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How many fans are too many during a pandemic: What baseball can learn from the NFL’s 2020 COVID-19 season

How many fans are too many during a pandemic: What baseball can learn from the NFL’s 2020 COVID-19 season

Posted by | Apr 5, 2021 |

By Alex R. Piquero, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Arts & Sciences Distinguished Scholar, University of Miami; Justin Kurland, Director of Research, National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security, The University of Southern Mississippi Baseball season is here, and thousands of cheering fans are back in the ballparks after a year of empty seats and cardboard cutouts as fan stand-ins. Still cautious of the COVID-19 risk, most teams were keeping season openers to 20-30% capacity. Only the Texas Rangers planned a packed stadium for its home opener on April 5, a move President Joe Biden called...

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Wisconsin’s public health plan now depends on individuals to voluntarily wear masks to stay safe

Wisconsin’s public health plan now depends on individuals to voluntarily wear masks to stay safe

Posted by | Apr 2, 2021 |

With the only mandatory statewide measure against the coronavirus pandemic now history, a divided state Supreme Court has left battling the virus up to the voluntary choices of each Wisconsin resident — and to the power of local health departments. The 4-3 ruling on March 31 by the court’s conservative majority ended the most recent state of emergency declaration from Gov. Tony Evers to address the pandemic and blocked him from instituting a new one. With it, the court also ended the most recent statewide mask order. Coupled with last May’s ruling that canceled state’s shelter-in-place order known as...

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Emil Kapaun’s spiritual heroism: Vatican advances Korean War chaplain closer to Sainthood

Emil Kapaun’s spiritual heroism: Vatican advances Korean War chaplain closer to Sainthood

Posted by | Mar 29, 2021 |

By Joanne M. Pierce, Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross At the end of a small cemetery on the campus of the College of the Holy Cross, the Jesuit college where I teach, is the grave of Joseph O’Callahan, former professor of mathematics. O’Callahan is one of the few Catholic military chaplains to have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, for his heroic actions during World War II. Only five Catholic priests have received this highest American military honor. Two of them are in the process of being considered for the highest honor recognized in...

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Jim Crow is alive and well: Calculated attacks on Voting Rights seek to resurrect the Bad Old Days

Jim Crow is alive and well: Calculated attacks on Voting Rights seek to resurrect the Bad Old Days

Posted by | Mar 28, 2021

“Do you know I’ve never voted in my life, never been able to exercise my right as a citizen because of the poll tax? … I can’t pay a poll tax, can’t have a voice in my own government.” – Mr. Trout, a Georgia native (1936) “More than 250 bills to curb or complicate access to polls had been introduced in 43 state legislatures as of February 19, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, which is tracking the bills — and bills have since been introduced in at least two more states, North Carolina and Wisconsin.” – CNN...

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Investigation finds retailers distributing COVID-19 vaccinations added requirements violating CDC policy

Investigation finds retailers distributing COVID-19 vaccinations added requirements violating CDC policy

Posted by | Mar 27, 2021

The original justification for proof-of-residency and ID requirements to get a COVID-19 vaccination were supposed to stop so-called “Vaccine Tourists” who sought access in other states that had better public distribution channels. Instead, the most vulnerable residents are being shut out of the lifesaving treatment. The concern about “Vaccine Tourists” never developed into an issue beyond a few isolated headlines. And with the Biden Administration’s expanded distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, there has been no further incentive for the issue to become a real problem. However, the questionable safeguards remain in place and those are causing actual damage. Forward Latino...

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Proposed overhaul of immigration laws would finally reunite families divided by deportation

Proposed overhaul of immigration laws would finally reunite families divided by deportation

Posted by | Mar 27, 2021 |

By Robert McKee Irwin, Deputy Director, Global Migration Center, University of California, Davis Hundreds of thousands of immigrant families have been separated by deportation from the United States, in many cases with a parent on one side of the border and children on the other, according to estimates by the Urban Policy Institute and Migration Policy Institute. Reunification is a priority in President Joe Biden’s proposed immigration overhaul and in bills that both the House and Senate will debate in coming weeks. Both bills have provisions to preserve “family unity.” These include giving immigration judges increased discretion in deportation...

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