Hoffmeister ’98 Elected Wyoming’s First Black Mayor
On December 1, 2019, Thaddeus Hoffmeister ’98 was unanimously selected by the Wyoming, Ohio, City Council to become the city’s first African American mayor.
On December 1, 2019, Thaddeus Hoffmeister ’98 was unanimously selected by the Wyoming, Ohio, City Council to become the city’s first African American mayor.
We’re going to see the same cycle again, Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells VOA.”The rich countries will run to the front of the line for the new variant vaccines. And countries will be left behind again as petri dishes for new variants to develop.”
The impeachment process is really a unicorn in the legal system, says Professor Daniel Medwed who joined GBH’s Morning Edition to talk about what legal actions could still be taken against the former president.
Professor Brook Baker tells Al Jazeera that inoculating the population of a single country will not protect them if it means that the virus continues to spread elsewhere unchecked: “You’re not protecting your citizens; you’re giving your citizens an illusion that you’re protecting them.”
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH’s Morning Edition to talk about a new bill that would decriminalize drug possession and use in Massachusetts.
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There’s no grand idea that will end poverty,” says Betty Francisco ’98, general counsel of Compass Working Capital and a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Community Development Advisory Council. “But rather a collection of ideas, solutions and players in ecosystems that work cohesively and collaboratively around achieving racial equity outcomes. That’s how we can begin breaking the cycle of poverty.”
Listen back: Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, talks to NPR’s Here & Now about the news that Johnson & Johnson will work with rival Merck to ramp up production of its one-shot COVID-19 vaccine.
As Massachusetts loosens COVID-19 restrictions, Professor Daniel Medwed joins GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu to talk about the measures that are in place to keep everyone in the courtroom safe during in-person jury trials and how those measures could impact trials.
If there’s not a lot of transparency and trust in the system, in its fairness and equity, then there are always going to be some people to game the system, creating a vicious cycle of inequity, Professor Wendy Parmet tells Axios.