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The man who didn't even bother showing up to court is angry that the judge awarded custody to the ex wife.

Judge Andrew Wilkinson was "a pillar in our community," one mourner said.Washington County Bar AssociationCNN — 

A suspect is still on the loose after he shot and killed a state judge at his home Thursday, hours after the judge ruled against him in a child custody case, a Maryland sheriff said Friday.

“This was a targeted attack against Judge (Andrew) Wilkinson,” Washington County Sheriff Brian Albert said.

The suspect, Pedro Argote, 49, “is considered armed and dangerous,” Albert said. Argote is 5-foot-7 and 130 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes, the sheriff’s office said. He may be driving a silver 2009 Mercedes GL450 with Maryland plates.

Pedro ArgoteWashington County Sheriff's Office

Argote did not attend the divorce hearing earlier Thursday at which Wilkinson granted child custody to Argote’s partner, Albert said.

Wilkinson, a county circuit court judge, was in his own driveway – with his wife and son at home – when he was shot, Albert said. The 52-year-old was found around 8 p.m. in the northern Maryland city of Hagerstown, then taken to a medical facility where he died, the sheriff’s office said.

Wilkinson’s death spurred a wave of heightened security for judges throughout the county. “Out of precautionary reasons, last night troopers were deployed to protect judges residing in Washington County,” Maryland State Police said Friday.

The court where Wilkinson worked now has a “high-level” of security, and all judges and court personnel are getting increased security, Circuit Court Administrative Judge Brett Wilson told CNN.

The US Marshals Service is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to Argote’s arrest, the agency said Friday.

Wilkinson’s death marks the latest in a series of threats and attacks against judges or their families. More than 1,300 threats or possible threats among federal court personnel were investigated in fiscal year 2022, according to the US Marshals Service.

Last year, a Wisconsin judge was killed in a targeted attack, officials said. In August, a Texas woman was charged with threatening to kill a judge overseeing Trump’s federal election interference case.

And in 2020, an attorney who had argued a case before US District Court Judge Esther Salas went to her home and opened fire, killing the judge’s son and seriously wounding her husband. Since then, Salas has called for greater privacy protections for judges.

The ‘catastrophic’ loss of a renowned judge

Born in Agana, Guam, Wilkinson had been an associate judge for the Washington County court since January 2020, according to his court biography.

“Drew was an exceptional lawyer and a man who loved his family,” his former law partner Jason Divelbiss said in a written statement. “His wife and kids were always his highest priority and my thoughts go out to them at this horrible time.

“Drew was also very close with his brother and the office always filled with laughter when he dropped by,” Divelbiss wrote. “One of Drew’s greatest assets was his ability to bring stability to the most difficult situations which is what made him a great attorney, mediator and eventually judge.”

Wilkinson was “an excellent judge, truly committed to his community,” said Wilson, the circuit court administrative judge. Staff members at the court will have access to support services as they grapple with Wilkinson’s death, he said.

The slain judge also had “a contagious smile,” wrote Neil Parrott, a former delegate in the Maryland House of Delegates.

“Judge Wilkinson was an exceptional judge and was a pillar in our community,” Parrott said in a statement. “The events tonight are catastrophic for Washington County, for Maryland, and for our justice system. Judge Wilkinson served faithfully and will be severely missed.”

CNN’s Michelle Watson, Amanda Jackson, Lindsay Knight and Miguel Marquez contributed to this report.

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“Health care workers are exhausted and frustrated, and it’s really hard to believe that on Nov. 10, it feels very much like the middle of March all over again,” she said. “We’re hitting the highest numbers of caseload that we’ve ever seen, and we’re running into the same problems that we’ve been having since Day 1.”

Governors are once again competing with one another and big hospital chains for scarce gear. Nursing homes are grappling with staff shortages, which have left hospitals unable to discharge patients to their care. In Wisconsin, the situation is so severe that health officials are mulling a plan to train family members of nursing home residents to fill in at facilities that lack enough workers.

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Shedding light on quarantine weight (Worldcrunch) “There’s a heaviness to the pandemic that’s weighing people down, including in a very literal sense,” writes Sylvain Charlebois, professor in food distribution and policy, in Canada’s daily La Presse. “Polls show that some 40% of Canadians gained weight since mid-March. In developed countries, this long period of self-isolation has caused waistlines to bulge—a serious matter, especially since obesity is a clear COVID-19 risk factor. The issue isn’t, of course, limited to this country. Nor is there one single explanation for why some people have put on a few extra kilograms. But governments are choosing to act now, during the pandemic, to raise awareness among their citizens. Leading the way is the government of Great Britain, where public initiatives include a ban on television and online junk food advertising before 9 p.m. Restaurant menus will also be required to display calories, while over-the-top marketing campaigns for calorie-heavy foods will have to stop: No more chocolate bars near cash registers that encourage impulse buying. About 60% of Britons are overweight, including the prime minister himself. Here in Canada, research suggests that about 25% of the people have used self-isolating as an opportunity to change their habits and adopt healthier behaviors. But there’s also evidence that more than half of the population has had more difficulty staying healthy during this period. Either way, the ‘Great Quarantine’—aside from the stress it caused—has changed our habits. While it is important to stay active to successfully lose and maintain weight, it is also essential to improve diets, as most people consume more calories than they need.”

