The Rogovoy Report 9.9.24

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Sep 08, 2024

The Rogovoy Report will be on hiatus next week. It should return around September 22 or thereabouts.

REQUIRED READING

How Snacks Took Over American Life

(The Atlantic) - There was a time, if you can believe it, when a respectable person could not have a little treat whenever she wanted. This time was, roughly, from the dawn of the republic to the middle of the 1980s. The American workday, menu, and social clock were oriented around meals, and eating between them was discouraged: If you were a child, snacking gave you cavities and spoiled your appetite; if you were an adult, it was kind of unseemly. There were no elaborate treats after soccer practice, or snack trays on strollers, or tubes of yogurt. Energy bars were for athletes, not accountants. National parks did not have vending machines. Grocery stores did not have aisles and aisles of portable abundance. Libraries, classrooms, cubicles, and theaters were, generally, where you read, learned, worked, and saw La bohème — but definitely did not eat. Some 40 years later, we are not just eating between meals; we are abandoning them entirely.

Christian group Lion of Judah recruits ‘Trojan horse’ election skeptics as US poll workers (The Guardian)

In speech, Trump repeatedly insults Jewish Americans who back Democrats (WaPo)

Vance declines to denounce Carlson after interview with Holocaust denier (NYT)

Pakistani man plotted to kill Jews in New York on Oct. 7 anniversary, U.S. says (NYT)

Trump’s diabolical plan for the Federal Workforce (TNR)

Meet the MAGA zealots who are gunning to become their state’s top prosecutors (The Nation)

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

At the Norman Rockwell Museum, They’re Mad About MAD

(Boston Globe) STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Norman Rockwell has a cherished place in the American imagination. So does MAD magazine. That Rockwell and MAD are as different as a Windsor chair and a whoopee cushion makes their unexpected interaction all the more fun. That interaction takes the form of “What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine,” which runs at the Norman Rockwell Museum through Oct. 27. Five ebulliently overstuffed galleries offer MAD layouts, drawings, toys, videos, back issues, board games, copies of foreign editions. It’s a horn of plenty of laughs. “What Me, Worry” is the (very) rare museum show in which visitors’ laughter is audible.

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Pushing the boundaries of theater: First season at The Barn at Lee starts on Sept. 13 (Berkshire Edge)

Common Folk Artist Collective awarded grant to implement strategic plan (iBerkshires)

Metroland name revived with Metroland Now site, magazine (ATU)

NEWS FROM THE BERKSHIRES

Hayley Sumner Leaps from Global PR to Horse Rescue

(RI) RICHMOND, Mass. - The founder and executive director of Berkshire HorseWorks in Richmond, Hayley Sumner describes herself as “a little bit country, a little bit rock ‘n’ roll.” For over 20 years, she owned and ran a bicoastal public relations and strategic marketing firm, devising global campaigns and working with celebrities such as Howard Stern, Ronald Perlman and the Dalai Lama. After stops in Montana and Kentucky, where she learned about and became certified in EAGALA (Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association) therapy, she moved to the Berkshires. In 2013, Sumner founded Berkshire HorseWorks, which provides effective, Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) and Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) programs with EAGALA-certified professionals. "I grew up in New York City, but I was the girl who always jumped on horses and rode on the beach," she says.

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Leigh Davis wins Democratic primary for 3rd Berkshire District seat in the State House of Representatives (Berkshire Edge)

Leigh Davis: “I feel like it's the year of the woman” (WAMC)

Former teacher’s lawsuit over ‘Gender Queer’ police investigation adds multiple new allegations (B Edge)

Great Barrington Board of Health stays Order to Correct against Housatonic Water Works (B Edge)

W.E.B. Du Bois Sculpture Project receives $50K state grant (B Edge)

Berkshire Health Systems Urgent Care opening second location in Lenox (B Edge)

The Break Room restaurant at Greylock Works in North Adams will not reopen (iBerkshires)

Williamstown breaks ground on new fire station (iBerkshires)

Williams College falls to 174 in WSJ’s ranking of best Mass. colleges (WSJ)

Cases of Triple E are on the rise in the northeast (WAMC)

NEWS FROM THE HUDSON VALLEY

Organic Grocery Store May Come to Hudson Waterfront

(ATU) HUDSON, N.Y. - A popular farm store in central Columbia County may open an organic grocery store in a long-unused industrial building on Hudson’s waterfront. Hawthorne Valley Farm has an organic store on its property in Ghent, but has signed a letter of intent with developer Ben Fain to explore opening a 16,000-square-foot retail food market at the former Kaz Warehouse, a short distance from the Amtrak station. The proposed grocery would be about twice the size of Hawthorne Valley Farm’s current operation.

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Hudson’s Ferry Street Bridge on track to open by Thanksgiving (HV360)

Women-owed cannabis dispensary Gotham opens in Hudson (HV360)

Algae problems at Hudson's Oakdale Lake continue (HV360)

Hudson mayor considering future Assembly run (HV360)

Catskill resident won’t be fined for native lawn but needs to tidy it more, judge says (ATU)

Stay Forever gift shop in Catskill invites you to take your time (Chronogram)

‘Affordable’ rent in Kingston is much higher than Fair Market rent (Daily Freeman)

Kingston panel to mull petition for Pike Plan canopies’ historic designation, filed by developer suing city over demolition plan (Daily Freeman)

Cases of Triple E are on the rise in the northeast (WAMC)

Albany International Airport Acting CEO says he's focused on the future (WAMC)

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