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From cholera to SARS and from the Black Death to today’s COVID-19 pandemic, both fiction and non-fiction books have provided unique insights into events that have significantly altered human history.
Fictional books that have pandemics as backdrops provide a bit of an escape from the current situation while still providing perspective of how people are affected by outbreaks and plagues. Below are some titles the Brantford Public Library has that stand out as excellent pandemic-based reading options.
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Hillsborough considers premier of New Tampa Performing Arts Center
Seventeen years later, commissioners are still questioning the financing of a planned 350-seat theater.
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A conceptual drawing, by FleischmanGarcia Architecture, of the proposed New Tampa Performing Arts Center on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard across from the main entrance to Hunter s Green. [ Hillsborough County ]
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NEW TAMPA â Hillsborough Commissioner Ken Hagan said he thought it would be a unanimous vote â a slam dunk.
He told fellow commissioners about a proposal to use county-owned land for a performing arts center in New Tampa. But Haganâs counterparts wondered about a financial commitment from the city of Tampa, since the site was inside the city limits, and the possibility of perpetual government subsidies.
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$300M bailout for N.J. nuke plants extended, which keeps increase to your bills
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This file photo shows the Hope Creek cooling tower, owned by PSE&G and Exelon in Alloways Creek Township on, Thursday, June 19, 2014. The state Board of Public Utilities decided Tuesday to continue $300 million annual subsidies to the plants. (Staff Photo by Joe Warner | For the Star-Ledger)
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New Jersey energy customers can expect an increase on their electric bills to stick around after the state Board of Public Utilities on Tuesday approved a second round of subsidies for three aging nuclear power plants.
But several commissioners said during the board’s virtual meeting Tuesday morning that officials and board members at PSEG told them they would close the nuclear plants for anything less than the full $300 million subsidy.
“Apparently the legislature’s call for data-based decision making, months of analysis by various consultants, and the preparation of voluminous reports by numerous parties were a meaningless exercise,” said Commissioner Bob Gordon. “Personally, I’m very disappointed by the level of intransigence in this exercise of market power.”
PSEG CEO Ralph Izzo previously said before the BPU and in an earnings call that the company would actually need more than the full amount allowed under the law to operate the plants. The cost of operating nuclear plants and complying with strict regulations, lower prices driven by an increase in natural gas production, and the lack of a nationwide greenhouse gas emissions policy has put PSEG’s nuclear energy sector on uns