Posted on 13 February 2021.
Senator Marc R. Pacheco (D-Taunton), Massachusetts, announced that he will serve as chair of the newly created State Legislative Climate Alliance established by the Eastern Region of The Council of State Governments (CSG East).
The goal of the State Legislative Climate Alliance is to provide nonpartisan education, best practices, and innovative state policy solutions to help officials address the challenges posed by climate change. While housed in the North East, the alliance membership will be open to state legislators throughout all 50 U.S. states and U.S. territories.
“I am both honored and pleased to serve in this position,” stated Pacheco. “My leadership as founding chair and chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change has contributed to Massachusetts being a leader and pioneer in state-based efforts to reduce emissions and mitigating the effects of the climate crisis in the Commonwealth. I am eager to work
February 9, 2021
Priscilla Page
The University of Michigan department of theater and drama, and departmental student-faculty culturally conscious casting committee will host a roundtable discussion on culturally conscious casting and theater, with a panel of experts in the field on Friday, Feb. 12, at noon.
The roundtable is inspired by the book “Casting a Movement: The Welcome Table Initiative.”
Panelists include:
Daniel Banks, co-editor of “Casting a Movement” and co-director of DNAWORKS, an arts and service organization dedicated to using the arts as a catalyst for dialogue and healing.
Justin Emeka, director and associate professor of theater and Africana Studies at Oberlin College, and contributor to Casting a Movement.
Covid Absolutism
Good morning. We look at the debate over coronavirus absolutism.
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In a public health emergency, absolutism is a very tempting response:
People should cease all behavior that creates additional risk.
That instinct led to calls for gay men to stop having sex during the AIDS crisis. It has also spurred campaigns for teen abstinence, to reduce sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancies. And to fight obesity, people have been drawn to fads like the elimination of carbohydrates.
These days, there is a new absolutist health fad: the discouragement or even prohibition of any behavior that seems to increase the risk of coronavirus infection, even minutely.
Updated on February 11, 2021 at 2:56 am
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Two men were indicted Wednesday for making a terroristic threat for their alleged roles in an hour-long bomb scare near a Queens mall that resulted in evacuations and ended up being a hoax, the Queens district attorney said.
Louis Shenker and Taylor Lyne both face felony charges for the incident on Jan. 4.
According to the charges, a security guard at the Queens Place Mall in Elmhurst spotted Shenker and Lyne shortly before 5 a.m. standing next to a black Tesla with a Nevada loaner license plate. The car was left parked on a spiral ramp between garage levels. The hood, trunk and doors of the vehicle were all open, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said, and the pair were said to have connected an electric bike to the car.