. friendly and will allow visitors veterinarian says there are no her in a vehicle.
to pet him, often checking Woman reunited with
Your veterinarian can take them out and jumping in their other health problems -- I am "Daisy's owners were able to keep cat after 10 years
hip X-rays to see if there are laps, if he is in the mood. He inclined to think this might be her well-hydrated and fed until team
joint problems and can often heads to bed as it gets feline dementia. A Utah animal shelter said a cat that
prescribe medication to ease late, waits for one of us to members were able to get on scene went missing 10 years ago was reunited
her pain if that's the case. At come to bed, then cuddles. with her owner after being brought in
that point, she may want to go Feline dementia presents with a stretcher to help get them as a stray. The Tooele City Animal
for walks again, but may want The problem is, Muttney Shelter said a stray cat was recently
shorter or fewer walks going cries a heartbreaking lonely with several symptoms, moving again quickly as the weather brought into the shelter by a person
forward. wail both day and night. The who said they had been feeding the
including cats getting lost or was due to deteriorate later that stray feline, but they were preparing to
Animals also may change move and were concerned about
confused in their homes or evening," the rescue team said. The leaving the cat without a consistent
source of food.The shelter scanned the
exhibiting inappropriate team carried the 121-pound dog, who cat for a microchip and found the
contact information for a man who
vocalizations for no apparent the post said had "a hard start in life" identified the cat as Mocha, his
daughter's cat.The man said Mocha had
reason, like the crying or before being rescued by her owners gone missing from the family's home 10
years earlier, when his daughter was a
wailing you describe. Feline just a few months ago, down the teenager. The man's daughter, now an
adult, came into the shelter and was
dementia is much like mountain on the stretcher. reunited with her long-lost pet. The
shelter said the story should serve as a
Alzheimer's and involves Daisy was "back to her usual high reminder of how important it is to
lesions on the brain. Talk to spirits" after a good night's sleep, the bring stray animals in to be scanned for
your veterinarian about the rescue team said. "She apparently feels microchips.
possibility of feline dementia. a bit guilty and slightly embarrassed
While this dementia can't be about letting down the image of her "That skinny, matted stray cat or dog
cured, there are medications cousins bouncing across the Alpine that you just saw on the street may be
that can help with symptoms, snows with barrels of brandy around the next pet that has been missing for
which may reduce Muttney' s their necks," the team wrote. over a decade, with heartbroken
crying day and night. owners who have lost hope," the
In the meantime, close a few Escaped red panda shelter said.
doors when rooms are not in found hiding in

behaviors when they have had crying started two years ago. use to keep Muttney from foliage inside zoo
a negative experience. If she He will cuddle on your lap, wandering around the house. It The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in
went out for a walk and was seem perfectly happy, then sounds like he does best when Ohio said the red panda that escaped
frightened by something, rise, go to another room, and in a room with someone else. from her enclosure was located inside
maybe a car passing too begin crying. Sometimes, he As well as being a recuring guest the zoo and safely recaptured.The zoo
closely or a dog being will stop momentarily if we call on Happenings Q&A, Cathy M. said the 2-year-old female red panda,
obnoxious through a fence, she him. Other times he just Rosenthal is a longtime animal
may identify the leash with the continues crying until advocate, author, columnist and pet named Kora, was spotted by two
negative experience. Can you someone enters the room. He expert who has more than 25 years guests who noticed movement in the
recall any negative experiences cries until he tires or gets
she might have had on a walk? distracted. He does not seem in the animal welfare field. Send foliage between the rhino habitat and
If yes, getting her to go for a withdrawn, isolated, anxious or your pet questions, stories and tips the pachyderm building in the Asia

to [email protected]. Quest area of the zoo. Kora, who

escaped from the red panda habitat

two days earlier fled up a tree when

zoo employees arrived. Zookeepers

attempted to lure the red panda back

to the ground using treats and her two

newborn cubs.

