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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 and inferior character of certain people. Blaming-the-victim mentality is prevalent everywhere in Ame...

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 Wisconsin River in Sauk City and is one of the early works of architect Alfred Clas, who grew up in the ...

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 ranches.  These included the “Black Place” 13 miles southwest of Dunning on Wild Horse Flat in Lo...

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 review on the ongoing basis, one approach that may seem to have a consensus with the support with pur...