Vilas County is named after William Freeman Vilas, who represented Wisconsin in the United States Senate. But there was another man from the Vilas family who had an impact on the Northwoods. Logan Vilas was an adventurer who set several Northwoods firsts.
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COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than 575,000 Americans and counting.
Those we ve lost come from all backgrounds and include the very people first responders and medical staff who have been working on the front lines. But the virus has also highlighted the disparities in the U.S. taking a disproportionate toll on communities of color, the elderly and the poor.
Each week ABC News is spotlighting several Americans who have lost their lives to COVID-19. This week, we re highlighting a police officer, a retired math teacher and a 35-year-old woman whose husband is battling his own illness.
/ Asheville is the center of the climate data universe.
Five years ago, entrepreneur and philanthropist Mack Pearsall thought he had discovered Asheville’s path to great wealth and world acclaim. Not through its beer; not because of its natural amenities.
Rather, in this time of global climate concern, the 84-year-old descendent of a pioneering North Carolina family believed Asheville could prosper by monetizing a unique yet little-known asset: Its federal archive of climate and weather data the largest such collection among all the nations on Earth curated by a local talent bank that includes several Nobel laureates and scores of climate scientists.
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Five years ago, entrepreneur and philanthropist Mack Pearsall thought he had discovered Asheville’s path to great wealth and world acclaim. Not through its beer; not because of its natural amenities.
Rather, in this time of global climate concern, the 84-year-old descendent of a pioneering North Carolina family believed Asheville could prosper by monetizing a unique yet little-known asset: Its federal archive of climate and weather data the largest such collection among all the nations on Earth curated by a local talent bank that includes several Nobel laureates and scores of climate scientists.