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Editor’s letter Who will be left to report on the crisis of local news? It’s a troubling question. While a few major national outlets have prospered, in much of the country local reporting is disappearing as large papers retrench and small ones shut down. A great part of this is happening under the radar, because after the lights are turned off, there is nobody left to write the story. In this week’s Last Word, though, journalist Will Oremus reports on what’s happening in hi...

Editor’s letter There’s a specific feeling I get whenever I fly into New York’s JFK airport and start to make the drive home. It feels exactly like turbulence. The roads around the nation’s busiest international air hub are littered with moon crater–size potholes, which make for a juddering and profanity-filled (“Oh, my poor bleeping suspension”) experience. This isn’t a uniquely New York problem: According to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE...

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Editor’s letter Editor-in-chief America needs two viable, sane political parties. Parties provide voters with a coherent choice of governing philosophies, and galvanize people to unite behind an agenda and candidates; without opposition, any party inevitably falls prey to corruption and extremism. Liberalism and conservatism are yin and yang, parts of a whole, each contributing insights and values to guide the zigzag path forward. But when parties become enamored with unpopular and foolish...

Ryan Devlin Quartet: Thoughts on the Matter Ryan Devlin is an ambitious young musician from Central Florida. A second-generation professional saxophonist, Devlin has won many awards and competitions. The quartet will perform high-energy standards and original compositions from Devlin’s first record, "Thoughts on the Matter," recorded in December 2020.

Scene Around First, a somber memory ... Jan. 27 was "Holocaust Remembrance Day." That brings to mind the late former Congressman from California, Tom Lantos, who passed some years ago from cancer. For those of you who arent familiar with him, I will try to fill you in: Tamas (Thomas) Peter Lantos was born in Bupapest, Hungary, to a Jewish family that was very educated with teachers, professors, etc. Of course, during World War II, they were sent to concentration camps. When Tom was 16 years old...

Editor’s letter A month before the first American died of the coronavirus, scientists already had designed the vaccine. In a Massachusetts lab last Jan. 13, Moderna researchers used the genetic sequence of the virus, made public by China, to design an mRNA molecule that teaches the immune system to recognize and neutralize it. By February, their vaccine had actually been made and shipped to the National Institutes of Health to start clinical trials. This largely unknown time line shows tha...

Missio mission. >> its in your face. >> this los angeles-based snack food company is anything but subtle about their mission statement. >> the name, first of all, is, i think our biggest calling card. >> they dont mince word. the name of the company says exactly what theyre trying to do. this bar savves lives. >> we want to end childhood malnutrition worldwide. its an insanely huge goal, but thats really whats at the heart of the company. >> it all started with a humanitarian trip. actors ryan d...

Sell. when they first started, these actors knew exactly what their mission would be, but they had zero idea about how to begin. so they started to make calls to people they knew, including fellow performer, robby patel from "master of none" fame. >> so ryan devlin is one of my closest friends and he calls me up one night and says, listen, i know youve done some busy stuff before. todd and i have this idea, i want to talk to you about it. and about two hours later, i had not only given him whate...