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OP-ED: Early Childhood providers in order for everyone navigate this crisis else to return. And while

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By Traci Childress MA, MEd, Executive Director Saint Mary’s Nursery School, West Philadelphia

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have the privilege to work as the Executive Director of West Philadelphia’s Saint Mary’s Nursery School. As a nonprofit childcare center, we serve 138 children ages 18 months - 12 years.

Since mid-March, we have been closed. We rely on 95% private pay tuition and 5% subsidy to fund operations. We have been fortunate to have received a couple of grants, and to have raised some funds from our community, allowing us to keep paying staff while we waited on federal support.

We operate on a very narrow financial margin, maximizing all of our resources and leaving little room for buffer beyond a small savings reserve.

Making our capacity to stay afloat and support our staff’s payroll all the more precarious. We did not get the initial round of federal funding through the Payroll Protection program, and without our community’s donations, we would not have been able to keep everyone on payroll while we waited

to learn that we did get round two of the PPP Loan. And yet, even as we breathe a sigh of relief for a moment, we are facing the reality of what the future will look like operating in a COVID-19 world and what implications it will have for our viability as a business, given the growing costs associated with achieving a safe learning environment.

As we’ve navigated this crisis, we’ve been meeting virtually every week as a staff community. We check in -- talk about the struggles navigating regulations, loans and safety, share how our zoom offerings for families are going, what can we create for our YouTube channel, what has been giving us hope, and what visions do we have for the future.

The governor included childcare providers in the second phase of reopening (the yellow phase) - Philadelphia has yet to announce its reopening timeline.

Despite the fact that K-12 schools will not be returning this year and will look very different when they do return, childcare will be invited to return to work before the rest of the workforce. This sector is essential to the rest of the city’s workforce.

We will have to return

young children are not at high risk for getting this virus, they can carry it, and many of us have families and homes where grownups live and where members of our families may have compromised immune systems. We have elementary age children who won’t have care when we return to work.

Our early childhood workforce is already grossly underpaid.

Although childcare is expensive, the cost of services barely covers the cost to run childcare operations and pay our staff. Our teachers should make so much more than they do already, given the impact of early education on early learners (ages 0-5) and our economy’s dependence on our work.

The extended closure of early childhood centers is pushing many centers out of business forever, and those of us who manage to weather this closure with the help of donations, the Paycheck protection program, or state support, are afraid that the cost of reopening with new requirements and decreased enrollment will put us out of business.

If we manage to get through this extended closure, we also know that we will need support, innovation, and a whole new way of working to reopen again. As we watch the changing CDC guidelines for childcare centers open right now and listen to our peers operating to serve the essential workforce, it is very clear that reopening will be another crisis for us to navigate.

Reopening will bring a host of new requirements to our work. The current CDC guidelines mention masks, no contact drop offs and pickups, temperature taking, and smaller group sizes (currently 10 people in a room including staff) just to name a few. We

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OP-ED: Scoop It Up!

urban area.

In light of these impacts, it’s disturbing that a substantial number of ByKadafi El-Kardah, also an environmental American dog owners Pennsylvania hazard, disrupting eco– as many as 40 percent, Environmental Council systems and affecting according to some studplants, animals, and ies – don’t bother to pick ife under quareven human beings in up after their pets. Meanantine has ways that might surwhile, Philadelphia’s Philadelphians prise you. When left on human population keeps looking for ways to beat the ground, dog waste the boredom and itching breaks down and washes growing. More people means more dogs, and for a change of scenery. into the Schuylkill and For many dog owners, Delaware Rivers, pollut- more dogs means more poop. If we want to prothat means taking more ing the water with bacthan the usual number teria, parasites and other tect our water, it’s time of walks – and dealing pathogens. It also releas- for dog owners to take responsibility. with more than the usual es nutrients that cause Here’s what you can amount of dog waste. excessive algae growth But a stroll around the and deplete the dissolved do: Clean it up. Take a neighborhood with your oxygen levels in the wabag with you on walks. four-legged friend can be ter, harming aquatic life You don’t need a special more than just a stressand often making creeks reliever. It’s also a chance and rivers appear murky. pet waste bag; a plastic grocery bag works just to practice some of the In large enough quantifine! Turn the bag inside small actions we can all ties, this pollution can out over your hand and take to improve our sur- make the water unusroundings and enjoy our able for boating, fishing, use it as a glove to pick up the waste, then invert city. and other recreational again and tie it off until Everyone knows that activities. It’s no wonyou get back home. uncollected dog dropder the Environmental Dispose of it properly. pings are a nuisance, an Protection Agency (EPA) Dog waste is best proeyesore, and a smelly considers dog poop one cessed the same way as menace to clean shoes of the major sources of human waste: at a seweverywhere. But they’re water pollution in any

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age treatment plant. Simply dump the feces from the bag into the toilet and flush. Never drop your dog’s droppings in an open storm drain. Storm drains lead directly to our local waterways, and improper disposal can create clogs and degrade water quality. Sometimes flushing down the toilet is not an option; if that’s the case, toss the bagged waste into a trash can (not a recycling bin – it will only contaminate the contents). Though many gardeners use animal manure as a fertilizer, dog waste is not suitable for composting, so keep it away from your plants. Littering is never an option, so please don’t throw your bags into the woods or into the bushes.

Even in normal times, cleaning up after your pet is essential to the health of people and all living things in the city. But now, with more Philadelphians relying on public spaces for

safe, socially-distanced exercise and recreation, it’s more important than ever to keep our streets, sidewalks, and trails free of animal waste. During this challenging time, let’s come together and do our part as citizens to keep our communities and watersheds clean and beautiful.

About the Author: Kadafi El-Kardah is the Community Engagement Specialist at the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC).

PEC protects and restores the natural and built environments through innovation, collaboration, education, and advocacy.

Through a partnership with the Philadelphia Water Department, PEC is raising awareness of the effects of water pollution via stormwater runoff. For more information, visit their stormwater page at https:// pecpa.org/program/ stormwater-education

Analysis: Rising state unemployment rates test government solvency

By Michael Lucci 50economy.org

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flood of new unemployment claims continues across the country, swamping unemployment offices and driving state unemployment trust funds toward insolvency.

Nearly 4 million workers filed new jobless claims in the week ending April 25, adding up to a total of 30 million new jobless claims since the onset of the pandemic. Severe levels of joblessness signify the economic pain American households are experiencing, and concentrated joblessness creates an economic risk for state and local finances.