No federal relief leaves states, cities facing big deficits (AP) State and local government officials across the U.S. have been on edge for months about how to keep basic services running while covering rising costs related to the coronavirus outbreak as tax revenue plummeted. It’s now clear that anxiety will last a lot longer. Congressional talks over another coronavirus relief package have failed, with no immediate prospects for a restart. The negotiation meltdown raises the prospect of more layoffs and furloughs of government workers and cuts to health care, social services, infrastructure and other core programs. Lack of money to boost school safety measures also will make it harder for districts to send kids back to the classroom.

Seattle police chief to resign following department cuts (AP) Seattle’s police chief says she is stepping down, a move made public the same day the City Council approved reducing the department by as many as 100 officers through layoffs and attrition. Carmen Best, the city’s first Black police chief, said in a letter to the department that her retirement will be effective Sept. 2. Cuts to the department have been supported by demonstrators who have marched in the city following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis but strongly opposed by the police chief. Measures that would cut $4 million of the department’s $400 million annual budget this year passed out of committee unanimously last week.

Powerful derecho leaves path of devastation across Midwest (AP) A rare storm packing 100 mph winds and with power similar to an inland hurricane swept across the Midwest on Monday, blowing over trees, flipping vehicles, causing widespread property damage and leaving hundreds of thousands without power as it moved through Chicago and into Indiana and Michigan. The storm known as a derecho lasted several hours as it tore from eastern Nebraska across Iowa and parts of Wisconsin and Illinois, had the wind speed of a major hurricane, and likely caused more widespread damage than a normal tornado, said Patrick Marsh, science support chief at the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma. A derecho is not quite a hurricane. It has no eye and its winds come across in a line. But the damage it is likely to do spread over such a large area is more like an inland hurricane than a quick more powerful tornado, Marsh said. He compared it to a devastating Super Derecho of 2009, which was one of the strongest on record and traveled more than 1,000 miles in 24 hours, causing $500 million in damage, widespread power outages and killing a handful of people.

Trump abruptly escorted from briefing after shooting near WH (AP) A uniformed Secret Service officer shot and wounded a man during a confrontation near the White House that led to President Donald Trump being abruptly escorted out of a briefing room during a televised news conference Monday, authorities said. The White House complex was not breached and no one under Secret Service protection was in danger, said Tom Sullivan, chief of the Secret Service Uniformed Division. Trump had just begun a coronavirus briefing when a U.S. Secret Service agent escorted him from the briefing room. The president returned minutes later, saying there had been a “shooting” outside the White House that was “under control.”

Sen. Kamala D. Harris named as Joe Biden’s running mate (Washington Post) Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has chosen Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) as his running mate. Harris will be the first Black woman and first Asian American to run for vice president, representing a historic choice at a moment when the country is grappling with its racial past and future. The announcement was made in a text and a tweet from Biden. Harris, 55, is the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants. The first-term senator previously served as San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general.

Belarus’s Leader Vows to Crush Protests After Claiming Landslide Election Win (NYT) A day after the leader of Belarus, often called “Europe’s last dictator,” claimed a landslide re-election victory, his capital slipped into mayhem late on Monday as protesters barricaded streets and riot police officers beat back crowds of demonstrators with violent baton charges, stun grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets. The authorities described what began as peaceful protests as “riots” and vowed to crush demonstrators who have taken to the streets for the past two nights in Minsk, the capital, and in towns across the country. Struggling to contain public fury over a fraud-tainted election that gave Mr. Lukashenko his sixth term in office, the government on Monday shut down subway stations, sealed off roads and poured armed riot police officers into the center of Minsk. By nightfall, security forces and protesters were clashing violently in the capital, and in Brest, a city in the west of Belarus on the border with Poland, as well as in several other towns. In a sign that anger over the election had spread beyond affluent areas in the center of Minsk, Monday night’s protests also convulsed outlying districts of the capital dotted with bleak Soviet-era apartment blocks.

Fallout from Chernobyl’s forest fires (The Atlantic) While forests covered 30 percent of the land in the Chernobyl exclusion zone prior to the explosion of the reactor, today they cover about 70 percent as nature reclaims the poisoned region surrounding the contaminated facility. The problem is that, to some notoriety, trees are quite flammable, and when forest fires hit the forests around Chernobyl they release cesium-137, strontium-90, and plutonium-238, -239, and -240, and enough of those to expose firefighters to triple the annual limit of radiation for nuclear workers. Fires have become more frequent, and more severe: in April, a blaze consumed 165,600 acres, and researchers as far as Norway noticed a bump in atmospheric cesium.

