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Why the ’70s are a blueprint –
but not a destiny – for the 2020s

WHY WE and mainstream news that
WROTE THIS most of the population
consumed.The Vietnam War
The 1970s, was seismic in the extent it
which hold spread disillusion and
many parallels distrust in government.
to the 2020s, COVID-19 has no parallel in
offer lessons for U.S. history since the
how to handle influenza pandemic of 1918.
social strife and Smartphones and social
problems of media have led to technical
today. But the and cultural revolutions.
differences
between the But the 1970s struggled
two decades
also show how with new kinds of challenges
far society has
evolved in key that needed new and

areas. creative fixes, and the 2020s

By Peter Grier may, too. They had gas lines;
& Noah Robertson
we have supply chain
Protests. An ugly
withdrawal from a botched shortages. They had a
foreign war. Inflation. Politics
riven by anger and generation riven between
partisanship. Puff-sleeve
peasant dresses. Shortages hippies and “squares,” and
of consumer items. New
music from ABBA. we have one split between

This was the 1970s – and progressives and Two university students shop in Boston in 1977 in bell-bottoms.
perhaps also the early
2020s. History often runs in conservatives. Crime rose
cycles, and four decades
after Watergate and the then, and it’s rising now.
debut of “M*A*S*H,” the
United States at times Both eras have been infused Decade,” a time of rampant fashion? presidential election, as it deaths in Vietnam were
seems to have gone forward narcissism. about 47,000, as opposed to
into the past, with the with a feeling that the nation In the 1970s, “there was had been in 1968. By ’72, the some 2,000 in Afghanistan. It
retreat from Afghanistan much more of a common was a much more divisive
evoking the flight from is on the wrong track. Dare “It was the worst of culture,” says Dr. Schulman. U.S. public would no longer political issue, as thousands
Saigon, Black Lives Matter times, it was the worst of “You might not have took to the streets of
protests echoing ’70s civil we call it “malaise”? times,” wrote the editors of watched ‘M*A*S*H’ or tolerate sending large America to oppose the war.
rights and anti-war marches, New West magazine. They ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ or ‘All in U.S. radio was filled with
and a spike in the cost of The question is whether proposed that the decade the Family’ in the 1970s, but numbers of troops anti-war protest songs, such
living reviving painful today’s leaders will be be officially ended in 1979, it’s almost impossible that as Crosby, Stills, Nash &
memories of a decadelong better than those of the “one year early and not a you would not have been composed partly of draftees Young’s “Ohio,” about the
economic malady known as past at solving things, instead moment too soon.” In truth aware of them. Whereas Kent State University
“stagflation.” of muddling through. Today it was more eventful than now I’m sure that you are to fight in Southeast Asia. shooting of four protesters
the nature of the U.S. these gibes suggest. In watching things that I’ve by the Ohio National Guard
Remember vinyl LPs? population is far different. politics, the country was never even heard of.” But President Richard in 1970 (“Tin soldiers and
They’re back, and if not It’s much more diverse than fashioning the foundational Nixon’s coming, we’re finally
bigger than ever, then big 40 years ago. It’s also more reforms of the post- Nixon’s strategy of on our own”).
enough: They’re the music fragmented than the years Watergate era, while three
industry’s most popular and when “All in the Family” great “-ism” movements “Vietnamization” didn’t The “forever war” in
highest-grossing physical could draw 20 million continued to accelerate: Afghanistan lasted 20 years,
format. Swedish 1970s pop households an episode. consumerism, feminism, and work. Saigon fell to eroding trust in government
legend ABBA released environmentalism, the latter and the U.S. military. But
“Voyage” in September, and of which couldn’t be advancing North overall “the disillusionment
it’s now the fastest-selling properly practiced without seems bigger and more
vinyl release of the century. wearing Earth shoes. Vietnamese divisions in April thorough with Vietnam than
Bucket hats are back, too, in it does with Afghanistan,”
all their floppy glory.Target’s 1975. says Kevin Mattson, a
even selling a tie-dye professor of contemporary
version. Loose-fitting pants You could consider that At the same time, the As South Vietnam history at Ohio University
are called “flares” now, but 1970s saw artists begin to collapsed, Vietnamese who in Athens and author of
that shouldn’t fool anybody. change a roadblock to reject the model of the mass had worked with Americans “‘What the Heck Are You
They’re bell-bottoms by audience and develop and members of the Up To, Mr. President?’: Jimmy
another name. consensus and solutions, alternative and iconoclastic country’s elite besieged Carter, America’s ‘Malaise,’
followings. Disco, punk, and evacuation points, including and the Speech That Should
The 1970s and early says Bruce Schulman, new wave music arose as a the U.S. Embassy. The Have Changed the
2020s are far from twins, of counterweight to KISS,Alice desperate even clung to Country.”
course. They differ in ways professor of history at Cooper, and other stadium helicopter skids in bids to
both small and profound. A acts. Method acting and escape. It was an inglorious With the year-end
half-century ago, the nation Boston University and cutting-edge films such as episode echoed by the shopping season, President
still had a common culture, “Taxi Driver” were direct frantic crowds fighting to Joe Biden faces a crisis both
with TV shows and music author of “The Seventies: The decade had some counters to blockbuster get past the perimeter of material and political – bare
movies such as “Jaws.” the Kabul Airport during the shelves. The great supply
The Great Shift in American cultural heft, too. The fall of Afghanistan in 2021. chain blockage of 2021 has
stacked up container ships
Culture, Politics, and Beatles’ last studio album, at ports, pallets in U.S.
warehouses, and boxes in
Society.” Or you could judge “Let It Be,” was released in retail backrooms. Everything
seems in short supply,
it as a way to bring new 1970. Much of the fashion
story continues on next page
thinking and points of view associated with the ’60s was “I think we see a lot of
similarities to that kind of
to bear.“You can see that as actually introduced – or pop cultural struggle of the In both Vietnam and
1970s in the environment
presenting a set of reached its apotheosis – in that we have today,” says Dr. Afghanistan, the U.S. learned
Schulman.
opportunities about the early and middle years a bitter strategic lesson: For

different ways to deal with of the ’70s. Bell-bottoms local troops, the will to fight

those problems,” he says. moved into the Middle is more important than

Americans not old American mainstream, U.S. troop involvement in Western military
enough to remember the
decade of the 1970s might popularized by “The Sonny the Vietnam conflict began equipment, training, and
think of it as transitional, a
trough between the high and Cher Comedy Hour.” in the early 1960s. But the money. On paper Saigon and
energy of the boisterous
1960s and the high “morning Clothing morphed heaviest American bombing Kabul were set to defend
again” optimism of the early
Reagan years. At the time seamlessly into the satin and of the long Indochinese war, themselves. In reality the
some chroniclers agreed
with this low regard. sequins of the disco era dubbed Operation departure of American
Journalist Tom Wolfe
famously dubbed it the “Me after the film “Saturday Linebacker II, occurred in power proved catastrophic

Night Fever” came out in December 1972. Anti-war to their forces’ morale.

1977. Will any of today’s protests roiled the U.S. that That said, Vietnam was a
defining issue of its era in a
popular songs have the same year. way the Afghanistan War has
never been. The toll was
staying power of “Let It Be?” much higher – U.S. combat

Would any TV show or Vietnam was a central
issue in the 1972
movie now move mass

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70s decades,” says Scott Sumner, haven’t experienced the ’70s,
chair of monetary policy this might seem like a lot of
continued from page 2 replaced by a theocratic with the Mercatus Center at inflation,” says Dr. Sumner.
George Mason University in “For someone like me, it
especially if it comes from administration. Iran’s oil Fairfax,Virginia. seems more like a one-time
Asia: electronics, clothing, burst of inflation that’s not
auto parts, even the chains production dipped. The inflation era finally that dramatic.”
and buckles foresters use to ended after Mr. Carter
stabilize old tree limbs. Consumers, perhaps picked Paul Volcker, a bald, The Black Lives Matter
fly-fishing, 6-foot-7-inch protests that filled American
Mr. Biden vowed to spooked by the previous economist to run the Federal streets following the death of
alleviate the situation in time Reserve. Mr. Volcker raised George Floyd, a Black man,
for Christmas. He’s pushed shortage, rushed to fill up. the rates the Fed charged under the knee of a white
to unclog ports and ease banks to borrow funds, police officer in Minneapolis
truck driver shortages. But Gas prices spiked again. clamped down on the money were a phenomenon likely
his political problem is that supply, and tamed the unmatched in U.S. history.
there is only so much he can The second oil shock, on Black Lives Matter marchers gather near the White inflation rate.The cost was a Polls suggest that 15 million
do. Private firms control the top of the first, seemed to House in Washington on Aug. 28, 2021. severe economic recession. to 26 million Americans
supply chain, and many of the threaten a pillar of the engaged in BLM
blockages are caused by American dream. Pretty 11 points. Then he fired his everything from cars to Most economists don’t demonstrations in nearly 550
larger forces, such as the much every car on U.S. roads Cabinet two days later, and cantaloupes has surged as think inflation today will be locations across the U.S. By
surge in demand from was still a gas guzzler by the subsequent uproar the economy roars back as virulent as in the 1970s. some measures that makes
consumers in the wake of modern standards, and swamped his message. Today from its pandemic depths Goods are rising in price them the largest social
COVID-19 vaccinations. Americans were dismayed to it is remembered as the and consumers rush to make today, not services. movement of all time. Most
find that cheap gas and V-8s “malaise” speech (a word Mr. purchases they have put off. Manufacturers also have of the marches were
What he hasn’t, and were apparently no longer Carter never used) and as a More money chasing strong incentives to iron out peaceful. Some ended in
probably won’t, do is what their birthright. “The people downer of a presidential insufficient goods is the their supply chain problems, violence.
President Jimmy Carter did: out there are getting frantic,” message. classic recipe for inflation. and the pent-up demand
try to get ordinary said the protagonist in John driving many of the high The protests of the 1970s
Americans to look inward Updike’s novel set in the Both Mr. Carter and Mr. The rise was something of costs now may not last. were intense but not as
and examine their role in the period, “Rabbit Is Rich.” Biden have preached a surprise. A recent
shortages’ creation. Yet Mr. ”They know the great personal responsibility as a Bloomberg survey of “For young people that story concludes on page 8
American ride is ending.” solution to U.S. ills, says Dr. economists predicts inflation
Mattson. Mr. Carter urged at the end of 2021’s fourth
As gas stations instituted citizens to buy less gas. Mr. quarter will measure 5.8%
sales restrictions, Mr. Carter Biden has urged them to get over the previous year, up
vaccinated against COVID- from a forecast of 5.3% only
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What inflation looks like for two Texas families

globe, but their operating Mr. Holloway says he
costs “are also going up expects to see energy prices
drastically,” Ms. Holloway surge next. Preparing to
says. “We’ve seriously afford a more expensive life
tightened our belts as far as in general, they’re making
what we’re spending” in our sure this year’s Christmas
household, too. season spending is leaner.