The pandemic recession will test the solvency of households, businesses and governments. Many entities that entered the recession with weak finances will be forced into a financial restructuring, as already has occurred with some businesses, such as national retailer J. Crew. 50 Economy’s real-time unemployment tracker provides a metric showing how

households, businesses and governments are holding up across the states. A high jobless rate shows where households are hit hardest, where local businesses are struggling most, and where governments will see the biggest revenue shortfalls.

50 Economy’s estimates are current through April 25, when the national jobless rate was nearly 24 percent.

South Dakota has the lowest state rate at 10.5 percent. Utah, Wyoming and Nebraska are the only other states below 15 percent. Eight states have jobless rates over 30 percent. Kentucky has the highest rate at 35.6 percent, followed

by Hawaii (31.7 percent), Georgia (31.2 percent), Nevada (31 percent) and Pennsylvania (31 percent).

Moody’s Analytics conducted a stress test of state finances in October 2019, providing a timely picture of state preparedness for a recession. The worst fiscal shortfalls are expected to be in Louisiana (19.9 percent), Illinois (15.8 percent), Kentucky (14.6 percent), Oklahoma (14.6

percent) and New Jersey (13.9 percent) under a “severe recession” scenario.

Kentucky has the nation’s highest real-time unemployment rate and a severely underfunded pension system. Louisiana’s unemployment rate also is above 30 percent, and its economy is leveraged to the energy sector, which is in shambles. Both these states face acute near-term fiscal challenges.

Illinois and New Jersey don’t have the same sky-high unemployment rates afflicting Kentucky and Louisiana, but their finances are crippled by legacy pension debts that already were consuming their government finances before the pandemic crisis. Watch for these two states to face a grinding fiscal crisis and slow recovery if they don’t reform their pension liabilities.

Real-time unemployment rates indicate a short-term economic exposure to the pandemic rather than a long-term economic trend. However, a spiking unemployment rate can accelerate and exacerbate a long-term trend. For ex-

ample, states with high taxes and legacy pension debts will buckle under the weight of a sudden economic stop, and they will face a long, grinding recovery during which their competitiveness will decline. In contrast, states with fewer legacy problems will produce a more competitive recovery and will attract taxpayers from states that suffer under poor fiscal management.

States must cut discretionary costs, prioritize spending for future growth rather than legacy costs, and bolster their tax and regulatory policies for a rapid recovery. When millions of Americans pour back into the labor force, they need to be able to pursue their goals in a dynamic and growing economy.

State and local public policy reforms can create a landscape for a robust economic recovery by making it easier to reabsorb laid-off workers, hire additional workers, and start and grow new businesses.

Michael Lucci is the President and publisher of 50economy.org. He also serves as a Senior Policy Advisor to the State Policy

Network. He previously was the Vice President of State Projects for the Tax Foundation, based in Washington D.C. Prior to that he served as Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy. He began his policy career at Illinois Policy Institute, where he was a Vice President of Policy.

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and abstract. Her stories lacked verve and nerve.

At the Harvard lecture, Nin appeared onstage in a long cape, her distinctive voice ringing out like a song bird. She spoke slowly, occasionally turning her head in slow motion fashion that reminded me of a wind-up doll.

Her famous eyebrows, arched and dark penciled in to look like a sketch by Cocteau, could be seen from the far end of the room. As I listened to her speak I couldn’t help but imagine her making love to writer Henry Miller in Nin’s houseboat on the Seine in Paris, ink wells and flower pots crashing to the floor as that rake Miller put an end to the diarist’s delicacy.

This was the beginning of the feminist era, when ardent feminists everywhere were proclaiming, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” (This was a lie because every feminist I knew then seemed to have a skinny boyfriend). Nin attracted women who were more

literary than feminist but the feminists were out in force during that church hall lecture. What I did not know then was that Nin’s lecture created some controversy so that a symposium took place the following day in which Nin was asked to explain what she meant by this or that statement. Years later, I was able to read the transcript of this interview online and came away feeling amazed at how the interviewer failed to ruffle Nin’s feathers. Nin seemed to have the ability to take any vehement opposing view and work it to her advantage.

What I found most amusing then was the fact that many women in the audience brought their own diaries to the lecture. Some of the women were even dressed in capes but I don’t remember if any of them had plucked or penciled in their eyebrows.

The Boston-Cambridge area was intellectually rich when it came to writers and artists.

In a popular gay bar, Sporters on Cambridge Street (across the street

from Massachusetts General Hospital), I met a novelist named Michael Arnold who lived in the Boston suburbs with his parents but isolated himself in a separate studio apartment in their house where he wrote all day.

Arnold had published two hardback novels, an historical novel about Archduke Ferdinand and the start of World War I, and a historical romance novel without a single gay character. If you were gay and a published author at that time and didn’t have any gay characters in your work, you were not somebody the “community” was necessarily going to respect. Although being in the closet then was rather common, there seemed to be another standard for authors and artists. So called ‘closeted writing’ was seen as dishonest and out of keeping with the times (this was the beginning of gay liberation, after all), whereas a Harvard writer like Jonathan Strong, who published Tike and Five Stories when Arnold was publishing his heterosexual romances, (Strong

still continues to write and publish) made it obvious that one could at least be half honest when it came to homosexuality. Strong’s stories had a strong gay accent without ever spelling things out whereas Arnold seemed to be the opposite end of the spectrum.

Sporters, located at the base of Beacon Hill, reflected the bohemian accent of the Hill. It was a bar where everybody of all ages felt at home; a bar where old gay men didn’t seem quite so isolated and “pathetic.” All ages seemed to merge together in Sporters in a way that I haven’t seen before or since. The bar had a democratizing air, especially when the jukebox played The Age of Aquarius from Hair.

Sporters attracted the likes of Alan Helms, author of Young Man From the Provinces: A Gay Life Before Stonewall, and a young lawyer named Dermont Meagher, who would later become the first out judge in Boston’s Municipal Court. Meagher would go on to write Judge Sentences: Tales from the Bench, about his experiences as a judge. One reviewer wrote that Meagher’s book “suggests a form of justice that is rendered with kindness and a sense of humor, rather than with Old Testament harshness and judgment. . . .”

I knew both Helms and Meahger. Meagher, intensely Irish looking, could have been a member of the Cape Cod Kennedy clan. In Sporters, we would often share a beer and talk.

