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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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In the News
The late-night fire at Arizona's Democratic Party headquarters in downtown Phoenix your first thought was – arson. Politics has gotten more and more ugly over the years that Trump has been president.
Investigators now believe that the fire at Democratic headquarters was intentionally set. The damage was extensive.
Q & A with Economist Betsey Stevenson. The economic toll of the collapse of the child system will be felt for 20-30 years, says Betsey Stevenson.
By Zack Stanton @ Politico Magazine, July 23
[....] Parents are exhausted from constant, round-the-clock care while trying to work from home; some have chosen to leave their jobs, or switch to part-time work, just to take care of their kids. And kids themselves are slipping behind academically. Now comes the bad news: We haven’t seen the worst of it yet [....]
And for anyone hoping a vaccine will allow a quick, healthy reopening sometime next year, she says: Don’t count on it. “We are letting the whole child care system erode in such a way that it’s not going to be there for us when we are fully ready to go back. You’re seeing child care centers that can’t stay in business. They can’t figure out how to reopen. They can’t keep their employees on staff. They’re letting people go,” Stevenson says.
“Once we are ready to have all the jobs come back and we’re really ready to recover, even though we’ll have opened the schools, opened the child care centers, the workers aren’t going to be there, the slots aren’t going to be there.”
What can we do to avoid that outcome? On Wednesday, Stevenson spoke to POLITICO about all that and more. A transcript of the conversation is below, edited for length and clarity.
Zack Stanton: Let’s start here: Are we in a child care crisis as a country?
Betsey Stevenson: I actually think we’ve been in a child care crisis for a long time. The pandemic has just pulled the lid off it, so we’re all staring at that crisis right now. And, of course, it is exacerbated and much worse in the current period for two reasons [....]
Investigators believe a fire that caused extensive damage to the state Democratic Party headquarters early Friday in downtown Phoenix was intentionally set.
Heavy smoke and fire were billowing from the building around 1 a.m. near Central Avenue and Thomas Road as Phoenix firefighters arrived on scene
@ NYTimes.com/Coronvirus Live Coverage, June 24
As the pandemic continues to grow around the world — new cases have risen more than 35 percent since the end of June — troubling resurgences have hit several places that were seen as models of how to respond to the virus.
An outbreak in Melbourne, Australia, has rattled officials after extensive testing and early lockdowns had limited outbreaks for months. Hong Kong — where schools, restaurants and malls were able to stay open — has announced new restrictions in the face of its largest outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic. And cases have surged in Tokyo, which has avoided a full lockdown and relied on aggressive contact tracing to contain flare-ups.
Spain’s reopening has stumbled in the month after it lifted a national lockdown. New cases have quadrupled, with high infection rates among young people, and forced hundreds of thousands of people to return to temporary lockdown. [....]
The scattered resurgences are not driving the pandemic. The biggest sources of new infections continue to be the United States, Brazil and India; the director general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, noted this week that almost half of all cases worldwide came from just three countries.
But the quick turn for the worse in places that once seemed to have gained the upper hand shows the range of vulnerabilities the virus is able to exploit [....]
Scenes from the MLB Opener - Dr. Fauci throws the Ceremonial Pitch; Everyone takes a Knee.
Note Dr. Fauci may have been captain of his High School basketball team, definitely not baseball.
A big reason President Trump prevailed in 2016 was his massive margins in what are called the “Middle Suburbs,” largely blue-collar counties heavily concentrated in the industrial Midwest. Trump won those areas by 13 points — a key reason he flipped Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.The report finds that “Deaths of Despair” were far higher than the national average in these Middle Suburban counties over the five-year period from 2014 to 2018. Deaths of Despair are deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide, which are thought to be partly rooted in a social cause
By Phil Mattingly @ CNN.com, July 23
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, after days of intraparty disputes and splits spilling into public view, will move Thursday to unify Republicans behind their initial $1 trillion coronavirus relief proposal.
There is now an agreement on funds for testing which marks a compromise between the Senate GOP and White House, and the payroll tax cut, a key priority for President Donald Trump, is officially out of the Republican draft. That marks a victory for Republicans, who had been public about their coolness to the idea.
Over the course of Thursday, the proposal will be rolled out in pieces by the key Senate Republicans on each section, finally setting the stage for long awaited negotiations just days before the expiration of crucial federal unemployment benefits.
Bottom line: The reality is, while progress has been made and a significant portion of Senate Republicans will line up behind the GOP draft, the Republican-on-Republican disputes are still very much alive -- and are likely to carry into GOP negotiations with Democrats in the days ahead [....]