The Holloways have six Can Federal Reserve do
children – the oldest is 17 much?
years old; the youngest, 4.
That means there are eight Many American families
mouths to feed in their say they’re worried about
household. Mr. Holloway daily affordability in the near
does the grocery shopping. future.

“I see the difference,” Mr. Michael Sposi, an
Holloway says. “I see the
A shopper loads his car with groceries at the Kroger in Novi, Michigan, price increases in the store.” international trade
on Jan. 23, 2021. Average hourly wages have risen close to 5% over the
past 12 months. For some households, income gains have outpaced He’s seen the difference in researcher at Southern
6.8% inflation during that time. But for many Americans, rising expenses how much their family is
strain household budgets. paying for fuel at the pump, Methodist University in
too.
Dallas, says it’s a time for
A family the size of theirs
Michelle Hallford has month showed the highest different ways by the or doing automotive requires a large vehicle. households to be careful,
always enjoyed gardening. rate of inflation in nearly 40 bodywork – has risen well Filling their van’s 30-gallon
She and her husband have in years. It’s a far cry from the pandemic: Highly above the average level of gas tank was one of the first and watchful.
part depended on their bland, price-level changes inflation in the past 12 price differences he noticed.
small harvest for meals since that Alan Greenspan expansionary fiscal policy months, for example. “We might have a longer
they began building their oversaw while heading the spell of inflation than initially
homestead in Iola, Texas, Federal Reserve. As many (with $4.5 trillion in “Past inflations haven’t thought,” Dr. Sposi says,
seven years ago. Now, she’s consumers wait for some really had these huge swings referring to how Fed
growing a larger vegetable sense of stabilization, they’ve COVID-19 relief) is coupled in relative prices that we’re predictions of a “transitory”
patch to avoid the grocery begun to wonder what the seeing, and they haven’t
store at all costs. future holds – if it will be with accommodating been as widespread as they
affordable or not. have been here,” Dr. Leeper
Ms. Hallford, a registered monetary policy. Atop that, says. “For example, ask
nurse currently on medical “For decades, we had yourself, what’s the price of
leave, isn’t avoiding food exactly the kind of inflation the pandemic created supply a haircut if all the barbers see INFLATION on page 8
aisles because of pandemic that former Chair are closed? I don’t know.”
caution. She’s wary of the Greenspan used to say we chain disruptions across the
price tags, as inflation soars sought,” says Eric Leeper, a The Holloway family in
nationwide. professor of economics at globe – resulting in the Houston area felt the Now Serving
the University of Virginia. price spike early on. Eric and Breakfast
In some sense, it’s “But suddenly, when you see shortages and affecting Jenna Holloway run a brand Starting
surprising to Ms. Hallford an overall inflation jump merchandise marketing at 8am!
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are visiting – feels the people get unsettled.” commercial supply lines
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latest financial shake-up. What remains to be seen service has its own price.
They raise cows and is how long-lasting the And those prices are always
chickens, and they keep a current price spiral – and changing relative to each
lone pig fat each year for the psychology around it – other, but the pandemic’s
slaughter, on their 40-acre will be. effect on consumer
homestead.Their diet is one behavior and supply chains
that’s cheaper off the vine For now at least the has thrown “relative prices
than it is off shelves. challenge is hard to brush really out of whack,”
aside. Acceleration has explains Dr. Leeper.
“Most of our food,” Ms. occurred almost every
Hallford says, “comes from month this year, and The cost of a new or used
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my turn

Omicron, political

divisions paint Dr Harlan Ullman is senior
grim outlook for adviser at Washington's
Atlantic Council, the prime

2022 author of "shock and awe"
and the upcoming book "The

with Harlan Ullman Fifth Horseman and the New
MAD: How Massive Attacks of

The arrival of Omicron The Spanish flu of 1918- Disruption Became the
and the extraordinary 20 once featured Looming Existential Danger to
mutations that may have prominently during the
created a far more reporting the early stages a Divided Nation and the
World at Large."

contagious virus paints of the COVID-19 Harlan Ullman joins

what could be a very grim pandemic. Reminding Happenings Q&A on

picture for 2022. ourselves of comparisons Thu., Jan. 13th at

Thus far, COVID-19, A-D with the 1918-20 pandemic 1:30 on AM1050 WLIP.
variants, will claim more and how it ended is timely.
lives than all the wars the Chapter 6 of my new book, If COVID-19 vaccinations and booster shots are not sufficient to halt the Omicron
United States has fought The Fifth Horseman and variant, the onset of 2022 could be accompanied by higher infection rates.
since 1776. the New MAD: How

Massive Attacks of stations, accommodations

Disruption Became the and restaurants, all

Looming Existential Danger accelerated by passage of

to a Divided Nation and the the 1921 National

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my turn

Testing, testing

with Cal Thomas

President Biden has president said would Readers may email Cal U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the omicron variant of the coronavirus in
attempted to tamp down number 500 million. First, Thomas at the State Dining Room of the White House Dec. 21, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
the frustration many feel what happens when they
over his inability to crush run out? The at-home kits I [email protected].
the pandemic, as he have seen contain a limited Look for Cal Thomas’ new
promised he would do number of swabs. When book “America’s Expiration
when campaigning for the they are used, do you order Date:The Fall of Empires and
office he now holds. more and for how long? Superpowers and the Future
Will the government pay
In a Tuesday afternoon for these, too? If so, will it of the United States” his denunciation of vaccinated and boosted “is people are “tired” of this
continue to pay for them not to control your life, but
address from the White and for how long? purchased. Tents and vans misinformation promoted to save it.” virus, its variants, masks,
Taxpayers have a right to have popped up, especially
House, the president know, given the deepening in major cities. They, too, on some cable TV channels There is a better way to and other limitations on
debt. often charge a lot of approach this than to make
promised to ramp up money. On a recent visit to and on social media. I am test kits available to our freedoms, at least the
Second, because the tests a shopping mall, I saw a van everyone, because not
testing sites and the are self-administered will in the parking lot that still seeing claims that everyone needs or wants president was trying to tap
the results be accepted by offered drive-thru testing them. As with the initial
number of “free” tests that airlines for international for $150 a pop. Talk about vaccines are part of a “one rollout of vaccines, make into the emotions most
travel? Airport testing sites price gouging.Will these be the kits available first to the
will be made available to I have seen in recent weeks put out of business because world government” plot most vulnerable. Their people are feeling. That’s
charge up to $179 for a tests will now be almost names are on a list.That list
those who want them. He rapid test. On a trip to Italy universally free? and a conspiracy between is called Medicare. Allow what a good politician
in October, my wife and I older people and those
said a website will soon be were charged $150 each Two things the president politicians and Big Pharma with underlying health should do.There is still too
for a rapid test at O’Hare was right about. In a rare conditions to go to the
established through which Airport in Chicago. They moment, he gave credit to to make gobs of money and head of the line. much contradictory
were the most expensive “the previous
people can request test kits Q-Tips we have ever administration,” meaning erode our freedoms.This is By acknowledging that information coming from
former President Trump,
to be sent to their homes. for its rapid development reminiscent of other too many sources and too
of a vaccine.The other was
And it’s all “free,” he conspiracy theories many Americans remain

repeated. He sounded like through the ages. As noted, skeptical and not sure

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supplement adds that just when it comes to parties, a hurdle the president has

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enrollment season closed. president made a out that not even

I have several questions compelling argument when presidential powers are
about these kits, which the
he said his urging to get sufficient for him to do so.

What the latest sighting of

tennis star Peng Shuai

reveals about China

with Mary Sanchez

Here’s the offense that In early November, Shuai,
tennis champion Peng Shuai a Wimbledon doubles
committed, the one that champion, wrote a searing
irked the Chinese post on her verified
government to the point of account. She accused the
erasing her voice, censoring now 75-year-old former
any mention of her vice premier, Zhang Gaoli,
accusations of sexual of pressuring her into a
assault against a high- sexual relationship.
ranking member of the
Chinese Communist Party In less than half an hour, Readers can reach Mary
(CCP). the post was taken down, Sanchez at
stuck from Weibo, which is
Shuai was guiltying of the Chinese Twitter. For the [email protected] China's Shuai Peng plays a backhand during her Women's Doubles match in the first round of
expecting the #MeToo next two weeks, no one and follow her on Twitter the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Jan. 23, 2020, in Melbourne, Australia.
movement which began heard or saw Shuai. @msanchezcolumn.
with an African American
woman from the Bronx and Sport, once again, has Mary Sanchez joins path. It was part of the November accusation,
then grew into an become the vehicle to Happenings Q&A on delegations convincing that alarm spread through
international outcry to assess more than athletics. The United States prompted President Joe international tennis circles
encircle her in Beijing. This is about humanitarian Mon. Jan. 10th at Biden to diplomatically first, led by the Women’s
concerns. And that’s why 1:30 on AM1050 WLIP. Commission on boycott the 2022 Beijing Tennis Association. The
She was guilty of thinking Shuai’s story deserves Olympics, set to begin WTA has been stellar and
she too, could step forward exploration beyond just her Gang rapes, forced labor International Religious February 4. The decision by unwavering in its concerns
and level a serious sexual sexual assault accusation. and reeducation are among POTUS is clearly not as about her welfare. The
assault charge against a the alleged abuses. China Freedom spoke out, yet weighted as a full strike, but association continues to
powerful man and be denies these allegations. But it does send a message and demand a thorough,
believed. independent reporting by again on China, the same harms the ego of China. independent investigation
some of the world’s best and a believable, non-
Consider her censor an journalists finds otherwise. week that Shuai made The boycott also links censored or otherwise
We should repeat that back to sport and how orchestrated update from
entry point, a place to start point. China just simply another of her likely heavily athletics have always been Shuai herself.
denies these allegations. Just entwined with larger issues
understanding the like they are likely pushing orchestrated appearances, of fairness and human It also took the step that
Shuai to deny her own. A dignity. matters perhaps even
The CCP thought complicated geo-political different issue but the same which are meant to cast
After Shuai made her see SANCHEZ on page 8
otherwise and what landscape that is the U.S.- doubt on her sexual assault

followed was Shuai’s China relations. allegations.

disappearance and an Concern for the Uyghurs The Commission’s
and other Muslim ethnic leadership has been
outcry from the groups in China’s Xinjiang sanctioned by the Chinese
region is foremost. What’s government, a reaction to
international tennis happening there has even the pressure around China’s
been labeled as genocide by humanitarian conditions.
community followed by human rights organizations.

public appearances and

Shuai walking back her

original allegations.