Helms, who had just moved to Boston after a glamorous life in New York as an actor and model (his friends included Anthony Perkins, Marlene Dietrich, Noel Coward and Leonard Bernstein) and I met at an after-hours orgy in a private home on Commonwealth Avenue. In those (pre-AIDS) days it was not all that unusual

to hear somebody in the bar announce after “last call” the address of a party/and or orgy: “Orgy at 119 Commonwealth Avenue!”

Open invitations like this meant that everyone who heard the call was invited. These events attracted hundreds of men and were usually hosted by wealthy Bostonians with immense townhouses so there was plenty of room for an ever-expanding crowd.

At this particular orgy— my first and last—Helms and I sat it out, observing the goings on with detached fascination. You can imagine my surprise when, many years later, Helms made a lengthy reference to me in Young Man From the Provinces, even if he labeled me an “artist” rather than a writer.

“In Boston,” Helms wrote, “I could see the sky; in the Public Gardens, I rediscovered the miracle of trees for the first time since childhood. The city was beautiful by American standards, also much cleaner than New York and the pace was slower.

Like Paris, Boston went to sleep at night, which was some help in my doing the same…”

Arnold the novelist (not the famous Michael Arnold publishing currently) was the size of Mozart, a petite man-boy with a page boy haircut who spent his time in Sporters on a bar stool surrounded by adoring fans. His fans weren’t especially literary types, but I could see that they were well heeled men focused on status and being seen with the right people, an unfortunate staple in the gay world.

Arnold took a liking to me and asked me a dozen questions when we met.

“The only way to be a writer is to make a pot of coffee in the morning and then write for at least five hours,” he told me, all the while taking long

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drags from his cigarette.

Arnold was a big smoker and all of his gestures seemed to be based on how he held his cigarette.

He had the air of a Hollywood starlet, affected, caustic, with lots of “Oh darling’s” thrown in for good measure. I enjoyed watching him hold court, especially the way he’d flip his hair off his forehead while taking those long cigarette drags.

Arnold was always asking me if I had a good coffee pot.

I assured him that I had a good coffee pot before asking whether his books ever dealt with homosexuality. When Arnold answered no, I asked him if he cared anything at all about the gay movement. “Does your family know you’re gay?” I inquired in my best gay lib militia voice.

“I don’t know what they know. I write for the market,” Arnold told me, blowing smoke in an arc over the heads of two of his fans, both handsomely suntanned guys who had just returned from Provincetown. (In Boston, everyone had suntans from Provincetown).

“So your books don’t go into gay issues at all? There’s nothing… not even a hint of homosexuality? Not even the slightest hint?”

“They are historical novels. My first novel was reviewed by The New York Times. I want my books to sell. If I were to write about homosexuality, my books would gather mold. Tell me about your work.”

What Arnold was saying of course was that he was in the closet. Out of the Closets into the Streets meant nothing to him.

He was interested only in making money. In my judgmental 20-year old frame of mind, I pegged him as a literary sell out.

I’ve Googled Michael Arnold’s name many times over the years and have found nothing about him except references to his first book and even fewer references to his second novel, both of which he made sure I had a copy. My guess is that Michael Arnold is no longer with us, while Helms continues to write and live in Boston, as does Meagher, who is also an accomplished pen and ink artist.

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will need support to finance this.

Childcare, whether for profit or non-profit is already a no profit sector. The new requirements will make childcare more expensive for providers to offer, and it will decrease income capacity by requiring fewer children. And yet families cannot pay more. As we face this reopening, we will need state and federal funding to ensure we make it through the year ahead when we will be working with new practices, more needs and more intermittent closures.

We’ve always needed this as a sector; but now it is so apparent that childcare is a public good like public school is, and that it needs the support of a system that ensures it can continue to operate, provide quality care to children and support for the workforce in getting back to work.

Even while we are navigating these existential threats, doing our advocacy work and reaching out to our federal and state representatives, we are benefiting from the support of our community.

At SMNS, we have made and delivered masks to our teachers, enlisted the support of mental health professionals to offer parent workshops, created YouTube videos with cooking lessons for parents, shared songs and games and received donations from families to help pay staff while we wait on federal support.

As educators, we have also taken time to really envision what we could create in the as yet unknown new normal ahead. Dieynaba Diaw, a teacher at SMNS shares “I have been hoping that one day Early Childhood Education will be federally funded. I feel like this [health crisis] is a message from the universe reminding us about what our mission is in this world. If there still is some kind of

humanity in our souls, we still have a chance in providing an equal opportunity to federally fund our children’s education. It is so heartbreaking that we [have struggled so much in] Early Childcare schools in the crisis of COVID-19, because Early Childcare Centers are not funded by the federal government. What are we doing? We can do better than this.”

Oli Gusmano, a teacher at SMNS, says “Children and childcare have always been at the center of our communities. After seeing my community mobilize around mutual aid, neighborhood safety, and resource sharing during this pandemic, I wonder what our “new normal” can look like if we applied these concepts to childcare. In my vision, childcare workers are seen as foundational to our children’s futures and our community organizes together to uplift children’s and worker’s rights.”

Wouldn’t it be amazing if these visions could lead us forward? We need every person to help make sure childcare is seen and fiscally supported as a public good, so that our educators can build these visions for the future. The workforce depends on us, and the new normal could be radically different, and transformationally better, if we embrace this idea. If we fail to embrace this, it will also be radically different-- it could be a future without childcare.

For years, advocates have wanted to organize a national or local day without childcare to illustrate how critical our work is; without strong investment in our field, we will all have to face what the reality of having no childcare for our children would be like for much longer than a day. Help us make sure childcare is funded as an essential field, as a public good, that should receive drastically increased funding now and in the future.

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Moore College of Art & Design’s Annual Thesis Exhibitions Go Virtual with launch of New Website to Honor Class of 2020 sign and Photography &

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special annual event for Moore College of Art & Design seniors is going virtual. The traditional Senior Show exhibition, where student artists present their work to the public and potential employers in The Galleries at Moore, will become a dynamic legacy event in digital space to honor the entire graduating Class of 2020. The exhibition launches Friday, May 8, 2020 at Moorethesis. com.

Titled, The Class of 2020, the exhibition provides a digital platform to promote the outstanding work of all BFA students graduating this year, as well as three graduating MFA/ MA students in Moore’s Socially Engaged Art programs, to showcase their thesis projects to the world. All undergraduate majors are represented in the exhibition: Animation & Game Arts, Art Education, Art History, Curatorial Studies, Fashion Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interior De-

Digital Arts.

