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January 13, 2022
Volume 21 - #1

LEFT/RIGHT

HOW WISCONSIN
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PIVOTAL SWING
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Is Wisconsin the ultimate test
of trust in voting?

WHY WE Wisconsin, a pivotal swing
WROTE THIS state that Mr. Trump lost to
Joe Biden by just under
Wisconsin could 21,000 votes, after winning
become the by nearly 23,000 four years
country’s earlier.
premier petri
dish for what A decade of bitter This former schoolhouse in Ripon,Wisconsin, shown on Dec. 9, 2021, is known as
partisan combat here has the birthplace of the Republican Party after a meeting was held there in 1854 to
happens when shrunk the political center, form a new anti-slavery political party.The schoolhouse is now a private museum.
citizens lose to the point where neither
side trusts the other to play
trust – for valid fair. Even among Republicans
reasons or not – who dismiss Mr. Trump’s
false claims of fraud,
in the suspicions linger that
legitimacy of a Democrats took advantage
of electoral rules under
democracy’s pandemic conditions to
most boost turnout for Mr. Biden.

fundamental Mr. Trump and his allies
act, voting.
are also pushing changes to
By Simon Montlake
the state’s electoral system concerns about fraud, they most votes win. Or we have openly LGBTQ member, has 2016 to replace an
On a wintry night in 1854, tend to further amplify to stop pretending that a consistently liberal voting independent agency that ran
a small band of citizens in advance of a possible disinformation, sapping faith we’re interested in record on everything from afoul of then GOP
gathered in a one-room in public institutions and democracy.” health care to the Governor Walker after its
schoolhouse in Ripon, rematch in 2024. Some priming voters to reject environment. Her colleague, ethics division investigated
Wisconsin, to address a future results. Senator Johnson, is an his campaign finances.
looming crisis for their Republicans are trying to outspoken conservative
young democracy. Meeting “This whole enterprise of who campaigned on a During the 2020
by candlelight, they agreed purge or eliminate the the [Wisconsin] How did Wisconsin go promise to repeal the campaign, the WEC
to form a new political party investigation is built on an down this perilous path? Affordable Care Act and has struggled at times to reach
aimed at stopping the bipartisan Wisconsin outright lie, which is that And where will it go from recently drawn criticism for consensus on how to
spread of slavery, uniting a there were irregularities,” here – and will other states downplaying the Jan. 6 riot interpret election law under
fractious coalition of Whigs, Election Commission says Kenneth Mayer, a follow? at the Capitol and pandemic conditions – such
Free-Soilers, and anti-slavery professor of political questioning the safety of as what to do about closed
Democrats around the (WEC) that oversees and science at the University of COVID-19 vaccines. He has polling places. After Mr.
urgent effort to keep slavery Wisconsin, Madison. “The yet to announce whether Trump lost, his allies accused
out of the territories of certifies elections, saying it people who are promoting he’s running for reelection. the WEC of issuing illegal
Kansas and Nebraska. this investigation are guidelines that favored Mr.
can no longer be trusted. A promoting a lie.” A state of contradictory As in many states, Biden.
Alvan Bovay, the lawyer impulses Wisconsin’s elections are
who called the meeting, Republican sheriff even Democratic Gov. Tony decentralized acts of So far, a total of 31
named the party res publica, Evers, who is up for democracy: Clerks in 1,850 individual cases of potential
or Republican. It would launched a criminal reelection in November, has municipalities, many of fraud have been referred to
become the dominant anti- denounced the attacks on whom work part time, prosecutors in Wisconsin.
slavery party in subsequent complaint against members the WEC and vetoed several Wisconsin has always register voters and send out Of those, just five were
years of tumult, which election-related bills passed seemed an uneasy marriage ballots. In 2020, election actually charged, according
culminated in a bloody Civil of the commission. by Republicans. But of contradictory political officials had to cope with a to an Associated Press
War under a Republican Democrats worry that if the impulses. A birthplace of pandemic that led to a surge report in December. One
president, Abraham Lincoln. U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, a GOP takes back the both the Republican Party in voting by mail; some involved a man who voted
staunch Trump supporter governorship this year, while and progressivism, the state precincts added drop boxes for Mr. Trump despite being
Today, Mr. Bovay’s political whose seat is up in retaining its hold on the has a long history of where people could deliver ineligible because he was on
heirs are grappling with November, has gone so far Legislature, it will gain government-backed social their mail-in ballots so they parole. The other cases
another brewing clash – one as to call on the State unilateral control over how protections as well as a could vote more safely. were dropped after review.
that may prove as Legislature to invoke its Wisconsin’s elections are conservative belief in
consequential for the union constitutional role to run run and certified going personal and family What happened was all Actual cases of fraud are
as the struggles of the federal elections. forward. responsibility. In recent out in the open – citizens extremely rare in
1850s. It’s playing out in years, it has grown more could watch every step, Wisconsin’s elections, says
legislative chambers and A Republican on the Ann Jacobs, the sharply polarized: Its rural from local ballot counting to Kevin Kennedy, the state’s
courtrooms, on social media election commission says his Democratic chair of the counties, dotted with dairy county-level canvassing, says former election chief for 34
and talk radio, and it centers party is simply taking steps WEC, envisions a potential farms and an aging, mostly Meagan Wolfe, the WEC’s years. But then came a
on an existential facet of to shore up a faulty system scenario in which white population, have nonpartisan administrator. president who said he could
democracy: Who controls and restore trust. Multiple Wisconsin’s 10 presidential shifted right, while only lose reelection if the
how elections are run – and polls have shown that a electors could be awarded Milwaukee and fast-growing “There are no dark results were rigged.
what happens when citizens sizable majority of to the losing candidate – as Madison have moved corners. There are no
lose trust in the legitimacy Republican voters believe Mr. Trump urged state further left. locked doors,” she says. “It’s always been hard to
of the vote? the 2020 vote was stolen. In lawmakers to do on the eve “Every single piece of an cheat,” he says. “But if you
an October poll for of the Jan. 6 invasion of the Wisconsin’s highly election is transparent.” keep saying there’s a lot of
The issue has been NPR/PBS NewsHour, only a U.S. Capitol. fraud and a lot of cheating
rankling states across the third said they would trust gerrymandered districts, Ms. Wolfe reports to a going on, and you throw
nation, driven by the the result of the 2024 “There aren’t two sides board made up of three these shibboleths at
ongoing assertions of election, regardless of which to this,” she says. “Either we engineered in 2011 by Republicans and three unelected bureaucrats who
former President Donald candidate won. have an election in which all Democrats. This bipartisan run elections, it’s going to
Trump and his allies – the votes are counted and Republicans under then- formula was created by gain traction.”
despite all evidence to the the people who get the Republican legislators in
contrary – that the 2020 “When you have 50% of Gov. Scott Walker, have story continues on next page
election was stolen. And the people of Wisconsin
perhaps nowhere has it thinking that something was boosted the GOP’s grip on
been as contentious as in wrong with an election,
that’s not good,” says the Legislature, even when
Commissioner Robert
Spindell. “These questions Democrats win popular
have to be somehow
answered.” majorities – a partisan

advantage that discourages

compromise and

persuasion.

But critics of partisan The state’s dichotomous
“audits” like the one politics can be clearly seen
happening in Wisconsin say in its two current U.S.
that, far from settling senators. Democrat Tammy
Baldwin, who in 2013
became the Senate’s first

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Wisconsin the payroll. He has vice chair of the GOP caucus
threatened to jail in Madison, has also grown
continued from page 2 absentee ballots in uncooperative Democratic impatient with fact-free
Democratic strongholds. mayors and seized on accusations of fraud made by
“It’s that simple” allegations that fraudulent her colleagues. “There’s the
Mr. Bishop saw no Ann Jacobs, then a volunteer attorney with Election Protection, a absentee ballots were cast by fringe that seems to think
A light snowfall powders evidence of mass fraud. By nonpartisan voting rights group, talks with an observer outside a polling nursing-home residents. that there was an organized
the stubbled fields on the the logic of the Trump place in Milwaukee on Nov. 4, 2008. Currently the Democratic chair of attempt to falsify ballots,”
road to Waupun, a town one lawsuit, he notes, his own the bipartisan Wisconsin Election Commission, Ms. Jacobs worries about a Racine County Sheriff she says. “There is no
hour northwest of ballot, cast in advance, would future scenario in which the losing presidential candidate could be Christopher Schmaling, a evidence of that
Milwaukee. Inside a brick- have been illegal since he awarded Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes. Republican, has called for five whatsoever.”
fronted cafe warmed by an hadn’t requested it in WEC commissioners to be
open fire, Rohn Bishop, a writing. “We didn’t win,” he charged with felonies She wants Mr. Gableman
lifelong Republican and a says over a chicken panini. because they stopped to wrap up his investigation
regular here, bounds up to “It’s that simple.” sending poll workers to into an election that, she
the counter. “Hello ma’am, nursing homes to assist with says, was won fairly by Mr.
how are you today?” he says Among fellow voting during the pandemic. Biden.
to a server. The commissioners have said
Republicans, however, that told the party faithful he was and insinuations about many facilities were closed “We need to move on.
Mr. Bishop, who manages up to the challenge. Wisconsin’s election system. to outside visitors and Donald Trump is not going to
the auto detailing shop at a view was heresy. Mr. Bishop One of the invited speakers absentee voting was a viable be reinstated,” she says.
local dealership, is a fixture of “Whatever part of the is a retired mathematician alternative. Sheriff Schmaling
public life in Waupun. was pilloried on social media political spectrum you fall on, named Douglas Frank, whose alleges that residents were Yet that seems unlikely to
Currently running for mayor, nobody, nobody should debunked charges of inappropriately influenced by persuade voters like
he’s been chairman of the and received angry emails disagree with the idea that algorithmic ballot rigging in nursing-home staff. Jefferson Davis, a financial
Republican Party for the past honest, open, fair, transparent Michigan have been amplified consultant and former
four years in Fond du Lac and voicemails, including one elections ought to be what by Mr.Trump. Speaker Vos, who president of Menomonee
County, which includes takes place,” he said. represents Racine County, Falls village outside
Ripon – making it the party’s from a GOP activist who “Because if we don’t have Another speaker, a has said the commissioners, Milwaukee.
oldest branch in the nation, that, we have nothing.” software engineer named Jeff including a Republican he
“since 1854,” as its called him a traitor to the O’Donnell, zeros in on appointed to the WEC, Mr. Davis is part of a
Suspicions and threats thousands of Wisconsin should “probably” face coalition of conservative
conservative movement and voters whose dates of birth charges, though it’s up to a groups that’s been calling for
The Grand Army of the are listed as 1900 and who district attorney to make a full “physical and cyber
vowed never to speak to him Republic Memorial Hall is on registered to vote in 1918. that decision. (None has filed audit” of the 2020 election.
the fourth floor of This is just one of many charges so far.) He says his group has
again. Wisconsin’s imposing State “highly suspicious issues” in uncovered evidence of
Capitol in Madison. Beneath the rolls, says Mr. O’Donnell, “We’ve crossed a line massive fraud and accuses
“This is a guy I drove a vaulted ornamental ceiling, who is appearing via Zoom. that’s hard to walk back the political establishment in
home from a baseball game five lawmakers sit at a bench from,” says state Rep. Mark Wisconsin, including GOP
facing a mostly empty On its website, the WEC Spreitzer, a Democrat on the lawmakers, of suppressing
Wisconsin Gov.Tony Evers addresses a joint session of the Legislature at hearing room. State Rep. explains that birth dates of election committee, referring the facts.
the State Capitol in Madison on Jan. 22, 2019. A group formed to support Janel Brandtjen, who chairs Jan. 1, 1900, were entered by to the threat of prosecution.
former President Donald Trump's agenda is working with Wisconsin the election committee, default when more than 200 “It’s beyond the pale.” The irregularities, he
Republicans on a ballot measure that would bypass Governor Evers, a chats with a fellow GOP local registries were merged claims, include not just
Democrat, to change how elections are run in the battleground state. lawmaker who was out into a statewide database. “We need to move on” improperly cast nursing-
shoveling snow before dawn. Since the voting age is 18, the home ballots but also get-
letterhead states. because it was raining,” says Four Republicans sit on the default registration was Jan. Kathleen Bernier, a out-the-vote efforts in
Mr. Bishop. “I’m dead to him right side. A lone Democrat, 1, 1918. Clerks have since Republican who chairs the Democratic cities that, he
In 2020, he knocked on because of Donald Trump.” the only member wearing a updated most of these State Senate’s election charges, led to tens of
mask, sits on the left. entries. committee, contends the thousands of “phantom
doors and handed out yard 2020 election in Wisconsin votes.”
“Today, the committee is Mr. Gableman, the former was hardly perfect. Election
signs and did all he could to The backlash intensified going to hold an justice appointed as special officials interpreted laws too Mr. Davis wants state
after Jan. 6, when Mr. Bishop informational hearing on the counsel, isn’t at today’s broadly, she says, and legislators to decertify the
support the Trump ticket. On criticized GOP lawmakers in voter rolls,” Representative hearing. But his own Democrats were too quick 2020 election – despite
Congress for their part in Brandtjen announces on a investigation has surfaced to dismiss irregularities that there being no legal process
election night, he gathered the insurrection. By frosty December afternoon. similar conspiracy theories merited investigation. for decertifying an election
February, though, he figured and put Trump associates on once a president is sworn in.
with his team at a local radio the anger was subsiding.That What follows is 2 1/2 But Senator Bernier, a And he warns that voters
month, he was reelected as hours of speculative claims former county clerk who is
station to watch the results county chairman, unopposed. story concludes on page 8
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Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics:
competition, controversy, COVID-19

bobsledding. Mixed-team disappointing fifth in the
events have been added in individual competition in
ski jumping, freestyle skiing Pyeongchang in 2018. Chen
aerials, snowboard cross and is taking a leave of absence
short-track speedskating from his studies at Yale and
team relay. will be on the hunt for gold
in Beijing.
Team USA athletes to
watch Erin Jackson, Speed
Skating: The Florida native
Mikaela Shiffrin, Alpine was a surprise Olympian in
2018, making the jump from
Skiing: The 26-year-old roller derby to the U.S.
speed-skating squad after
China's National Stadium, known as the Bird's Nest, will hold the Alpine skiing star, one of the just four months on the ice.
Opening and Closing ceremonies of the Beijing Winter Olympics, slated Jackson, 29, continued to
to run from February 4 to 20. most decorated World Cup surprise with a meteoric
rise to the top of the sport
athletes in history, will be in 2021 and is a gold medal
favorite in the 500-meter
looking to add to her event.

The Beijing 2022 Winter sports runs counter to the sports at home, with an railway line connecting to Olympic hardware John Shuster, Curling:
Olympics, to begin Feb. 4, spirit of the Olympics. announced goal of having Beijing was built for the Shuster, a four-time
will bring together the Organizers have vowed to 300 million people Games. collection after winning a Olympian, won bronze at
world's top athletes to deliver a "streamlined, safe participating by this year. Torino in 2006 and
chase gold on the snow and and splendid Olympic event" slalom gold in Sochi 2014 captained the U.S. men's
ice. But concerns over to the world. Organizers will have to team to its first-ever gold
China's human rights abuses use massive amounts of Event highlights and a giant slalom gold and
and a global pandemic Looking ahead, here's artificial snow for skiing
entering its third year are what to expect: events, spraying up to 1.2 Figure skating remains a combined silver in
casting a long shadow over million cubic meters to
the Games. The Games compensate for the limited perennial favorite, with fans Pyeongchang in 2018.
snowfall in the Beijing area.
The Beijing 2022 Winter looking forward to a On Dec. 27, she
Olympics will be held from Venues announced that she had
Feb. 4 to 20. Some 2,900 showdown between tested positive for COVID-
athletes from 85 countries Events will be held in 19, causing her to miss
and Olympic committees three zones: central Beijing, Japanese superstar Yuzuru World Cup events.
will compete in a record Yanqing and Zhangjiakou,
109 medal events. with several sites from the Hanyu, the gold medalist in
2008 Games being reused.
China is determined to The Paralympics are 2014 and 2018, and Nathan
keep COVID-19 from scheduled for March 4 to Beijing
disrupting its Beijing 13. Chen of the United States, a
showcase and has reacted Central Beijing will mainly
to a recent outbreak in the The host host ice sports and a handful three-time world champion.
city of Xi'an with its strictest of snow events. The
lockdown measures since Beijing, the Chinese Opening and Closing Hanyu was sidelined for
the earliest days of the capital of more than 20 ceremonies will be held in
pandemic. million, is the first city to National Stadium, known as an ankle injury for eight
host both the Summer and "The Bird's Nest," which
Winter Olympics. became an iconic symbol of months last year, but turned
the 2008 Games.
The 2008 Summer Games in a dominating
announced China's re- Yanqing
emergence as a major player performance to win the
on the international stage, This mountainous suburb
while the 2022 Games find a 45 miles northwest of Japanese national
country that has grown into Beijing, which includes a
Organizers have a superpower jostling for portion of the Great Wall, championship last week.
global dominance. will hold alpine skiing and
continued to express the sliding events of On the women's side, 15-
And, as in 2008, China's bobsled, luge and skeleton. year-old Russian phenom
confidence in their rigorous human rights record is Kamila Valiyeva looks to be
drawing criticism, protests Zhangjiakou the favorite, capping a
safety measures at the and calls for boycotts. spectacular 2021 season The nearly three-week disappearance in November of Chinese tennis
A popular Chinese ski with a win at her country's star Peng Shuai after she said that she was sexually assaulted by a top
Games, including a "closed China is spending an destination, Zhangjiakou is nationals by record margins. Communist Party official has caused alarm among many observers
estimated $3.9 billion to roughly 110 miles ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
loop" bubble that will keep hold the Games, a fraction northwest of Beijing, and
of the $43 billion it spent in will host snowboarding and
all athletes and participants 2008. The country has been ski events including
pushing to raise the profile freestyle, cross-country, ski
separated from the public. and popularity of winter jumping and biathlon. A new

Spectators from outside the Hockey lovers had been Chloe Kim, Snowboard medal in curling in
excited by the prospect of Halfpipe: One of the Pyeongchang in 2018. At age
country will not be allowed, NHL players returning to breakout stars of the 2018 39, he is looking for a repeat
the Games after skipping Pyeongchang Games as a performance, and is bringing
with limited attendance Pyeongchang in 2018. 17-year-old, snowboarder most of the team from four
However, growing concerns Chloe Kim won halfpipe years ago along with him.
from locals expected. about COVID-19 and a gold and went viral with a
rising number of game tweet about being "hangry"
The United States will postponements led the after not finishing breakfast. COVID-19 challenges
field a team of more than league and the Players' After a 22-month hiatus,
200 medal hopefuls, but Union to reverse course Chloe got back on the China is facing its most
won't be sending and opt out of Beijing. board in 2021 and is favored
government officials, as to win gold again. serious outbreak in the last
Washington is leading a
diplomatic boycott over Nathan Chen, Figure year, and on Dec. 27 placed
China's human rights Skating: The 22-year-old is a
abuses, primarily its three-time world champion Xi'an, a city of 13 million, on
treatment of Muslim and five-time American
Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Seven new events will champion, but finished a a strict lockdown to contain
debut at the 2022 Games,
including men's and the spread as it maintains a
women's freestyle skiing big
air and women's monobob, a "zero-COVID" policy.
one-person version of
For its part, Beijing has Recent news accounts say
called the boycott a "farce"
and says that politicizing food is in short supply.

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my turn

Possibility of a

Jan. 6 redux Dr Harlan Ullman is senior
shows bleakness adviser at Washington's
Atlantic Council, the prime

of American author of "shock and awe"
and the upcoming book "The

politics Fifth Horseman and the New
MAD: How Massive Attacks of

with Harlan Ullman Disruption Became the
Looming Existential Danger to

Last Thursday, January acquitted by the Senate. In a Divided Nation and the
6th. marks a day of its deliberations, the Jan. 6 World at Large."

reckoning in America. One congressional select Harlan Ullman joins
Happenings Q&A on
year ago, rioters protesting committee will likely
Thu., Jan. 27th at
the 2020 presidential determine whether the

election stormed the U.S. former president broke any 1:30 on AM1050 WLIP.

Capitol. laws and what responsibility Donald Trump supporters breach the security perimeter and penetrate the U.S.

Donald Trump was he may bear for the attacks Capitol to protest against the Electoral College vote count that would certify
impeached for fomenting on Congress. President-elect Joe Biden as the winner on January 6.

the insurgency and then A recent poll showed

over 90% of registered president. How could a

Democrats and 70% of candidate who lost the

Independents believed popular and the Electoral

Trump was (partly) College vote win? The

responsible for this answer is to change state

5125 6th Ave. insurgency. Fewer than 30% election laws in order to
of registered Republicans select electors who can

Kenosha agreed.This disparity is one reverse the state's popular
more symptom of the vote. In this case, the intent
If It’s Not Live, You’re Not Living! intractable political divides is to deadlock the Electoral
separating the nation. College.
January 14 & 15 • 8pm • $14 January 21 & 22 • 8pm • $14 Fortunately, no polls so far
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Bill Vince bitterness, resentment and Amendment directs that
Boronkay Maranto hostility one party has for the House will determine
the other. the president. But the
House vote is not by each
Can a Jan. 6 happen again member but by each state

-- and in how much political having one vote. Twenty-six

danger is the nation and its elect the president. In the

at the at the democracy? A spate of last two Congresses,
5125 6th Ave. KENOSHA columns and reports have Democrats held the overall
5125 6th Ave. KENOSHA sounded the alarm about majority of representatives;
how the political system is Republicans controlled a
Saturday, January 22 being manipulated to majority of states -- more

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negate the ballot box, than 26. Thus, by bypassing

reversing elections that do the Electoral College in this

not go in one party's favor. scenario, a Republican

Other polls report that 1 in could be elected president

3 Americans approve of even though by popular

using force against the vote he or she should have

federal government under lost in the Electoral

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Bill Unfortunately, as I argue About using force against
Serritella Kurt in The Fifth Horseman and
& Friends Metzger the New MAD: How the government, the
Massive Attacks of
The sounds of Sinatra...the Voice of Randal Skeffinton on Disruption Became the Declaration of
ultimate crooner himself. They say Looming Existential Danger,
he was an entertainer without equal. Comedy Central’s manipulating the outcome Independence is relevant.
of elections can be
Music Act “Ugly Americans” constitutional and legal.And Perhaps the most trenchant
at the those believing force may
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government have a very
Larry powerful legitimizing case. reads: "When government
Reeb
The 12th Amendment becomes destructive, it is
at the determines how presidents
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February 19 • 7pm & 9pm • $20 elected, modified by the
Electoral Count Act of alter and abolish it and
Rich Vos
establish a new one."