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70s even in something as banal as idea of stopping the change, Ullman
a burger ad. Beginning in the what you can’t actually do is
continued from page 3 1970s studio heads, music stop the change,” he says. continued from page 6
executives, and corporate
pervasive. The era of sabotage or counter the marketers began to realize There’s repetition in make the new year very inhospitable for the White House.
marching for civil rights demonstration to join in. that they had to reflect the history, no doubt. In fashion,
peaked in the 1960s and country’s demographic and the old often looks new After the Spanish flu receded, and the economy
lasted only into the early “It’s easier to mobilize, and social changes to remain again. In politics and boomed, the United States failed to put in place guardrails
’70s. In that sense they are an it’s also easier to infiltrate,” relevant.They knew they had economics, similar problems to prevent a financial meltdown and the ensuing 1929
example of what some Dr.Wasow says. to cater to different tastes – can arise at regular intervals. crash. The United States under President Woodrow
historians call “the long ’60s” first the baby boomers, now Wilson failed to establish a stable post-World War I
– an extension of the A final difference is the millennials and Generation To those who lived system and withdrew into isolationism. The victors of the
previous decade as much as a increase in political pressure Z. through them, the 1970s Great War tragically and stupidly imposed crippling
feature of their own. The and political division. Social were like today in that the reparations on defeated Germany. Two decades later, a
protest energy of the 1970s media means people have second world war broke out, unfinished business from
was directed into anti-war fewer secrets – and perhaps Youth at Walden School in New York test 1914-18.
demonstrations – at the no sideline on which to stand computer games in 1979.
1971 May Day march in and just observe what’s going It seems unlikely that the United States will repeat, a
Washington, D.C., police on. Young people especially century later, an unprecedented economic boom. But it
arrested 12,000 people, likely feel they live in a panopticon, must deal with the dangerous consequences of policies
the largest mass arrest in the where they are watched at that have contributed to the adversarial relationships
U.S. all times. They have to among the United States, China and Russia. No one is
choose one side or the forecasting another 1939 and a world war. But instead of
Even so, there are still other.Thus a backlash to any rallying the nation and forging international cooperation to
useful comparisons to make movement is ensured, battle the pandemic, COVID-19 has had the directly
between the end of the according to Dr.Wasow. opposite effect.
1960s and early ’70s civil
rights demonstrations and “If there’s a Black Lives “You are seeing the reality nation had a similar feel of Aside from vaccines and cures, the biggest difference
those of today. Start with the Matter movement, then of an increasingly diverse anger and polarization. This with 1918-20, so far, is the profound political divisions that
makeup of the activists. almost by definition there’s audience and workforce abated somewhat after exist today, which the pandemic has only widened.And this
going to be something that creating pressure for more Watergate played out and pandemic may be far from over.
“One really big difference steps in to fill the [role of] diverse storytelling,” says Mr. President Nixon resigned.
between the 1960s and ’70s the anti-Black Lives Matter Brownstein, who often But now the nation is led by Sanchez
to now is the degree to movement,” he says. writes about demographics a Democratic president with
which the protest movement and their effects on broad sinking poll numbers who continued from page 7
is integrated,” says Omar “Culture was ahead of U.S. trends. may simply be a transition
Wasow, an assistant politics in the early 1970s in figure. Sound familiar? more:he WTA suspended its tennis tournaments in China,
professor of politics at reflecting the way the Politics is on a different including Hong Kong.
Pomona College in country was changing, and I timetable, perhaps.When the Mr. Biden is in fact a
Claremont, California, who believe that we are in a very “Maude” run began in 1972, physical link between the On December 19, Shuai gave an interview with Chinese-
studies protests and race. similar situation now.” President Nixon was about eras. He was elected a U.S. controlled media and claimed, “I’ve been very free all
to win a second term as senator from Delaware in along.” She further claimed the uproar had all been a big
White people were on the So says Ron Brownstein, a president, taking 49 states. 1972 and has been a misunderstanding, in her remarks to a Singapore-based,
front lines of the older civil His platform generally stood Washington insider ever Chinese language newspaper.
rights movement, and some veteran Washington against the cultural change since. But under the surface
of them put their bodies on that “Maude” espoused. far more is different now Then, she took it even further, as the New York Times
the line. But today they make journalist who is currently a than the same. Different reported, saying “First, I want to stress a very important
up a larger share of racial While an effective demographics and coalitions point — I never said or wrote that anyone sexually
justice protesters, and are CNN analyst, writer for The campaign appeal, his cultural power U.S. politics. The assaulted me.”
more likely to have message didn’t accomplish its economy is vastly bigger and
sophisticated views on race, Atlantic, and author of “Rock goal. Gender and racial dependent on different That is a lie.The proof is in the captured screen shots of
says Dr. Wasow. “That change came to America industries. Visual art and her original post.
reflects a kind of broadening Me on the Water: 1974 – The anyway, Mr. Brownstein music take old tropes and
of the coalition of support,” notes. Now former cut and mix them in new Her initial story followed a now familiar trajectory of
he says. Year Los Angeles President Donald Trump is ways. similar accusations. She admitted that she’d had an affair
gearing up for a 2024 run with the married Gaoli. But said that their off and on
Another difference is Transformed Movies, Music, that leans heavily on When it comes to the romance had initially been coerced.
social media. Activists in the promises to “take back” a 1970s and 2020s, the past
1960s and 1970s had to copy Television, and Politics.” changing nation.Win or lose, may not really be prologue. It If true, she’s Monica Lewinsky, magnified. The power
flyers and spread them he won’t be any more may be more of an outline differential between abuser and survivor is massive here.
around churches and other Back in the ’70s, shows like successful in that attempt and a few notes, from which The Communist Party leadership, along with its control of
civic meeting places to “M*A*S*H” and “Maude” than President Nixon was, valuable lessons nonetheless the population, would be difficult for most North
muster a crowd. Today they spoke to and reflected the says Mr. Brownstein. can be gleaned. Americans to fully comprehend. But it’s been noted, that if
can do that with a tweet. But way the country was pressured, it would have been difficult for Shuai to deny a
this ease comes with costs – changing at the time, says Mr. “I think very much what By Peter Grier high-ranking member of the CCP. There are also deep
it may rally more people who Brownstein. The former was will be the lesson of now is & Noah Robertson cultural issues with infidelity and the image-making of
feel less strongly about a set in the Korean War, but that while you can build a communist leadership.
cause. It also makes it easier everybody knew it was really political majority around the Dwight A.Weingarten
for people who may want to about the turmoil contributed to this report. Aside from the obvious concerns for Shuai’s welfare,
surrounding Vietnam. The there’s also a point to for those who insist that athletes
latter, a spinoff of “All in the and the organizations that manage them should “stay in
Family,” dealt with women’s their lane,” or shut up and dribble, to put it more crassly.
rights, racial equality, and
other topical themes. Unfortunately, Shuai is not a large enough media figure
to garner the attention of the masses. She was ranked 14th
Those same sorts of at one point in singles world rankings. And her top
progressive and diverse performances have been within doubles, which rarely
appeals are on TV today, draws the same level of attention.
according to Mr. Brownstein,
Nevertheless, her personal story before this incident,
Inflation shows her to be a bit of an envelope pusher. She’s been
outspoken before.
continued from page 5 “That makes it much package to as high as $1.49
harder to read the for the same amount. Shuai deserves to be supported, at least until her
bout of inflation have already inflation.” employment statistics to questionable statements and odd sightings can be leveled.
understand what’s going on,” She plans to let her crops
gone by the wayside. “Only Still, he notes, the Fed has Dr. Leeper says. begin to wilt and go to seed She’s taken on one of the most powerful governments
time will tell what’s really in a tall task ahead of it. Not next growing season, so she in the world, or at least one that wants to be a
store for us, as far as being only are its hands mostly tied Seeds cost more too can save and store the seeds superpower, by military and economic measures. China
worried about inflation.” in terms of coping with a to plant the following year. needs to match its humanitarian record to its other high-
In the meantime, what’s They’ll continue hunting and achieving ambitions.
Economic predictions vary hobbled global supply chain, clear for folks like Ms. fishing, too.
Hallford is that they have to And if a 35-year-old tennis champion can help it get
among economists, however. but it’s also been forced to be resourceful. But even for “I can’t complain,” Ms. there, sign me up as a Shuai fan and ally.
the most self-sufficient, Hallford says. “I’m walking,
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Leeper says. unclear when – or if – those even the price of seeds has By Xander Peters
who left the labor force gone up, from 99 cents a
Some of the worry, he during the so-called Great
says, is natural “because Resignation earlier this year
young folks – not me, but will return to the market.
others – have never seen