“In the wake of the unexpected closure of our beloved campus and The Galleries at Moore, which host our annual thesis exhibitions, we are thrilled to find a new way to honor the exceptional work and achievements of our 2020 graduating students,” said Cecelia Fitzgibbon, president of Moore College of Art & Design.

“Our dedicated staff and faculty have collaborated over the past few weeks to create this online legacy project, as a professional resource for our students and a future time capsule of the stunning and significant work they did during their years at Moore. We invite the hundreds of employers and collectors who previously attended this show, as well as the public, to see the remarkable work created by our talented and resilient graduates.”

The brand-new website was built to formally highlight the work of Moore’s talented students and to provide a

Kenyssa Evans ‘20, BFA Photography & Digital Arts, Else/Where, 2019-2020, photography, mixed media sculpture, plastered objects, digital print on meshscreen, double-sided 30” x 80” door, dimensions variable.

well-designed platform for each individual graduate, effectively creating an online “calling card” in lieu of the loss of several in-person networking events for undergraduate and graduate students, given the ongoing COVID-19 public health crisis.

“This show marks an important moment for our graduating class and is critical to their successes as they venture out into their professional fields,” said Gabrielle Lavin Suzenski, Rochelle F. Levy director, The Galleries at Moore.

“With the help of our

dedicated Galleries team, we continue to treat this virtual experience as we would any in-person exhibition, with the same expectations around presenting only the highest visual and interactive quality of work and writing to our visitors and extended community.”

The Galleries staff were appointed as personal gallery representatives for each senior and graduate student, and helped the students prepare images of their artwork for upload to the site, as well as the accompanying informa-

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“The week before COVID even happened, continued from page 1 there were 566 eviction cases already scheduled, a year after the end of so that’s Philadelphia on the emergency order; a normal day,” Gauthier an eviction diversion told Philadelphia Free program; the offer of a Press. “And now having 12-month payment plan been hit by this public to tenants affected by health crisis that pretty the epidemic; and more much mandates that stringent safeguards people be at home, a lot against illegal evictions of people have lost their and lockouts. jobs and are even more Evictions were halted housing insecure.” on March 13 when PhilaSince the epidemic delphia courts closed. began, more than 1.6 They will remain under million people have lost moratorium until at least their jobs in PennsylvaJune 1, when Philadelnia, according to the state phia courts are currently Department of Labor & scheduled to reopen.

Industry. And accordEviction moratoriums are ing to Councilmember in place longer for rentGym, between 1500 and ers living in properties 2000 eviction filings are covered by the federal already scheduled to be CARES Act. processed in PhiladelGauthier said the pro- phia once courts reopen. tections like those supStephanie Dorenplied by the proposed bosch, a spokesperson bills are needed to brace for the renters’ advocacy cities for the wave of group the Tenants Union evictions teeming to Representative Network, crash down when federal said she has already and local moratoriums heard from Philadelexpire – especially when phians who have fallen crashing over a city like behind on rent. On the Philadelphia, where TURN tenant hotline, more than half of rentDorenbosch said renters ers were considered cost are calling who fear evicburdened by housing in tion when courts reopen, 2016. or who are even being

threatened with illegal eviction or lockouts.

She said she considers protections like those proposed by Gauthier as desperately needed as thousands of Philadelphians are saddled with back rent.

“We can already foresee that [tenants] are going to have all this rent piled up, and not be able to pay it off, and certainly not be able to pay it off right away,” Dorenbosch said. “I tell everybody to call their representatives and tell them that they need more or organize themselves with other tenants either in their own buildings or other community groups that are getting together and making demands of politicians and push people to do more.”

Harvey Spear, president of the Homeowners Association of Philadelphia, or Hapco, said the protections the bills would give to tenants would shift too heavy a burden onto landlords.

While Spear does not reject all of the measures laid out, like the waiving of certain fees, he said he was disappointed with the legislation. He

alleged extending the eviction process over too long a period would make it impossible for landlords to recoup losses and pay their mortgages as more and more tenants fall into rent delinquency. “[Landlords] will lose their properties, it’s not even a question,” Spear said when talking about the effects of the legislation. “You will have more homeless people.”

Spear claimed he was far from alone in these sentiments, reporting widespread opposition to these bills among other real estate advocacy groups.

One University City tenant however, said she is in need of immediate relief from the epidemic and its unprecedented economic fallout.

The tenant, who requested anonymity fearing reprisal from her landlords, numbers among the Philadelphians whose housing has been jeopardized by the coronavirus. She said she works on events involving large gatherings of people, all of which have been canceled until July, at the earliest. She said she does not know when she will be able to afford her rent and is especially unsure of how she would be able to afford back rents.

“No company is going to say, ‘oh here’s the backpay for the six

months you couldn’t work because of COVID,” she said. “And if it comes down to rent or food, I’m going to buy food so I can survive.”

She is currently organizing with tenants from other properties her landlords manage, via a network created by the Philadelphia Tenants Union, to collectively bargain for certain relief.

Affordable housing advocate Sterling Johnson said that protecting vulnerable, out-of-work tenants must be a priority of policy makers. He said that bills extending the city’s eviction moratorium and facilitating payment plans would be needed to supply that protection but implementing those policies would likely necessitate relief for landlords.

“A requirement if you’re going to [implement eviction bans and payment plans] is to have a fund for landlords,” Johnson said. “So, the landlords have some sort of out, and then the tenants have an out, too, so they can pay less.”

“Because if [tenants] didn’t have money in the first place, I don’t think they’re going to have it three months later.”

Gauthier said she believes it is crucial to provide relief to property owners, many of whom are small landlords. She said she is coordinating with the Kenney admin-

istration to create a rental assistant program that would directly benefit these small landlords.

She is also looking towards the state and federal governments to implement foreclosure diversion programs and extend other forms of relief to property owners.

Talk of generous relief to landlords and renters perhaps belies a more foreboding financial reality. With the city facing a projected deficit of $649 million for FY 2021, Mayor Jim Kenney’s revised budget proposal calls for harsh revenue saving measures. These include layoffs to some sectors of the city’s public workforce and an increase in property taxes.

Gauthier said she recognizes “the incredibly difficult moment we find ourselves in,” and understands how the Mayor’s budget is a consequence of that. Still, she said she is dedicated to finding a way to help vulnerable Philadelphians through the coming hard times.