Suppose the Jan. 6 rioters

used the Declaration of

Independence as prima

He has over 100 TV appearances facie evidence to justify

including 4 their actions? How would

Comedy Central that argument have been

Specials. at the received?

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my turn

Let’s out the men Readers may email Cal
Thomas at
in Maxwell-
[email protected].
Epstein case Look for Cal Thomas’ new
book “America’s Expiration
with Cal Thomas Date:The Fall of Empires and
Superpowers and the Future
The conviction of charges, most appear to A group of young protesters holds pictures of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump
Ghislaine Maxwell on five have escaped full of the United States” outside the Federal Court in downtown Manhattan on July 8, 2019, where Jeffrey
of six charges of recruiting accountability. When police Epstein was being charged with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit
and grooming teenage girls arrest prostitutes, the 1977 after a man they sex trafficking of minors
for sexual encounters with “Johns” too often go free, named committed suicide.
disgraced financier Jeffrey or pay a fine and avoid They resumed it a decade Trump were frequent fliers on manifests by their sentence, I hope details
Epstein is not and should publicity. later. “Jack” was quoted as initials or first names, about all the men who
not be the end of the story. saying, “My family had a on Epstein’s jet. Flight logs including ‘Tatiana.’ The visited Epstein’s island and
While Maxwell has been Perhaps one way to hard time dealing with it. It tricked-out jet earned its New York home will be
held accountable for her discourage this sleazy put us up to public ridicule. introduced during Nabakov-inspired made public as a warning to
actions, the men who behavior is to return to a We got anonymous phone nickname (Lolita Express) others who might have
engaged in these past practice that seemed calls.” Maxwell’s trial show because it was reportedly illegal and certainly
encounters with underage to work as a deterrent. outfitted with a bed where immoral fantasies and think
girls have not, at least not The fear of public Donald Trump flew on the passengers had group sex they can escape
yet. There is speculation Thirty-five years ago, two ridicule ought to be enough with young girls.” accountability.
Maxwell could strike a Trenton, New Jersey, to give men who would jet between Palm Beach
bargain with the court for a newspapers decided to engage in such acts second Neither Trump, nor The Washington Post
reduced sentence if she print the names, not only of thoughts. If laws are not and New York City airports Clinton, has been accused quoted “advocates” for
releases the names and prostitutes who had been enough to act as sufficient of anything illegal or sexually abused girls and
possible videos that Epstein arrested, but also the men deterrents, maybe shame six times, sometimes inappropriate, but given women as saying the
shot of some of the men who solicited them. The and ridicule will do the job. both men’s record of Maxwell conviction is a
who traveled to his Associated Press ran this accompanied by his then- behavior with women, “symbolic win” for
Caribbean Island and New story in 1987: “It was bad One benefit of knowing people will draw their own survivors. It should be
York home. enough being charged with whether prominent and wife, Marla Maples and conclusions. Whether or more than symbolic.
soliciting a policewoman wealthy men engaged in sex not Maxwell uses any of Outing all the men who
For too long too many posing as a prostitute, said acts with underage girls infant daughter, Tiffany. Bill the information she might abused these women will
men have escaped Jack (not his real name). would be to remove them have to bargain for a lighter make it so.
accountability for their Then a newspaper printed or keep them from Clinton was a passenger at
liaisons with prostitutes his name and address on leadership positions. It has
and underage girls. While the front page.” already been revealed that least 26 times. Records
some have faced criminal Bill Clinton and Donald
The newspapers obtained by foxnews.com
suspended the practice in
show Clinton flew without

his Secret Service detail for

at least five of the flights

and that trips between

2001 and 2003 “included

extended junkets around

the world with Epstein and

fellow passengers identified

Shilling for the Benedict
Arnold’s of the US Capitol
Riot

with Mary Sanchez

By their family’s their individual
descriptions, the men are
devoted fathers, God- crowdsourcing accounts,
fearing Christians of faith
and hardworking which show them in more
breadwinners no longer
able to provide for their peaceful times; fishing,
wives and children.
posing with children, at
Those narratives are
likely accurate. their weddings, hiking and

But so too, are the rest of busy at work.
the details of their stories.
The ones strategically left Noticeably absent are the Readers can reach Mary Joe Biggs, bottom left, in gray and black checked jacket, marches at the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S.
off the Patriot Freedom links to the affidavits, the Sanchez at Capitol, in this photo shared in a Department of Justice affidavit supporting Biggs' arrest.
Project website. The “why” videos, the photos, and
these men’s families are in other testimony gathered [email protected] especially in understanding A “sins of the fathers” charged with violence
such dire straits; with them by the U.S. Department of and follow her on Twitter the motivations of those empathy is probably at play. against or impeding the
incarcerated, awaiting Justice that serves as @msanchezcolumn. who are donating. No one should want to see Capitol and D.C.
hearings for their roles in evidence against these men, blameless children harmed metropolitan police.
the US Capitol Riot of although they are readily election. The amounts aren’t or ostracized because of
January 6, 2021. available on a searchable anything to sniff at: the errant passions of their Extrapolated, that’s
DOJ site: Five people, including one $215,000, $55,000, $53,000, parents. thousands of people
The site seeks to aid in https://www.justice.gov/usa of the insurrectionists, died $27,000. There doesn’t affected, when their wider
easing the financial burdens o-dc/capitol-breach-cases . that day. And four police seem to be much rhyme or The Patriot site focuses network of sympathizers,
and legal fees of more than officers later took their reason to why some of the on a smaller number of family members and other
70 of the January 6 The trials of these own lives. defendants are able to people, but nearly 700 have associates are considered.
defendants, or as the site garner more donations. been charged in connection
refers to them, “political individuals are the legal At the one-year More engaging family to the riot, mostly with Those charged appear to
prisoners” suffering from anniversary, the nation will photos, perhaps? The misdemeanors and the be a mishmash of true
“wrongful detention.” ramifications to the attack focus on the ongoing defendants with the more punishments have varied; believers in the fantasy that
dramas of the House Select attractive, or simply more, house arrests, fines and the election was stolen
Links are provided to Americans saw broadcast a committee investigation. children? Some, as veterans, some prison time. from Trump, avowed white
But equally, if not more are shown in military supremacists, those misled
year ago when Donald J. insightful to what led to the uniform. Of that larger number,
attacks are sites such as the more than 220 have been see SANCHEZ on page 8
Trump’s supporters Patriot Freedom Project,

stormed the Capitol during

the Stop the Steal rally,

intent on backing Trump’s

delusional belief that he

won the 2020 presidential

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Wisconsin Ullman

continued from page 3 continued from page 6

won’t trust future elections party censored her, and she on my side are against me.That is the nature of American
run under Wisconsin’s faces a primary challenger politics today. The Internet and social media are littered
current system. because of her views on the with examples and serve as echo chambers for this mutual
election. anger. Rational and honest exchanges of views are growing
“This is the biggest fraud in exceedingly rare.
the history of the state of A prominent GOP
Wisconsin,” he says. “If we "Truth and fact" are disappearing, replaced by what one
don’t get this right, elections lawmaker recently believes, not by what one knows. Can a republic thrive and
will never make a difference even survive under these circumstances? With Omicron
ever again.” announced a run for Voters wait in line to vote in Wisconsin's primary election in Milwaukee on raging and uncertainty as to how or when it might be
April 7, 2020.Wisconsin Gov.Tony Evers, a Democrat up for reelection in contained, the physical health of the republic is also at
secretary of state, a mostly November 2022, has denounced attacks on the Wisconsin Election grave risk.
Commission and vetoed several election-related bills passed by Republicans.
powerless job held by an The broader issue is the viability of the U.S. Constitution
and the system of checks and balances. Barring the very
Some Republican octogenarian Democrat.Amy unlikely prospect of one party controlling both ends of
Pennsylvania Avenue with filibuster and veto-proof
strategists warn that fraud Loudenbeck said she wanted the Legislature for the electors who will be fiercely majorities and at least five Supreme Court votes, the only
nuclear option prescribed by contested next time. way this system functions is if one of three criteria exists:
rhetoric could depress GOP to expand the secretary’s Senator Johnson of unilateral consensus, compromise or crisis. And instead of uniting
control of federal elections. Back in Waupun, Mr. the nation, the COVID-19 pandemic has further divided it.
turnout, as was the case in role to “serve as a check” on Ms. Wolfe, the nonpartisan Bishop is focused on his
WEC administrator, remains upcoming mayoral race in What can be done? The depressing answer may be very
the 2021 U.S. Senate runoffs the WEC and ensure in her job, as do the April. The position is part little. Unless or until both political parties come to the
commissioners. In October, time and nonpartisan, part of realization that when unchecked pursuit of power
in Georgia, both of which “election integrity.” In 37 the state audit board made the fabric of local self- dominates governing, the nation is in harm's way.And who
multiple recommendations government that many in or what will change this condition?
were won by Democrats. But states, elections are run by for the WEC to improve the Wisconsin take pride in. He
electoral system and for remains a self-identified In 1974, Republicans realizing that Richard Nixon had to
it may also prove a potent elected or appointed lawmakers to update the proud Republican, but resign for breaking the law, confronted the president. But
rules, but found no evidence notably asked a local today, Republicans and Democrats seem afraid, unwilling
motivator that, coupled with secretaries of state. of fraud. Democratic activist to or incapable of crossing the aisle to break this deadlock
introduce him at a recent that imperils America and its government. Bleak does not
political head winds for A makeover of the office “I think we’ll come out of campaign kickoff. Mr. Bishop adequately describe American politics today.
under Ms. Loudenbeck to this just fine,” says Senator still gets flak from Trump
Democrats nationally, flips override the bipartisan WEC Bernier. “I think at some loyalists, he says. But he takes Sanchez
could be controversial, says point everybody will accept heart in the many quieter
the governor’s mansion in Tim Cullen, a Democrat and the results.” expressions of support. continued from page 7
former state senator.
2022. Rebecca Kleefisch, the “There’s going to be a That still leaves Wisconsin “There are more by a heavy consumption of right-wing cable news and
backlash from voters. But the as a national battleground Republicans out there who people in the wrong place for who knows what reasons of
GOP front-runner, has backlash may not matter with a red-blue gulf made agree with me than you timing and their acquaintances.
much if they’re able to do it.” worse by gerrymandered realize,” he says.
already sued the WEC over seats, with 10 presidential People on the edges of fringe groups tend to peel away
after any well-publicized and highly scrutinized act of
its administration of the violence or controversy. They reassess, oftentimes
appropriately questioning/kicking themselves for being
2020 election. gullible, absorbed by the drama.

