The idea for retail businesses is that most will require masks of customers for the foreseeable future. If a customer does not have a mask, businesses can offer them one because they will now have a supply.
Tag: Mexico
BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Very Stable Genius’ — not
In retrospect, humiliating Sessions seems petty compared to reassuring the American public that anyone can get a test whenever they need for a virus that can kill them, when, in fact, they can’t get a test because this very stable genius had already presided over the mass firing of the very people who know most about viruses, and had already cut the budgets of every agency we’d normally rely on to combat the disease.
A dispatch from lovely Mexico, where officials were slow to react to COVID-19
While cases were adding up at BMC and shelves were being emptied at our local stores, Sayulita had dances on the plaza, populated beaches with margaritas flowing and vacationing tourists doing what they do unimpeded. It had been very difficult to reconcile these two worlds.
Local health officials on the coronavirus: Caution and common sense
“The likelihood of getting the flu virus — and dying from it — is far more likely than getting novel coronavirus at this time,” says Dr. Everett Lamm of Community Health Programs.
Dark times are upon us
“I still live with a faint sense of possibility that public life can progress, and that the forces of liberalism and social democracy (and hopefully decency, but that’s never guaranteed) will take power.”
BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Warning’ a chilling account of the Trump administration that’s not easily put down
At the end of the day, what’s most important is what Anonymous has been a witness to, and what we learn about our commander in chief.
Notes From Your Health Coach: A quest for true health
My quest for “true health” transformed not only my health, but my business and my life, as well. Today, at the age of 48, I feel better than I did in my late 30’s.
Bits & Bytes: Roomful of Teeth at MASS MoCA; ‘Green Inspiration’ art talk; ‘A New Mexico?’; ‘discontent’ at the Whit; Jayne Benjulian writing workshops
Led by veteran gallerist Geoffrey Young and joined by other artists featured in the exhibition, ‘It’s not easy being Green!’ will deal with subjects such as how the Berkshires’ environmental features impact the artists’ work
WATCH: CLOSE THE CAMPS, Lights for Liberty protest in Pittsfield
Watch this video of local demonstrations against the detention camps along the U.S.-Mexico border caging desperate immigrant families who are fleeing savage conditions in Central and South America.
Courtney Maum’s new historical novel tackles art, coming-of-age themes
“It was really easy for me to imagine what it would be like for a young woman who wants to be an artist, who is watching her mother cavort with the world’s most famous artists, often talk all day about their art and then ignore her own creative production. So in that way, I identified very much with what that emotional neglect would feel like.” –Courtney Maum
Our border crisis
If Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua are now countries to flee, shouldn’t we know that we helped to make that happen?
CAPITAL IDEAS: What happens in small-town America
Do you know who gets the worst returns in the stock market? People who buy something because it’s gone up in price and sell something because it’s gone down in price. Time and time again, following the crowd has proven to be the stupidest thing in the world of investing.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Shortest Way Home’: The making of a presidential candidate
“There is no going back … This is the deepest lie of our recent national politics, the core falsehood encoded in “Make America Great Again.” Beneath the impossible promises—that coal alone will fuel our future, that a big wall can be built around our status quo, that climate change isn’t even real—is the deeper fantasy that time itself can be reversed, all losses restored, and thus no new ways of life required.”
–Mayor Pete Buttigieg
REVIEW: ‘Team of Vipers’ spills secrets, exacts vengeance on fellow members of King’s Court
Is it possible the professed love of God that so many tout these days is akin to a one-way street? The Sessions’ kind of religiosity that permits wrenching immigrant children from the arms of their mothers and Cliff Sims’ ability to jump aboard the Trump Train as he ignores Mr. Trump’s pussy-grabbing sexual assaults, his repeated dalliances while his wife, Melania, was pregnant. Does God actually return the personal relationship favor? I’d like to think God deserves a higher class of devotees.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
False: Donald Trump
“58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote.”
The Emperor’s New Wall
The Wall was a solution that wasn’t. But best of all, the Wall was an answer to an imaginary problem that the Others would pay for.
CAPITAL IDEAS: Beer and the cost of brinkmanship
Negative effects will intensify and compound the longer the shutdown continues. If the government were to reopen today, the affect for this quarter would be nearly tripled due to the impact from workers not receiving paychecks.
CAPITAL IDEAS: Start me up? Or shut me down?
A pause may be warranted but, given Mr. Trump’s tirade about his dissatisfaction over Fed governor Jay Powell raising rates, the president has made it so that a pause makes the Fed appear political when it’s not.
Smoke Signals from the Swamp: The Russians and more Russians
Thanks to special counsel Mueller’s July 13, 2018, indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence officers, we’ve learned in excruciating detail about the extensive hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and cyberattacks on the boards of elections of various states, and companies that supply software and other technology related to the administration of U.S. elections.
AMPLIFICATIONS: Absence of kindness
To me it is fundamentally obvious that racism is at the heart of those most loyal to Trump. Underlying meaning of “Make America Great” again is really “Make America White Again.”
As young as one
Recently, our attention has been split by the plight of the Thai boys trapped in the cave, and the bizarre behavior of President Trump in Brussels, the United Kingdom and Helsinki. And yet there are thousands of parents and children trapped in a kind of hell, waiting to find each other.
July 9th Somebody’s Birthday
Maybe you have some wise words to weave into a toast that would make the rest of us feel celebratory or at least better about our world in general.
America’s new policy toward immigrants: Kids in cages, families imprisoned
This time, thankfully, the free press that our president mocks day after day as fake gave us the chance to hear firsthand from these mothers and fathers and their children, to see for ourselves the cages the children were sent to and to hear their cries.
Protesters rally, decry Trump immigration policy
The separation of the families originally began when, on April 6, the Department of Justice announced the original “zero tolerance” policy requiring officials to prosecute as many immigrants illegally entering the country on the southern border as possible.
Children victimized by Trump’s cruel immigration policy
Imagine fleeing for your life, walking, yes WALKING, about 1,500 miles with only the clothes on your back and a rucksack with a few minor possessions. Once here, ICE agents bind your hands with zip ties and steal your children.
Stella Smith, 88, of Egremont
In 1970 she transferred into classified advertising for the Poughkeepsie Journal and then moved on to display advertising where she was a top advertising salesperson through the mid-1990s when she retired.
Smoke Signals from the Swamp: Connecting the Kushner dots
“Officials in at least four countries have privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience.”
— The Washington Post
Local immigrants, living in fear, since election of Donald Trump
These young Guatemalan men speak to me now because President-elect Donald Trump has instilled a fear that was previously limited to the dangers of crime and corruption in Guatemala and those desperate trials at the border.
EATING ON THE EDGE: Cantina 229, ‘world fare made local’
Last summer, the Cantina opened its doors one night a week for Taco Tuesday and it was hit! This year they re-opened and expanded the menu to “world fare made local.”
TANGLEWOOD REVIEW: Jordi Savall’s ancient acoustic tour de force
The unamplified strings and drums summoned the essence of instrumental and vocal timbres — an unforgettable evening of music for the mind and the heart.
CONNECTIONS: America to the world: Keep out
Immigration laws are by definition exclusionary. There is no need for a “come one come all” immigration law.
OVER THE BORDER: Cacti and politics
“This is about justice. We have a responsibility to both nature and people. As a bridge to the community, we are paying attention to what’s going on in Mexico and in the world.
— Mario Hernandez, director of the El Charco del Ingenio botanical garden in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico