Saturday, May 21, 2022

GET ME REWRITE: Trump's MAGA is marching down a trail blazed by Strom Thurmond

 

Headline:  Wisconsin Public Radio, 5/21/2022

Related reading:
New York Times, 6/27/2003
Running for president in 1948 as what the press called a Dixiecrat, he said that ''on the question of social intermingling of the races, our people draw the line.'' And, he went on, ''all the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.''  [emphasis added]

Teardown on South Avenue, Middleton WI, the abridged version: From start to finish in 6 photos

 

pre-2019


May 16, 2019

May 31, 2019


July 11, 2019

August 2, 2019


July 15, 2020


Project location


Related posts:
Cardinal Row.  (5/4/2022)
Holiday Inn Express.  (5/5/2022)
Kestrel Apartments.  (5/6/2022)
Middleton Center phase 2.  (5/11/2022)'
NAPA Auto Parts.  (5/9/2022)

Putting Warren County Pennsylvania's current 7-day average of new Covid cases in perspective


Warren PA was seen from Washington Park in the 1930s


Warren County currently has the 13th highest percentage increase of new Covid cases among Pennsylvania's 67 counties during the past 14 days. 

Daily average of new Covid cases here has increased 365% during the past month. On the other hand, daily average of new Covid cases has decreased 88% since its January 2022 peak of 144.


Covid data:  New York Times (above and below)
HeadlineWarren Times Observer, 5/20/2022
The county’s community COVID-19 level is high as of Friday, with a rate of 257.71 per 100,000 population. 
The Pennsylvania Department of Health reports 58 new cases of COVID-19 in the past two days.
 


Related posts:
Adams County WI.  (5/12/2022)
Aroostook County, ME.  (5/20/2022)
Barron County WI.  (5/16/2022)
Berkshire County MA.  (5/13/2022)
Dane County.  (5/18/2022 update)
Hampshire County MA.  (5/13/2022)
Kenosha County WI.  (5/17/2022)
La Crosse County WI.  (5/16/2022)
Milwaukee County.  (5/7/2022)
Monroe County WI.  (5/16/2022)
New York City.  (5/19/2022 update)
Orleans Parish LA.  (5/13/2022)
Racine County WI.  (5/17/2022)
Rusk County WI.  (5/16/2022)
Sawyer County WI.  (5/17/2022)
Shawano County WI.  (5/12/2022)
Vernon County WI.  (5/16/2022
Wisconsin.  (5/7/2022)

John McGarry (1932-2022) Warren High School class of 1950

 

1950 Dragon yearbook
  

  Source:  Warren Times Observer

1967 Warren City Directory
1983 Warren City Directory
  • McGarry John J & Patricia N; registered representative Parker Hunter Inc h510 Connecticut Avenue
  • McGarry Patricia N Mrs McGarry Travel Agency h510 Connecticut Avenue

The popularity of John as a baby name is graphed here.  Let's take a look at classmate Rosemary.

Rosemary's best years occurred during the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, when she spent 20 years in the top 100 (1926-32, 1935, 1938-1949), peaking at #74 in 1946.  After bottoming out in 2008, she reversed course and has moved up nearly 400 places on the baby names chart.  Keep an eye out on Rosemary.

Other members of the WHS class of 1950 (24):
2022

2021

2020
James Gray.  (7/10)
Mabel Morse Horner.  (2/4)

2019
Donald Cable.  (8/27)
Clifford LeRoy Maze.  (7/9)
Robert Lundmark.  (7/1)
Donald Baldensperger.  (1/26)

2018
John White.  (10/12)
Geraldine Downey Gustafson.  (10/7)

2017
Helen Quiggle Kroemer.  (7/9)
Dale Witherell.  (5/31)
Betty Reynolds Mahan.  (4/4)
Helen Kane Scalise.  (2/23)

2016
William Lemmon.  (8/30)
Joan Kondak Vernon.  (8/3)
Barbara Reist Cook.  (7/7)
Mary Sikstrom Bauer.  (6/20)
Robert Jones.  (6/4)

