Conscious Cook: Sweeten your days with a bite of dark chocolate
Robin Glowa
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“Chocolate is happiness that you can eat.” Ursula Kohaupt
Love is in the air and with Valentine’s Day approaching, chocolate is the premier ingredient for February. Dark chocolate, particularly, will provide lovers with a sensuous and satisfying taste sensation that offers many health benefits.
Dark chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA), which is a chemical your brain releases when you fall in love. How natural then to share a bit of dark chocolate with your amour!
Minneapolis
“I am labor,” Gov. Tim Walz declared on the campaign trail in 2018. “I stand with labor, and as governor, I will keep Minnesota a labor state.”
True to his pledge, the budget Walz released in the opening days of the 2021 Legislature reflected the priorities of the state’s main teachers union, Education Minnesota. Pandemic recession notwithstanding, Walz called for $745 million in new K-12 spending and vowed to tie education funding to inflation, a move the union has sought for years.
Right away, GOP lawmakers jabbed back, calling for across-the-board cuts instead. “The schools made the decision not to be in the classroom when science showed they could be,” said Republican Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, of East Gull Lake. “They chose the teachers union and the governor not to have the kids in the classroom … and now they’re asking us to bail them out for that.”
Missing in School Reopening Plans: Black Familiesâ Trust
Deep-seated mistrust among Black families toward their public school districts is holding back school reopening, even as Black children suffer inordinately from remote learning.
Farah Despeignes, center, with her sons Rilan, left, and Amden Zahir. âIâm not going to trust somebody else to keep my children safe,â she said.Credit.Elias Williams for The New York Times
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For Farah Despeignes, the choice of whether to send her children back to New York City classrooms as the coronavirus pandemic raged on last fall was no choice at all.
Ms. Despeignes, a Black mother of two, watched in despair as her Bronx neighborhood was devastated by Covid-19 last spring. She knew it would take a long time for her to trust that the nationâs largest public school system could protect her sonsâ health â and by extension her own.
Hugh Gould Nevin Jr.
SLINGERLANDS The Reverend Dr. Hugh Gould Nevin Jr. of Slingerlands died peacefully on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021 one week shy of his 88th birthday after a battle with cancer.
“Hugh was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Hugh Gould Nevin, a successful banker, and Eda McCoy Nevin, a vibrant Wellesley College grad,” his family wrote in a tribute. “Both his father and mother were descendants of the original Scots-Irish settlers of western Pennsylvania. (Hugh had a passionate interest in family genealogy, his history of the Nevin family name becoming one of his two published books.) Pittsburgh also left its mark on Hugh as a life-long Pittsburgh Pirates and Steelers fan!”