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Wisconsin Election Officials when he is not working or writing. 1721 tells the history of the worst smallpox epidemic to hit boston. It set the stage for scientific advancement including the controversial but effective smallpox inoculation. The pittsburgh gazette calls this book solidly told and the wall street journal called it a deeply researched account. Please join me in welcoming stephen coss. [applause] i am a wisconsin election official. I am not in wisconsin. They are having an election....

Hilary and for now i am pleased to introduce tonights author and his new book the fever of 1721. Stephen coss has a bachelors degree in journalism. He has worked as an Advertising Agency copywriter and served wisconsin Election Officials when he is not working or writing. The fever of 1721 tells the history of the worst smallpox epidemic to hit boston. It set the stage for scientific advancement including the controversial but effective smallpox inoculation. The pittsburgh gazette calls this boo...

At us, we are at number four. The president , the Speaker Pelosi and treasury secretary mnuchin, they are all on board with a grand infrastructure plan. Leader mcconnell says hold back for now, but it sure looks like a lot more spending is in the works. After all, we are all big spenders now, arent we . Look at the markets. Responding to the jobless numbers and the possibility of more stimulus. The dow looks like it could eke out a small gain of maybe 70. Nasdaq up 17. S p up maybe 10. A fractio...

Fractional moves overnight in asia. And now the latest on the coronavirus this morning. 1 Million People have now become infected. The United States is representing nearly a quarter of the world cases and the cdc is expected to advice all of americans now to wear cloth masks in public to stop the spread of the virus. Vice president mike pence saying that the new guidelines are coming in the next few days, this on top of social distancing rules. The Coronavirus Task force keeping close eye on lou...

What the governor said a moment ago, he is tired of being behind this virus. We have been behind it, playing catchup from day one, trying to put a plan in place that puts him ahead of it, plans what he believes will be the apex in terms of the virus and the impact on the state of new york in the next two to three weeks. Before we go back to the numbers, another thing the governor mentioned in albany a moment ago, his brother chris, who host as nightly program on cnn, is positive for covid19. His...

2. 3 billion trillion dollar stimulus package that is providing relief to Small Businesses. One of the biggest of that is 386 billion set aside to help Small Businesses with loans, checks, money that can be outright grants, Edward Lawrence has been following that because a lot of banks are handling the transactions, bank of america was up and running on this. He has the latest on all of th that. Reporter very interesting, Community Banks have led the charge on the spanking figure going forward, ...

Knowledge but they are still investigating. We havent seen cases like this anywhere in the county since for me, the 1980s. To suddenly have this, a multiple murder, in a vicious fashion of innocent victims, it is a startling, startling matter. Its scary. Reporter the 26yearold malika suki is charged with 2 counts of murder and one special circumstance because of the multiple murders, it happen earlier this week, 24 hours apart in the same area along highway 35 near woodside, he was arrested when...

You may have noticed this event originally called for our speaker bill fowler to be here. He is my predecessor at the Historical Society, which many of you already know. He is a distinguished repressor of history at northeastern professor of history at northeastern. We realized that such a fundamental story of the irish in boston would benefit from additional perspectives. He suggested, i will give him credit, this conversation would have more depth if we invited others, leading subject experts ...

Story. Nightly news begins right now. Good evening. The massive late winter storm that swept up the northeast coast today grounding air and rail travel to a halt is still pounding parts of new england with blizzard conditions as we come on the air tonight. Millions are digging out from the storm that dumped blowing snow and sleet along the washington, d. C. To boston corridor from several inches in big coastal cities like philadelphia and new york to close to two feet in many inland cities. The ...

Story. Nightly news begins right now. Good evening. The massive late winter storm that swept up the northeast coast today grounding air and rail travel to a halt is still pounding parts of new england with blizzard conditions as we come on the air tonight. Millions are digging out from the storm that dumped blowing snow and sleet along the washington, d. C. To boston corridor from several inches in big coastal cities like philadelphia and new york to close to two feet in many inland cities. The ...