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Published March 01. 2021 12:01AM  People of color have been disproportionately hit by COVID-19 (1), a fact to be expected given the socio-economic determinants of morbidity and mortality (2), saying, to be expected, is the epidemiologist’s data-based conclusion that Black lives don’t matter in our society as much as white lives. But racism cannot be rooted out by mere recourse to science: for far too many of us, “socio-economic determinants” are still mistakenly perceived as the lazy a...

SAUK CITY — Maybe you know his name, maybe you don’t. You most likely know of his work. Alfred Clas was born here in 1859 and had a hand in designing some of Wisconsin’s best-known and stunning buildings. In Madison, his work includes the headquarters of the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Brittingham Park Boat House and the 10,000-square-foot home of John Olin in University Heights now used as the home for the UW-Madison chancellor. Park Hall sits a few blocks west of the Wisc...

Towson High School’s Key Club members have been running a food drive to help those in need.

Mary Jean McGaughey Mary Jean was born November 24th, 1926 to Olin Arthur and Inez Reike Ravenscroft in Blairstown (Benton County), Iowa on the family farm.  She had six older brothers:  Willis, Myron, Francis, Donald, James, and Calvin; and a younger sister Ruth was born in 1931.  In 1930, Olin and Inez Ravenscroft and their growing family migrated from Iowa to the Sandhills of Nebraska.  During the first ten years, they lived somewhat of a nomadic life, leasing and living on several ra...

there needs to be a greater dialogue about how we do that and how we fund those efforts. >> we will call the innovative financing. >> absolutely. the energy water nexus and there is opportunity there. >> car in the. >> we does not -- we do not make recommendations. >> i appreciate that and i should have revised the way i ask the question that based on the literature is there something of a consensus there might be one area, not opinion that that with the body of the evidence that you r...

i said he was looking in the mayor and wanted to take a vacation, so he asked, who was the second-best talk-show host in the world? what happened is that congressman bob dornan used to fill in for him, and sometimes when i am interviewed, i can take over the show. he called me and said, would you like to host my show, i am going out for a couple of days. this was in october 1992. i have been doing it off and on since then. this is my big classroom. i love talking to people and trying t...

person would have. i have benefited immensely from my exposure on the talk-show and television. >> how powerful is this show? >> its the biggest talkshow in the history of radio, 20 million people per week. i think that what this does, talk radio in general has endangered the monopoly of the major media, with different ideas coming in, challenging conventional wisdom, which is powerful. >> next, bill cosby? >> when i was young, i was living in the housing projects in north philadelphia...

from the peoples republic of china, signaling a soft landing along with lower interest rates and higher growth in europe. ill tell you what you get. you get todays fabulous rally, with the dow surging 84 points, the s&p climbing 0.89% and the nasdaq soaring 1.22%. sometimes markets just have it all. and you know how you can tell when thats the case? when people expect nothing, nothing good to happen whatsoever, when theyre one foot or even both feet out the door like this market, which...

and then british prime minister gordon brown and after that benjamin netanyahu and his speech on a proposal for peace in the middle east. ♪ . . >> dr. larry arnn, president of hillsdale college. that we read the first three sentences of the with the pda site for your school. lets stop there. is that right? >> is an old college. it is 165 years old now. the reason is a bastion and fortress and citadel of conservatism is, is very stiff and stern about its old document. we stick by that...

eastern here on c-span. today on c-span3 and the efforts to prevent polio around the world. the world health organization is the host of this event. see it live starting at 1:30 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> people like to have the books. it is a very sticky medium. we have seen this medium be sticky throughout time. . >> dr. larry arnn, president of hillsdale college. in hillsdale, michigan. let me read the first three sentences of the wikipedia site for your school. it is a co-educatio...