“Renters, they are scared, they are absolutely scared,” Gauthier said. “We know that we have to go even further now and make sure that people are able to weather this crisis with their housing intact and come out on the other side of this and land on both feet.”

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limmers of hope along with rays of sunshine and the return of good weather are making our world a bit less difficult, and staying at home with wonderful streaming possibilities adds to the ever-growing choices of what to watch. The gigantic success and viewership of two blockbusters ten days ago have set new standards: the amazing Met Opera at Home Gala where 100 orchestra members, 85 chorus singers and 40 opera stars all performing from their homes, and the Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration dazzling with Broadway names. Both events were star-studded and highly rated. Here are entertainment thoughts for the week ahead available through websites and all social media. ♫ Revolutionary Women are highlighted at the Museum of the American Revolution from May 8 - 10 with make at home crafts, a live embroidery demonstration, videos, how to make a Mother’s Day card based on old German papercutting techniques, and virtual tours. ♫ The Dolce Suono Ensemble, celebrating its 15th anniversary by honoring their current motto “Keep the Music Playing”, is ring all-star concerts at 4 p.m. on Tuesdays and Saturdays BalletX presents Lunch Breaks live at Noon on weekdays, with co-founder Christine Cox, former Pennsylvania Ballet ballerina, interviewing the company’s ten amazing dancers and other staff members as well as free dance classes and weekend full-length performances streaming until 11:59

p.m. on Sundays. ♫ “Conquering Social Distance One Song at a Time” is Lyric Fest’s contribution to at home magic, selections of meaningful and soothing music from their 17 years of archives. lyricfest. org ♫ New at the Museum of Art are on-line virtual tours covering many seasonal and other topics: “Spring Flowers”, “The Language of Flowers”, “Impressionism”, “American Art”, “DEF Poetry Reunion” as well as object stories, talks, and educational opportunities for pre-K through grade 12. ♫ Daniel Pantano’s celebrated Concert Operetta Theatre’s You Tube channel pays tribute to the great composer Franz Lehar with options to view six of his most beloved operettas in complete concert stagings plus two full concerts of Lehar songs and ensembles. ♫ The America-Italy Society of Philadelphia proposes an on-line hour-long guided tour “for everyone” on May 8 at 4:30 p.m. with Nadia, a splendid visit to Torino and Piedmont. Enroll on line. ♫ Pennsylvania Ballet on May 7 at 11 a.m. introduces a “Virtual Luncheon and Silent Auction” in support of PB’s Emergency Relief Fund.

Artistic Director Angel Corella will be on hand along with guests and performers. For tickets, scamisa@paballet.org ♫ The Philadelphia Orchestra is heard several times weekly on WRTI 90.1 FM including from 1 to 3 p.m. on Sundays and also offers its own virtual concerts, some intimate groupings from a member’s home, oth-

ers more full-scale.www. philorch.org/virtual ♫ The Free Library on line has added many new resources available to all on their Virtual Performing Page: tutorials, audio and e-books, mask making, Culinary Literary Center, Business Resources and Innovation Center. For all ages. ♫ Every weekend the Philadelphia Inquirer streams a hit movie from the past, then asks for comments and questions up until Midnight Sundays at gthompson@ inquirer.com . The best ones will be highlighted on Monday at 4 p.m. in “InquirerLIVE: One Movie, One Philly” with special guests, followed at 5 p.m. by joining the livestream to argue the merits of the film. Each weekend a new hit movie is selected. ♫ Spending time with former First Lady Michelle Obama is a treat for kids and their families when she reads every Monday at noon from appropriate selections. pbskids.org and PBSKIDSFacebook. ♫ The nightly Met Opera streams at 7:30 p.m. have proven a source of joy and solace to opera lovers; In the days ahead, try these: May 6, Saariano’s “L’amour de loin”; May 7, R. Straus’s “Capriccio”; May 8, Puccini’s “La Boheme”; May 9, “The Opera House”, a stunning 2017 documentary of the tearing down of tenements and the construction and 1966 opening of the Met Opera House and the frictions and triumphs of the opening production of Samuel Barber’s “Antony and Cleopatra” with a vibrant performance by the great soprano Leontyne Price when she is accidentally locked inside a prop pyramid, followed by an interview with her at 90 or so, still regal and sounding vocally fresh; May 10, Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci”.

All these star the world’s greatest singers in sumptuous stagings and elaborate costumes. metopera. org ♫ If your organization has online performances that you would like people to view, please submit the information to John Lane at xjlane@ aol.com

Citywide Doorway Dance Party Kicks Off

Philadelphia’s “McFadden & Whitehead.”

Effort to unify city, supTo help get the city port Essential Workers dancing together to starts at 6:30 PM the same tunes, Radio One stations and varihe Citywide ous Instagram DJs will Doorway Dance play the “Rocky” theme Party for Essen- or some portion of it tial Workers kicked off at 6:30 pm each day to yesterday at 6:30 p.m., hype their listeners to in an effort to unify the the doorway to dance. city during the COThe song list will then VID-19 stay-at-home move to “Ain’t No order and pay tribute to Stoppin’ Us Now,” to the workers who have motivate the city and kept the city running. urge residents, people Organized by the battling the virus and same group of media workers to keep fightprofessionals, artists ing. and award-winning Members of the group entrepreneurs who particularly wanted coordinated PhiladelPhiladelphia’s dancing phia’s Guinness World doorway residents to Record Soul Train have an opportunity to Line, the effort asks acknowledge not only all Philadelphians to the city’s healthcare gather in their doorway professionals on the or door area at 6:30 front line of the health p.m. to dance to the crisis, but to all of the sound of the “Rocky” city’s essential workers theme and then “Ain’t who have continued to No Stoppin’ Us Now,” show up to their workthe upbeat, motivating places throughout the tune from the Sound of pandemic.

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“We selected the theme from ‘Rocky’ because of its iconic Philadelphia tie, but also to literally cheer on the city’s essential workers – bus drivers, supermarket clerks, cleaning services, homeless shelter workers, policemen, fire fighters -- as the champions of our city at this time,” said Sheila Simmons, a communications consultant who currently works as Chief-of-Staff for State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, who will be participating, even if it has to be from his Harrisburg office. “ ‘Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now’ is the quintessential Sound of Philadelphia anthem that reminds us of who we are and that always uplifts and motivates us. We must emerge from this crisis stronger, more appreciative of each other and more together than ever,” Simmons said. continued on page 8

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Celebrate our Upcoming 32nd Year with us!

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appy New Year 2020 from the University City Review in West Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Free Press in Center City!

As we enter our 32nd year of publishing free community newspapers, we are reaching out to you, our readers and advertisers, to offer our many thanks for your enduring support and interest. We are happy that we have been successful in being able to deliver free local news, as well as, feature stories and local advertising on a weekly basis for all of these years. It has truly been a great feat, along with, as we like to say, “a touch of madness.” But, above all, it’s been a labor of love of which we are proud! It is truly gratifying to have met and worked with so many wonderful people, many of whom are now good friends.

As we go forward, we will be looking to you for your continued support, not only as cheer leaders and readers, but also as donors.

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Kreation Place Childcare has served the community for ten years children and families in their program to be conBy Elizabeth Farwell

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In 1998, we celebrated our tenth anniversary with a fundraising party at the Woodlands Cemetery and we were able to raise over $10,000 that helped carry us forward at that time.

Now, 21 years later, we are entering a period dedicated to improving our sustainability. We are preparing financially and organizationally for the future. Our goals are to increase our stable of writers, to increase our print and digital distribution, to stabilize our cash flow, and to create a Digital 32-year Community History Public Archive. We are again asking for your financial support.

To this end, we have set about to raise

$15,000, extended through the end of March 2020, in order to achieve our goals.

Although we are not a non-profit institution, we have functioned as a community resource, giving voice to neighborhood interests and concerns. Please help us to preserve your community newspapers.

With appreciation and gratitude, Robert Christian, Editor and Publisher and Claudia Christian, Associate Publisher P.S. Look for upcoming information about our 32nd year celebration in March 2020!

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wners and directors Kesha Harvey and Jennifer McDuffie Moore have big hearts for early childhood and the community serving families who are very underserved. Kreation Place childcare is located in West Philadelphia and is a residential group child care program.

What makes Kreation Place special is more than half of the children at Kreation Place childcare has a connection to the foster care system.

Providing high quality child care to all children, no matter their family type or how long they will be in the program is very important to Kesha and Jennifer.

With more than 20 years in the field, Kesha and Jennifer, both have pursued higher education and gone above and beyond to educate themselves and constantly enroll in training and programs to make themselves and their program a better place. Both of the early childhood professionals have put a lot of hard work into their education and their early learning program. During their time open both ladies have completed their Bachelor’s Degree

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The group is encouraging all city officials, sports and entertainment celebrities, neighborhood blocks, hospital workers, and all local citizens of every race, background and religion to join in, and even create their own “Doorway Dance Mix”

and also enrolled in graduate school.

Now they would be trapped in a Pandemic and the world locked in, the door of Kreation Place care closed. Toys are put away, strollers are parked, outdoor place space packed up, and no one knows when the door will reopen.

Love this :) Early childhood education is unpaid and very underappreciated service, and not an easy business to navigate, especially for home based providers.

Once the program’s door closed in early March, many of the parents had no idea what their children’s day actually looked like. In the first week, more than half the parents were looking to Kesha and Jennifer for advice, information, ideas for activities and tips on being home with their children.

Jennifer and Kesha set up weekly show and tell meetings on zoom, emailed resources, set up a parent board to post ideas and even record themselves reading videos of some Kreation Place favorites. They did this willingly and with love, not because they were being paid, but they wanted the

nected and supported in these uncertain times.

Kreation Place is a safe place for children, especially those who have been through trauma and have so much inconsistency in their lives.

One of two and the program’s two year olds gets dressed with his book bag every day, since Kreation Place closed. He does not understand why he can not play at school, or see his teachers. His mother joins the zoom and is so excited to see his friends, but he truly wants to hug them and outside to play, What about child care providers as people, and child care as a business??? No one checked on them for ideas, resources or offered any support to Kesha and Jennifer . Kesha is a mother of three children and Jennifer is a mother of six. They have families to take care of and rely on Kreation Place as a way to support their homes.

Even before the Pandemic began, both ladies stayed connected with educational and community groups who support and advocate for family child care providers. Attending virtual

that includes the two songs. A Zoom party will admit 100 participants. Meanwhile, organizers urge participants to post their “Doorway Dance” moves on TikTok and other social media platforms.

Hashtags can include #DoorwayDanceParty and #PhillyEssentialWorkers.

Radio listeners can

tune into WRNB 100.3 FM, Hot 107.9 FM or Hip-Hop 103.9 FM; as well as Praise 107.9 on the HD2 channel and stream.

Individual DJ’s who will play their own Instagram mixes are Hezekiah (Beat Society / Johnny Popcorn), DJ Lady Jay & DJ Smooth Rod (Shadow Trax Nation) of Philadelphia as well as Boston-based DJ Mojavi (MoMixMedia) Boston .

Organizers hope the event will grow more and more participants each day and will continue each day until the city reopens.

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Reading Terminal Market Corporation Names New General Manager earthquake. These experiences informed Murphy’s passion for corporate social responsibility.

“We are pleased to welcome Conor as our new General Manager,” said Albert Mezzaroba, Chairman of the Reading Terminal Market Corporation. “His vision for the Market is impressive, his ideas are exciting and innovative, and he has the experience and skill set to lead us, both in the short term through this crisis and in the long term, into the future.”

“The Terminal is such an icon of this great city.

I have been impressed to see how the Market family is thinking so deeply about getting through Conor Murphy these difficult times and fee blends for cocktails, is already looking into

By Haywood Brewster and promotes non-profit the future,” said Murphy.

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“The opportunities for He spent his early the Market really are he Board of the professional career at endless, and I am truly Reading Terminal Ernst & Young as a risk honored to join this inMarket Corpora- consultant and project credible institution and I tion has announced that manager. Drawn to enwant to thank everyone Conor Murphy will step trepreneurship, Murphy in my universe who into the role of General moved to Haiti to set up helped me along the Manager effective May 6. the Soul of Haiti Founda- way.”

