Regional Notebook: April 8, 2021
Published: 4/8/2021 3:48:10 PM
Panelists to discuss racial disparities in maternal health
SPRINGFIELD The Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts will host a virtual panel on racial disparities in maternal health on April 15, at 11 a.m. as part of Black Maternal Health Week.
According to a Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts press release, the following panelists will be featured:
■Dayna Campbell, assistant professor at American International College in the School of Health Sciences, adjunct instructor at Holyoke Community College, and president of the board of directors and co-executive director of the Springfield-based Women of Color Health Equity Collective;
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Last week 28-year-old Alek Minassian, a Canadian software and mobile app developer, was found guilty of killing 10 people in 2018, when he intentionally drove his van into a crowd of pedestrians in a commercial district in Toronto. The fatalities included eight women and two men ranging in age from 22 to 94, while sixteen other people were injured. Minassian s social media posts immediately prior to the murders give an insight into his motive: in a statement that he posted on Facebook minutes before the attack, he identified himself as an incel, shorthand for involuntarily celibate. As Minassian wrote: the Incel Rebellion has already begun!
Texans now face a water crisis after enduring days without power
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On Friday, as the ice melted and lights flickered back on in homes and businesses across the state, Texans were melting snow into their toilet tanks and mopping up water from busted pipes.
The state’s power outage disaster had firmly transitioned into a water crisis.
The state’s power grid operators declared the worst is behind us, as most Texans have their power restored and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas is no longer calling for forced outages. They said residents can resume normal consumption of electricity.