2015
Lewis McCullough.  (7/6)
Joan Marlene Campbell Berdine.  (2/18)

2014
Glen Valentine.  (8/18)

GET ME REWRITE: GOP sabotages DHS Disinformation Governance Board with a barrage of disinformation

 

HeadlineNPR, 5/21/2022
In those three weeks, both the Disinformation Governance Board and its leader, Nina Jankowicz, came under relentless and sometimes vicious attack from right-wing media and Republican lawmakers.  [emphasis added]  
[snip]
What was the purpose of the Disinformation Governance Board? 
Basically, everything you may have heard about the Disinformation Governance Board is wrong or is just a flat out lie. The board was quite simple and anodyne. What it wanted to do was to coordinate among the Department of Homeland Security's components — agencies like FEMA or the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency or Customs and Border Patrol — and make sure that Americans had trustworthy information about issues connected to homeland security. 
But we weren't going to be doing anything related to policing speech. It was an internal coordinating mechanism to make sure that we were doing that work efficiently, we were doing it to the best of our ability, and we were doing it in a way that respected privacy, civil rights, civil liberties and, most importantly, the First Amendment.

Friday, May 20, 2022

Construction of Middleton Center phase 3, Middleton WI, the abridged version: From start to finish in 6 photos

 

May 7, 2017


March 12, 2020


July 12, 2020

September 1, 2020


January 14, 2021


June 10, 2021




Project location


Related posts:
Cardinal Row.  (5/4/2022)
Holiday Inn Express.  (5/5/2022)
Kestrel Apartments.  (5/6/2022)
NAPA Auto Parts.  (5/9/2022)

Putting Aroostook County Maine's current 7-day average of new Covid cases in perspective


Aroostook County has seen the worst of Covid in 2022, and what happened there earlier this month can realistically be called a 'surge'. 



Aroostook County is Maine's hottest spot.


Related posts:
Adams County WI.  (5/12/2022)
Barron County WI.  (5/16/2022)
Berkshire County MA.  (5/13/2022)
Dane County.  (5/18/2022 update)
Hampshire County MA.  (5/13/2022)
Kenosha County WI.  (5/17/2022)
La Crosse County WI.  (5/16/2022)
Milwaukee County.  (5/7/2022)
Monroe County WI.  (5/16/2022)
New York City.  (5/19/2022 update)
Orleans Parish LA.  (5/13/2022)
Racine County WI.  (5/17/2022)
Rusk County WI.  (5/16/2022)
Sawyer County WI.  (5/17/2022)
Shawano County WI.  (5/12/2022)
Vernon County WI.  (5/16/2022
Wisconsin.  (5/7/2022)

Thursday, May 19, 2022

GET ME REWRITE: Putting Aroostook County Maine's current 7-day average of new Covid cases in perspective

 
Aroostook County has seen the worst of Covid in 2022.  And what happened earlier this month can realistically be called a 'surge'.

New York Times (above and below)


Aroostook County is Maine's hottest spot.



Related posts:
Adams County WI.  (5/12/2022)
Barron County WI.  (5/16/2022)
Berkshire County MA.  (5/13/2022)
Dane County.  (5/18/2022 update)
Hampshire County MA.  (5/13/2022)
Kenosha County WI.  (5/17/2022)
La Crosse County WI.  (5/16/2022)
Milwaukee County.  (5/7/2022)
Monroe County WI.  (5/16/2022)
New York City.  (5/19/2022 update)
Orleans Parish LA.  (5/13/2022)
Racine County WI.  (5/17/2022)
Rusk County WI.  (5/16/2022)
Sawyer County WI.  (5/17/2022)
Shawano County WI.  (5/12/2022)
Vernon County WI.  (5/16/2022
Wisconsin.  (5/7/2022)

GET ME REWRITE: Red arrows indicate that vaccines work


Photo of upper half page 29
in 5/22/2022 New York Times


Original 5/19/2022 post, "Putting the USA's current 7-day average of new Covid cases in perspective", starts here.