Murphy brings a broad tion for Irish entrepreMurphy takes over the skill set and an impresneurs, which pioneered Market following the desive resume, which will public and private secparture on of Anuj Gupserve the Market well tor partnerships and ta, who had served as the during this pivotal time. leveraged relationships Market’s General ManAn immigrant to the with governments and ager since May of 2015 USA, Murphy grew up investors to create social and was recently hired in Ireland, where his enterprise, investment,

by U.S. Congressman family owns a grocery agribusiness, and tourDwight Evans to serve as business. Most recently, ism programs. The Foun- his Chief of Staff. Murhe founded an advisory dation galvanized major phy’s hire culminates company that helps enplayers such as the Clin- a two-month national trepreneurs and executon Foundation, Digicel, recruitment in which tives identify and fulfill and Alltech to support the Market again tapped philanthropic goals, and these initiatives in the Priscilla Rosenwald of Bearings Coffee, which wake of the catastrophic Leadership Recruiters to develops specialty cof-

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change their program and the interaction with continued from page 8 children and families.

Many of the families, meetings, listening in on who attend Kreation calls, and mailing art has Place have older children kept them connected and and will not be returninformed. ing till September since Currently Kesha and home school will conJennifer are making tinue in the Philadelphia plans for what childcare area. There is also the will look like, as Pennpossibility many busisylvania moves into the nesses will allow people yellow phase of the gov- to work from home. ernor’s plan.

Being a small program It’s a little scary, to be licensed for twelve chilin limbo and waiting to dren, Kreation Place see CDC guidelines and could suffer a lot. Withrules like social distance out their program many and the use of masks will of the foster children

who rely on Kreation a place will not have a program who is Trauma informed and willing to support the foster parent and the children. Also the families who have used Kreation Place, know and love their program and feel comfortable with Kesha and Jennifer remain positive and prayerful, advocating and having families using this time to speak out on how important funding from State, local and Federal sources is so important.

assist in its search, as she did in 2015. The Market received applications from over 50 candidates from across the country, including from Louisiana and Maine.

“This recruitment was a challenge, but our Directors were up to the task,” explained Mezzaroba. “We had to adjust quickly to the COVID-19 environment and this meant relying on virtual interviews and meetings. Fortunately, it worked. We couldn’t be happier to have Conor on board.”

About the Reading Terminal Market Corporation The RTMC is a notfor-profit corporation created in 1994 to manage the historic Reading Terminal Market. The Corporation is charged with the mission to preserve the architectural and historical character, and function, of the Market as an urban farmers’ market. The Market is governed by a sevenmember Board of Directors that is appointed by the Mayor of Philadelphia, the City Council of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority, the Merchants’ Association, the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, and the Reading Terminal Market Preservation Fund. The Market itself is one of America’s largest and oldest public famers’ markets, housed since 1893 in a National Historic Landmark building.

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Cells, Cellular Immunity, Cytokines, Dendritic Cells, Immune Antagonism, Immunoglobulin Genes, Immunological Tolerance, Immunology, Infectious Disease, Inflammation, Interferon, T Cells, Transplantation, Vaccine Development, Viruses, and Virology.

Q: What accounts for the differences in intensity of Covid-19 in various countries and temperate zones?

Dr. Moran. “I don’t think it has to do with climate per se. Still, countries with older people, lower levels of health care, a higher number of smokers probably make more of a difference.”

Q: Does weather and/ or climate affect the virus?

Dr. Moran: “Maybe it is less effective in warmer climates, but we don’t know yet. It is not a big difference, though.”

Q: Does the fact that there is a worldwide research effort currently underway, portend the possibility that more than one vaccine will emerge?

Dr. Moran: “Absolutely. More than 70 research efforts are now in progress.”

Q: Given the lightning speed of events regarding the pandemic, would you venture a guess as to when a vaccine will be available?

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Q: What about testing for the virus? Is it still necessary?

Dr. Moran: “We’ve got to do more testing.

We’ve got to know just how many people have been infected, how many people have an apparent infection, and if those people have an antibody titer. The ideal is to reach a certain amount of population immunity that will make it difficult for the virus to spread.

When you get a certain population of people that are protected, this is what they call herd immunity. You get a high enough level of herd immunity; the virus really has trouble finding another host.”

Q: What are the prospects for a second wave of Covid-19 infections?

Dr. Moran: “I think a key factor in whether there will be another wave. If everybody stays home and they don’t get exposed, and then everybody comes out, that’s sort of the risk that they become the people who get infected. It’s just a wait and see kind of thing.”

Q: Will Covid-19 become a yearly occurrence?

Dr. Moran: “There are coronaviruses that are seasonal. We know that, already. They’re just very mild. I think we will maybe have infections from this from time to time, but it will be minor compared to what we’re going through now.”

Q: Some say we should look back at the 1918 influenza pandemic to guide us in the current Covid-19 crisis. What are your thoughts?

Dr. Moran: “The 1918 flu we didn’t know much about when that was going on, so I don’t know if I can make a valuable comparison between those two. It’s apples and oranges. Everyone above age three has been exposed to flu at least once or flu vaccine or both, so there’s protection believe it or not in every one of us against flu. It’s not perfect, and the flu virus changes enough to escape from our antibodies so it can re-infect in basically a yearly fashion. But we do have immunity, and that makes a difference. The coronavirus differs in that there is no herd immunity, it’s the first time around.

The second time or third time around, there will be enough people with immunity one way or the other. I don’t think it’s as crafty as flu is.

Q: What are the possibilities of the Covid-19 virus mutating?

Dr. Moran: “It doesn’t seem to be showing signs of that. The question is if it mutates, is it going to be like flu? Does it mutate and come back?

Does it evade the herd immunity that was created? We don’t know at this time. I don’t want to say that it’s not possible.

So far, the early indications are probably that it’s not going to happen.”

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That is, we have a second line of defense against viruses, and that is our cellular immune response.

Even if the virus mutates and it comes back and infects you a second time, chances are it will be less lethal because we have expanded our cellular immune response that the virus cannot escape from by mutation. In other words, it’s not coming back to infect the population. It’s not a population that’s naive anymore. It’s a population that has seen it before, has made some tools that it can use to fight the virus, whether it mutates or not.”