A Republican caucus with Still, he says, Republicans Clues indicate that this is occurring; with splits in
more pro-Trump members would probably settle for families and lost employment mentioned in fundraising
would then be in position to passing laws to restrict ballot accounts.
determine how Wisconsin access if they win the
elections are run and who gubernatorial race. So far But many of the defendants apparently deeply believe
gets to certify the results. there seems little support in that they are saving America in a valiant way; ask them
That caucus may not include from what and their grasp on reality, facts, and history can
Senator Bernier: Her local falter. No doubt, their fears, perceptions, seem valid to
them.
Beijing Committee will attend. Nov. 2 and wasn't seen again
until nearly three weeks The American Revolution keeps coming to mind.
continued from page 5 Several other key U.S. later, when she held a video
allies, including South Korea call with IOC chairman And Benedict Arnold, a historical figure most of us
Organizers have vowed a organizers "have prepared and France, announced they Thomas Bach. learned a smattering about in elementary school. He was
"streamlined, safe and for any possible would not participate in the a traitor to the goals of the Revolutionary War, a side
splendid" Olympics with contingency." boycott, which French The IOC said in a switcher who defected to the British. But his motivations,
prevention measures even President Emmanuel Macron statement afterward that including greed, and the politics of his time, were more
more stringent than those at The U.S. Olympic and called "symbolic and Peng appeared "safe and complicated than most learn.
the Tokyo Summer Games. Paralympic Committee insignificant." well," a reaction that has
announced it will require all drawn criticism by those still Some of the January 6 defendants, especially those
All athletes, officials, media athletes, coaches and staff to China also is facing demanding answers about enthralled by militia groups, see themselves as modern
be vaccinated before going protests and calls for Peng's treatment and the revolutionary figures.
and other personnel will be to Beijing. boycotts over human rights silencing of her allegations.
violations in Tibet and Here’s an apt passage within a fascinating article about
kept strictly separated from crackdowns on pro- Arnold, printed in a 2016 Smithsonian Magazine, written
democracy activists and by the award-winning Nathaniel Philbrick, author of
the public in a "closed loop" Boycotts, human rights politicians in Hong Kong. On Dec. 1, the Women's “George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the
criticism American Revolution.”
bubble, and they will be China's foreign minister Tennis Association
Wang Webin condemned “The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so
tested every day. The United States "attempts to politicize sports announced a suspension of troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a
announced in December that in the name of human rights generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
Unvaccinated participants it would not send diplomatic and freedom," saying they all tournaments in China, and Although it later became convenient to portray Arnold as
or official representation to "violate the spirit of the a conniving Satan from the start, the truth is more
are allowed to come to Beijing over what White Olympic Charter." Wang its head, Steve Simon, has complex and, ultimately, more disturbing. Without the
House spokeswoman Jen added that boycotters "will discovery of his treason in the fall of 1780, the American
Beijing, but will have to Psaki called China's "ongoing pay a price for their continued to call for a full people might never have been forced to realize that the
genocide and crimes against erroneous moves." real threat to their liberties came not from without, but
undergo a 21-day quarantine humanity in Xinjiang and investigation of her claims. from within.”
other human rights abuses." Where's Peng Shuai?
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Heightening the concerns
Organizers announced in Researchers say that an about China hosting the Peng has been seen on a
September that overseas Olympics for many was the handful of occasions in
spectators would not be estimated 1 million mysterious disappearance in photos and videos released
permitted to attend the November of Chinese tennis by Chinese state-run media.
Games. While the Tokyo predominantly Muslim player Peng Shuai, a At a ski event in Shanghai on
Games were held in front of Wimbledon champion and Dec. 19, she spoke on
near-empty stadiums, Beijing Uyghurs have been held in three-time Olympian, after camera with a Singaporean
has said that fans from writing on social media that outlet and said there had
mainland China will be re-education camps in she had been sexually been "many
allowed. assaulted by a top misunderstandings" about
China's Xinjiang Province, Communist Party official. her Weibo post and that she
Details on stadium "never said or wrote about
capacity have not yet been and have been subject to Peng made the allegations anyone sexually assaulting
finalized, and the fast- about former Vice Premier me."
spreading Omicron variant abuses that include torture, Zhang Gaoli on the Chinese
remains a wildcard. social media site Weibo on
forced labor and forced

sterilization. The WTA responded to
the video clip, saying that it
The Omicron variant, A handful of countries still did not satisfy concerns
have joined the diplomatic about her well-being and
however, will not postpone boycott, including Britain, human rights researchers
Australia, Canada, New continue to raise questions
the Games, according to Zealand and Belgium. Japan about Peng's freedom and
said it will not send safety.
International Olympic government officials, but
members of its Olympic
Committee official Juan

Antonio Samaranch, who

said in early December that By Thomas Maresca

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January 13, 2022 health
lifestyle
Kenosha County Aging & Disability Resource Center community

news

Retire on campus? Colleges find community
with intergenerational living.

Pencie Culiver and for innovation.
Deven Meyers both wear
thick watches on their “We believe strongly at
left wrists. At Mirabella’s ASU in the idea that we
street-level bistro one should all be lifelong
October afternoon, they learners,” says Morgan
joke around as if pals Olsen, executive vice
forever – no matter their president, treasurer, and
ages are decades apart. chief financial officer of
the school.

Mrs. Culiver, a Mirabella’s couple- Pencie Culver (left), a resident at Mirabella at ASU, a senior living residence on Arizona State University’s
Mirabella resident, shared hundred residents, ages Tempe campus, and Deven Meyers, an ASU student, enjoying each other’s company last October.
burgers with her future 62 and older, are largely
husband at ASU football white and presumably
games in the ’60s. Now well-off. (Entrance fees
back living on campus, range from $382,400 to
she and Ms. Meyers, an over a million dollars, on
ASU student, sometimes top of monthly service
do double dates. fees up to $7,800.) Some
residents have moved
“She energizes me. She there from across the days. UBRCs can increase October, Mirabella filed a college-age concertgoers
gives me hope for the country, while several campus-based revenue, wanting to call Tempe
future,” says Mrs. Culiver have ties to the “They’re scary smart,” Mr. Carle argues. lawsuit against Shady home is “a great problem
of her new friend. university as alumni or says a gray-sweatered Dr. to have,” says Deputy
former employees. Ruff. Park, a live music venue City Manager Rosa
Inchausti.
“I said to one across the street, asking
university president … Senior advocates agree
“Honestly, it’s just fun A growth path for ‘You can hopefully start Maricopa County that the benefits of
to hear her stories,” says campuses? giving birth to baby proximity outweigh the
the business health care geniuses who start Superior Court for an hiccups.
major. college at age 5, or you
Down the hall lives Dr. can recycle your old injunction to keep it from Counteracting ageism
Busch, with the short, customers.’”
soft-pink hair, a retired One estimate counts emitting noise above Mirabella’s Executive
director of faculty around 100 higher ed- Director Tom Dorough
development who moved affiliated retirement sites. local limits. believes interactions
from Michigan. This But Andrew Carle, a across generations can
They were paired spring she launched a senior living and aging Mirabella alleges the help chip away at ageism.
weekly conversation industry consultan, who venue’s noise and
through an group in Spanish that she coined the term vibrations have caused “For whatever reason,
hopes more students will “university-based “substantial personal in Western culture, we
intergenerational “pen join. retirement communities” ASU leases the nearly harm” to residents, kind of push older adults
(UBRCs), says only three though the city says the to the side like they’re no
pal program,” though or four dozen projects 2-acre site to a joint venue, which predates longer useful,” he says.
meet most of his criteria. Mirabella, hasn’t been “The more inter-
they prefer meetups over venture managed by cited for noise violations. generational
A judge denied opportunities that we
missives. As director of Pacific Retirement Mirabella’s request for a have where we’re
temporary restraining connecting younger
lifelong university Services. The 99-year order last month. adults to older adults, I
think the better the
engagement, Lindsey land lease cost around $7 understanding is.”

Beagley is tasked with million up front, plus the To encourage that
interaction, Mirabella
promoting such cross- Another Mirabella joint venture pays a pays room and board for
four student musicians-
campus exchanges. resident, Richard Ruff, The ASU model is semiannual fee.
unusual for its on- See LIFE ON CAMPUS
“I do think part of my who, with his wife, Janet campus location and on page 11 for more
job is to challenge close affiliation with the
assumptions on both Spirer, divides his time school, he adds. Boston- As a life plan
sides, right? About the area Lasell Village is
different generations,” between here and San another example, where community, Mirabella “Discovery is ongoing
she says. residents on Lasell
Diego, also connects with University’s campus offers multiple levels of but we are confident that
commit to at least 450
students on academic hours of enrichment a care. Beyond the 238 when the facts are
year.
topics. A retired independent living developed they will

Mirabella’s sleek 20- organizational residences, a few dozen confirm that the sound
story tower opened its
doors last December. psychologist, he units are dedicated to created by music at
Surrounded by traffic and
eateries, it sits on the mentored students this assisted living, skilled Shady Park is reasonable
urban edge of the Tempe
campus, which hosts past semester through nursing, and memory and appropriate,”
roughly 55,000 students.
U.S. News and World the Center for care, though the latter emailed Shady Park
Report ranks ASU first
Entrepreneurship. Along Given declining hasn’t opened yet due to spokesman David

with helping him feel enrollments – and industry-wide staffing Leibowitz.

purposeful, the gig potentially more empty shortages.

afforded him welcome buildings if virtual Other growing pains Despite some friction,
stem from its location. In having both retirees and
insight into kids these learning expands –

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Join KAFASI for these fun and informational
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social security

Turning full If you have a Social
retirement age in Security question,Tom
2022? Consider filing Margenau has the answer.
for benefits now
Contact him at
with Tom Margenau thomas.margenau@comcast.
net.To find out more about
I write a column similar credit" of almost 32% Tom Margenau and to read
to this one every January. added to your monthly
But I don't mind benefits, then you should past columns and see
plagiarizing myself because forgo the procedure features from other Creators
it contains a very discussed in this column.
important message for Syndicate writers and
people planning to retire cartoonists, visit the Creators
in 2022.
Syndicate website at
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January is a critical But if you are not age and are still working
interested in that strategy, full time, you are not
month for the hundreds of and plan to start your eligible for Social Security.
benefits at your FRA in Specifically, the rules
thousands of potential 2022, then, as I said, you require that the SSA
may want to consider deduct $1 from any
Social Security filing for benefits in retirement benefits you
January. might be due for every $2
beneficiaries who are you earn over $19,560 in
2022.
reaching 66 and 4 months, The reason for this

