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In the United States, winter storms that swept through the South in mid-February crippled the water system in Mississippi’s capital. The 166,000 residents of Jackson endured three weeks of water outages, low water pressure, and notices warning them to boil their water for safety. Jackson’s water crisis has a number of causes. There were over a hundred water main breaks during the storms in addition to electrical and mechanical failures at the O.B. Curtis water treatment plant. While the pipes and plant were being repaired, city officials and the National Guard handed out non-potable water for flushing toilets. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba told NPR that the water crisis is the result of decaying infrastructure that was weakened by the storms. The water system’s 100-year-old pipes, said Lumu
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An activist group in Northern Michigan is asking past donors to Republican Congressmen Jack Bergman’s campaign to cut off the money.
Bergman was one of more than 100 Republican representatives who voted against certifying the 2020 election results in two states despite no evidence of widespread fraud. The vote was on January 6, the same day a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol.
In the wake of all of that, the “Defund Bergman” group started a month ago. Volunteer Owen Goslin says Bergman’s actions “smeared’ local elections officials who did their jobs right. He hopes Bergman donors will hold him accountable.
In late August 2020, vioinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson performed to a reduced density audience at the Great Lakes Center for the Arts.
Prior to that evening, the last time the two had performed for an audience in person was in early March of 2020.
The program is featured this week on Classical IPR in Concert. Listen Friday at 8 p.m., Sunday at noon or click on the link below to listen at any time.
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This encore broadcast from 2018 stars mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in the title role opposite mezzo-soprano Alice Coote as Prince Charming. Soprano Kathleen Kim sang Cendrillon’s Fairy Godmother, mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe was her overbearing stepmother Madame de la Haltière, and bass-baritone Laurent Naouri sang Cendrillon’s beleaguered father Pandolfe.
Bertrand de Billy led the Met Orchestra and Chorus. Cendrillon will be heard over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, February 13. Listen to it on Classical IPR.
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