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MORE Thank you for supporting KCRW’s Drive To The Future.  For some, this is a hard time to give,  and I am grateful that you continue to make KCRW a meaningful priority in your life.  Your support powers the coming months of important news coverage, enlightening culture, spirit-lifting music, and yes, in-person summer events!  Plus, during this drive, you helped us spotlight and strengthen our community partners, including Inner City Law Center, Kedren Community Health Cent...

๛ Thanks also to all the volunteers and readers who make this prize happen each year, including our managing editor, Emily Stowe; our contest coordinator, Brooke Wonders; our two graduate assistants to the coordinator, Alyssa Minch and Zach Batt; and all our student readers: Kaitlyn Askelson, Dee Bruns, Cole Carolan, Madie Hilbert, Nikayla Hoffmann, Samantha Lind, Madeline Ludwig, Lauren McGuill, Kenzi Ramer, Emma Schmidt, Taylor Snyder, and Taylor Wiley. Jane Alison was born in 1961 in Canbe...

Exaudi. This lunchtime recital, entitled Chromatic Renaissance, intersperses 16th and 17th-century works with a selection of madrigals from contemporary composer James Weeks’s Primo Libro. The program opens with four of Orlande de Lassus’s Sibylline Prophecies 2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents Insula Orchestra & Laurence Equilbey. Laurence Equilbey conducts Insula Orchestra and Accentus Choir in an all-Schumann program comprising Vom Pagen und der Königstochter O...

Premium Content Subscriber only IPSWICH Force head coach Chris Riches knows how valuable the NBL1 North series will be as excitement builds for this weekends new competition launch. "Its been a long time coming with the false start that we had last year with COVID, Riches said. "Everyone just wants it to start. Theres a real sense of just getting underway with it and us being able to take off with the rebranding of having it as NBL1. "Theres been a lot of positives that a lot of association...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BRATTLEBORO — A multimedia exhibit at 118 Elliot celebrates the completion of the Brattleboro Words Trail, a community project consisting of audio stories linked to places in and around Brattleboro. The public is invited to listen to these stories on their phones while viewing large, hand-carved clay maps commissioned for the Trail at “Exploring Our Storied Landscape: Brattleboro Words Trail Murals, Maps and Sound.” The multime...

Michael Lee and Antoine Martin Since the launch of Bitcoin and other first-generation cryptocurrencies, there has been extensive experimentation in the digital currency space. So far, however, digital currencies have yet to gain much ground as a means of payment. Is there a vacuum in the landscape of digital money and payments that central banks are naturally positioned to fill? In this post, Michael Lee and Antoine Martin, economists in the New York Fed’s Money and Payment Studies function, ...

Tipperary man serving with United Nations honoured with Medal of Distinction YESTERYEARS - ITEMS FROM OUR FILES The front page of The Nationalist on April 27, 1986 Reporter: );  ); Our front page lead story on April 27, 1996, by Aileen Mulhall, was about a south Tipperary soldier, honoured for bravery by the Minister for Defence, following an ordeal he and his company endured in the Lebanon. Sergeant Michael Fleming of Priestown, Drangan, was presented with a Distinguished Service Medal with...

A ONE-OFF evening clinic has been held to help give Covid vaccines to homeless people and those with complex needs.

A ONE-OFF evening clinic has been held to help give Covid vaccines to homeless people and those with complex needs.

Olivier Armantier, Leo Goldman, Gizem Koşar, and Wilbert van der Klaauw In October, we reported evidence on how households used their first economic impact payments, which they started to receive in mid-April 2020 as part of the CARES Act, and how they expected to use a second stimulus payment. In this post, we exploit new survey data to examine how households used the second round of stimulus checks, issued starting at the end of December 2020 as part of the Coronavirus Response and Relief...