"While she was attentive to their
sounds and moved toward them, she
remained in the tree just above the
rooftop of the Pachyderm Building,"
the zoo said in a Facebook post. Zoo
personnel eventually decided to
tranquilize Kora for her own safety, and
she ended up falling about 10 feet into
the response team's safety net. The
zoo's Animal Health Center gave Kora

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Look Who’s Getting Married! Choose joy

by Jennifer Douma

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Russell Lee Pearson & Paula Jayne Rathburn about a choice, therefore anyone tell you to just
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Flashback Corner of Main and Park Streets, c. 1867-69 stop taking insulin and just

This photograph was taken looking northeast from the photo make out other signs.
studio of S.W.Truesdell, which was located on the southwest In the distance on the right edge of the image is a building with a
corner of Main (6th ave) and Park (57th Street). His studio was
on the second floor of a two-story building, although the camera penthouse. That is the Simmons factory. Not yet making
mattresses, at this time Simmons was manufacturing cheese boxes
angle suggests it was taken from the roof.
From the left to the right we first see the general store of Rouse and wooden telegraph wire insulators. They may also be
manufacturing fanning mills already, although the Kenosha
Simmons. The second floor with the very tall windows was
Simmons Hall, an early venue for dinners, dances, and events. Fanning-Mill Company would not be organized until 1870.
Rouse Simmons was the brother of Zalmon Simmons. The
leftmost shop of the building at the northeast corner of 6th and Photo copyright of the Kenosha County Historical Society.
57th was Kelley Brothers, a wine and liquor store. It's hard to Want to learn more about old Kenosha? Visit
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Float down a river

by Jim Kreuser

In this summer of social — Fox Lake, Ill., and the
distancing, it’s hard to think Chain O’ Lakes region in
of a more peaceful, healthy Lake and McHenry
way to spend a day than counties.
paddling a scenic riverway in
a kayak or a canoe. Dedicated in 2016, the
Kenosha County Fox River
And, thankfully, though an Water Trail is our part of a Jim Kreuser has been
ongoing partnership with regional system that Kenosha County executive
some of our neighbors to provides non-motorized since 2008. He blogs here
the north and south, watercraft users with
Kenosha County offers a convenient, marked river regularly about county
great, convenient way for access throughout the government issues and
paddlers to access our watershed. events.You can contact
largest river. him at 262-653-2600
The Kenosha County or at County.Executive@
The Fox River Water Trail access points, from north to
is an 11-mile route that runs south, following the stream kenoshacounty.org.
nearly the whole length of of the river, include:
Kenosha Kenosha County Lakes State Park).
from north to south,
A sizzling summer providing launch sites and • The Highway JB access, All you need is a canoe
parking at several locations 34155 31st St., offering and a kayak and a vehicle or
in Kenosha along the Fox. launch/takeout and parking two, and you’ve got the
along the highway shoulder. makings of a beautiful day
with Jake Hoey on the river, with views of
Not to be confused with • The Highway W access, our county that you
We are now more than surplus of around an inch or the “other” Fox River in 6400 328th Ave., a pick- probably don’t normally
halfway through the summer two, despite the long dry northeastern Wisconsin, up/drop-off point only (2.9 see.
of 2020 in Kenosha, and it periods. If we look at year- Kenosha County’s Fox is river miles downstream
has been quite a hot and to-date numbers for 2020 so part of a watershed that from Highway JB). More information about
humid one for us. June far, which includes our very covers 2,658 square miles
ended up being about 2-3"F wet spring and relatively around the river, extending • The Fox River Park the Kenosha County
above normal for us, and July drier winter, it should come from Colgate, Wis. (about
is running a shade over 4°F as no surprise that we are 30 miles northwest of access, 29875 Silver Lake portion of the Fox River
above normal. The hottest above normal.Taking multiple Milwaukee) to Plano, Ill.
day of the summer so far was observation sites into Jake “The Weather Guy” (about 60 miles west- Road, offering Water Trail — including a
Sunday, July 26th when we account, we stand at around Hoey is a freelance southwest of Chicago).
reached a high of 96°F at the 24 to 27" with normals being meteorologist who launch/takeout and ample detailed map — is available
Kenosha airport. This around 19 to 20" and record graduated from the
combined with the high highs ranging from 27 to 33" University of Oklahoma. As parking (5.6 river miles at
humidity (dew points in the by this point of July. well as a interested in the
mid-70s at times) led to the weather, Jake is an avid downstream from Highway https://www.kenoshacounty
heat index peaking in the How does the rest of 2020 traveler, having visited 49 of
105-to-110°F range during look? Well, the immediate our 50 states. Jake is also a W). .org/1737/Fox-River-Water-
the afternoon. Later that future looks pleasant, with recurring guest on
night, we received a healthy the milder temperatures Happenings Q&A M-F Kenosha County • The Wilmot access, Trail. To learn more about
dose of rainfall courtesy of we've been enjoying this noon till 3pm. For more up 30585 Wilmot Road, also
strong thunderstorms. This week likely continuing into to date forecasts please residents know it best as offering launch/takeout and the entire regional system,
has been a bit of a trend this the beginning of August. visit Jake's Kenosha Area ample parking (2.5 river
summer so far — to go for However, the longer term Weather Page on Facebook the river that skirts miles downstream from Fox check out
long stretches of time outlooks show heat River Park and 2.6 miles
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consistent and less consensus seems to be for
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Looking further ahead, this
This summer, through to coming autumn could feature heads toward — wait for it
the final week of July, we are above normal temperatures,
running a modest rainfall but early indications are that we could have a developing
La Niña for the winter ahead.
Long story short, this refers
to lower than normal water
temperatures in parts of the
Pacific Ocean and can result
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dreams with this infinitely customizable recipe
The MIND Diet