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A big, dumb jerk If you have a Social and used a hankie from
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with Tom Margenau my senses, I realized there
Contact him at were a lot of contusions
With the new year upon my mother was in failing thomas.margenau@comcast. and abrasions, but no
us, maybe we can take health and I was planning a net.To find out more about bones were broken and
another little break from holiday season trip back Tom Margenau and to read there really was no pain.
all the nitty-gritty details to her home in Wisconsin. But I was a bloody mess.
of Social Security, and I can past columns and see My head wound was not
share a funny story with Before I took the trip, I features from other Creators deep, and the bleeding
you. stopped quickly. But I had
thought it would be a Syndicate writers and several bad scrapes on my
This story takes place cartoonists, visit the Creators knees and elbows. My
around Christmastime in good idea to make a little khaki dress slacks and blue
1997. My family and I had Syndicate website at shirt were torn and
just moved to San Diego, video for my mom to give www.creators.com. bloodstained!
California -- where I was
in charge of public-affairs her a taste of life in San After maybe 10 minutes
activities for the Social of intensive beachside
Security Administration in Diego. I knew she would Tom Margenau joins care, I thanked the nice
that part of the country. In Happenings Q&A on old lady. I just barely had
addition to being the never be physically able to Thu. Jan. 6th at 12:30 time to get to a nearby
frontman for the SSA with drugstore where I bought
local media outlets, that come visit. So, I rented a on AM1050 WLIP. antiseptic ointment and
also meant I'd be running some bandages. I sat in my
around town giving video camera. It was a big, a couple blocks from the my lens viewer I suddenly with no obstacles, but I car and did an amateurish
speeches to various Social Security office. And had backed right into a first aid job on my many
community groups about bulky piece of equipment. there I stood on a bluff spotted the most beautiful small cement bench along cuts and bruises. I knew I
Social Security and overlooking the ocean, the ocean bluff. But to say didn't have time to get
conducting retirement (This was before taking panoramic shots of woman I had ever seen. I "tripped" is to put it very home and change before
seminars with local everything there was to mildly.Actually, I was falling my speech. I made it
employers. cellphones became see. I knew my mom She was young. She was backward, uncontrollably, downtown just in time. So,
would be impressed. just as she ran by.As I was picture a room full of
To set the scene for this cameras and video blonde. She was perfectly falling, I pivoted my body some of San Diego's top
story, I must tell you two I was slowly walking so that I wouldn't land on business leaders. And at
things. First: We had recorders.) I took some backward, and I was tanned. And she was my back; I also was trying the podium, there was a
moved to San Diego from panning from one side of to protect the expensive guy who looked like he
gritty old Baltimore. And shots of our family and the coast to the other. wearing a rather skimpy camera I had rented. I just survived a bomb blast!
prior to that, we had lived And I was doing a running started to put out my Fortunately, I was able to
and worked in many cold home life. But I also went commentary on all the bikini. She looked like one hands to break my fall. But wow them with my Social
and wintry northern sights we were looking at. that never happened. Security presentation, so
cities. So, moving to all around San Diego of those models from the What broke my fall was they were mostly able to
Southern California, Then I panned along the my head! It slammed with ignore my pitiful
where every day would be making little video clips. boardwalk to show all the Sports Illustrated a BANG right onto the appearance!
sunny and 72 degrees, was people who were out on concrete boardwalk!
like a dream come true. One morning, I had such a pretty day. (I still Swimsuit issue. And she Oh, by the way: The
And second, at the time, gone to the Social Security wasn't used to the fact For a short while, things camera survived the
office in Pacific Beach, a that hundreds of people was running along the were just a blur. I must crash, and so did the film it
coastal San Diego were at the beach in the have blacked out. But I did contained. That evening, I
neighborhood, to give a middle of December!) As I boardwalk toward me. I so for only a few seconds. gave my wife a preview of
training class to the office panned the boardwalk, in I remember lifting my my nice travelogue of San
employees. After that, I was transfixed. Even head off the concrete and Diego scenes that ended
had a lunchtime speech slowly focusing on an odd with a picturesque
scheduled at a Rotary though this was supposed shape that was blowing overview of the Pacific
Club in downtown San gently by me along the Ocean and people walking
Diego. After I finished the to be a travelogue for my boardwalk. It was a bloody and jogging along a
training class, I had some red blob of skin, about the boardwalk. And just as a
time to kill before I had to 85-year-old mother, I size of a quarter, with gorgeous bikini-clad
leave for the speech. some hairs sticking out of blonde comes into sharp
Knowing I'd have this couldn't keep my camera it. What could that be? I focus, the camera
extra time, I had brought felt the top of my suddenly lurches upward
along the camera. So, off I off the gorgeous goddess! forehead and my hand and sideways and then
went to the Pacific Beach came back a bloody mess. down -- and then the film
boardwalk, which was just I followed her as she What was blowing in the goes blank! And my wife,
breeze beside me was a looking at my battle scars,
slowly ran toward me, piece of my scalp! echoed the sentiments of
the boardwalk beauty
keeping her in perfect Fortunately, a Florence when she said, "That
Nightingale came to my serves you right, you big,
focus as she approached. aid. And it wasn't the dumb jerk!"
gorgeous blonde in the
And again, all the while, I bikini. I'm sure she had a I hope you got a little
good chuckle, and maybe a chuckle out of that story.
am slowly backing up. "That serves you right, And next week, I promise
you big, dumb jerk" grin we'll get back to some
And just as she on her face as she passed serious Social Security
approached me, I tripped. I by my mangled body. issues!
thought I was on a path Instead, my savior was a
nice 70-ish-year-old
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books For Chinese artist Ai Weiwei,
memoir as resistance

Ten new books Among the many reasons to write memories from the bottom of the time as Allen Ginsberg.Ai grows from
worth checking a memoir, the realization that the sea. Corroded by the seawater, many student to practicing artist, unafraid
out this winter government could decide to have lost their original luster. For so to speak the truth. He explains,
eradicate any evidence of your many years, I was cut off from the “Because art reveals the truth that
he selections this month bring readers to armchair lifework or even of your life might world.” lies deep in the heart, it has the
destinations and deeper insights. From sweeping historical be the most extreme. Yet that was capacity to impart a mighty message.”
novels to close-ups of colorful and sometimes prickly exactly what motivated Chinese- Both father and son endeavor to
personalities, these are the books to keep you company born artist Ai Weiwei to write “1000 make up for lost time. The father Ai’s growing success brings with it
this season. Years of Joys and Sorrows.” published and traveled extensively, international notoriety. Choosing to
Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim experiencing a portion of the acclaim live most anywhere but China, he
The art world superstar has built that had been his due. The son, realizes on a visit back to his
Courtesans, opportunists, and occupiers cross paths in a career blurring the line between realizing that the Mao regime “had homeland in 2011 how his own life
Juhea Kim’s rich sweep of a story. Set during the decades art and activism. While his shaped – or deformed” his childhood, experiences echo those of his father.
of Japan’s brutal takeover of Korea, the tale centers on best sculptures, videos, and art vows to leave China and finds his Ai is secretly detained on accusations
friends Jade and Lotus, as they grow up, apart, and into installations have appeared in such opportunity with the normalization of of tax evasion.The government locks
themselves amid dire circumstances. “People are brave in august institutions as the Tate the country’s political relations with him away for nearly three months. In
different ways,” affirms Jade’s lifelong admirer JungHo, a Modern and New York’s Park the United States In 1981, he acquires prison, Ai realizes that his life and
sentiment that infuses the book. Avenue Armory, he has lived mostly a passport and a visa that allow him work could be destroyed, and all
in exile. The memoir, translated by to study in New York City. evidence of his existence erased.This
Vivian Maier Developed by Ann Marks Allan H. Barr, weaves together the volume stands as his defiance of that
Vivian Maier was posthumously hailed as one of the story of his life with that of his Recalling that first flight into John F. possibility.
father, celebrated Chinese poet Ai Kennedy International Airport, he
great 20th-century street photographers after her massive Qing who was banished in the 1950s writes, “As I gazed down at the In the book – which is both a
portfolio was discovered in an abandoned storage locker as part of China’s Cultural seething hallucinatory metropolis historical account as well as a work
in Chicago. Ann Marks’ fascinating biography features Revolution. Originally intended to be below, where traffic flowed like of art – Ai weaves together his
Maier’s work and also explores why the enigmatic artist, an accurate account that Ai Weiwei molten iron, all my motherland’s father’s story with his own,
who worked as a nanny for decades, never sought to share could pass along to his own son, the teachings, earnestly imparted over so interspersing the narrative with
her photographs. book stands as a tangible record and many years, drifted away like smoke.” reproductions of his father’s poems,
Where You Come From by Saša Stanišic proof of his resistance to the efforts his own drawings, and photographs
of the Chinese government to His arrival marks the start of a and family snapshots.
“Digression is my mode of writing,” declares the “disappear” both him and his father. successful career as he explores the
narrator of Saša Stanišic’s confident, careening novel. We simply become the beneficiaries work of Andy Warhol and develops Through memories and flashbacks,
Bouncing between the present in the narrator’s adopted of his documenting this remarkable friendships with such notables of the he shares his family’s experiences in
Germany and his recollections of childhood in pre-war story. exile, years spent in a crude earthen
Yugoslavia, the book packs in history, legend, and current dugout enduring hunger and
events, plus a poignant choose-your-own-adventure Ai’s childhood was shaped by deprivation. It was the only life he
ending. China’s Cultural Revolution. Though knew as a child. As an adult, he came
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa his father had joined the Chinese to appreciate how the circumstances
Communist Party at that time and impacted his father’s creative
This charming Japanese tale celebrates life and books even counted Chairman Mao Zedong expression.
through the transformation of a reclusive teenage boy among his friends, the family’s life of
named Rintaro. He’s been tasked with closing his comfort was short-lived. In 1958, as “1000 Years” stands as a testament
grandfather’s bookshop, which has provided a refuge. part of the effort to silence artists to that creative spirit. A fascinating
When a talking tabby cat enlists Rintaro to help save books and intellectuals, the government biography, it documents the history of
for humankind, the story highlights how courage, exiled Ai Qing and his family, including modern-day China in which the son
compassion, and connection to others brings rewards. 1-year-old Weiwei, to “Little Siberia” of a dissident could grow up to
Just Haven’t Met You Yet by Sophie Cousens where Ai Qing was sentenced to consult with the Chinese government
years of hard labor and deprivation. It on the “Bird’s Nest” stadium
Sophie Cousens’ refreshingly kooky rom-com pokes was not until Mao’s death in 1976 that constructed for the 2008 Olympics.
mild fun at romantic daydreams. Laura, a lifestyle journalist they were able to return to Beijing. And though the iconic work drew the
in London, thinks she may have found The One in a world’s attention to Beijing, Ai
handsome stranger who disappears with her suitcase on Though the poet received an continues to live abroad to ensure his
Jersey Island, where she’s researching her parents’ love apology from the former minister of own artistic freedom.
story. cultural affairs, Ai Weiwei recounts
The Sea Trilogy by Rachel Carson how the gesture rang hollow. Quoting What began as an account of two
his father, he shares the impact the lives emerges as exquisite evidence of
This gorgeous Library of America volume collects exile had on the elder man’s writing, the invincibility of truth and creativity.
“Under the Sea-Wind,” “The Sea Around Us,” and “The “It’s not easy to dredge up scattered
Edge of the Sea,” in which the firebrand ecological By Joan Gaylord
whistleblower Rachel Carson shifts her narrative tone
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8. All About Love (Hooks) 8. Wish You Were Here (Picoult)
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Picasso painted with passion,
intensity, and utter disregard

