by Anne Snabes | May 29, 2020 | Coronavirus, Environment, Featured
This month, House Democrats passed the $3 trillion HEREOS Act. This act would give $50 million to Environmental Protection Agency grant programs aimed at alleviating environmental problems that disproportionately affect communities of color, including exacerbating...
by Anne Snabes | May 28, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
Researchers at Northwestern University are using a biotechnology technique they developed for portably producing vaccines and for sensing contaminants in water to try to speed up the discovery of COVID-19 anti-viral drugs. Michael Jewett, a professor of chemical and...
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by Jack Kelly | May 26, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
In the days prior to Wisconsin’s coronavirus-induced lockdown, Rick Seppa was greeted each morning by a medley of 1980s rock music performed by his band students at Washburn High School in northern Wisconsin. The medley included music from Michael Jackson and Bon Jovi...
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by Anne Snabes | May 22, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
Several members of the Senate Special Committee on Aging on Thursday called for COVID-19 testing for all nursing home residents and staff in the midst of a pandemic that has killed more than 15,000 people in long-term care facilities. Committee Chairwoman Susan...
by Khadija Islow | May 21, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
Marina Gonzalez, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador who lives in Frederick, tested positive for the coronavirus Saturday. The day before, she said, she could barely sit up. “My head hurts so much,” she said, taking deep breaths between her words. Two weeks...
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by Jack Kelly | May 20, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
On a typical workday at Hillside Dairy in Catawba, owner Linda Ceylor is out of bed at 4:30 each morning, and not just because of the usual demands of a 40-cow organic dairy farm. Ceylor said she’s up so early partly because it allows her to use the internet without...