When we decided to make a homemade baking temperature to a relatively low 325 There's a new diet plan Researchers found the risk of Alzheimer's by 35%.
version of ice cream sandwiches, we degrees so that the dough had more time that may help you MIND diet is easier to
thought it would be as easy as smooshing to spread before it set. And to compensate remember things. It's follow than the Moderate adherence to the
some ice cream between two chocolate Mediterranean, which
chip cookies. But all that gave us were rock- for the freezer's flavor-dulling effect, we appropriately nicknamed requires daily fish Mediterranean and DASH
solid cookies that we struggled to bite consumption and multiple
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out the sides. The takeaway: Cookies that vegetables.
are best eaten with a glass of milk are not that came through even when frozen. protective benefits,
perfect in an ice cream sandwich.
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considered in cookie composition: water.
Our recipe includes almost twice as much Neurodegenerative Delay. including genetics,
water than most chocolate chip cookie
recipes. That may sound counterintuitive -- A study at Rush A typical day's intake on environment and lifestyle,
you'd think frozen water would make
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sugar in the dough lowers the temperature
at which water freezes, keeping it fluid. By who followed the diet include three servings of development of
increasing the amount of sugary water in
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that were sturdy enough to sandwich the
ice cream but tender enough to bite risk of developing quinoa, wheat bread), a may help reduce risks.
through with just a hint of snap.
Alzheimer's disease. Those salad and another Q and A
We also wanted a thinner, flatter cookie
so we could still use a good amount of ice who followed it moderately vegetable, a glass of wine, Q: What role does zinc
cream without making the sandwich the play in the body?
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who followed the DASH blueberries or
The result? An infinitely customizable, diet lowered risk by 39%.
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CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE 2 pounds fresh peaches, peeled cut into sugar, salt, cinnamon and remaining 1/4 • Bake in preheated oven until top is
ICE CREAM SANDWICHES 3/4-inch chunks (about 6 cups) cup sugar until mixture is completely golden and fruit is bubbling, about 45
2 cups fresh blueberries smooth (no clumps).Add butter, and toss minutes. Serve warm. Serves 8 (serving
Makes 12 sandwiches 2 tablespoons cornstarch to coat. size: 2/3 cup).
2 teaspoons lemon zest plus 2
10 tablespoons unsalted butter tablespoons fresh juice (from 1 lemon) • With a fork or hands, mix butter into • Per serving: 299 calories; 4 grams
3/4 cup (5 1/4 ounces) packed dark brown sugar 1/2 cup granulated sugar, divided flour until pebble consistency. Stir in oats. protein; 54 grams carbohydrates; 9 grams
3/4 teaspoon table salt 3/4 cup whole-wheat pastry flour Crumble topping evenly over peach fat; 5 grams fiber; 124 milligrams sodium.
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (52/3 ounces) all-purpose flour 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar mixture.
1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 large egg 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons water 1/3 cup cold, unsalted butter, diced
2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/2 cup old-fashioned regular rolled oats
1/2 cup (3 ounces) mini semisweet chocolate chips, plus 1 cup
for optional garnish • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Gently
3 pints ice cream stir together peaches, blueberries,
cornstarch, lemon zest, lemon juice and
• Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 325 F. 1/4 cup of the sugar in a large bowl.
Melt butter in a 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat. Cook, • Spoon mixture into an 11-by-7-inch
stirring and scraping skillet constantly with a rubber spatula, baking dish.Whisk together flour, brown
until milk solids are dark golden brown and butter has nutty
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• Add egg, water and vanilla to the browned butter mixture and
whisk until smooth, about 30 seconds. Using a rubber spatula,
stir in flour mixture until combined. Stir in 1/2 cup chocolate
chips. (The dough will be very soft.)