Pablo Picasso may well have been century, the work was coolly received artistic details that enrich the story. Ten books
the greatest artist of the 20th in Paris. We learn, for example, that Picasso, of winter
century. Creative and ferociously who loved fine cars, never drove and
productive over a long career, he Shadow side ridiculed artists like Georges Braque continued from page 14
reshaped the way artists see the (who drove a Rolls-Royce) and André Garbo by Robert Gottlieb
world and their role in it. Every Picasso had a dark side: He was a Derain (who favored Bugattis) who
adjective associated with artistic lifelong misogynist, and his abusive did. His younger sister, Conchita, In this entertaining biography, Robert Gottlieb assesses
greatness – brilliant, illustrious, treatment of those closest to him is whose death in 1895 haunted Picasso, screen legend Greta Garbo’s film career with insight and
trailblazing – has been applied to him. legendary. In this book, we watch the appears in “Guernica” as an adult wit while also exploring the enduring enigma of her early
Major exhibitions of his works are psychological collapse of his first wife, woman holding a lamp. It’s well known retirement and retreat from the public eye.
almost always blockbusters. Olga; the institutionalization of the that Picasso admired Vincent van
son he tried to ignore; and the toxic Gogh, but Richardson augments this The Spanish Daughter by Lorena Hughes
There are shelves of biographies and destructive relationship with information by noting that Picasso Betrayal, secrets, and chocolate fuel this transporting
that explain what made Picasso tick. Dora Maar, his mistress when he carried in his wallet until the day he
But no one has written about him painted “Guernica.” Maar was the died an original newspaper account of page turner from Lorena Hughes. Puri, sporting a fake
with more clarity and insight than the subject of the “Weeping Woman” Van Gogh’s attempt to cut off his ear. beard and her late husband’s suits, disembarks in
legendary British art historian John paintings, and Richardson notes that And it’s entertaining to imagine André Guayaquil, Ecuador, with sweaty palms and sundry
Richardson. As a friend of the artist, Picasso’s treatment of her image “has Breton, who was dubbed the Pope of purposes – disentangling an inheritance, tracking a
Richardson had access to Picasso disturbing echoes of cruelty, Surrealism for his arrogance and murderer, and confronting siblings she’s never met. Set
over many years and he has used this confinement, and torture.” Always in imperiousness, trying to ingratiate amid the early 20th-century cacao boom, the novel gently
personal connection to provide a the background is his first mistress, himself into Picasso’s life so he could comments on the confines of gender, while asking if
complete, and richer, but still honest, Marie-Thérèse Walter, and their lure the artist into the surrealist goodness is innate or learned.
portrait of the painter. daughter, Maya. movement. He failed.
Disruption by Aki J. Peritz
“A Life of Picasso: The Minotaur It’s not just women, of course. Richardson’s death means that the During the summer of 2006, British security services,
Years, 1933-1943” is the fourth in the Richardson documents the casual multivolume “A Life of Picasso” series
Picasso biography series that cruelty that Picasso meted out to ends in the early 1940s. Picasso lived with the assistance of the CIA, foiled what would have
Richardson, who died in 2019, started men, women, family members, and for another 30 years. How sad that been the most devastating terrorist attack since 9/11: an Al
writing in the 1980s. The earlier close friends. He was an equal the biographer was unable to Qaeda plot to detonate bombs on seven commercial
volumes chart the artist’s life and opportunity tormentor. complete the project. But how transatlantic flights. “Disruption” is Aki J. Peritz’s
career from his youth in Barcelona, fortunate that he completed four meticulous, riveting history of this plot, from the
Spain, through his early years in Paris. It used to be that such behavior in volumes. radicalization of the perpetrators to their sentencing in a
The latest installment was released great artists was explained away by British courtroom.
posthumously in November, and its invoking the term “artistic Many more biographies will be Making Darkness Light by Joe Moshenska
subtitle refers to the mythical half- temperament.” Those days have long written about Picasso. But it is difficult
man and half-bull who often acts as a passed. The biographer does not to imagine that any of them will Oxford University professor Joe Moshenska traces the
stand-in for the artist in his pictures. speculate as to why Picasso was surpass the achievement of 17th-century English poet’s life but also reflects on the
The book is every bit as rewarding capable of great cruelty – such an Richardson’s “Life of Picasso.” For profound effect of Milton’s work on Moshenska’s own life
and impressive as the three that assessment would require a deep dive readers looking to fully understand as a reader and a scholar. This revelatory biography is
preceded it. into psychology, which is outside the Picasso as an artist and as a person, inventive, erudite, and personal.
expertise of an art historian. Rather, Richardson’s books are the
World’s best-known anti-war Richardson’s accomplishment is to let indispensable starting point. A great SMART READER December 30, 2021 15
painting us see Picasso in full – as an artist of artist now enjoys a biography worthy
enormous consequence and as a of at least part of his life and work.
We begin with Picasso, now middle- terribly flawed human being.
aged, at the height of his artistic By Terry W. Hartle
powers.The book covers in detail the Impressed by Van Gogh
extraordinary sculptural works
created at Boisgeloup, the Norman Richardson provides personal and
château he purchased in 1930; his
flirtation with the surrealists; his
experimentation with poetry and
decision to abandon painting for a
year to give him time to write; the
series of paintings known as
“Weeping Women”; his summers on
the French Riviera; the painting of
“Night Fishing at Antibes” as well as
“Guernica”; and Picasso’s decision to
stay in Paris during World War II.

The outbreak of the Spanish Civil
War was traumatic for Picasso, who
was still a citizen of Spain. He was
squarely on the side of the
Republicans – who were fighting
against the Nationalists led by Gen.
Francisco Franco – and provided
significant financial support to them.

He was asked to prepare a painting
for the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937
world’s fair in Paris, and his initial
concept was for a painting of an artist
in his studio with a model. But then,
on April 26, 1937, the Germans
bombed Guernica and the direction
of the project changed completely.
Picasso quickly completed a massive
painting that graphically details the
violence of the attack and the chaos
and suffering that resulted. Now
regarded as one of the most
important paintings of the 20th

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agreed that her injuries were take nature walks, get car. Bear Creek Township Volunteer and she also contacted veterinarians
massages, exercise in Tue. Jan. 11th at and posted in online cat owner groups
from a dog attack.They treated swimming pools, sign-up for in the hopes of locating the missing
group playtime, or brush up on pet. Naomi had been missing for more
her with antibiotics and were obedience skills, depending on 2:30 on AM1050 WLIP. Fire-Rescue said  a family pulled over than two years when Watkins was
what you choose and can contacted Nov. 30 and told her pet had
especially concerned about an afford. They may have when they heard crying coming from been found by Friends2Ferals, an
televisions and couches in Asheville charity that captures feral
eye injury. We were equally their "rooms," mimicking the under the hood of their vehicle. cats to be sprayed or neutered and
modern dog's home life.These given immunizations before being
concerned about her spirit, facilities often have cameras so Firefighters responded to the location released.The group said volunteer Sam
you can check on your dog via Glaze was rounding up feral cats when
which needed months to get the internet throughout her and spent about 1 1/2 hours working she encountered a feline on the
stay. While interaction with Smokey Park Highway that seemed
back to her usual confidence. other dogs is optional, they kennel it was or go into detail to reach the kitten trapped under the unusually friendly for a stray.
often require a temperament as to what the kennel did or hood. The department said rescuers Friends2Ferals took the animal to a
We are traveling in a few test as well. didn't do. Just explain what had to partially disassemble the veterinarian to be scanned for a
weeks and cannot locate happened to your dog, so they vehicle's innards to reach the feline. microchip.The chip identified the cat as
anyone to dog-sit her. We My suggestion is to visit can give her some extra "TLC" The family told firefighters the kitten 8-year-old Naomi, and included
made reservations for her at a several kennels and ask them when she is there. will have a new home with them. Watkins' phone number. "I cried. I
different kennel but are very many questions about how jumped up and down. I sat down
worried that this arrangement they care for the dogs and Once you find a kennel you Flying squirrels found because I couldn't believe it,"
might set her recovery back. how the other dogs interact like, plan for her to spend at living on University of Watkins  told the Asheville Citizen-
Any ideas? -- Marge, Riverhead, (or don't interact) with each least one night there before Nebraska campus Times of the moment she received the
New York other. Share your dog's story call that Naomi had been found. "I still
with the kennel manager or your trip. If she seems OK A crew working to cut down a dying can't believe it."
Dear Marge, I am sorry to owner. Don't reveal which after one night, then she will oak tree on the University of
hear about your dog's injury. probably be OK for the Nebraska's East Campus made an
Dogs, even social dogs, can get weeklong stay at that unexpected discovery in a hollow limb
into tussles with each other, particular kennel. -- a family of flying squirrels. Brian
especially in unfamiliar
surroundings and with none of Dear Cathy, My cat has a Dieterman said his crew was baffled
their family around. The
problem is, the kennel should problem with excessive when a creature poked its head out
have been owned up to what
happened. grooming. She will lick and from a hole in a hollow limb of the

scratch and bite herself all day tree. "We're used to seeing squirrels in

and most of the night and end trees, but this didn't look like a

up with scabs on her back, squirrel," Dieterman  told the Lincoln

Ideally, it would be great to especially by her tail, where Journal Star. Dieterman said the
find someone to stay at your
house with her. If you have no her back meets her tail. I have workers figured out what animals they
choice though, I want to
familiarize you with the four given her prednisone shots were dealing with when they started
main types of kennels that you
can choose from these days once in a while, but the relief is gliding to a nearby tree. Larkin Powell,
and then make suggestions on
what to do for her. short term. What can I do for a professor of conservation biology at

her? -- Eileen, Redwood City, the school, said Nebraska's last-known

California population of flying squirrels is about

Dear Eileen, If it's nonstop 90 miles away in the area around Indian

as you say, then she is definitely Cave State Park. Powell said it's hard to

Traditional kennels provide suffering. Excessive grooming say how long the gliding mammals have
basic services, including a
fenced kennel space, an may result from food or skin been on campus, as they are nocturnal
exercise run, dog walking
allergies, localized pain, fleas, or and notoriously elusive. "It's among the
even anxiety. (When it's species that's harder to document
anxiety, it's called psychogenic because they're not out when people

alopecia.) You need to isolate are around," he said. "And they're little
the cause so she can receive dudes."

