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1865: Syracuse mourns the death of President Abraham Lincoln
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President Lincoln’s mock funeral Hanover Square, April 19, 1865. Courtesy of the Onondaga Historical AssociationCourtesy of the Onondaga Histori
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By Robert Searing | Curator of history, Onondaga Historical Association
One Hundred Fifty-Six Years Ago: It is difficult to imagine, even having lived through the last year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the manic week endured by the American people beginning on April 9, 1865. That evening, newspapers in Central New York and all across the war-torn nation announced the remarkable news of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.
By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
The jury is still out on whether President Biden’s American Jobs Plan will turn out to be underpowered, or not. My guess is that it will be; the Obama Alumni Association, for all its protestations, has form. Further, looking at the plan, you notice headlines with goals like “Rebuild clean drinking water infrastructure,” to be achieved by eliminating all lead pipes and service lines. That’s good, but not the same thing as providing a clean drinking water infrastructure as such; that would require cleaning ground water polluted by nutrients, for example. (I also attempted to penetrate the wildly prolix and entirely evidence-free “Fact Sheet,” but it’s even worse.) Of course, the real test, I would suppose, is not whether the Jobs Plan fulfills whatever promises it has made, if any, but whether the funding doled out to the local “gentry” in this instance, the contractors has a sufficiently sweetening effect, and whether enough jobs
Demand for vaccines slows as Arizona surpasses 17,000 deaths
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PHOENIX (AP) Arizona health officials say they are seeing demand for COVID-19 vaccinations slowing, particularly at large sites.
Vaccine appointments at state-run sites opened to anyone 16 and older on March 24, and thousands of slots were available at sites in Tucson and Yuma as the week began, KTAR reported.
“What I think we’re seeing right now is supply starting to meet demand,” Dr. Cara Christ, Arizona Department of Health Services director, said at a press conference Monday.
It comes as Arizona reported 27 more COVID-19 deaths Wednesday, raising its pandemic death toll above 17,000. The state also reported 750 new COVID-19 cases, increasing the total number of confirmed infections to 846,230.
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