• Using a #60 scoop or 1-tablespoon measure, evenly space 12
mounds of dough on each prepared sheet. Bake cookies, 1
sheet at a time, until puffed and golden brown, 9 to 12 minutes,
rotating sheet halfway through baking. Let cookies cool on the
sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack and let cool
completely, about 45 minutes. Place one sheet, still lined with
parchment, in freezer.

• Place 4 cookies upside down on the counter. Quickly deposit
2-inch-tall, 2-inch-wide scoop of ice cream in center of each
cookie. Place 1 cookie from the wire rack right side up on top
of each scoop. Gently press and twist each sandwich between
your hands until the ice cream spreads to edges of the cookies
(this doesn't have to be perfect; ice cream can be neatened
after chilling).Transfer sandwiches to the sheet in freezer.
Repeat with remaining cookies and remaining ice cream. Place
1 cup chocolate chips, if using, in a shallow bowl or pie plate.

• Remove first 4 sandwiches from freezer.Working with 1
sandwich at a time, hold sandwiches over bowl of chocolate
chips and gently press chocolate chips into sides of sandwiches
with your other hand, neatening ice cream if necessary. Return
garnished sandwiches to the freezer and repeat with the
remaining 8 sandwiches in two batches. Freeze sandwiches for
at least 8 hours before serving. (Sandwiches can be individually
wrapped tightly in plastic wrap, transferred to zipper-lock bag,
and frozen for up to two months.)

• Recipe notes:These sandwiches should be made at least 8
hours before serving. For the best results, weigh the flour and
sugar for the cookies.We prefer the deeper flavor of dark
brown sugar here, but light brown sugar will also work. Use
your favorite ice cream. If using a premium ice cream such as
Ben & Jerry's or Haagen-Dazs, which is likely to be harder than
a less-premium brand when frozen, let the ice cream soften
slightly in the refrigerator before scooping.We like these
sandwiches with chocolate chips pressed into the sides, but the
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With Siberia in flames, climate change
hits home for Russia

Siberia is burning.

Russia’s enormous but
sparsely populated Asian
landmass is experiencing
record-breaking
temperatures, the fifth year
in a row it has done so.

But this year has brought

unprecedented forest fires

that have devastated a

territory the size of the state

of Washington, and blanketed

vast areas with thick air

pollution. Cities that have

seldom seen summer

temperatures above 70

degrees Fahrenheit have

been sweltering under a hot

season that began a month

early this year, and has been

consistently delivering daily

temperatures several

degrees above average. Russian officials, like these members of the Russian Emergencies Ministry in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Region, are working to contain the fires. But scientists and
activists say the government needs to take more preventive action as well.
Scientists say Siberia is
warming at twice the global The receding permafrost over Siberia and the Arctic with temperatures above 30 much more reliable emergency in Norilsk, but
average – leading to extreme has exposed copious that’s two or three times the degrees Celsius [86 F], and in information about global the damage to the delicate
weather events, severe remains of long-extinct global average, but changes in general temperatures about warming and the growing northern ecosystem seems
environmental deterioration, woolly mammoths, frozen atmospheric patterns. There 2 degrees above the 100- environmental catastrophe set to persist for decades.
and serious complications for thousands of years is the likelihood in future of year average,” says Dr. in the Russian media than
for human habitation. And, beneath the tundra, sparking more extreme weather Chebakova. “It’s pretty clear there was 10 years ago, and “The main problem is a
they warn, it is a climate worries of a new “gold rush” events, which will be greater that we are looking at a scientists are talking about it lack of official responsibility,”
catastrophe that might be to harvest the prehistoric in their frequency and general warming trend, and more. But we still don’t hear says Vassily Yablokov, climate
just beginning. beasts’ valuable ivory tusks. duration.” 90% of Russian scientists much from government project manager at
But the melting earth also believe it is caused by human officials. Greenpeace Russia. “The
“If these temperatures threatens to disgorge huge “We have been warning activity.” dangers of melting
repeat themselves next year, amounts of greenhouse about this” “What we need to see, permafrost have been
the situation on the gases, such as methane, that Environmentalists are urgently, is the creation of an obvious for years. But big
southern fringe of Siberian have been locked in the ice A team of international beside themselves with adaptation plan.Two decades business cares only about
forests is going to become throughout human history, researchers has concluded dread and frustration. ago, we might have maintaining the status quo,
critical,” says Nadezhda threatening incalculable that this year’s Siberian heat concentrated on reducing exploiting nature in
Chebakova, a researcher at future consequences. wave would have been “We have been warning greenhouse gases. But now profitable ways. So they
the Sukachev Institute of virtually impossible without about this for at least two we have a warming process never invested in prevention.
Forest in Krasnoyarsk. “In The near-complete man-made climate change. decades, and successive that’s well underway, and it’s Then they tried to cover up
the long run, something has It’s a view the Russian Russian governments have going to be with us for some the accident, and failed to act
to be done about the disappearance of sea ice off government has been slow failed to take heed,” says time,” he says. “For instance, swiftly to contain the
emissions of greenhouse to accept, but most Russian Vladimir Slivyak, co-chair of we need proper damage. That’s why we can
gases.” Russia’s northern coast this scientists now admit that it Ecodefense, one of Russia’s management of forests, with say that the human factor is
must be deemed a oldest – and perennially better fire prevention and the key problem here.”
year has proved an economic permanent factor. embattled – environmental firefighting capacities, yet the
organizations. “Now it’s numbers of people doing
“Unprecedented” boon, with shipping “What we’ve seen here in happening, and they are still these things have been
phenomena central Siberia is an in denial. Of course there is steadily reduced. The main
companies predicting that absolutely abnormal April, approach in play right now
appears to be to wait for
year-round navigation autumn, for the rains to Mr. Slivyak of Ecodefense
come. But what about next
The ongoing forest fires through the once icebound year?” says the reason for the

