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July 2, 2020

For many decades, crime in the U.S. was reported based on the Uniform Crime Report (UCR) system But the FBI

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Texas Nursing Homes & COVID

June 30, 2020

Texas publishes some of the most comprehensive data on how COVID has affected nursing homes in the country.  It provides

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June 16, 2020

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Opened Minds & Broken Hearts

June 7, 2020

A few years ago, I was having a drink with a friend of mine. We were celebrating her landing a

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Quote of the Week - "You’ve got to have a lot of humility with these viruses."

June 6, 2020

How Little We Know about the Cov-SARS-2 Virus Things that we do not understand concern us. Things we cannot control"

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