Fact-checking the Trump campaign ad that features a photo of violence against the police, which is actually from Ukraine in 2014 and Trump has pledged to protect the Rio de Janeiro statue of Jesus from Biden supporters.
@ CNN.com, Updated 3:58 AM ET, Wed July 22, 2020
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.8 struck off the coast of Alaska early Wednesday morning.
The earthquake was centered 60 miles, or 98 kilometers, south-southeast, of Perryville, Alaska, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake is considered shallow at about six miles, or 10 kilometers, deep.
"Anything below 70 kilometers is considered a shallow quake," CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar previously said. "That's important, because shallow earthquakes often cause the most damage, compared to the ones that are deeper, regardless of the strength."
A tsunami warning has been issued following the earthquake, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The warning is in effect for south Alaska and the Alaska peninsula -- Pacific coasts from Kennedy Entrance, Alaska (40 miles southwest of Homer) to Unimak Pass, Alaska, according to the Tsunami Warning Center [....]
By Bill Glauber & Allison Dirr @ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 21
There's nothing virtual about the Milwaukee Police Department's approach to the Democratic National Convention.
This week, the agency put out a bid for a significant cache of munitions, including smoke grenades, 40mm stinger rubber balls and "riot control grenade continuous discharge." nIt's the kind of equipment law enforcement uses to quell unruly protests.
Even though delegates won't be attending what is now primarily a virtual convention, police have said they are preparing for potential demonstrations.The event will be held Aug. 17-20 at the Wisconsin Center.
Previously, MPD put out to bid a security shopping list that included pepper spray, barricades and a "tactical delivery gas system."
The latest bid is for MPD "to purchase munitions to be used for the 2020 Democratic National Convention." The bid includes an itemized pricing worksheet. The items listed "are representative of those that may be ordered and their prices will be used for evaluation and award purposes," according to the document.
Thirty items are listed, including: 750 stinger rubber balls, 2,000 exact impact sponge rounds, 750 impact sponge rounds and 500 exact impact marking rounds.There are also hundreds of smoke grenades listed in a rainbow of colors — white, blue, red, yellow and green.Another big item: 200 40mm Skat Shells used to shoot multiple canisters of chemical agents or smoke.
"While the number of delegates attending has decreased, there is no indication there will be less members of the public that will be present in and around the event. The police-related equipment in the approved budget was based on what the Milwaukee Police Department had identified as necessary for such an event.
"These items were requested by the Milwaukee Police Department back in February and March 2020 in order to timely receive them in advance of the DNC. The bid process is controlled by the Mayor’s Purchasing Division," the statement said.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said in a statement that the police department "is consulting with authorities with expertise to determine what is needed to keep Milwaukee safe during the convention." "I am equally if not more focused on making sure that law enforcement personnel are well trained and show appropriate restraint," Barrett said [....]
By Vin Gallo @ journalenquirer.com, 11 hrs. ago
EAST HARTFORD — Local police say they are considering their enforcement options in the East River Drive area after a gathering of between 500 and 1,000 people turned violent early Monday morning, leaving three victims with non-life threatening gunshot wounds and a business parking lot littered with trash.
Deputy Police Chief Christopher Davis said the department is looking into “what the response should be” as two of the three victims continue to recover at the hospital. The three victims, two New Britain women and one Hartford man, are in their 20s, police said, and were not the intended targets. The man and one of the women suffered head injuries due to a bullet graze, while the other woman was shot in the back.
Davis said that as of this morning no arrests have been made and no suspects in the case have been named. He added that one of the women has been released from the hospital, while the other two victims remain hospitalized in stable condition. Additionally, “it doesn’t appear” any of the three were targets of the unidentied shooter, Davis said. Police still are discussing whether to step up patrols in the East River Drive area, Davis said, explaining it “would be a possibility” and that the department needs to “discuss with the property owners and nd out what their desires are.” [....]
photo caption: Deputy Inspector Timothy Skretch, commanding officer of Brooklyn's 79th Precinct, discusses plans to fight shootings that plague Bedford-Stuyvesant.
By Rocco Paracandola @ NYDailyNews.com, July 21
Cops in Brooklyn’s 79th Precinct take guns off Bedford-Stuyvesant streets — they tweeted about one nabbed July 12 when “patrol officers observed and arrested an individual without incident” carrying a loaded pistol and four more guns they found in the week leading up to July 14.
But shootings are still up in the neighborhood. On July 12, the day cops snatched that loaded pistol, 1-year-old Davell Gardiner died when a stray gunfire hit him at a family cookout.
And then there are days like Monday [....]