GET ME REWRITE: Carnival barker president wrings every last dollar from his gullible base

 

Washington Post

Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Alison Lurie

LINKcat

New York Times

On both sides of the Atlantic, she was best known for two novels of intellectual and corporeal folly: “The War Between the Tates” (1974), a best seller, and “Foreign Affairs” (1984), which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1985.

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Wisconsin Covid cases mapped and graphed (12/7/2020)

 

New York Times

Monday, December 7.   Total tests (positive and negative):  2,615,805.  One-day increase of 7,906 (2,155 positive; 27.3%)

Total positive Covid-19 cases:  414,332

Counties with larg6est numerical gains = 53 of 70

• 3 with 100 or more new cases
• 7 with 50-99 
• 12 with 20 to 49
• 17v with 10 to 19
• 14 with 5 to 9

The 53

• Milwaukee (443)
• Dane (250)
• Waukesha (131)

• Marathon (78)
• Outagamie (73) 
• Rock (66)
• Dodge, Walworth (59 each)
• Winnebago (56)
• Jefferson (54)

• Douglas (49)
• Sheboygan (38)
• Manitowoc (34)
• Chippewa (33)
• Kenosha, St. Croix (31 each)
• Eau Claire, La Crosse, Marinette, Racine (29 each)
• Polk (25)
• Pierce (24)
• Sauk (20) 

• Clark, Grant, Portage (19 each)
• Monday, Wood (18 each)
• Fond du Lac (16)
• Iowa, Taylor, Trempealeau (15 each)
• Oconto (14)
• Columbia, Washburn, Washington (13 each)
• Calumet, Price, Vilas (12 each)
• Barron (10)

• Dunn, Lincoln (9 each)
• Bayfield, Sawyer, Vernon, Waupaca (7 each)
• Ashland, Brown, Florence, Forest, Jackson, Langlade, Oneida (6 each) 
• Iron (5)

Wisconsin Department of Health Services

New York Times

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