Dr. Moran offers recommendations for dealing with Covid-19 “We need to fight this coronavirus pandemic in a united way. We need to have leadership; we need to have sound scientific direction, and I believe we have to be consistent. You can’t do it one way, one place, and another way a different place. That’s just going to fail; you’re not going to contain it. So, I believe we need a national policy that has to be well thought out, and it has to be scientific-based, and we have to stick to it...I believe in our resiliency, and I think that when this is over that the world will be different, no question. But we will have learned from it. We will have improved on it., I think it might bring us together better. I take an optimistic view. “ We want to thank the following readers for

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Science Fiction for May 2020

By Henry L Lazarus

because her half-brother was supposed to become o matter how The Last Emperox (hard horrible the from Macmillan). As current situaEmperox Grayland II she tion is, Fantasy and Sci- has the help of memory ence writers can come versions of her predecesup with horrible poten- sors to help. If the situatial problems that can tion wasn’t dire enough make our current one Nadashe Nohamapetan, seem mild. who was originally John Scalzi tells of a supposed to marry future Interdependency Cardenia’s half-brother, of multiple worlds conwill kill anyone who opnected by a flow that poses her to get control allows faster-than-light for her selfish reasons. travel between the hub Plots within plots, deaths world and the end world that are merely kidnap(the only livable world). ing and a very corrupt nobility proves that even disaster for billions can be fun if you’re watching the mess.

Nancy Kress’s future

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Landry family. The discovery of The Eleventh Gate (Hard from Baen) sets up a war in which one family is willing to use biologic weapons.

Phillip Anderson has been on a quest, and even undergoes surgery, to deepen his meditation, not realizing that his really deep meditations shut down the gates. There are too many interesting ideas here to coalesce into one theme. I can only hope that sequels are coming. Interesting.

Nick Martell tells of The Kingdom of Liars It’s The Collapsing Em(hard from Gallery pire (paper) because the Books) whose capital flow, according to flow city Hollows is under physicist Marce Claresiege by lesser nobles mont’s father, is ceasing. settled eight worlds and has a small rebellion Systems die when their which are linked by ten going on inside. Michael connection to the Interde- naturally occurring gates. Kingman is introduced pendency is cut. Carde- Three of the eight worlds on trial for murdering nia Wu-Patrick was total- are controlled by the au- the king. His father, dely unready to handle The tocratic Peregoy family; spite the history of the Consuming Fire (paper) three by the libertarian family of protecting the kingdom since its founding, was executed for killing one of the king’s sobs. Michael has been convinced his father was framed for a decade, and desperate to prove it.

This is a world in which magical talents remove memories, and Michael has lost memories, despite not knowing what his magical talent is. The tale mostly tells us how, Michael, a knave and con man searches for hints in what had happened when his father was found with the gun that shot the prince. This is a very exciting and impossible-to-put-down.

I hope it gets nominated for awards.

Mat, former drone For more information, visit pilot with nightmares coronavirus.gov about killing people, has replaced his arms and legs with artificial limbs

that are also weapons with Automatic Reload

(paper from TOR). In an age where computers have taken most jobs, Mat is hired to rescue kidnap victims and other jobs. He obsessively maintains his limbs and plans his jobs to avoid civilian death. He takes a high pay job with other cyborgs guarding a package delivery for IAC, the most evil corporation on Earth. Unfortunately, in an attack on the package, it opens revealing Silvia, a woman modified biologically to be a high-powered assassin.

To avoid her being brainwashed by IAC, Mat and Silvia go on the run and eventually have to rescue Silvia’s mother and sister who have been kidnaped

by IAC to force Silvia to surrender. Ferrett Steinmetz keeps the action fast and furious. This tale of two mismatched people is pulse-pounding and impossible to put down.

There is nothing sillier than Shakespeare for Squirrels (hard from

Staying home saves lives.

William Morrow) in which Pocket, the jester from King Lear, is shipwrecked on an island where Midsummers Night Dream is happening. This is Christopher Moore’s third tale about Pocket (I didn’t read the others) and it is a hoot.

Apparently, fairies are

squirrels by day, Puck has been murdered, and Oberon and Titania are still separated. There’s a royal wedding between Duke Thesius and the Queen of the Amazons.

This is a giggling hoot.

Martha Wells’s fifth adventure of murderbot, a self-aware SecUnit that hacked its own governor module has it protecting the daughter of his client and no longer pretending to be human.

There’s a Network Effect (hard from Tor) need to defend against humans who may be aliens and who have captured it and its client. They defiantly have captured a self-intelligent ship who murderbot calls ART. Trapped in the solar system of a forgotten colony, it has to restore ART’s memories, rescue ART’s crew, which involves splitting its mind into two parts. Lots of fun as usual.

In the board Game, T.I.M.E Stories, four players go back in time into local bodies to complete a mission to fix the time line, that can be repeated as often as necessary to finish.

Christophe Lambert’s The Heiden File (paper from Angry Robot) fills out the details with the story of Tess Haiden recruited from 2014 to 2468 to work with three others for various missions. She turns out to be important to protecting the base from its destruction. The end result is a fun tale that is very accessibly despite its tie-in to the game. Oh yes, the game sounds like fun too.

Rysa Walker returns to her Chronus background with a tale set when CHRONOS was sending historians to the past. Tyson Reyes (2304) has been integrating himself into the Klu Klux Klan in the early sixties when other time travelers kill Martin Luther King, Jr. two years early disrupting time. Madison Grace (2136) discovers a CHRONOS medallion in her Grandfather’s house and learns that because her grandmother had been a time traveler from her future, she has inherited the genes necessary

to travel through time.

Not only that but she and some friends were responsible for discovering time travel. Eventually, Madi and Tyson have to work together to restore the time line. Now, Then, and Everywhen (paper from 47 North) is the first of a trilogy. Lots of fun.

Marko Kloos continues his The Palladium Wars series which starts five years after the planet Gretia tried to conquer the system, lost and is under a slowly loosening occupation. Things are starting to go Ballistic (hard from 47North) as rebels steal nuclear missiles. Most the tale is about interesting people going on with their interesting lives. I really enjoy the story so far, and am very eager to find out what’s next.

Baen has reprinted in trade the second three Penric tales by Louis McMaster Bujold, Penric’s travels. There is only one more so far.

The 2020 Hugo nominations for Best Novel include: The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders; Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir; The Light Brigade

by Kameron Hurley; A Memory Called Empire

by Arkady Martine; Middlegame by Seanan McGuire; and The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow.

The Science Fiction Society will have its next meeting on May 8th, if the closure is over. The meeting starts at 8 p.m. at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church at 39th and Locust Walk on the University of Pennsylvania Campus. As usual guests are welcome.

Dr. Henry Lazarus is a retired Dentist and the author of A Cycle of Gods (Wolfsinger Publications) and Unnaturally Female (Smashwords).

Check out his unified field theory at henrylazarus. com/utf.html that suggests fusion generation requires less energy because only one frequency is needed rather than a full spectrum. It also explains dark matter, the proliferation of subatomic particles, and the limit of light speed for matter.