their so-called full early filing time frame has

retirement age, in 2022. to do with some quirky However, the rules say earn more than $51,960, be $100 less than what he your full retirement age
that once you reach your you lose only $1 from would have been getting in later in the year, you
The important message: and complicated features full retirement age, you your benefits for every $3 option one. But because should probably just wait
are due full Social Security you make over that he'd be getting about until your FRA to file for
all of them should at least of Social Security's benefits even if you are threshold. $13,800 less in 2022 your Social Security
still working and no benefits in option one, it benefits.
consider the possibility of earnings penalty matter how much money Ed is going to make would take Ed a long time
you are making. $40,000 between January to make up that loss with
filing for their benefits this provisions. Those and June (i.e., before he his extra $100 per month
reaches the magic age of in ongoing benefits.
month, even though they provisions generally keep 66 and 4 months). And
that's under the $51,960 Even if Ed was going to
may not be reaching their seniors who are still threshold for 2022, which make more than the I know these rules are
means Ed is due benefits $51,960 income threshold complicated and the math
retirement age until later working off of Social beginning in January. He between January and June, in the examples above
does NOT have to wait he only loses one dollar in might be difficult to follow.
in the year. Security's rolls until they Let's follow an example. until July to apply for his Social Security benefits for But my overall message is
Social Security checks. each three dollars he easy to follow: If you're
Please note that if you reach that magic full Let's say Ed was born in earns over that amount. reaching age 66 and 4
want to delay filing for But there is a bit of a So, he still might come out months in early to mid
your Social Security retirement age. March 1956, which means catch. By starting his ahead by filing in January. 2022, you might want to
benefits until 70 to get the benefits in January, Ed will talk to a Social Security
"delayed retirement The law essentially says he'll reach his full be accepting a slightly Here is a quick example representative sometime
if you are over 62 but reduced amount. (Benefits using that scenario. Let's this month to find out if
under your full retirement retirement age of 66 and 4 are reduced roughly one- say Ed will make $60,000 it's to your advantage to
half of 1% for each month between January and June. file for your benefits to
months in July 2022. And they are taken before full That's $8,040 over the start in January.
retirement age.) $51,960 limit. And one
let's further say Ed third of that excess, or
If Ed's Social Security $2,680 must be deducted
generally makes about benefit at full retirement from his 2022 benefits. But
age is $2,500 per month, he would still get $26,120
$80,000 per year and he let's look at his options. in benefits for the year.
That's still way better than
plans to continue working Ed's first option is to the $15,000 he would be
wait until July to start his due if he were to wait
indefinitely. Based on the Social Security benefits. until July to file for his
He'll get $2,500 per Social Security.
earnings penalty rules I month for six months or
$15,000 for the year 2022. Please note that this
briefly outlined above, Ed strategy generally only
Ed's second option is to works for those who turn
figures he must wait until file for Social Security in full retirement age in early One word of caution.
January. Starting his to mid 2022 and whose
July (his full retirement benefits slightly early, his earnings prior to reaching Many readers in the past
monthly rate is reduced to FRA are at least close to
age) to begin collecting his about $2,400. That comes the $51,960 limit. In other told me that when they
out to $28,800 in total words, if you will make a
Social Security benefits.As benefits for the year 2022. lot more than $51,960 tried to file in January,
The downside to option this year, or if you reach
I said, at that magical point two is his ongoing Social Security
monthly benefit rate will
the earnings penalty rules Administration

no longer apply, and he representatives told them

can get his Social Security. they could not do so.

And prior to that, he's Sadly, far too many SSA

SR 011322 making way more than the agents are unfamiliar with

$19,560 income how these rules work. If

threshold. you run into the same

But here is why Ed problem, ask to speak to a
should check into applying
for Social Security in supervisor.
January. Congress set up a
more lenient earnings One final note. I know
threshold for the year you from experience that
reach your full retirement many people are just
age. Specifically, it says you bound and determined to
can earn up to $51,960 get their full benefit rate
between January and the by waiting until they reach
month you reach your full FRA to start their
retirement age and still benefits. If you are in that
get Social Security category, that's just fine.
benefits. And even if you Frankly, it does make your
Social Security experience
simpler.

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books Jami Attenberg models a long but
tenacious journey toward writing

Novelist Jami Attenberg’s Attenberg effectively captures the
midlife memoir isn’t exactly a
Two football books victory lap, but it’s written from battery of odd jobs that eventually
celebrate unity – on a place of hard-won
and off the field contentment after years of led to writing-adjacent work –
struggle. Among other things, “I
With the National Football League heading into the wild Came All This Way to MeetYou,” spellchecking, copyediting,
card games this weekend, and the college football an account of how Attenberg
championship, powerhouse teams dominate viewers’ became a full-time writer, is a copywriting, and later, employment
imaginations. But the heart and soul of football doesn’t paean to persistence.
always play out in college or pro settings. And it doesn’t for a cable network she doesn’t
have to exclude women.Two recent books show how the It is also the kind of book that
game can unite a ravaged community and become a vehicle will interest some people very name, where men created all the
for equality. much – especially aspiring
writers. Others, to whom her shows. (A Google search points to
A town burned, a team united work is less familiar, perhaps not
On Nov. 8, 2018, Paradise High School football coach so much. HBO.) She comments, “I wasn’t
Rick Prinz was texting his players about delaying practice;
minutes later, the Northern California town’s residents Attenberg joins a growing totally wasting my life,” though she
were running for their lives. The Camp fire decimated contingent of established
novelists who have shared their memorably calls the uninteresting
Paradise, killing more than 80 people, and destroying early literary travails. Most
12,000 homes.The conflagration also wrecked the Paradise recently, these include Lily King writing she did for most of these
Bobcats’ shot at the playoffs. With the town in ashes in her partly autobiographical
(except, remarkably, for the high school’s football field), novel “Writers and Lovers” jobs “a decoration on the page, the
there was little hope of playing the 2019 season, either. (2020), and Ann Patchett in
Still, as Bill Plaschke, sports columnist for The Los Angeles some essays in “These Precious baby’s breath of corporate
Times, writes in “Paradise Found: A High School Football Days” (2021). Such tales can be
Team’s Rise from the Ashes,” the Bobcats’ pulled off a reassuring to those starting out. America.”
remarkable comeback, bringing their town along with
them. Attenberg is probably best known and creativity” and nourished the When she figured out that what
for her breakthrough fourth novel, belief that “I could accomplish she really wanted was to write her
When football games resumed 10 months after the fire, “The Middlesteins” (2004), which anything I wanted no matter my own stuff, “Everything got easier, in
the Friday night lights had never meant so much to the centers on a woman addicted to food. gender.” Before they retired to a way … even as things got much,
community. It gave the people of Paradise a meeting place, Less known is the fact that, in a blow Florida, her parents ran a sewing store much harder.” She began to write,
a common cause, and a much-needed sense of normalcy, that might have proven fatal to many together called Prints Charming. she says, not with ease but with
Plaschke writes. Playing football was also beneficial for the writers’ careers, “The Middlesteins” diligence, determination, focus, and
young men, a way of expressing their grief and taking back was rejected by the publisher of her “I Came All This Way to Meet You” “great delight.” She adds, “I leaned
some control over their lives, even if they were also first three books. Attenberg’s is generally warmer and more into my eccentricities” – even if it
painfully aware of how much the people of Paradise were subsequent novels – including her confessional than Attenberg’s novels meant penury and couch-surfing.
counting on them. The players were able to rise to the most recent,“All This Could BeYours” but shares with her fiction a tendency She notes that the year she was 40
occasion, notching an undefeated 10-game season, stopped (2019), about the damage that a nasty to jump around in time. While in her (10 years ago), she slept in 26
only by a heartbreaking loss in the championship. narcissist inflicts on his family – have novels these chronological leaps add locations in seven months.
secured her place as a master of the layering and foreshadowing, here they
Plaschke’s focus on the human side of this football story sardonically twisted yet moving family lead to sometimes disorienting or “The writing filled me like nothing
is a winning choice.Though there isn’t as much on-the-field saga. bothersome repetitions. else had. But it also poked holes in
action as one would expect, and the formula for each me, and that was where the sadness
chapter can get a bit repetitive, there is emotional power Just as Attenberg’s readers have Attenberg begins with great brio: came out,” she writes. Still, she came
behind the words of “Paradise Found.” It’s a gut-wrenching expressed surprise that she isn’t “For 20 years, I hustled,” she writes, to relish what she calls “the safety of a
and inspiring tale of the healing power of sports. overweight like her character Edie and sprays us with a shower of past sentence.”
Middlestein, they may be surprised to tense verbs, describing what she did:“I
Women of the gridiron learn that she comes from a close, ran the cash register at a pharmacy. I Safe from what? Eventually, we learn
Sports can also empower female athletes and subvert loving family in the Chicago area. Her counted pills. I sold lottery tickets … about her wounds – including the
popular expectations around what women can do. For father, an outgoing salesman, taught I waitressed … I temped. I filed. I lasting repercussions of an assault by a
example, the notion that women aren’t tough enough to her that “If you can sell one thing, you answered phones. I typed up letters.” fellow writing student during her
play football. In “Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the can sell anything” – appliances, freshman year at college.
National Women’s Football League,” sportswriters Britni widgets, books. Her mother Although not as spirited as Helen
de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D’Arcangelo delve into the introduced her to “the joys of reading Ellis’ “I casserole. I pinwheel. I Attenberg understands that being a
history of the largely forgotten women’s football league. toothpick” in “American Housewife,” writer involves salesmanship, which
The story of women in football started long before the (which was the breakthrough book takes her – and this narrative – on
NWFL’s official founding in September 1974. It dates back that restarted Ellis’ stalled career), book tours, both domestic and
to the invention of the sport in the late 19th century, when abroad. She makes a friend who
women took up football with gusto equal to that of men. shares her fascination with ossuaries
But by the time the league came about, sexist ideas about and “seemed to wear her insides on
her outside, just like me.” She moves
story continues on page 15 from New York to New Orleans, and
delights in the contrasts – along with
a guest room in which to host friends.
While some of her travelogues feel
like filler material, she’s come a long
way, and is eager to share her route.

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‘The Paris Bookseller’ honors
the American woman who
published ‘Ulysses’