China’s unrelenting crackdown on Hong Kong (NYT) Weeks after ramming through a controversial national security law, Beijing’s proxies in the city are extending their crackdown on protesters and pro-democracy activists. On Monday, Hong Kong authorities raided the offices of the popular tabloid newspaper Apple Daily and arrested its owner, media tycoon Jimmy Lai; his sons; and a number of executives affiliated with Next Digital, the newspaper’s parent company. Monday’s arrests underscored the speed with which the former British colony’s political freedoms—including rights to assembly and freedom of the press—are being curtailed by Beijing. Chinese authorities argue that their repressive measures are merely bringing law and order to an unacceptably restive city. But governments elsewhere are getting increasingly vocal about the danger inherent in China’s actions. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has locked itself into a punitive cycle of sanctions with China. On Friday, the Treasury Department targeted 11 Hong Kong officials, including Chief Executive Carrie Lam, with sanctions for their role in undermining the city’s autonomy. On Monday, Beijing fired back, slapping its own sanctions on 11 U.S. lawmakers and nongovernmental organization leaders as a symbolic riposte. “An assertive tit-for-tat risks further escalation, but at least sends a consistent message that Beijing is willing to impose costs on the U.S. in response to U.S. actions,” wrote researchers Adam Ni and Yun Jiang at China Neican. “So Beijing will almost certainly continue to adopt a tit-for-tat approach to responding to Washington.”

Lebanese demand change after government quits over Beirut blast (Reuters) Angry Lebanese said the government’s resignation on Monday did not come near to addressing the tragedy of last week’s Beirut explosion and demanded the removal of what they see as a corrupt ruling class to blame for the country’s woes. A protest with the slogan “Bury the authorities first” was planned near the port, where highly explosive material stored for years detonated on Aug. 4, killing at least 163 people, injuring 6,000 and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. Prime Minister Hassan Diab, announcing his cabinet’s resignation, blamed endemic graft for the explosion. “I said before that corruption is rooted in every juncture of the state but I have discovered that corruption is greater than the state,” he said, blaming the political elite for blocking reforms. Talks with the International Monetary Fund have stalled amid a row between the government, banks and politicians over the scale of vast financial losses. “It does not end with the government’s resignation,” said the protest flyer circulating on social media. “There is still (President Michel) Aoun, (Parliament Speaker Nabih) Berri and the entire system.” For many Lebanese, the explosion was the last straw in a protracted crisis over the collapse of the economy, corruption, waste and dysfunctional government.

They return to homes damaged in Beirut’s blast to discover someone has already cleaned them (Washington Post) In the days following the Beirut blast, hundreds of volunteers have climbed chipped stairs and through blasted holes that used to be doors, armed with long brooms and shovels. They’ve entered homes, abandoned in the aftermath of the explosion that destroyed much of the Lebanese capital, and scrubbed blood off the walls, swept glass shards, and set aside torn doors and windows. With evident care, they’ve straightened people’s personal belongings: stacking books, hanging up broken paintings, righting religious statues. Often, the owners are nowhere to be found—or they return home to discover that the volunteers have beaten them there. “Every time I would come back to my apartment, which is obviously relatively destroyed, it would still end up being cleaner and cleaner,” said Adam, 32, who spoke on the condition that his last name not be used out of security concerns. A few volunteers had let themselves into his home through the hole where his front door once stood. “This has been the worst week of my life in a lot of ways,” he said, choking up. But he added, “I’ve never felt like I’m more part of a community though at the same time.” Hundreds, if not thousands, of volunteers have descended onto Beirut’s streets in the past week—some from other Lebanese towns, a few from as far afield as the United States and France—relentless in their efforts to clean up their city.

Violence in Congo (Foreign Policy) Nineteen people were killed in a series of attacks on three villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern province of Ituri, according to Innocent Madukadala, a local chief. Madukadala blamed the Cooperative for the Development of Congo—a paramilitary group that has been accused of carrying out similar attacks in the past. The region has been a hotspot for ethnic tensions, with the farming Lendu people regularly clashing with the herding Hema over land usage. Tensions boiled over into full-scale ethnic conflict in 1999, which was brought under control only after the EU deployed a French-led peacekeeping mission to the region. Tensions between the two groups have recently surged. Since December 2017, violence in the Ituri area has left almost 1,000 people dead and displaced around 500,000 others. At least 636 people have died since the beginning of this year alone.

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Trump rally highlights vulnerabilities heading into election