the appropriate treatment. 'Pooch pirate' steals Dog and goat
10-pound box of buddies picked
Take her to her veterinarian treats from up running loose
for a health exam. If it's food neighbor's porch
allergies, your vet will Authorities in South Carolina said
recommend switching her to a A Texas resident shared security they are trying to find the owner of a
limited ingredient diet. If it's camera footage identifying the thief lost dog -- and an accompanying goat.
fleas, your vet will recommend who stole a 10-pound package from Animal control deputies were
putting her on a flea their porch -- a neighborhood dog. dispatched when a dog and a goat were
preventive. If it's anxiety, your Willy Mills posted a video showing the spotted running loose. The dog and
veterinarian may prescribe "pooch pirate" struggling to carry the goat, who appeared to be companions
anti-anxiety medication. In heavy box, which Mills said contained from the same home, were rounded up
addition, you can introduce Milk Bone dog treats.The post said the and taken to the shelter. The sheriff's
some feline pheromones into dog only took the Milk Bone box, office said wants to return the animals
the home via a collar, spray, or leaving behind several other packages. to their home.
plug-in, increase her daily A commenter on the post, Bekah Elder,
playtime, and provide regular identified the canine in the video as her
grooming sessions, as all these husky, named Kit-Kat. She wrote that
things can have a calming effect Kit-Kat had escaped from her fenced-
on an anxious cat. in yard about a 1/4 mile from Mills'

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Mayo Clinic

Medications in use and being tested for treatment of COVID-19

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: other potential treatments who are on mechanical people who've recovered also can cause serious heart against COVID-19.
I've heard several drugs for COVID-19, including: ventilators or need problems.
mentioned as possible supplemental oxygen. Other from COVID-19. Don't try these
treatments for COVID-19. corticosteroids, such as Drugs to prevent medications without a
What are they, and how do Antiviral drugs prednisone, Convalescent plasma was COVID-19 prescription and your health
they work? methylprednisolone or care provider's approval,
In addition to remdesivir, hydrocortisone, can be used being studied as to its Researchers are studying even if you've heard that they
ANSWER: Since the if dexamethasone isn't drugs to prevent COVID-19 may have promise. These
COVID-19 pandemic began, other antiviral drugs being available. Dexamethasone effectiveness in treating before and after exposure to drugs can have serious side
finding an effective drug to and other corticosteroids the virus. effects. They're reserved for
combat COVID-19 has been tested include favipiravir and may be harmful if given for some hospitalized people ill people who are seriously ill
on the minds of many. While less severe COVID-19 In summary, it's not known and under a health care
many medications are being merimepodib. Studies have infection. with COVID-19 who are if any of these treatments provider's care. -- Daniel
tested to treat COVID-19, will prove effective against DeSimone, M.D., Infectious
only one has been approved found that the combination In some cases, tocilizumab early in their illness or have COVID-19. Medical studies Diseases, Mayo Clinic,
by the Food and Drug or baricitinib can be given will need to be completed to Rochester, Minnesota
Administration (FDA). of lopinavir and ritonavir isn't with dexamethasone in weakened immune systems. determine their effectiveness
hospitalized people who are
The FDA has approved effective. An experimental on mechanical ventilation or Though recently it was
remdesivir (Veklury) to treat need supplemental oxygen.
COVID-19 in adults and oral drug known as Remdesivir may be given reported to not be as
children who are age 12 and with dexamethasone in
older. Remdesivir is an IV monupiravir has been hospitalized people who effective as first thought,
antiviral drug that can be need supplemental oxygen
prescribed for people who reported to be effective in or who are on mechanical studies are still ongoing.
are hospitalized with ventilation.
COVID-19. reducing the risk of Researchers also study
Anti-inflammatory therapy
The FDA has granted an hospitalization and death in other immune-based
emergency use authorization Researchers study many
for baricitinib (Olumiant), a non-hospitalized patients at anti-inflammatory drugs to therapies, including
rheumatoid arthritis drug, to treat or prevent dysfunction
treat COVID-19 in some high risk for COVID-19. of several organs and lung mesenchymal stem cells and Study: Omicron
cases. Baricitinib is a pill that injury from infection- antibodies may block
seems to work against Recently, the drug's associated inflammation. monoclonal antibodies. Delta variant infection
COVID-19 by reducing
inflammation.The FDA states manufacturer, Merck, Immune-based therapy Monoclonal antibodies are
baricitinib can be used in
people who are hospitalized indicated plans to seek The FDA granted proteins created in a lab that
with COVID-19 who are on emergency use authorization
mechanical ventilators or emergency use authorization in 2020 for a type of can help the immune system South African researchers making re-infection with
need supplemental oxygen. immune-based therapy called
for the drug. convalescent plasma to treat fight off viruses. Several said Tuesday a new study has Delta less likely," the
Researchers are studying COVID-19. Convalescent
Dexamethasone plasma is blood donated by monoclonal antibody found that people infected researchers said in the study.

medications are available. with the Omicron variant of "In contrast, Omicron

Dexamethasone, a These include sotrovimab the coronavirus may have escapes neutralizing

corticosteroid, is one type of and a combination of two developed enhanced immunity elicited by Delta

anti-inflammatory drug that antibodies called casirivimab immunity to the more severe and therefore may re-infect

researchers are studying to and imdevimab. These drugs Delta variant. Delta infected individuals."

treat or prevent organ are used to treat mild to

dysfunction and lung injury moderate COVID-19 in The Africa Health The study, which has yet to
Research Institute in Durban be peer reviewed, showed a
from inflammation. Studies people who have a higher said its small study involved 14-fold increase in the ability
33 vaccinated and of Omicron antibodies to
have found that it reduces risk of developing serious unvaccinated people. The block reinfection.
study found that for those
the risk of death by about illness due to COVID-19. affected with the Omicron The Omicron variant's
variant, their immunity ability to possibly slow Delta,
30% for people on Treatment consists of a against Delta improved 4.4- can have a profound effect
fold. The researchers said on how researchers handle
ventilators and by about 20% single IV infusion given in an that protection was both. According to the
enhanced with those who Centers for Disease Control
for people who needed outpatient setting. To be were vaccinated. and Prevention, Omicron
currently represented 58% of
supplemental oxygen. most effective, these "These results are COVID-19 cases in the
consistent with Omicron United States while Delta,
The National Institutes of medications need to be given displacing the Delta variant once the dominant variant in
Health has recommended since it can elicit immunity, the country, represented
this drug for people soon after COVID-19 which neutralizes Delta 41% last week.
hospitalized with COVID-19
symptoms start and prior to

hospitalization.

Drugs being studied that
have uncertain
effectiveness

Researchers are studying
amlodipine and losartan. But
it's not yet known how
effective these drugs may be
in treating or preventing
COVID-19. Ivermectin and
famotidine aren't likely to
help treat COVID-19.

Hydroxychloroquine and
chloroquine

These malaria drugs were

authorized for emergency

use by the FDA during the

COVID-19 pandemic.

However, the FDA withdrew

that authorization when data

analysis showed that the

drugs are not effective for

treating COVID-19. They

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rfoecoidpe&s Shrimp-Asparagus
Stir-Fry
Nutrition News
with Charlyn Fargo Servings: 6

Don't Lose That Muscle Mass 3 tablespoons lower-sodium soy sauce
1 tablespoon cornstarch
Ever heard of sarcopenia?
It's the gradual loss of 3/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
muscle mass that can occur 3 tablespoons canola oil, divided
with aging. Some 15% of 1 pound medium peeled, deveined raw shrimp
people over the age of 65 1 tablespoon minced, peeled fresh ginger
and 50% of people over 80
suffer from it. 3 garlic cloves, minced
2 cups diagonally sliced fresh asparagus
But you or your loved
ones don't have to be 1 cup thinly sliced red onion
included in that group. 3/4 cup unsalted chicken stock
4 cups cooked long-grain brown rice
Here's what happens: As Charlyn Fargo is a Tufts University Health and non-meat sources of Thinly sliced basil (optional)
we lose muscle mass, we registered dietitian with SIU Nutrition Letter. "This is protein — protein shakes
lose strength. If we lose too Med School in Springfield, observational data, but it or supplements, milk, Whisk together soy sauce, cornstarch and crushed red pepper in a small bowl
much, our legs and arms get clearly demonstrates the cottage cheese, Greek until smooth; set aside. Heat a wok or 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high
weak, and we can't hoist Ill. For comments or potential importance of a yogurt, beans, fish, eggs and heat.Add 1 1/2 tablespoons oil and swirl to coat.Add shrimp, ginger and garlic;
that suitcase into the questions, contact her at higher protein diet." soy. cook, stirring often, for about 3 minutes. Remove shrimp mixture and cover to
overhead bin of an airplane
or walk like we used to. [email protected] The problem is many The Recommended Daily keep warm.
or follow her on Twitter older adults have difficulty Allowance for protein is 0.8 Return skillet (don't wipe clean) to medium-high and add remaining oil.Add
chewing meat (a good grams of protein per asparagus and onion; cook, stirring often, until slightly softened, about 3 minutes.
@NutritionRd. source of protein) due to kilogram (or .36 grams per Add stock and soy sauce mixture; bring to a boil over medium-high. Reduce heat
teeth or denture problems. pound) for most
The key to keeping your on the Human Nutrition Older adults also produce Americans. That works out to medium and simmer until slightly reduced, about 4 minutes.
muscles strong is to use Research Center on Aging's less hydrochloric acid in to about 58 grams for Stir in shrimp mixture and cook, stirring constantly for another minute. Spoon
those muscles — and eat Nutritional Epidemiology their stomachs, which someone weighing 160
enough protein. The body's Team, and his colleagues breaks down protein, pounds or 68 grams for cooked rice into bowls and top with shrimp mixture.
ability to make muscle from found higher protein intake another reason to consume someone weighing 190 Garnish with basil, if desired. Serve immediately.
protein decreases a bit with may translate to less frailty, additional protein later in pounds.
aging, so increasing dietary disability, or physical life. Serves 6 (serving size: 2/3 cup rice and 2/3 cup shrimp mixture).
protein — along with dysfunction. The bottom line is to
muscle building exercises It's best to include spread protein throughout Per serving: 294 calories; 16 grams protein; 37 grams carbohydrate; 9 grams fat (1
— can help maintain muscle "We found that higher protein foods in every meal your day and take that walk. gram saturated); 4 grams fiber; 2 grams sugars (0 grams added); 419 milligrams
mass and strength. protein intake was — to spread protein intake Exercise and protein work
associated with a 30 out evenly throughout the hand-in-hand to build and sodium.
Paul Jacques, a professor percent lower risk of losing day. Think about including preserve muscle.
at the Friedman School of functional integrity with Greek Chicken
Nutrition Science and time," writes Jacques in
Policy and senior scientist Serves 4
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
America’s Test Kitchen 2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary
2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme
An Alabama favorite that features old-world
5 garlic cloves, chopped
flavors in a wholly American way! 6 (3-inch) strips lemon zest, chopped, plus 1 tablespoon juice