Not long after the end of World to gossip, commiserate, and offer interwar period. Describing a lush Football books
War I, American Sylvia Beach opened Sylvia guidance on handling her celebration at one of the intellectual
an English-language bookstore and recalcitrant Irish author.These cameo set’s gathering spots, Le Dôme, she continued from page 14
lending library in Paris. “The Paris appearances are enjoyable if they writes, “Under the soft glow of the
Bookseller,” Kerri Maher’s historical occasionally feel contrived. Dôme’s chandeliers, their group women were deeply entrenched in American society.
novel based on Beach’s remarkable refilled glasses ... and passed around Women playing football were ridiculed and told it was too
life, imagines her impromptu speech “The Paris Bookseller” also plates of buttery sole and crisp rough a sport for their delicate bodies, and besides, their
to the war-weary crowd at the 1919 elucidates Sylvia’s decades-long potatoes as the merry clinks of forks game would never be as entertaining to watch as the
opening of Shakespeare and relationship with Adrienne Monnier, and knives against plates echoed off men’s.
Company. “Here, a place of exchange the French bookstore owner and the glass windows and tile floors.”
between English and French thinking, writer whose shop, La Maison des But the women of the league proved the naysayers
we get to enjoy the spoils of peace: Amis des Livres, inspired Sylvia to The novel concludes before the wrong. They were ferocious athletes, as competitive and
literature, friendship, conversation, open her own. In France, where onset of World War II, but the shop hard-hitting as their male counterparts. They played the
debate,” Sylvia declares.“Long may we same-sex relations had long been was closed and the real-life Beach game because they loved it, because it helped them
enjoy them and may they – instead of decriminalized, the two women lived interned for six months during the celebrate the power of their bodies and accept themselves
guns and grenades – become the together openly. In 1921, Beach Nazi occupation of Paris. Although and their teammates for who they were.The players in the
weapons of new rebellions.” moved Shakespeare and Company Hemingway famously “liberated” NWFL didn’t aim to become poster children for the
across the street from Monnier’s Shakespeare and Company in 1945, women’s liberation movement or to make a political
The storied Shakespeare and store on Rue de l’Odéon. Beach chose not to reopen the store statement, but that didn’t change the fact that they were
Company, frequented by such Lost after the war. Her risky publication of carving out a space for women in a male-dominated field.
Generation luminaries as Ezra Pound, Most of the limited tension in this “Ulysses” was driven by her faith in its
Gertrude Stein, and Ernest cozy novel concerns the protagonist’s greatness, but she was also savvy Sadly, the women’s efforts were undermined by the
Hemingway, achieved something akin divided loyalties between Adrienne enough to intuit that publishing it league’s lack of organization, popular support, and crucially,
to that hopeful and heady wish; and the demanding Joyce. Adrienne would confer on Shakespeare and money. Convincing sponsors that women’s sports were
likewise, the charming novel based on worries that Sylvia will put Joyce’s Company its own kind of immortality. worth backing was a nearly unsurmountable obstacle. Not
the store and its expatriate needs before her own, warning her (The current incarnation of many of the approximately 19 teams lasted into the 1980s.
proprietor expresses much faith in that “he is a very great writer but not Shakespeare and Company was later
the power of intellectual fellowship. ... a great man.” The two rivals even founded by American George Though the league’s lifespan was short, the impressive
have warring nicknames for the Whitman, who named his shop, and women of the NWFL took on a so-called man’s sport and
The central action of “The Paris neighboring bookstores: Monnier his daughter, Sylvia Beach Whitman, in excelled, and in “Hail Mary,” readers come to know the
Bookseller” is Beach’s courageous calls their share of the block Odeonia, honor of Beach.) “The Paris players and the teams they called family.The authors strike
decision to publish James Joyce’s while Joyce christens it Stratford-on- Bookseller” serves as a welcome a good balance between on-the-field and off-the-field
modernist masterwork “Ulysses” Odéon. reminder of her pivotal role in the action, making the reading as riveting as it is informative.
after serialized chapters of the novel history of Joyce’s classic, adding to the “Hail Mary” is a necessary and comprehensive history of a
are banned in the United States for In addition to a reverential affectionate novel’s considerable league far ahead of its time.
being obscene. Maher again deploys a rendering of the literary scene at the appeal.
military metaphor in describing bookstore, Maher vividly evokes the By Olive Fellows
Sylvia’s passion for Joyce’s work, free-wheeling Parisian social life of the By Barbara Spindel
writing that she sees in “Ulysses” a Gallup poll: Americans
desire “to explode every protective reading fewer books
surface of modern life as surely as than in previous years
grenades had blown up cities and
trenches all over Europe.” In addition Americans read an
to her belief in Joyce’s genius, she is average of 12.6 books
also motivated by her dismay over the during the past year,
“stodgy, censorious forces at work in according to a new
America.” Gallup poll. That
represents the lowest
Maher, who has previously written number of books read
fictionalized portrayals of Grace Kelly compared to any
and JFK’s sister Kathleen “Kick” previous survey dating
Kennedy, captures the enormity of back to 1990, Gallup said.
Sylvia’s undertaking. Joyce delivers In three polls conducted
scattered pages in barely legible script between 2002 and 2016, Gallup surveys showed that
that must be painstakingly deciphered Americans read an average of 15.2 books per year.
and typed out for the printer; he also
continues revising up until the last "It is unclear from these data if the declines in book
moments of the process. When he readership are occurring because of a lack of interest in
pleads with her to have the printer books, a lack of time to read books, or perhaps COVID-
change the final three words of the 19-related disruptions in lifestyle activities or access to
manuscript, Sylvia silently vows that books," the pollster said. "It is also uncertain at this point
she will “never publish anything else. whether the declines in book reading mark a temporary
Ever again. It was too painful.” change or a more permanent one." The results are based
on a Dec. 1-16 poll of a random sample of 811 adults living
Meanwhile, to cover her costs, in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The
especially given that she is helping to participants were asked how many books they "read --
keep the struggling Joyce afloat, she either all or part of the way through" in the past year --
devotes hours to soliciting including electronic books and audiobooks.
subscribers and publicity for the
eventual first edition, all while keeping The decline in book reading is mostly a function of how
her shop barely solvent. Later, she is many books readers are consuming, rather than fewer
enmeshed in costly legal battles with Americans reading at all, Gallup said in a news release
notorious publisher Samuel Roth, issued with the poll. The 17% who said they did not read
who sells unauthorized copies of any books in the past year is in line with the 16% to 18%
“Ulysses” in the U.S. after measured in 2002 to 2016 surveys, Gallup said. Gallup
Shakespeare and Company’s edition reported that 27% of respondents said they read more
comes out. than 10 books, down 8 percentage points since 2016 and
lower than every prior measure by at least 4 points.
Through it all, the community of
French and expatriate writers who College graduates, women and older Americans also are
congregate at the bookstore drop by reading a bit less. For example, those 55 and older went
from a previous average of reading 16.7 books to 12.There
has been little change in the average number read by those
younger than 55.

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They also were 17% less nutrition at Harvard T.H.
likely to die from cancer and
18% less likely to die from Chan School of Public
lung disease, the researchers
said. Health in Boston.

Recent studies have found Increasing consumption of olive oil can lower a person's risk for death from a variety of diseases, according to a new study.
that consumption of dietary
This level of olive oil fats from plant-based assessed by a questionnaire Consumption of other Over the same period, and had greater
consumption was also sources, such as olive oil, can every four years, and they vegetable oils was calculated margarine consumption consumption of fruits and
associated with a 29% lower lower a person's risk for were asked how often, on based on the participants' dropped to about 4 grams vegetables compared to
risk for death from stroke, while others have average, they consumed reported oil brand and type per day from about 12 those with lower intake, the
neurodegenerative diseases found that the so-called specific foods and types of of fat used for cooking at grams per day, or nearly 1 data showed.
such as Alzheimer's and Mediterranean diet, which is fats and oils, as well as what home. The intake of dairy tablespoon, while the intake
Parkinson's, according to the high in olive oil, can help brand or type of oils they and other fats and nutrients of other fats remained About 5% of the study
researchers. stave off dementia. used for cooking and eating, also was measured, they stable, the researchers said. participants consumed an
the researchers said. said. average of 9 grams of olive
In addition, substituting 10 Using participants from Among the study oil per day, or about three-
the Nurses' Health Study Olive oil consumption participants, 36,856 died fourths of a tablespoon, the
grams, or just under one and the Health Professionals increased from an average of during the study period, researchers said.
Follow-up Study, two 1.6 grams per day at the according to the
tablespoon per day of olive ongoing assessments of Consumption was start of the study period, in researchers. "It's possible that higher
adults in the United States, 1990 to about 4 grams per olive oil consumption is a
for the same amount of Guasch-Ferré and her calculated from the total of day, or about one-third of a Those with higher olive marker of an overall
colleagues analyzed data for tablespoon, in 2010, the data oil consumption tended to healthier diet," Guasch-
margarine, butter, 60,582 women and 31,801 olive oil used for salad showed. be more physically active, Ferré said.
over a 28-year period. were less likely to smoke
mayonnaise and dairy dressings, that was added to

lowered a person's risk for food or bread and that was

early death from all causes used for baking and frying at

by up to 34%, they said. home, according to the

However, this was not the researchers.
case when substituting olive
Participants' diets were

Medicare proposes restricting coverage of

Alzheimer's drug to clinical trials

Medicare officials on outside of approved trials
Tuesday decided a new are also "nationally non-
Alzheimer's drug will be covered."
covered only for patients
participating in approved "CMS has proposed an
clinical trials.
evidence-based coverage

policy after experts

In a preliminary decision, reviewed all relevant
the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services said publicly available evidence
the federal health insurance
program should cover the and feedback received from
Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm
only for use in "CMS- stakeholders," CMS
approved randomized
controlled trials" and trials Administrator Chiquita
supported by the National
Institutes of Health. Brooks-LaSure said in a

statement.

Dr. Lee Fleisher, CMS The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a preliminary decision
chief medical officer and Tuesday stating that the Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm will be covered only for
director of the Center for patients participating in approved clinical trials.
Clinical Standards and
"All trials must be Quality, said that the patient health outcomes cover the drug by mid-April. almost all patients who may plaques in the brain.
conducted in a hospital- decision was also made due must weigh both harm and benefit."
based outpatient setting," to the presence of benefit before arriving at a Biogen, which makes the Biogen announced last
the CMS said. "potential for harm to final decision." drug, criticized the CMS In June, the FDA approved month it would cut the
patients" who use the drug. decision in a statement Aduhelm, which Biogen said price of the drug from
Aduhelm is currently the The CMS will hold a saying it "denies the daily is the first drug approved $56,000 to $28,200 a year
public comment period for burden of people living with that is designed to attack per patient as of Jan. 1, 2022,
only Food and Drug "This harm may range the next 30 days and is Alzheimer's disease" and the disease process of amid criticism of the price
from headaches, dizziness expected to announce a adding that a clinical trial Alzheimer's -- by reducing and months of low sales.
Administration-approved and falls, to other potentially final decision on whether to requirement "will exclude the buildup of harmful
serious complications such
monoclonal antibody as brain bleeds," Fleisher
said. "We believe that any
directed against amyloid appropriate assessment of

beta for the treatment of

Alzheimer's but the CMS

said similar drugs provided

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Mayo Clinic

Pregnancy and the heart

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I have a pacemaker or a
am ready to start a family, defibrillator, you still can have
but my doctor said that a healthy pregnancy.
pregnancy may be high-risk
for me because I have a heart Heart valve issues: Having
condition. Can you explain
how pregnancy affects the a heart valve that does not
heart and what I can do to
lower my risk for function normally may
complications?
complicate pregnancy,
ANSWER: Pregnancy
results in many changes that depending on the severity of
can increase the workload of
the heart. During pregnancy, the valve dysfunction. Severe
your blood volume increases
by 30% to 50% to nourish narrowing of the opening of
your growing baby, your
heart pumps more blood the valves, or stenosis, may
each minute and your heart
rate increases. Rapid changes not be well-tolerated during
occur during labor and
delivery that affect the heart, pregnancy. If you have a heart
as well, and further increase
the workload. After delivery, valve replaced with a
it will take several weeks for
your body to return to the mechanical valve, this poses a
pre-pregnancy state.
special problem during
The increased workload
during pregnancy and pregnancy because of the
delivery can cause some
complications. However, need for a medication to
many women who have
heart conditions deliver keep the valve from clotting.
healthy babies. If you have a
heart condition, you'll need The medication taken by
special care during
pregnancy to reduce the risk mouth to prevent valve
of complications to you and
your baby. clotting in patients with

Maternal cardiac disease mechanical heart valves can
complications occur in about
1% to 3% of all pregnancies. affect the development of
The risks depend on the
nature and severity of your the baby and cause bleeding
heart condition.
in the baby. In this
Consider these heart
conditions: circumstance, alternative