STEVE PEOPLES and JONATHAN LEMIRE June 21, 2020, 4:28 PM EDT NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's return to the campaign trail was designed to show strength and enthusiasm heading into the critical final months before an election that will decide whether he remains in the White House. Instead, his weekend rally in Oklahoma highlighted growing vulnerabilities and crystallized a divisive reelection message that largely ignores broad swaths of voters — independents, suburban women and people of color — who could play a crucial role in choosing Trump or Democratic challenger Joe Biden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niCxnEyG0SM The lower-than-expected turnout at the comeback rally, in particular, left Trump fuming. “There’s really only one strategy left for him, and that is to propel that rage and anger and try to split the society and see if he can have a tribal leadership win here,” former Trump adviser-turned-critic Anthony Scaramucci said on CNN's “Reliable Sources.” The president did not offer even a token reference to national unity in remarks that spanned more than an hour and 40 minutes at his self-described campaign relaunch as the nation grappled with surging coronavirus infections, the worst unemployment since the Great Depression and sweeping civil unrest. Nor did Trump mention George Floyd, the African American man whose death at the hands of Minnesota police late last month sparked a national uprising over police brutality. But he did add new fuel to the nation's culture wars, defending Confederate statues while making racist references to the coronavirus, which originated in China and which he called “kung flu.” He also said Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, who came to the U.S. as a refugee, “would like to make the government of our country just like the country from where she came, Somalia.” Trump won the presidency in 2016 with a similar red-meat message aimed largely at energizing conservatives and white working-class men. But less than four months before early voting begins in some states, there are signs that independents and educated voters — particularly suburban women — have turned against him. Republican strategists increasingly believe that only a dramatic turnaround in the economy can revive his reelection aspirations. “It’s bad,” said Republican operative Rick Tyler, a frequent Trump critic. “There’s literally nothing to run on. The only thing he can say is that Biden is worse.” But the day after Trump's Tulsa rally, the president's message was almost an afterthought as aides tried to explain away a smaller-than-expected crowd that left the president outraged. The campaign had been betting big on Tulsa. Trump’s political team spent days proclaiming that more than 1 million people had requested tickets. They also ignored health warnings from the White House coronavirus task force and Oklahoma officials, eager to host an event that would help him move past the civil rights protests and the coronavirus itself. His first rally in 110 days was meant to be a defiant display of political force to help energize Trump’s spirits, try out some attacks on Biden and serve as a powerful symbol of American’s re-opening. Instead, the city fire marshal’s office reported a crowd of just less than 6,200 in the 19,000-seat BOK Center, and at least six staff members who helped set up the event tested positive for the coronavirus. The vast majority of the attendees, including Trump, did not wear face masks as recommended by the Trump administration's health experts. After the rally, the president berated aides over the turnout. He fumed that he had been led to believe he would see huge crowds in deep-red Oklahoma, according to two White House and campaign officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations. There was no sign of an imminent staff shakeup, but members of Trump’s inner circle angrily questioned how campaign manager Brad Parscale and other senior aides could so wildly overpromise and underdeliver, according to the officials. Publicly, Trump's team scrambled to blame the crowd size on media coverage and protesters outside the venue, but the small crowds of pre-rally demonstrators were largely peaceful. Tulsa police reported just one arrest Saturday afternoon.

It's unclear when Trump will hold his next rally. Before Oklahoma, the campaign had planned to finalize and announce its next rally this week. Trump is already scheduled to make appearances Tuesday in Arizona and Thursday in Wisconsin. Both are major general election battlegrounds. At least one swing state governor, meanwhile, says Trump would not be welcome to host a rally in her state amid the pandemic. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, said she “would think very seriously about" trying to block Trump from hosting a rally there if he wanted to. “We know that congregating without masks, especially at an indoor facility, is the worst thing to do in the midst of a global pandemic,” Whitmer said in an interview before the Oklahoma event, conceding that she wasn't aware of the specific legal tools she had available to block a prospective Trump rally. "I just know we have limitations on the number of people that can gather and that we’re taking this seriously.” Biden's campaign, meanwhile, seized on a fresh opportunity to poke at the incumbent president, suggesting that Trump “was already in a tailspin” because of his mismanagement of the pandemic and civil rights protests. “Donald Trump has abdicated leadership and it is no surprise that his supporters have responded by abandoning him,” Biden spokesperson Andrew Bates said. Associated Press writer Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report. Read the full article

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Extreme cold in Midwest will finally begin to ease grasp

The extreme cold was still evident Thursday as frigid air and dangerous wind chills stretched from the Upper Midwest all the way to Maine, CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said.

At the cold’s peak Thursday morning, about 7 a.m. ET, more than 216 million people saw temperatures below freezing, including 84 million who dealt with subzero temperatures, Hennen said.

By the afternoon, about 30 million people were still under wind chill warnings and advisories — down from a peak of 140 million in the morning.

But the misery will slowly melt away Friday, with a warming trend that could give many Americans thermal whiplash.

“Today is the last of the extreme cold air,” Hennen said Thursday. “Temperatures will rebound quickly over much of the area that saw the extreme cold, creating a yo-yo effect of extreme temperature difference.”

Chicago, for example, will see a temperature rise of almost 75 degrees — from extreme cold of 20-25 below zero to temps in the low 50s on Monday.

And Atlanta, which has shivered in the 20s this week, will enjoy temperatures in the 60s when it hosts the Super Bowl on Sunday.

Chicago might be hit with ‘frost quakes’

Across the country, the bone-chilling weather has shattered dozens of records.

Chicago came close to breaking its record of 27 below zero when temperatures plunged to 21 below, Hennen said.

But the Windy City now has something other than a negative-41 wind chill to worry about: frost quakes.

Some Chicagoans were startled awake Wednesday by a series of large booms, CNN affiliate WGN reported.

“I thought I was crazy! I was up all night because I kept hearing it,” Chastity Clark Baker said on Facebook, according to WGN. “I was scared and thought it was the furnace. I kept walking through the house. I had everyone’s jackets on the table in case we had to run out of here.”

That boom was probably a weather phenomenon known as cryoseism — and dubbed a “frost quake.” It happens when water underground freezes and expands, causing soil and rock to crack.

12 deaths are now linked to brutal weather

As millions grapple with frigid temperatures, at least 12 deaths have been linked to this week’s extreme weather.