Johnny's Restaurant in 1 tablespoon kosher salt
Homewood, Alabama, is 1 1/2 teaspoons dried oregano
known far and wide for its 1 teaspoon ground coriander
Greek baked chicken, a 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
super flavorful dish of
marinated and roasted 1/2 teaspoon pepper
chicken with tons of herbs 3 pounds bone-in chicken pieces (2 split breasts, 2 drumsticks, 2 thighs and 2
and lemon -- a reflection of
the chef's Greek heritage wings, wingtips discarded)
and Alabama upbringing.
Once our editors tried the 1. Combine oil, rosemary, thyme, garlic, lemon zest, salt, oregano, coriander,
dish on a recipe-research pepper flakes and pepper in a large bowl. Cut three 1/2-inch-deep slits in the skin
trip, we knew we had to side of each chicken breast, two 1/2-inch-deep slits in the skin side of each thigh
create a version that home
cooks could make and two 1/2-inch-deep slits in each drumstick; leave the wings whole.Transfer
whenever they couldn't get chicken to the bowl with the marinade and turn to thoroughly coat, making sure
the real thing. the marinade gets into the slits. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes or

Our first order of up to 2 hours.

business was determining mince the fresh herbs, we slashes in each piece. And the chicken juices 2.Adjust the oven rack 6 inches from the broiler element and heat the oven to
opted to simply chop them; to achieve the lovely transformed into a deeply 425 degrees. Place chicken, skin side up, in a 12-inch oven-safe skillet. Using a
which herbs to use in the we found that with slightly browning we remembered flavorful pan sauce. rubber spatula, scrape any remaining marinade from the bowl over the chicken.
larger pieces, the bursts of from the chicken at Roast until breasts register 160 degrees and drumsticks/thighs register 175
marinade. After flavor were more Johnny's, we roasted our Served with the pan
pronounced and exciting. chicken at a relatively hot sauce spooned over top, degrees, 30 to 35 minutes.
experimenting with fresh 425 degrees and gave it a this simple yet flavorful
To make sure the blast of heat from the supper is a great addition 3. Remove the skillet from the oven and spoon pan juices over the top of the
herbs, dried herbs and even marinade penetrated past broiler at the end of to your recipe repertoire - chicken to wet the skin. Heat the broiler. Broil chicken until the skin is lightly
the surface of the chicken, cooking. As the chicken - until you can make it to browned, about 3 minutes, rotating the skillet as necessary for even browning.
dried herb blends, we found we cut 1/2-inch-deep cooked, the marinade and Alabama, of course. Let the chicken rest in the skillet for 10 minutes.Transfer chicken to a shallow
platter. Stir lemon juice into the pan juices, then spoon over chicken. Serve.
the best balance with fresh
Recipe notes
thyme, fresh rosemary and Use a vegetable peeler to remove six strips of zest from the lemon. If you have a
rasp-style grater and prefer to use it to zest the lemon, you will need about 1
dried oregano, which packs
tablespoon of zest.
a more pungent punch than Make sure to use kosher salt here; we developed this recipe using Diamond

fresh. Rather than finely Crystal Kosher Salt.

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Don’t pitch those peels, recycle them:
California’s new food-waste law

Recycling kitchen scraps it’s a challenging goal,” says landfills. The same will hold
and unused food is the Professor Ryals. Below, the true for hospitals,
single easiest and fastest Monitor looks at what the restaurants, schools, and
thing that every person can law requires, how it can other big food users in
do to fight climate change, affect climate change, and 2024.
according to California the challenges of
recycling officials.That’s why, implementing the law. The law has teeth, putting
beginning Jan. 1, the most the burden of enforcement
populous state in the nation What does California’s on cities and counties, with
is requiring every city and organic-waste law stiff fines if they don’t
county to have a program to require? comply. Right now, though,
collect organic waste – from CalRecycle says it’s more
eggshells to yard trimmings Passed in 2016, the law interested in educating
– and turn it into compost, (SB 1383) sets the state on a about the law, which is the
biofuel, or energy. course to drastically reduce biggest change to trash since
short-term super pollutants the state started recycling in
Several states, and even a like methane, including a the 1980s.
goal to reduce organic
few countries, such as waste disposal by 75% by How does recycling food
2025. Starting next month, and yard waste help with
France, have some type of cities and counties must climate change?
have programs to divert
law to keep food waste out green waste from landfills by Climate scientists say the
collecting it, and then either fastest way to bend the
of landfills, where it rots and composting it or turning it global-warming curve is to Pumpkins, along with other organic matter, await composting at the anaerobic
into biofuel or energy. And cut back on very potent composting facility in Woodland, California, Nov. 30, 2021. Under California's law
gives off methane. That they must procure and then greenhouse gases like requiring people to recycle their food waste, most cities will allow the food to go in
utilize themselves or give methane. green waste bins before it heads to facilities like this one.
“super pollutant” away some of the compost,
biofuel, or energy – by using Composting gives off
greenhouse gas is 84 times biofuel in their government minimal methane compared
vehicles or spreading with landfills – 22 times less,
more powerful and has a compost on public lands, for says Neil Edgar, executive
instance. director of California
much worse short-term Compost Coalition, a Sending food and yard waste of food scrap haulers has of resource, recovery, and
Residents can compost lobbying group for organic- through this process almost quadrupled. The law recycling in Pasadena.
impact on the atmosphere their own organic waste, but material recyclers and produces methane that then aimed to build a green
most people and businesses composters. The process gets turned either into infrastructure and jobs, and Mr. Gauthier says his
than carbon dioxide. Yet, produces carbon dioxide biofuel or electricity. so far, it’s doing that, Mr. biggest takeaway from
Kelly says. studying other places is that
only tiny Vermont – with a residents will resist
On the other hand, trash separating out food waste
population of about 625,000 haulers were reluctant to because of the “ick factor” –
comply, and the requirement the smell, the mess, the
– and mammoth California – Landfills, too, can capture to offer organic waste potential for vermin. That’s
methane for energy, “but it’s collection services was why the city says residents
with nearly 40 million not super efficient,” and delayed and modified. Now should put their kitchen
there are a lot of “fugitive there’s concern about how food scraps into plastic bags
people — have laws emissions” that escape, says to handle packaged food, – repurposing bags they
Professor Ryals. “Sending because of plastics and have on hand, like produce
requiring universal recycling organics to landfills just metals. bags – and also continue to
makes no sense.” use garbage disposals as
of organic waste by In California, the southern they normally would. “We
part of the state lags, are trying to make things
residents and businesses. compared with the north. simple,” he adds.
San Francisco, for instance,
One problem with has required businesses and But making sure
sending food and yard waste residents to put food scraps businesses and larger multi-
to composting and in curbside green bins since unit residential buildings are
anaerobic digesting centers 2009. By contrast, neither complying is much harder,
is the long distances that Los Angeles nor San Diego because they are serviced by
diesel trucks sometimes is fully ready, and the state private haulers, not the city.
have to travel to transport will need more composting The haulers will have to
the waste from homes and and anaerobic digesting work out arrangements
businesses. That’s an centers. with their customers, yet
argument for more locally the city will have to ensure
based recycling centers and Pasadena, which is part of compliance, and that will
trucks that burn clean fuel, Los Angeles County, has require more resources.
say experts. been preparing for two
years. It will use existing Also, there is no place
How hard will it be to infrastructure and try to close to Pasadena to handle
implement this law? keep things local. the yard waste. For two
years, it’s been sent for
A pizza box is mixed in with other items awaiting composting at a facility in Woodland, Here’s where Vermont’s Residents are to bag their composting to Oxnard,
California, Nov. 30, 2021. Farther south in the state, Pasadena plans to use existing kitchen waste and add it to about 75 miles away. Trash
infrastructure and keep things as local as possible in complying with the recycling law. experience is instructive. It their yard-waste bin. Food collection fees, which
There is no place close to Pasadena to compost yard waste, however. waste will be manually haven’t been raised in a
passed universal organics separated from yard waste decade, are going to have to
at the local landfill, and increase, says Mr. Gauthier.
recycling in 2012, but just turned into liquified
bioslurry. That slurry will be “Our local municipalities
implemented the final phase fed into an existing need more resources to get
anaerobic digesting facility at this off the ground,” says
Given California’s size, the will rely on local waste (less potent and less – residences – in 2020. Josh a Los Angeles County Professor Ryals. “What we
law’s potential for management services to do damaging in the short term wastewater treatment plant. don’t want is for the
greenhouse gas reduction in the recycling for them. The than methane), and has Kelly, supervisor of materials The resulting renewable implementation to be
the state is “huge,” says main work for most many benefits, says Mr. natural gas powers the hurried, not done well, or
Rebecca Ryals, an assistant homeowners and apartment Edgar. Compost replenishes management for Vermont’s wastewater facility and poor communication, and all
professor at the University dwellers will be to separate soil, which fosters plant Pasadena city vehicles, which the stuff ends up in the
of California, Merced, who is their kitchen scraps – bones growth – which, in turn, Department of run on natural gas. It’s a landfill anyway.”
also a soil and climate- and unused meat, sauces, takes CO2 out of the air. “win-win,” says Thanos
change expert. Organics vegetables, tea bags, coffee And it keeps moisture in the Environmental Gauthier, the administrator By Francine Kiefer
make up more than half of grinds and filters, banana soil, so there is less need for
everything Californians peels, etc. – into a pail, and energy to pump water. In a Conservation, calls organics
throw into landfills, which, then empty that into yard- heavily agricultural state like
themselves, account for 20% waste recycling bins. California, those are big recycling “a major change”
of the state’s methane pluses.
pollution, according to Another goal of the law is in people’s habits. It won’t
CalRecycle, the state to divert 20% of unused, The other way to recycle
department of recycling. edible food to people who organic waste is to use take hold overnight. “It’s like
need it. Starting in January, anaerobic digesters, which
Getting organics out of supermarkets must donate are more familiarly known the seatbelt law,” he says.
landfills and reprocessing excess food to food banks for their ability to break
them “is an excellent goal; instead of sending it to down sewage sludge. “We know people don’t all

do it.”