Heart rhythm issues: blood thinners that are
Minor abnormalities in heart
rhythm are common during injected can be used during
pregnancy. They're not
usually cause for concern. If part of the pregnancy. This
you need treatment for an
arrhythmia, you may be given requires close follow-up with
medication. If you have a
history of heart rhythm a specialist throughout childbearing age usually is will evaluate your current care provider might adjust should deliver their baby
abnormalities prior to related to a genetic heart condition, discuss the the dose or make a vaginally. Cesarean delivery is
pregnancy and are taking a pregnancy and delivery. condition, such as Marfan risk of pregnancy specific to substitution and explain the reserved for obstetrical
medication for that, you will syndrome or Loeys-Dietz you and your condition, and risks involved. Often the reasons and rare cardiac
need to discuss appropriate Congestive heart failure: syndrome. If you have one of make recommendations for benefits outweigh the risks, complications. -- Sabrina
medications to use during Congestive heart failure these conditions, you may be treatment changes prior to however. If you need Phillips, M.D., Division of
pregnancy with your occurs when the heart at increased risk of further pregnancy. medication to control your Cardiovascular Medicine,
cardiologist. If you already cannot function efficiently. If aortic dilatation or aortic heart condition, your health Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville,
the heart cannot function complications, such a Certain heart conditions care provider can prescribe Florida
efficiently before pregnancy, dissection during pregnancy should be treated before the safest medication at the
it will be difficult for the and in the weeks after pregnancy to make the most appropriate dose. It is
heart to meet the increased delivery. Managing these pregnancy lower-risk. This important that throughout
demands of pregnancy, and conditions during pregnancy can include heart surgery, for your pregnancy you take the
heart failure can worsen.This may require imaging of the example, to treat a heart medication exactly as
can lead to increased aorta at intervals during valve condition such as prescribed. Don't stop taking
swelling, shortness of breath pregnancy to see if the size is aortic stenosis. Pregnancy is the medication or adjust the
or exercise intolerance. In changing, and a medication high risk for women with dose on your own.
severe cases, a baby may not may be required to reduce high lung artery pressures, or
grow appropriately, resulting stress on the aortic wall. pulmonary hypertension, or During pregnancy, you may
in early delivery. severely reduced heart be referred to an
Before you try to function. In these cases, avoid obstetrician who specializes
Congenital heart defect: If conceive, you may want to pregnancy. in high-risk pregnancies. This For more heart healthy
you were born with a heart schedule an appointment provider is known as a tips, tune in to
problem, or a congenital with a maternal cardiologist Also, the specialist can maternal fetal medicine
heart issue, your baby has a who is experienced in review any medication specialist. Depending on the Happenings Q&A on
greater risk of developing managing heart disease adjustments, as certain circumstances, you also may Mon. Jan. 31st at 2:30
some type of heart defect, during pregnancy.This would medication you take during be referred to a medical when noted cardiologist
too.You also might be at risk be a specialist who would pregnancy can affect your geneticist, a neonatologist Dr. Raaid Museitif joins
for heart problems occurring work in conjunction with the baby. Certain medications and an obstetric
during pregnancy, and of health care provider who used to treat heart anesthesiologist to help the conversation on
premature birth, depending will handle your pregnancy. conditions aren't used during manage your pregnancy and AM1050 WLIP.
on your specific heart defect. pregnancy. Depending on the delivery. Most women with
A maternal cardiologist circumstances, your health heart conditions can and
Aortic aneurysm:

Enlargement, or aneurysm, of

the aorta in women of

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Nutrition News
with Charlyn Fargo

Yogurt for lower blood pressure

Charlyn Fargo joins using a food frequency we eat makes a difference Roasted Asparagus
Happenings Q&A on questionnaire. High blood in our health, and a serving w/Balsamic Browned
pressure was defined as of yogurt a day could make
Thu. Jan. 27th at being greater than or equal a difference if you have high Butter
2:30 on AM1050 WLIP. to 140/90 mmHg (a normal blood pressure.
blood pressure level is less Servings: 8
than 120/80 mmHg). Q and A
40 asparagus spears, trimmed (about 2 pounds)
backs up this suggestion. Researchers found that Q: How can you Cooking spray
for people with elevated encourage kids to eat 1/4 teaspoon salt
Charlyn Fargo is a Conducted in blood pressure, even small healthy foods that they may
registered dietitian with amounts of yogurt were not like? 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
partnership with the associated with lower 2 tablespoons butter
SIU Med School in blood pressure. Results A:Try introducing healthy
Springfield, Ill. For University of Maine, the were even stronger for new foods by combining 2 teaspoons low-sodium soy sauce
comments or questions, those who consumed them with foods your child 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
study examined the yogurt regularly. Their already likes. It also helps to
contact her at blood pressures were offer children lots of • Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
[email protected] associations between nearly 7 points lower than options and get them • Arrange asparagus in a single layer on a baking sheet; coat with cooking spray.
or follow her on Twitter those who did not involved in grocery
yogurt intake, blood consume yogurt. shopping and cooking, so Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake at 400 F for 12 minutes or until tender.
@NutritionRd. they have a say in what they • Melt butter in a small skillet over medium heat, and cook 3 minutes or until
pressure and cardiovascular eat. I've found it's important lightly browned, shaking pan occasionally. Remove from heat and stir in soy sauce
Although the holiday to continue to offer foods and vinegar. Drizzle over asparagus, tossing well to coat. Serve immediately.
season is over, your blood risk factors. Researchers like broccoli -- show them • Per serving (5 spears): 45 calories; 19 grams protein; 3.9 grams carbohydrate;
pressure may still be rising - you like to eat it -- and 3 grams fat, 8 milligrams cholesterol; 1.7 grams fiber; 134 milligrams sodium.
- maybe it's the holiday found that yogurt is eventually, they will eat it. A
stress; maybe it's the parent's job is to present Individual Flourless
relatives. But whatever the associated with lower healthy food to kids. A kid's Chocolate Cakes
reason, having a little yogurt job is to choose to eat it.
every day may help lower blood pressure for those Often, they will do that if Makes 6 individual cakes
your blood pressure. alternatives aren't quickly
with hypertension. It may be the live, active provided. Remember that Vegetable oil spray
Add a dollop of yogurt to all foods can be fine in 1 cup (6 ounces) chocolate chips
your morning cereal, make It is estimated that more bacteria that are moderation -- even cake 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces
a smoothie with a half-cup than a billion people in the and cookies can be enjoyed
or have a quick yogurt cup world suffer from responsible for lowering occasionally but shouldn't 1/2 cup (3 1/2 ounces) sugar
on the go. New research hypertension (and not just be a staple in kids' (or 1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
from the University of during the holidays), putting blood pressure. adults') diets.
South Australia and them at greater risk of 3 large eggs
published in Science News cardiovascular diseases Researchers found the 1/4 cup (2 ounces) water
such as heart attack and 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
stroke. bacteria promote the
1/4 teaspoon salt
release of proteins that
• Adjust oven rack to the middle position and heat oven to 275 degrees. Spray
lower blood pressure. In the inside bottoms and sides of six 4-ounce ramekins with vegetable oil spray.

addition, dairy foods Place ramekins on a rimmed baking sheet.
• In a large microwave-safe bowl, combine chocolate chips and butter. Heat in the
contain a range of
microwave at 50% power for 2 minutes. Stir mixture with a rubber spatula to
The study was conducted micronutrients, including combine. Return to the microwave and heat at 50% power until melted,
on 915 community-dwelling about 2 minutes.
adults from the Maine- calcium, magnesium and
Syracuse Longitudinal • Use the rubber spatula to stir until well combined and shiny, about 30 seconds.
Study. Habitual yogurt potassium, all of which are Let chocolate mixture cool for 5 minutes.
consumption was measured
involved in the regulation of • In a medium bowl, whisk sugar and cornstarch until combined.Add eggs, water,
vanilla, and salt; whisk until combined.
blood pressure.
• Add sugar mixture to cooled chocolate mixture and whisk until smooth.
The bottom line is what Transfer batter to a large liquid measuring cup. Pour batter evenly into greased

America’s Test Kitchen ramekins (ramekins will be about three-quarters of the way full).
• Bake cakes until edges are set but centers still look wet, 20 to 24 minutes.
No need to share! With this recipe, Gently shake the baking sheet. If the centers of the cakes look very liquidy and
jiggle a lot, bake the cakes for 1 to 2 more minutes.When the centers of the
everyone gets their own (mini) chocolate cake cakes jiggle slightly, remove the baking sheet from the oven. Place the baking
sheet on a cooling rack and let cakes cool on baking sheet for 30 minutes.
Flourless chocolate cakes structure, like most other the cakes bake, the eggs keep the texture smooth. • Cover each ramekin with plastic wrap and use a fork to poke small holes in top
are rich, fudgy, and intensely cakes do, these special puff up in the oven, giving Bonus: these cakes are of plastic. Refrigerate until cakes are cold and firm, at least 1 1/2 hours. (Cakes
chocolaty. Instead of using cakes rely on a combination them lift. The cornstarch naturally gluten-free! Happy
flour or leaveners for of eggs and cornstarch. As creates a kind of glue to New Year, indeed. can be refrigerated for up to two days.)
• Remove cakes from the refrigerator and let them sit at room temperature for
18 SMART READER January 13, 2022
30 minutes before serving.Top with whipped cream or berries, or dust with
confectioners' sugar, if desired. Serve.