The latest reported death was in Marquette Heights, Illinois, where an 82-year-old man died from cold exposure after he slipped on an ice patch outside his home, according to police Chief Bradd Elliott. The man had just returned home and was about to go inside when he slipped.

A neighbor noticed him a few hours later and called 911, Elliott said. He died at a hospital.

In Michigan, the body of a 70-year-old man was found frozen near his Detroit home, police said. It was not clear why he was outdoors.

Officials in Iowa said there have been four deaths there this week, including the discovery Wednesday of a University of Iowa student.

The student, a sophomore, was found unresponsive about 4 a.m. ET behind a campus recreational facility. The temperature in Iowa City at that time was about 21 below zero, and it had been below zero all day, the National Weather Service reported.

Storm-related deaths were also reported in Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana and Wisconsin, authorities said.

Mail service is still suspended

The massive cold snap has also frozen some mail and blood donation services.

The US Postal Service said due to arctic temperatures, Thursday deliveries are suspended in parts of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

The American Red Cross said 370 blood drives across the country were canceled as temperatures dropped.

“The Red Cross currently has an emergency need for blood and platelet donors of all types to help ensure lifesaving medical treatments and emergency care are not delayed or canceled this winter,” spokeswoman Stephanie Rendon said in an email.

State government offices in Michigan were closed for a second day on Thursday due to “emergency weather conditions.”

Michigan wants residents to weather storm on less heat

Despite the frigid temperatures, Michigan’s governor is asking some residents to turn their heat down.

A fire at Consumers Energy’s Ray Natural Gas Compressor Station in Macomb County — which is responsible for about one-fifth of the state’s natural gas storage supply — shut down all gas flow from the facility.

With gas delivery inhibited, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer made a late-night appeal Wednesday to residents of the lower peninsula, asking them to turn their thermostats down to 65 degrees or lower until noon Friday.

It’s important for Michiganders to follow through, Whitmer said, “so that we can get through this storm with minimal harm.”

CNN’s Faith Karimi, Steve Almasy, Andrea Diaz, Marlena Baldacci, Joe Sutton and Dave Alsup contributed to this report.

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Beyond Brown v Board: Milwaukee Public School Desegregation Exhibit

The UWM Libraries Diversity Committee and the UWM Archives paired to create a Learning Commons exhibit that follows the story of Milwaukee’s desegregation efforts from the Brown v. Board ruling up to the early 1990s. In Milwaukee, where segregation was a matter of historical custom rather than the law, the struggle to equalize the education system is a challenge school administrators and community members still grapple with today. The goal of this exhibit was to not only celebrate the successes of Civil Rights era, but to follow that narrative through the end of the 20th century and highlight the complexities of education reform that are often left under-examined. 

1954 (May 17th)-In the Brown v. Board of Education suit, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that "separate but equal" educational facilities were "inherently unequal," and that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Initially, many people in Wisconsin saw segregation as a Southern problem, but in the 1960s Milwaukee was one of the most segregated cities in the country and its schools followed suit.

1964 (March)- Lloyd Barbee forms the Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC). This coalition worked to eliminate segregation in the Milwaukee Public School system through the use of coordinated direct actions.

1964 (May 18th)- MUSIC organized the first "Freedom Day" walkout and school boycott in Milwaukee. Students and their families were encouraged to attend Freedom Schools for the day. These volunteer-run schools taught students about Black history, racial myths, social justice, and techniques for peaceful acts of resistance. Barbee estimated that 15,000 elementary, junior high, and high school students withdrew from school and that 11,000 attended one of 35 Freedom Schools.

1965 (17 June)- Lloyd Barbee files a federal lawsuit, Amos et al. v. Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee which charged the school board with intentionally maintaining racial segregation in its schools.

1965 (18-20 October)- Civil rights activists across various organizations coordinate the second round of public school boycotts. The first day an estimated 7,300 students participated in the boycott. Like Freedom Day, many students attended Freedom Schools, and demonstrations were held at the School Board President’s house and the Mayor’s apartment.

1967 (May)- Students at Lincoln Junior/High, Riverside High, North Division, Rufus King, Wells Street Junior High, and possibly West Division call for curricular reforms. The primary focus of their actions, such as textbook turn-ins, is to gain support for an American History curriculum that included Black history. 

1967- North Division High School football coach Robert Harris publicly criticizes MPS authorities for the disparities in quality of educational facilities between black and white schools in the city. This lead to Harris’ dismissal as head football coach, although he was later reinstated. Around the same time, social studies teacher Jake Beason champions Black history in the classroom and also draws attention to inadequate conditions at North Division High School. Beason was also fired for his outspokenness and later reinstated.

1968 (January)- Hundreds of Rufus King students walk out to protest the lack of curricular focus on Black history and culture. Throughout the early 1970’s, clashes between MPS and parents continued, and many community members and educators organized around issues like improved facilities, increasing parental involvement in school decisions and introducing a more relevant curriculum.

1968 (February 4 )- North Division High School students, including (now) congresswoman Gwen Moore, meet to discuss conditions at North Division and asked for a February 5th meeting with School Board Director Richard Gousha. When Gousha does not show up for the meeting, around 1,000 students walked out of North Division. Following these disturbances, Gousha agrees to meet with a delegation of students and parents to work through curricular concerns.