are estimated to have so far Northeast Passage might “A lack of official Russian government’s
responsibility”
released 56 million tons of soon become possible. For reluctance to face and adapt
The government’s lack of
carbon dioxide into the over a decade Russia has preparedness became clear to the realities of long-term
at the end of May after
atmosphere – more than the been preparing to exploit melting permafrost caused climate change is that it
fuel tanks to rupture at a
annual emissions of some the vast trove of resources power station belonging to would mean calling into
the huge NorNickel mining
midsized European opening up as the Arctic ice and smelting company, near question Russia’s basic
the city of Norilsk in Siberia’s
countries.And the toxic haze pack recedes and has been far north. The spill released economic strategy.
20,000 tons of diesel fuel
from the fires has reportedly steadily building into the soil and nearby “We have had the same
rivers, creating what local strategy for the past 50
settled over several towns, infrastructure, including activists described as an years, which is to ramp up
“environmental extraction of fossil fuels,
aggravating health conditions military bases, to promote catastrophe.” A few days mostly for export,” he says.
later, PresidentVladimir Putin “Russian officials may be
– and moods – for many that effort. But scientists fret declared a state of learning to talk the talk
about climate change at
inhabitants who are still that the declining albedo, or international forums, but
whenever issues of
under obligatory coronavirus reflectivity, of the vanishing economic development
come up, the chief goals are
lockdown. ice sheets will only create a always more oil, gas, and coal.
They are just not ready to
Meanwhile, high negative feedback loop that accept that without radical
adaptations, this is going to
temperatures are accelerates the melt-off in get worse, much worse.”

accelerating the melting of coming years.

Russia’s 17 million square “These phenomena are

miles of permafrost above unprecedented,” says

the Arctic Circle. That has Valentina Khan, deputy

caused at least one director of the

disastrous industrial Hydrometeorological

accident, and threatens the Research Center of the

integrity of the entire Russian Federation, part of

region’s infrastructure, the national weather service. By Fred Weir

including pipelines, roads, and “What we are witnessing is

housing. not just a rate of warming

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Explore Kenosha's

Historic Districts

by Meridith Jumisko

Kenosha is a community The Civic Center

rich with history and Historic District (56th

culture. Be A Tourist In Your Street and Sheridan Road)

Own Town and enjoy a is significant because it was

walking, biking, or driving the culmination of two Meridith Jumisko is
Public Relations Director
tour of our four historic movements of city reform
at the Kenosha Area
districts. Appreciate the during the late nineteenth Convention & Visitors
Bureau. Contact her at
beauty of historic homes, and early twentieth [email protected] or

buildings, and landmarks century: the movement to drop her a tweet
@MJ_Kenosha
that have been preserved physically improve the city
workers and travelers from
and treasured by our and the movement to the adjacent railroad tracks.

community for over a politically reform the city. It The Library Park Historic
District (Seventh Avenue
century. Each district has its represents a significant and 59th Place) contains
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own guide, including maps, event in the history of nineteenth century and
early twentieth century
property histories, photos, community planning architecture. Shortly after
the first settlers arrived
and more which can be development in Kenosha here in 1835, the land
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