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As Massachusetts reopens and residents return to life without COVID-19 restrictions, state lawmakers are considering a host of fiscal 2022 budget amendments that could provide a boost to hard-hit nonprofits in Springfield and Western Massachusetts. The state Senate’s recently approved $47.7 billion budget includes several amendments led by Sen. Eric P. Lesser, amounting to about half a million .
President Joe Biden focused on COVID recovery, not Dr. Seuss, NPR’s Tamara Keith says in Springfield Public Forum
Updated 9:31 PM;
At a virtual Springfield Public Forum on Thursday night, NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith said you won’t hear President Joe Biden weigh in on culture wars including over Springfield’s own Dr. Seuss while he’s pitching a pair of $2 trillion economic packages to Americans and Congress.
“If his goal was to be a president you don’t have to think about when you wake up in the morning, he’s succeeding,” Keith said, noting Biden’s avoided the fiery cultural wars and policy-by-tweet headlines of the previous administration. Instead, he’s “lowered the temperature” and stuck to “slow and steady” efforts to get the COVID-19 pandemic under control and boost the economy, Keith told moderator Ray La Raja, UMass Amherst political science professor and associate dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
NPR’s Tamara Keith to discuss President Joe Biden’s 1st 100 days at Springfield Public Forum Thursday, May 6 at 7 p.m.
Updated May 02, 2021;
After 100 days in office, President Joe Biden and his team haven’t produced any genuine surprises, according to NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith.
“And that’s their goal,” the veteran journalist told MassLive in an interview. “He wants to be somebody you don’t have to think about in the morning. There’s no covfefe.”
Almost four years ago, then-President Donald Trump sparked confusion and mockery by tweeting, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe.” Keith said the tweet marked just one of many chaotic episodes that frequently made headlines during the Trump administration. Trump’s first 100 days, she said, sparked outcry and legal challenges over “haphazard” actions and unvetted executive orders, such as the ban on travel from predominantly Muslim nations.
PVMA partnering with libraries, businesses for National Endowment for the Arts Big Read
“Station Eleven”
ST. JOHN MANDEL
This spring, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with Arts Midwest, will launch with the exploration of the book “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel, a 2014 novel set in a dystopian post-pandemic world. Contributed Image
Published: 4/9/2021 2:42:39 PM
DEERFIELD After a multi-year hiatus, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA) is launching its seventh National Endowment for the Arts Big Read.
This spring, the program an initiative of the NEA in partnership with Arts Midwest will launch with the exploration of the book “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel, a 2014 novel set in a dystopian post-pandemic world.