1973- Amos et al. v. Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee goes to trial, and final arguments are filed in 1974.

1976 (January 19)- Federal District Judge John Reynolds rules Milwaukee Public Schools were illegally segregated in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment rights of the students, and orders the Milwaukee Board of School Directors to take immediate steps to desegregate the public schools.

1976 (April)- MPS Superintendent Lee McMurrin proposes a desegregation plan in which black schools would be closed and reopened as magnet schools. The mostly black students displaced by these closures would then “choose” to be bused to schools with primarily white enrollment. Working with the fundamentals of this plan, Judge Reynolds set plans to desegregate MPS over the course of three years, starting in fall of 1976. Over the next few years, community organizations worked to formulate alternatives to the McMurrin plan, and the School Board would eventually appeal Judge Reynolds’ ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.

1976- MPS introduces the Chapter 220 program, a  voluntary suburban transfer program which was intended as an early metropolitan desegregation tool. The program is barely utilized until the early 1980s.

1977 (June)-The Supreme Court called for a remand of the Amos case, which was renamed Armstrong vs. O'Connell, to the district appeals court which remanded the case back to Justice John Reynolds. The Metropolitan Integration Research Center is formed, and by the early 1980s the organization becomes an influential voice supporting broader MPS restructuring

1979 (February)- Judge Reynolds rules that MPS has administered policies which intentionally maintained segregation since 1950 and that the effects of this segregation were present system-wide.

1979 (March)- Following the February decision by Judge Reynolds, plaintiffs and defendants agree upon a settlement out of court which calls for a 5-year desegregation plan, allowing about 20 all-black schools to remain open, but no all-white schools.This settlement halts the third phase of the initial three-year desegregation plan adopted in 1976.

1979 (May)- With its black members dissenting, the Milwaukee Public School Board and the plaintiffs approve the 5-year plan. Judge Reynolds approves the plan shortly after, but integration still presents many challenges for Milwaukee. At the time of the first Amos et al. v. Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee ruling, two-thirds of MPS students were white, but, by the early 1980s, that number falls below 50% as more white families move to the suburbs. 

1980- By this time, most MPS restructuring for the purpose of desegregation has concluded, and the McMurrin administration’s new RISE (Rising to Individual Scholastic Excellence) plan shifts focus to improving the educational performance of low-income students of color.

1981-1982- MPS sees a period of stability following the settlement, and economic prosperity brings increases in enrollment for the first time in more than a decade.  

1982-1984- Intellectual and Civil Rights leader Howard Fuller and the North Division High School community members advocate for increased standards in MPS and criticize the McMurrin administration’s acceptance of black underperformance in the public school system. In 1983, the school board approves an increased GPA minimum standard of 2.0 on a 4.0 grade scale. Meanwhile, in light of a school board proposal to close schools due to low enrollment, there is outcry from parents and leaders across the black community. Many feel the closures will further the fracturing of black neighborhoods caused by initial desegregation efforts. Because black students are so scattered across the school district, many argue, the fiber of neighborhoods is weakening without any significant strides being made to improve the quality of treatment and education for their children. Research conducted by the Milwaukee Journal indicates that while Milwaukee parents were supportive of the idea of desegregation, they had grown pessimistic about the promise of an equal and quality MPS education.

1984 (June 28)-The Milwaukee Public School Board sues the state of Wisconsin and twenty-five suburban schools for intentionally confining black children to city schools. Howard Fuller criticizes the Chapter 220 plan and lawsuit for failing to address issues of underperforming schools and lack of investment in black youth. Serving on the Gubernatorial Cabinet, Fuller calls for a commission to study the effectiveness of MPS education--this challenges the claims made by the McMurrin administration that desegregation efforts had elevated the performance of black students.

1984-1985- White flight and a gradual increase in black enrollment results in black enrollment surpassing the 50% mark.

1984-1987- Integrationists become worried their vision will not be recognized. Black Nationalists and self-determinists continue to advocate for neighborhood schools and strong culturally grounded education, while the Integrationists’ base is energized by the idea of broader Metropolitan desegregation. Despite pressure from Governor Tommy Thompson to settle the suit against the metropolitan schools, little progress is made.

1987 (June-July)-Twenty-four suburban schools remain in the suit as out-of-court negotiations come to a head. By July, a settlement agreement is reached with a promise from the Governor’s office to allocate funds toward the metropolitan desegregation efforts and incentivize suburban school participation. As part of the settlement, MPS and the metropolitan districts would increase transfers of black students to 7,000 by 1993. However, the settlement did not lay out any enforcement measures for the proposal. Neither Integrationists nor Black Nationalists are pleased with the plan proposed in the settlement

These letters are examples of public opinions expressed to MPS School Board as Milwaukee grappled with the best way to desegregate its schools. Materials are from the Lorraine M. Radtke Papers. Radtke was elected to the Milwaukee School Board in 1955 and served as the president from 1963 to 1965; she retired in 1981. Identifying information of the letter writers has been redacted in order to protect 3rd party privacy.

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Wasted milk, euthanized livestock: Photos show how coronavirus has devastated US agriculture

A farmer checks on young female pigs at a hog farm in Smithville, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, April 30, 2020.