Daily average of new Covid cases in the U.S. has increased 274% since its March trough.  

On the other hand, daily average of new Covid cases has decreased 87% since its January 2022 peak of 806,795. 

Covid info:  New York Times (above and below)
HeadlineNew York Times, 5/18/2022

According to the New York Times tracking, daily cases are up 57% during the past 14 days.  Hospitalizations are up 27% during the same period.  

Vaccines work.  Get boosted.



Btw, this is a surge.


Related posts:
Adams County WI.  (5/12/2022)
Barron County WI.  (5/16/2022)
Berkshire County MA.  (5/13/2022)
Dane County.  (5/7/2022)
Hampshire County MA.  (5/13/2022)
Kenosha County WI.  (5/17/2022)
La Crosse County WI.  (5/16/2022)
Milwaukee County.  (5/7/2022)
Monroe County WI.  (5/16/2022)
New York City.  (5/8/2022)
Orleans Parish LA.  (5/13/2022)
Racine County WI.  (5/17/2022)
Rusk County WI.  (5/16/2022)
Sawyer County WI.  (5/17/2022)
Shawano County WI.  (5/12/2022)
Vernon County WI.  (5/16/2022
Wisconsin.  (5/7/2022)


Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Larry Woiwode

 


Source:  LINKcat

New York Times, 5/15/2022
For a decade Mr. Woiwode had been teetering on the edge of literary stardom. His mentor was William Maxwell, the gentle New Yorker fiction editor who had nurtured literary lions of postwar America like John Cheever, J.D. Salinger, Shirley Hazzard and John Updike, and who, like Mr. Woiwode, had grown up in a small town in Illinois and gone to the state university’s Urbana-Champaign campus. 
Mr. Maxwell was both lodestar and protector when, at 24, Mr. Woiwode moved to New York, where he lived on beer and candy bars in an East Village room on St. Marks Place that rented for $9 a week. Mr. Maxwell would bring him sandwiches for lunches they shared on benches in Central Park. Editors’ Picks Your Dog Is Not Ready for You to Return to the Office In Court, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Dress to Suggest A Second Bedroom on the Upper West Side for Under $800,000? These Were Their Options. 
Mr. Woiwode’s first novel, “What I’m Going to Do, I Think,” was a meditation on love — the story of a young couple’s moral and emotional quest set in a lodge on a Michigan lake, where they have gone for their honeymoon.
Which is the only book of his I've read.   And I don't remember a thing about it.  

The 50 member libraries of LINKcat



Related posts:
2022
Bruce Duffy,  (3/13)
Todd Gitlin.  (2/8)
Ron Goulart.  (2/7)
Robert Hicks.  (3/8)
Maureen Howard.  (3/19)
Nancy Mitford.  (4/4)
P. J. O'Rourke.  (2/24)
Dennis Smith.  (1/27)

2021
F. Lee Bailey.  (6/11)
Kim Chernin.  (1/10)
Angelo Codevilla.  (10/10)
Stephen Dunn.  (6/29)
James R. Flynn.  (1/30)
Larry Flynt.  (2/12)
Lucinda Franks.  (5/11)
Joseph Galloway.  (8/25)
Norman Golb.  (2/22)
Charles Grodin.  (5/20)
Maria Guarnascheilli, book editor.  (2/18)
James Gunn.  (2/21)
Tony Hendra.  (3/7)
Donald Kagan.  (8/20)
Hans Kung.  (4/9)
Lyn Macdonald.  (5/15)
Janet Malcolm.  (6/18)
Peter Manso,  (4/10)
Ved Mehta.  (1/12)
Marie Mongan.  (3/22)
Deborah Rhode.  (1/28)
James Ridgeway.  (2/16)
David Swensen.  (5/13)
Bryan Sykes.  (1/14)
Athan Theoharis.  (6/14/)
Ed Ward.  (5/16)
Michael Thomas.  (8/19)
Adam Zagajewski.  (3/27)

2020
Ben Bova.  (12/17)
Clive Cussler.  (2/29)
Betty Dodson  (11/11)
Pete Hamill.  (8/6)
Shere Hite. (9/13)
A, E, Hotchner.  (2/18)
Roger Kahn.  (2/15)
Randall Kenan.  (9/29)
John Le Carre. (12/23/2020)
Johanna Lindsey.  (1/15)
Barry Lopez.  (12/29)
Alison Lurie.  (12/7)
Charlers Portis.  (2/19)
Julia Reed.  (9/8)
John Rothchild.  (1/22)
Gail Sheehy.  (9/3)
Jill Paton Walsh.  (11/29)
Charles Webb.  (6/30)

2019
Warren Adler.  (4/23)
Kate Braverman.  (10/28)
Stephen Dixon.  (11/12)
Dan Jenkins.  (3/10)
Judith Krantz.  (6/27)
Paule Marshall.  (8/27)
Martin Mayer.  (8/3)
Wright Morris.  (7/25)
Toni Morrison.  (8/12)
Anthony Price.  (6/17)
John Simon.  (12/1)
Sol Stein.  (9/30)
Brad Watson.  (8/2)
Lonnie Wheeler.  (7/15)
Herman Wouk.  (5/20)

2018
Neal Thompson.  (6/17)

2017
Kit Reed.  (10/1)

2016
E. M. Nathanson.  (4/10)

2015

2014

2013

Paging North Carolina's Virginia Foxx: Climate change as a matter of fact, the visual evidence at the Outer Banks


HeadlineNew York Times, 5/14/2022
The gradual nature of sea-level rise means that for many coastal communities, it can feel like a distant threat. That is not the case on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, the delicate chain of barrier islands fronting the Atlantic. Federal officials say that sea levels in the area have risen roughly one inch every five years, with climate change being one key reason. State officials say that some Outer Banks beaches are shrinking more than 14 feet per year in some areas.  [emphasis added]




Original 3/16/2015 post, "No Friend to the Environment:  Republican Representative Virginia Foxx, North Carolina's 5th Congressional District ", starts here.

Photo sourceU.S. Congress
Text sourceHuffington Post

Rep. Foxx was re-elected to a 6th term with 61% of the vote in 2014.

Recommended viewing for Rep. Foxx and constituents in her northwestern Carolina district.

Monitoring Climate Change in the Smokies.  (National Park Service)

No Friend to the Environment dishonor roll.

Alabama Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives.   (Their anti-environmentalism can be summed up in one world:  coal.  Which is odd, since Alabama contributes a mere 1.9% of U.S. production, good enough for an overall ranking of 13.  The state's peak year of production:  1990)  
Alaska Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
  • At-large District.  Don Young (R).   Ridiculed environmentalists as a “self-centered bunch of waffle-stomping, Harvard-graduating, intellectual idiots.....not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.” 
 Arizona Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Arkansas Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
California Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Colorado Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
No House Republicans hail from Connecticut and Delaware. 
Florida Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Georgia Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
 Idaho Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
 Illinois Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
 Indiana Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
 Iowa Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Kansas Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Kentucky Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Louisiana Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Maine Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Maryland Congressional delegation:   U.S. House of Representatives
No House Republicans in Massachusetts delegation.
Michigan Congressional delegation:   U.S. House of Representatives
Minnesota Congressional delegation:   U.S. House of Representatives
Mississippi Congressional delegation:   U.S. House of Representatives
Missouri Congressional delegation:   U.S. House of Representatives 
Montana Congressional delegation:   U.S. House of Representatives
Nebraska Congressional delegation:   U.S. House of Representatives
Nevada Congressional delegation:   U.S. House of Representatives
New Hampshire Congressional delegation:   U.S. House of Representatives
 New Jersey Congressional delegation:   U.S. House of Representatives
New Mexico Congressional delegation:   U.S. House of Representatives
New York Congressional delegation:   U.S. House of Representatives
 North Carolina Congressional delegation:   U.S. House of Representatives