On the plus side,

Vermont’s organics-

recycling law nearly tripled

food donations in the early

years, and composting and

anaerobic digester centers

have mostly seen year-over-

year increases. The number

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jill on money

The best books of
2021

with Jill Schlesinger

One of the coolest parts Jill Schlesinger, CFP, is a CBS shut out of the American I wrote about this book gender pay inequality and to cure what ails you,
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Giving to charity in 2021? Keep
this in mind at tax time

with Jill Schlesinger

With holiday and end of the type of charity. The law have confirmed that the
year charitable giving season now allows taxpayers to group is legitimate via the
upon us, the IRS has an apply up to 100% of their IRS.gov Tax Exempt
important reminder: Recent AGI, for calendar-year 2021 Organization Search, check
legislation extended some qualified contributions. You out how much of your
temporary tax changes need to choose to do this on donation goes to supporting
through 2021 — two of your 2021 Form 1040 or programs, versus overhead.
which are likely to impact a Form 1040-SR. The Better Business Bureau’s
lot of filers. (BBB) Wise Giving Alliance,
More money tips for giving Charity Watch, Guidestar,
1) Deduction for Charity Navigator and
individuals who don’t QCD: If you are over age GiveWell are all helpful
itemize. Usually, taxpayers resources.
who take the standard 70 ½, you may want to
deduction cannot deduct Gift Your Winners: Many
their charitable consider a Qualified assets have soared this year,
contributions. The law which makes it a great time
permits taxpayers to claim a Charitable Distribution to gift appreciated securities
deduction on their 2021 from a taxable investment
federal income tax returns (QCD). This technique account. Doing so allows you
for cash contributions they to write off the current
made to certain qualifying allows you to make a grant market value (not just what
charitable organizations. The you paid) and escape taxes
limit is $300 for single filers of up to $100,000 directly to on the accumulated gains.
and $600 for those who are Ask the charity about how
Married Filing Jointly. an eligible charity (not to a to send the assets and
confirm all receiving account
2) Deduction for private foundation, nor to a numbers.
individuals who itemize on
eligible cash contributions. charitable supporting Consider Donor Advised
Pre-COVID, taxpayers who Funds (DAFs). If you want to
itemized could claim a organization or a donor- better manage your
deduction for charitable charitable giving, check out
contributions to qualifying advised fund) from your IRA, DAFs. These accounts allow
organizations, but the you to contribute cash,
deduction was limited to without paying tax on the appreciated assets, or
20% to 60% of adjusted gross investments and grant to a
income(AGI), depending on amount of the donation. charity at any time; write off (not just what you paid) to your payments must be any cash or property valued
the type of contribution and the current market value escape taxes on the postmarked by midnight at $250 or more, you must
While you are not entitled accumulated gains; and then Dec. 31 — writing have a receipt (bank record,
recommend grants to your “December 31″ on the payroll deduction or written
to claim a charitable favorite charities whenever check does not automatically communication) identifying
makes sense for you. DAFs qualify you for a deduction; the organization, the date
contribution, you are not also allow you to give in a and pledges aren’t deductible and amount of the
year when you have had until paid. Donations made contribution and a
paying taxes on the money higher than expected with a credit card are description of the property.
income, or when you are deductible as of the date the For text message donations,
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good idea for those who deductions. probably should stick to organization, the date of the
credit cards. contribution, and the amount
hold a lot of wealth in Watch your Timing: If you given.
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Webb Space Telescope:
How is it different from Hubble?

After a delay earlier this week, the rocket carrying the James Webb Space
Telescope is scheduled to lift off as early as Saturday, Dec. 25. Just don’t ask
astronomers to choose between it and the Hubble Space Telescope already
in orbit. Comparing Hubble and Webb is like asking if you will love your
second child as much as your first,” said Susan Mullally, Webb’s deputy
project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

But what is the difference? Hubble has been operating for nearly 32 years,
with Webb widely viewed as its successor. But the two are vastly different.
Here's a comparison of the two.

Lost in space?

Hubble caught a lift to orbit tucked inside NASA’s space shuttle
Discovery in 1990. It quickly ran into trouble: One of the telescope’s solar
wings jammed as it was unfurling. Astronauts suited up for an emergency
spacewalk, but commands from Earth freed the panel. Within weeks,
Hubble’s blurry vision was detected. Spacewalking astronauts fixed it three
years later.

Soaring from South America on a European rocket, Webb won't be

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times more powerful, and also more intricate than Hubble,Webb will be a

goner if its foldout mirror and sunshield snarl. An Ariane 5 rocket with NASA’s James Webb Telescope onboard stands on the

Looking farther launch pad at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana.

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Kenosha Snow Day!

with Meridith Jumisko

Remember as a kid – ice rink. Food and Meridith Jumisko is photo - visit kenosha.com Snowmobile Hotline at gently used warm clothing
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months to hear those two allowed on the ice rink. trails to enjoy in Kenosha distributed locally to those
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weekend. you have a season pass, accommodate all levels of Kenosha County Alliance of Visitor Information Centers subject to change.
Wilmot Mountain offers riders from beginner to Snowmobile Clubs. For
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ice rink is open for skating County that freeze when
free of charge from 9 a.m. Do you want to go conditions are right,
to 10 p.m. daily – weather sledding? offering perfect ice fishing
permitting. Bring your own conditions (keep in mind,
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skates sponsored by the Fox River Park, Alford Park, day fishing license is
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during posted rental hours. among the parks with Fishing Weekend is held the
sledding hills. Do you prefer third full weekend in
Ice skates are available – cross country skiing or January. Contact the
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basis – at the Skate Hut Bristol Woods Park, Natural Resources for
outside the ice during Brighton Dale Park, Fox more information.
rental hours: 4 to 9 p.m. River Park, Petrifying
Mondays through Fridays; Springs Park, Silver Lake Do you want to go
10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturdays, Park, and Richard Bong snowmobiling?
and noon to 8 p.m. Sundays. State Recreation Area.
Child and adult sizes are Pringle Nature Center There are over 200 miles
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dropping off a photo ID, Bristol Woods Park during
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As we come

to an end

by Carolyn Serpe

The year 2021 started excelled.  Clara started Carolyn Serpe is a Lettering Machine, we have still looking for a couple growth business wise for
with tons of hope, piano lessons and Kenosha native whose been beyond blessed.  Our more people to add to our both of us.  New
anticipation and goals.  discovered a passion.  She family owns The Lettering wonderful loyal customers full time crew!  Please keep experiences mixed with
Hope that this year will be practices 1-2 times per day Machine in Downtown have stuck with us through an eye out for some super getting back into habits of
better than the last.  and loves her instructor.  Kenosha. She has been growing pains and COVID fun new things coming from old experiences (ie.
Anticipation of all things Her self-confidence has manager at the shop since pains.  Not only are they our shop in the year to church).  Fingers crossed all
wonderful happening.  grown and she has truly her parents purchased it still with us, but they keep come. goes according to plan.
Goals to get in better succeeded in growing her from the previous owners spreading the good word
shape and stick to talent.  Charlie excitedly back in 2002. Carolyn is a about our family owned Looking forward to 2022, Did you make it through
schedules and plans and sprinted into 3K at SJCA!  mom to 3 beautiful girls shop.  WE COULDN’T BE we each have our own 2021 ok?  Was it what you
commitments.  As we look She is learning how to be a and a wife for 10 years to MORE GRATEFUL for our personal goals and hopes, expected?  Are you proud
back on 2021, we wonder if good friend and keeping up her handsome husband hometown and the families but we are also putting of the year you had?  What
we made the best out of with the 4Kers wonderfully. Chris. Carolyn welcomes all that support us.  We have some family things together are your new year
the trip around the sun that to her crazy journey in life added to our team this as well.  Sticking to a chore expectations?  P.s.When do
our bodies, hearts and  and about how she tries to year and couldn’t be structure and habit for the you start taking Christmas
souls took.  Did we make happier with those that kids, more intentional decorations down?  I kinda
ourselves proud?    Chris and I made it balance it all. have joined us, but we are screen time, more books always want to do it the
through yet another completed by all, more very next day! LOL!
I think that myself and my difficult year of COVID, the hardest.  There is so
family did the best we politics, stress, anxiety and much information out
could…and that is all we some health issues; but also there and all of it
can ask for.  The best of fun, love, happiness and contradicts the others.  We
ourselves.  Callie jumped excitement were very pray that 2022 brings
into competitive soccer.  present.  Parenting through clarity and more and more
She was separated from this pandemic and growth towards a better
her soccer friends and on a everything that goes with it “normal”.
brand new team that was is beyond difficult. 
1-2 years older than her.  Choosing the right path for Business wise, at The
Although nervous, she gave your family, standing strong
it her all, soaked in and TOGETHER is the
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