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As the coronavirus pandemic disrupts supply chains across the country, farmers are being forced to destroy their crops, dump milk and throw out perishable items that can’t be stored.

With restaurants and schools shuttered during national lockdown, prices and demand for essential agricultural products has fallen. Farmers who have already endured a slew of financial hardships over the past few years — from the U.S.-China trade war that sent scores of farms out of business to floods that wiped out entire harvests — are now left with an abundance of food that they can’t sell.

President Donald Trump recently announced a $19 billion relief program, called the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, that will provide $16 billion in payments to farmers and ranchers and $3 billion in purchases of fresh produce, dairy products and meat to be distributed at food banks. The program follows a different aid package that the Department of Agriculture implemented for farmers hit by trade war tariffs.

The president also signed an executive order this week requiring American meatpacking plants to stay open during the pandemic. The order was aimed at preventing a breakdown in the nation’s food supply chain, which is under severe stress at the moment. 

Surplus potatoes

Farmers in Washington state are facing a surplus of one billion pounds of potatoes due to restaurant and school closures, according to the Washington Potato Commission.

Potatoes sit in a storage facility at Friehe Farms in Moses Lake, Washington on Thursday, April 30, 2020.

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A farmer holds a seed piece from a clearwater russet potato in a recently planted potato field at Friehe Farms in Moses Lake, Washington, on Thursday, April 30, 2020.

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Russet Burbank potatoes sit in a storage facility at Friehe Farms in Moses Lake, Washington, on Thursday, April 30, 2020.

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Fresh produce rotting as demand dries up

Fresh produce is going to waste during the virus outbreak as supply chains crumble and farmers have trouble selling food. At least $5 billion of fresh fruits and vegetables have already been wasted, according to estimates from the Produce Marketing Association, as many farmers plow ripe crops back into the soil.

Farmers harvest romaine lettuce in Greenfield, California.

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There has been a drastic reduction in activity in the food service industry as restrictions are implemented to slow the spread of coronavirus. Many fields like this are being plowed under because of the expense of harvesting and the lack of profit.

A tractor plows under what would have been spring mix, a popular and widely distributed salad mix, on April 28, 2020 in Greenfield, California.

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Farm laborers practice social distancing, and use masks, gloves, hair nets and aprons. 

Farm laborers from Fresh Harvest arrive early in the morning to begin harvesting on April 28, 2020 in Greenfield, California. They practice social distancing, and use masks, gloves, hair nets and aprons. Fresh Harvest is the one of the largest employers of people using the H-2A temporary agricultural worker visa for labor, harvesting and staffing in the United States.

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Farm laborers with Fresh Harvest wash their hands before work.

A field washing station in Greenfield, California.

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The pickle-variety cucumbers were being given to a local cattle rancher as feed. Long & Scott Farms cucumbers are normally destined for restaurants but a large percentage of them are now being discarded or are rotting in fields.

A container of cucumbers is dumped onto a trailer at the Long & Scott Farms on April 30, 2020 in Mount Dora, Florida.

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Hank Scott, president of Long & Scott Farms, stands in a field of rotting cucumbers that he was unable to harvest due to lack of demand on April 30, 2020 in Mount Dora, Florida.

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Many South Florida farmers are saying that the coronavirus pandemic has caused them to have to throw crops away due to less demand for produce in stores and restaurants. 

An aerial drone view from a drone shows farm workers as they fill up bins in the back of a truck with zucchini on the Sam Accursio & Son’s Farm on April 1, 2020 in Florida City, Florida.

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A pile of zucchini and squash is seen after it was discarded by a farmer on April 1, 2020 in Florida City, Florida.

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Essential farm workers harvest zucchini on the Sam Accursio & Son’s Farm on April 1, 2020 in Florida City, Florida.

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An aerial view from a drone shows John Duffy planting corn on a farm he farms with his father on April 23, 2020 near Dwight, Illinois. Mild, dry weather has farmers in the state scrambling to get their fields planted.

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Pork in Smithville, Ohio

Virus outbreaks in pork-processing plants have caused several plants to shut down, leading to overcrowding of pigs in barns and discussions over euthanizing thousands of hogs in order to deal with capacity. John Tyson, chairman of Arkansas-based Tyson Foods, has warned that plant closures due to the pandemic will result in the loss of millions of animals like chickens, pigs and cattle.

A Tyson Fresh Meats plant employee leaves the plant on Thursday, April 23, 2020, in Logansport, Indiana.

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The Agriculture Department will establish a “coordination center” to help livestock and poultry producers hurt by coronavirus-induced meatpacking plant closures.

Young female pigs stand in a pen at a hog farm in Smithville, Ohio on Thursday, April 30, 2020.

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A farmer checks on young female pigs at a hog farm in Smithville, Ohio on Thursday, April 30, 2020.

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Dairy farms face weak demand

Dairy farmers grappling with low prices and a sudden drop in demand from the pandemic lockdown are dumping out as many as 3.7 million gallons of milk every day, according to estimates from Dairy Farmers of America, the country’s largest dairy cooperative.

Dairy cows stand in a pen at a cattle farm in West Canaan, Ohio on Thursday, April 30, 2020.

