Catholics to have role in determining Senate runoff results
Susan Varlamoff December 27, 2020 4:42 pm
retired director of the University of Georgia’s Office of Environmental Sciences
As Georgia is the political epicenter of the nation with two U.S. Senate runoff races, the 1.2 million Catholics in the state may play an outsized role in deciding which party controls the Senate.
Susan Varlamoff
In a Nov. 11 op-ed published in
The New York Times, Michael Wear states that President-elect Joe Biden won Catholics nationally – an 8-point, 3-million vote swing from 2016, in the preliminary accounting.
It seems Pope Francis, leader of the Roman Catholic Church, and Catholic President-elect Joe Biden, share several common priorities – climate change, caring for the poor and immigration. In fact, when Pope Francis congratulated the president-elect on winning the electoral college vote, he expressed an interest in working with Biden on these issues.
Times Guest Columnist Â
Climate change is the most serious long-term threat to this planet and Pennsylvania is a significant greenhouse gas producer. The most important thing Pennsylvania can do right now to combat climate change is to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. RGGI is a ten-state cap and trade program designed to reduce greenhouse emissions from the electric power sector. Legislative efforts threaten Pennsylvaniaâs attempt to join RGGI and these efforts must be resisted.Â
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A recent report from the World Meteorological Organization confirms that  âclimate change continued its relentless march in 2020, which is on track to be one of the three warmest years on recordâ. In addition, âthe report â¦shows how high-impact events including extreme heat, wildfires and floods, as well as the record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season, affected millions of people.â Â
Two mysteries: A bank heist and evil angels
By R.A. Mathews Guest Columnist
It happened last week, Dec. 10, a half century ago. Boxes containing 294 million yen were stolen from a bank car. This was in the middle of the day without so much as a shot being fired.
It wasn’t the work of sophisticated thieves - just one young man with a well-crafted plan. The robbery took three minutes.
In 1968, in Japan, a car with four armed guards and nearly 300 million yen was stopped by a uniformed policeman on a motorcycle. This was an isolated area outside prison walls where there were no onlookers. This young “officer said there’d been a bank-related explosion, and he believed dynamite was on the car.
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Africa Industrialisation (Day AID) 2020 assumes a special importance as it was observed with week-long manifestations, making it truly Africa Industrialisation Week (AIW) not just a Day. In 1989, the United Nations General Assembly, proclaimed 20 November “Africa Industrialisation Day” (AID) within the framework of the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa (1991-2000). Since then, the United Nations system led by United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) held events annually raising awareness about the importance of Africa’s industrialisation and the challenges faced by the continent.
In the past six years, the affiliate trade unions of IndustriALL Global Union in Nigeria had been active, observing the day through industrial policy dialogue with relevant stakeholders that include organised businesses in Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), organised labour in Nigeria Labour Congress ( NLC), Federal Ministry of Tr