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animals Pet World

in the news with Cathy Rosenthal

Dog who fled before Training, Adapting, and Compromising:
wildfire rescued from It's how we live with dogs
snow 4 months later
Woman reunited with As well as being a recuring can help them adjust: train instance, we needed a
missing cat after 12 A dog who went missing while his guest on Happenings Q&A, them, adapt to them, or compromise that worked for
years owner was preparing to evacuate compromise with them. In both of us. So, I trained him to
during California's Caldor Fire was Cathy M. Rosenthal is a Carol's case, training her dog get on the couch, but only if
An Ontario woman whose cat fled reunited with his family four months longtime animal advocate, to relieve herself during there was a blanket on it. He
from her home in summer 2010 was later after being rescued from deep author, columnist and pet leashed walks works best for understood that and did not
reunited with the missing feline when snow. The nonprofit TLC 4 Furry expert who has more than her lifestyle. She wants to take get on the couch again unless
her pet turned up at a shelter 12 years Friends & Tahoe PAWS Animal her dog on long walks and there was a blanket on it. By
later. Christine De Castro said she Response Team  said in a Facebook 30 years in the animal doesn't want to worry about compromising, we both got
received a phone call from Vaughan post  that the pit bull terrier mix, welfare field. Send your pet getting her home in a hurry to our way, and he seemed happy
Animal Services on New Year's Day named Russ, escaped from his owner's questions, stories and tips to relieve herself. I "heard" him.
saying one of her pets had been found, vehicle in the Tahoe area in August.The
and she was initially confused after [email protected]. In your instance Janet, you It's wonderful that you
verifying that her cat and two dogs animal's owner had been in the Tahoe adapted to some of your dog's understand your dog and can
were at home. De Castro said her area for a temporary job and was Dear Cathy, My letter is in quirks and interwove them accommodate her wants and
confusion turned to shock when the preparing to evacuate due to the response to Carol in into your lifestyle. Not having needs. She is eager to please
found animal turned out to be Loli, a Caldor Fire when Russ escaped. The Massapequa regarding her new to walk your dog to relieve you as well. This is what it
cat that had fled from her home in owner reported Russ missing and dog's bathroom habits. I also herself is a plus for you. You means to be in relationship
summer 2010.Vaughan Animal Services searched the area for the canine, but had a dog for 16 years who know her habits and make with a companion animal.
told her Loli had been picked up as a eventually it was assumed that Russ would take long walks and sure you bring her food dish
stray and scanned for a microchip, had been lost for good. The rescue wait to relieve herself in the and water bowl when you Dear Cathy, My little girl
which revealed De Castro's contact team said a skier reported a dog that backyard. Carol may travel. By getting her used to Chelsea is 12-years-old. Six
information. "I was in shock and quickly appeared to be in distress in deep appreciate this during the sleeping on a bathmat, you months ago, she started
made plans with my partner to pick her snow, and animal services contacted winter. I can let my dog into have trained her to be urinating down the front side
up," De Castro told CBC Toronto. "I'm TLC 4 Furry Friends & Tahoe PAWS the backyard to relieve herself comfortable on that mat, of her box. I'm using " pet
still in shock about a week and a half for assistance. The rescue team used a (without having to go outside regardless of where you are pads/ diapers" to absorb it. I'm
later." De Castro said she brought the sled to bring the dog down from the in wintry weather). She's been on the world. (Having at a loss as she does her fecal
now-14-year-old cat home Jan. 3. mountain and he was taken to a house trained since four- something familiar and part of business in there fine. I've
"When I saw her, her face looked a lot veterinarian, where he was found to be months-old and never had an her every day routine is very moved (the box) in different
grumpier than what I remember which in good health. El Dorado County accident in the house. comforting for a dog when positions, removed the top,
tends to happen with senior cats. Animal Services scanned the canine for away from home.) and even put her food where
Otherwise she looked exactly the a microchip and he was identified as My dog also has other she piddles to no avail. I
same. She's still a very petite brown Russ. "When contacted, the owner was particular habits. She will only When not training our dogs withhold treats, and she does
tabby that I had 11 1/2 years ago," she ecstatic to find out that his dog was eat out of her own food and to perform a certain behavior well. But after a couple of days,
said. "I wish cats could talk so that she alive," the Facebook post said. Russ water dishes, and she loves to or acquiescing to one of their she pees on floor again. Any
could tell me where she's been ... but was reunited with his owner Dec. 26. sleep on an old bathmat. So, peculiarities, pet owners learn advice? -- Jon, Pompano Beach,
I'm glad she's come to me now to be "Happy endings are always welcome, we take her dishes and to compromise with them. Florida
taken care of in her older golden especially around the holidays," the bathmat, which she sleeps on This is when a behavior is
years.” rescue group said. in the car or wherever we are something you can live with, Dear Jon, Considering her
staying, when we travel with but only if you tweak it a bit. age and sudden onset of the
Herd of elk halts More than 80 escaped her. With a little patience, she For example, I once had an 80- behavior, it sounds like there
highway traffic ostriches run loose could end up with a puppy as pound dog who wanted up on may be a medical problem, like
through city great as ours. -- Janet, Rego the living room couch. I a urinary tract infection.When
Traffic on a North Carolina highway Park, New York allowed him on the family a cat has a urinary infection, he
was brought to a standstill when a herd Drivers in a Chinese city captured room couches, but not the or she will often poop in the
of elk approached the road and video when they came upon an unusual Dear Janet, Puppies (and living room couch because litter box, but pee just outside
decided to cross. Dean Cloer captured traffic hazard -- a flock of more than 80 kittens) are so much fun, but it that's where visitors sat. I it, but near it. Don't withhold
video when  the herd created a traffic ostriches racing through the streets does take time to help them know he understood because treats or put food where she
jam by crossing Highway 441 in late at night. Videos captured early  in adjust to living in our homes. he never got on the couch pees as this won't change her
Cherokee, near the Great Smoky Chongzuo City show dozens of the There are three main ways we during the day. But at night, as behavior. Instead, get her to a
Mountains National Park. Cloer's large, flightless birds running through soon as I feel asleep, I could doctor for a health exam. If
footage shows some of the elk running urban roads. Local police said the hear him climbing on the living she doesn't have a urinary
across the road, while others casually ostriches escaped from a local farm room couch. I would get up infection or other health
walk to reach the other side and graze through a gate that had been left and ask him to get down, but problem, then sprinkle some
on the grass. Elk are native to the area, unlocked. Police said most of the as soon as I started to fall litter box attractant (available
but populations dwindled due to over- ostriches were rounded up and sleep, he would sneak back on online) to coax her into using
hunting by European settlers in the late returned to the farm. No injuries were the couch again. In this the box again.
1700s. The National Park reported  from the ostriches' time on
Service started to reintrode elk to the the loose.
region in 2001.

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jill on money

What’s new for 2022?

with Jill Schlesinger

It may have taken a brutal Jill Schlesinger, CFP, is a CBS opportunities aplenty, has To use the newfound what’s new in 2022 is what is financial priorities, and it has
twenty-two months of a News business analyst. A helped many to let go of leverage, conduct research not new. Diane Swonk, Grant also shown us which
pandemic to do it, but when former options trader and CIO money-related anxieties. The for your industry and your Thornton Chief Economist expenses are critical and
it comes to personal of an investment advisory firm, combination has also specific job to find out the noted “Living through the which are not. When I talk
finances, there is one silver she welcomes comments and boosted our general moods, range of what people like pandemic has been a bit like about resolutions, I usually
lining of the New Year: 84% with 72% of respondents you earn. Respectfully ask being Bill Murray’s character trot out my “Big Three” (1)
of Americans say that they questions at confident that they’ll be in a your boss if she can do in the 1993 film Groundhog Fund an emergency reserve
have learned to stop [email protected]. Check better financial position in better for you and if not, it Day. We emerged from the that can cover 6-12 months
worrying about what they 2022 and six in 10 Americans may be time to seek another first wave of infections and of your living expenses (2)
can’t control.That tidbit was her website at are optimistic about the position. lockdowns hoping to return Reduce credit card or other
just one data point that www.jillonmoney.com future. Despite the more to the world we left behind high interest debt, and (3)
jumped out from the Fidelity upbeat outlook, Americans For retirees, it’s a more only to realize we were Fund retirement plans to the
Investments Annual Financial and vital emergency savings are concerned about rising difficult, because while you entering a loop of recurring best of your ability, especially
Resolutions Study for 2022. (39%). Notably, the survey prices, with respondents will see a 5.9% increase in infections and disruptions if you have a company match.
also found that compared to citing inflation as the top Social Security benefits, that proved hard to escape.” Until the pandemic, I
Before we get too jazzed last year, stress levels — concern for 2022. For Medicare Part B, which advocated an equal weight
about these results, the those things keeping people workers, it’s time to ask the covers doctors and As the world adjusts to for each of the three, but
survey was conducted Oct. up at night — have boss for raise. This is a tight outpatient care, will jump by yet another variant, it’s time what’s new in 2022 is that
18-24, 2021, long before we “significantly decreased.” labor market, with 11 million a whopping 14.55%. As a to address financial funding the emergency
all had to learn how to job openings, which means result, 2022 may not be a resolutions in a more reserve should take
pronounce Omicron. That We don’t know why that the power has shifted great year to assist those informed way. The COVID precedence over the other
said, one positive outcome financial stressors are down, from employers to workers. adult children. period has provided a crash two.
of enduring the near two- but the government’s course in how to identify
year COVID era is that massive stimulus efforts have Finally, the one aspect of
when faced with a financial helped a lot. The extra
crisis, we now understand money, along with surging
that the old saying,“KISS” — economic growth and job
or “Keep It Simple Stupid,”
really works. When
encountering a difficult
financial crunch, the Fidelity
respondents said that the
best solution is to reduce
expenses (54%) — and then
to dip into those precious

Inflation, the Great Resignation,
and the hot housing market:
A look back at the economy
of 2021

with Jill Schlesinger

Most of us would like to bill passed in December.) locked down and waiting for
put the past two years in the vaccines, households were
rearview mirror — in a The 2021 legislation sitting on a lot of cash —
major way. Since March about $2.4 trillion in excess
2020, we have been delivered $1,400 stimulus savings. When lockdowns
absorbing the devastating were lifted and armed with
physical, emotional, and checks and child tax credits all of that money, Americans
financial impact of COVID- were ready to unleash their
19. Now, as the year draws to millions of families. In fact, consumptive habits. The
to a close, it’s worth rapid spending caught
reviewing where we stand as “How to be eligible for producers by surprise and
this second tumultuous year suddenly we were all
concludes. stimulus check” nudged out learning about the supply
chain, shipping containers,
Big Picture: After the “How to be more attractive” and logistics.
worst recession since the
Great Depression, when the as the number one “How to” Inflation is the New Black:
economy shrank by 3.4%, the Like an old-fashioned trend
recovery came to fruition in search in 2021, according to that pops back up, so too is
2021. It is likely that the US the concept of inflation.
economy expanded by an Google Trends. In addition to While the economy is not
estimated 6% over the year, close to the peak annual
fueled by a third round of government support, the inflation seen in 1980 (that
government stimulus, in the year, prices accelerated by
form of the $1.9 trillion Federal Reserve maintained 13.5%), prices as measured
American Rescue Plan. (You by the Consumer Price
have already forgotten about emergency measures, Index are running at an
the two massive measures annual pace of 6.8% as of
enacted in 2020, the March including monthly bond November, the strongest
2020 $2.2 trillion CARES annual pace in four decades.
Act, followed by the buying and zero percent Services Committee, Federal previously thought — and market finished the year a
additional $900 billion relief In his July testimony Reserve Chair Jerome that it would have to shift its
interest rates to grease the before the House Financial Powell noted that the policy as a result. little less hot, though it’s
economy has run headfirst
wheels of the economy and into a “perfect storm of high The Great surely simmering due to low
demand and low supply,” Resignation/Labor Market
financial markets. Through which should pass as the Shortage: As the year inventories levels.
economy normalizes. While progressed, workers found
the combination of the the Fed had maintained that themselves in a new position Unfortunately, even as
the spike in prices would be of power. Job opening were
robust fiscal and monetary “transitory” or temporary, abundant and for the first activity slows, prices remain
by the end of the year, the time in about two decades,
actions, the 2021 US central bank shifted its policy many found that they could high. As more properties
to reflect the fact that leverage a chaotic labor
economy is poised to see the inflation is likely sticking market to their advantage. come on to the market, the
around longer than
strongest annual growth rate Housing: The housing situation should improve.

since 1984, year when GDP Three-Peat for Stocks:You
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Is murder
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starting to
abate? Some
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Despite a second straight pandemic and social unrest
year of rising homicides in – have started to wane.
2021, last year’s violent
crime data show some “What, generally
reasons for hope.
speaking, we’re seeing in
First, even though the
homicide rate rose again, it most but perhaps not all
slowed down. During the
first three quarters of 2020, places is an unraveling of
there was a 30% year-on
increase in the homicide some of the conditions that
rate, according to research
from the Council on gave rise to the increase in
Criminal Justice. In the same
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Rosenfeld.
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city in 2020 – as gun deaths have city-by-city
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Some cities – like Portland, answer in some cities, and
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like Boston and Dallas, had effect is less certain.
major dips.
Despite the overall rise
That’s reason for since 2019, America’s
optimism, says Richard homicide rate is still far
Rosenfeld, a criminologist at below the violent crime
the University of Missouri, peaks of the 1990s. A more
St. Louis. Nationally, he says, nuanced national picture in
it suggests that the trends 2021, says Professor
driving up violent crime – Rosenfeld, may suggest
like the COVID-19 future increases aren’t
inevitable.

“I think it is good news,”
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memories, there is note inside each.  and a wife for 10 years to every year with fresh eyes, Schwartz, Madelyn L. Kenosha. OWI (1st)
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hangover! LOL!  In didn’t realize it till the to her crazy journey in life year with our growth.  This Wallin, Patrick L. Zion. OWI (2nd)
adulthood we have had second to last balloon… and about how she tries to year we actually have “fresh Whitaker, Benjamin. Kenosha. OWI (2nd)
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