Library Friday 10.22.21
Post Notes and References for News Notebook
1) From The New York Times: “After a Long Wait, the Boston Marathon Returns as a Fall Classic”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/sports/boston-marathon.html?smid=em-share
National: Biden Administration and U.S. Congress
(2) From The New York Times: “Biden Backs Compromise to Win a Vast Social Agenda”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/business/biden-scranton-agenda.html
(3) “It’s (More) Surprising That Joe Manchin Is a Democrat”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/opinion/joe-manchin-democratic-party.html?referringSource=articleShare
(4) “Calling Sinema an Obstacle to Progress, 5 Veterans Quit Her Advisory Council”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/us/politics/sinema-veterans-resign.html?referringSource=articleShare
(5) “A 30-Year Campaign to Control Drug Prices Faces Yet Another Failure”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/us/politics/drug-prices-democrats.html?referringSource=articleShare-
(6) From Bloomberg: “Your Black Friday bargain is stuck somewhere in the Pacific”
Death of Colin Powell
(7) From the Associated Press, on death of Colin Powell: “General turned top diplomat dies of COVID complications”
On race
Voting rights bill
(8) From The New York Times: “Senate Republicans Block Voting Rights Bill, Leaving Its Fate in Doubt"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/us/senate-voting-rights-filibuster.html?smid=em-share
A Georgia case with large national impacts
(9) From NPR’s “All Things Considered,” 10.20.21.
"How citizens arrest laws factor into the trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s accused killers”
NC updates on race, with national reverberations
(10) AP: “National faculty group investigating ‘structural racism’ at UNC.”
(11) “Racial bias in courts doesn’t exist, judge says after overturning Black man’s conviction” (The Charlotte Observer).
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article254468013.html
On abortion
(12) From Robert Hubbell’s Today’s Edition Tuesday, October 19. (Browse : roberthubbell.substack.com.) “DOJ appeals Texas anti-abortion lawsuit to Supreme Court.”
On mental health, suicide and college students
(13) From The Washington Post: “UNC cancels classes after reported suicide and attempt, citing ‘mental health crisis’”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/10/12/unc-mental-health-cancel/
(14) From The News and Observer of Raleigh: “UNC tragedy underscores need for campus mental health care”
https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?artguid=aa42dd15-e85d-48d6-9f86-5c5bb00eb5e7
(15) From the Commonwealth Fund international reports on life expectancy, health and suicide rates among developed and wealthy countries,.