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The herd manager at Stone-Front Farm looks over dairy cows in a barn in Lancaster, Wisconsin.

Dairy cows in Lancaster, Wisconsin on Thursday, April 23, 2020.

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Alfred Brandt milks his Holstein cows on the dairy farm, which has been in his family since 1840 and has been affected by the industry’s supply chain disruptions created by Covid-19, in Linn, Missouri.

A dairy farm operation in Linn, Missouri, U.S. April 28, 2020.

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Lima Ranch owner Jack Hamm looks over his dairy cows as they feed in Lodi, California.

A dairy farm in Lodi, California on Thursday, April 9, 2020.

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Pictured below is a cheese creamery in Gallipolis, Ohio. The Trump administration would like to make purchases of milk and meat products as part of a $15.5 billion initial aid package to farmers rattled by the coronavirus, said Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.

Empty chicken houses 

Chicken processors dealing with staffing problems related to the coronavirus have been forced to euthanize chickens because of the reduced capacity in processing plants.

In Albany, Minnesota, Kerry and Barb Mergen stand outside their now-empty chicken house with a straggler who managed to elude the crew that came in just before Easter to euthanize the other 61,000 laying hens in their flock. The Mergens were contract chicken farmers until demand plummeted and the owner of their chickens, Daybreak Foods, decided to cut their losses and euthanize the flock.

Poultry farmers Kerry and Barb Mergen outside their now empty chicken house in Albany, Minnesota.

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The lucky 15 hens who somehow managed to elude the crew that came in to euthanize the other 61,000 laying hens in Mergen’s flock in Albany, Minnesota.

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Chickens arrive by truck at the Wayne Farms processing plant in Albertville, Alabama.

Chickens arrive by truck at the Wayne Farms Inc. processing plant in Albertville, Alabama on Tuesday, April 28, 2020.

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Empty poultry shelves at a Whole Foods Market in Vauxville, New Jersey.

Mushroom farm loses restaurant revenue

In Lenhartsville, Pennsylvania, mushroom farmer Matt Sicher is adapting to changes in his business as a result of coronavirus. He has lost lucrative revenue from restaurants in New York City that have closed. As a result, mushroom farmers are shifting from selling to restaurants, to retail, selling to individuals.

Matt Sicher, co-owner of Primordia Mushrooms, holds some Pioppino mushrooms at his farm in Lenhartsville, Pennsylvania.

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Sicher displays yellow oyster mushrooms at Primorida Mushroom farm.

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Beef supply hit by slaughterhouse closures

Many Americans are bracing for a meat shortage after the virus shut down some of the country’s largest slaughterhouses. Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to keep meat-processing plants operating during the pandemic even though many have become virus hotspots.

Rancher Martin Davis checks on his Red Angus cows and calves after feeding on April 21, 2020 in Paradise Valley near Livingston, Montana.

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Beef ribeye steaks sit in a stack in the meat department of a supermarket in Princeton, Illinois on Thursday, April 16, 2020.

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Empty meat department cooler shelves await restocking of beef products during the Covid-19 pandemic at a Walmart on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 in Danville, Illinois.

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EPA proposes rewrite of rules on lead contamination in water

The Trump administration on Thursday proposed a rewrite of rules for dealing with lead pipes contaminating drinking water, but critics say the changes appear to give water systems decades more time to replace pipes leaching dangerous amounts of toxic lead.

Contrary to regulatory rollbacks in many other environmental areas, the administration has called dealing with lead contamination in drinking water a priority. Communities and families in Flint, Michigan, Newark, New Jersey, and elsewhere have had to grapple with high levels of lead in tap water and with regulatory failures dealing with the health threat.

Lead in drinking water has been linked to developmental delays in children and can damage the brain, red blood cells and kidneys. It is most often caused by lead service lines — pipes connecting a home to a water main — or lead fixtures in a home or school.

At a news conference in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced changes that include requiring water systems to test lead levels in water at schools and child care facilities. Other changes would require officials to identify the areas with the worst contamination and toughen procedures for sampling tap water.

But Wheeler disappointed conservation groups by declining to lower the level of lead contamination in drinking water systems that triggers mandatory remediation. And another change would lower the amount of lead pipe that water systems have to replace each year once the threshold is hit, cutting it from 7% to 3%.

That, according to Eric Olson at the Natural Resources Defense Council conservation group, would give water utilities about 20 more years to fully replace all the lead pipes in a contaminated system.

Wheeler said a series of other, smaller changes in the new proposals are expected to offset that. Overall, he argued, the rule changes, if the White House ultimately adopts them, would mean leaking old lead pipes are “replaced at a much faster rate than ever before.”

Betsy Southerland, a senior EPA water official under the Obama administration, said the new proposals fail to boost the urgency of the country’s rules, issued in 1991, for cleaning up lead in water systems.

In Flint on Thursday, the pediatrician and public health official who helped expose the city’s lead crisis treated children at her clinic as usual. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha also told The Associated Press that the EPA’s proposed changes were “a missed opportunity” for not lowering the action level for lead from where it has stood for decades.

In that time, “science has taught us so much about lead — we’ve learned there’s no acceptable level,” Hanna-Attisha said. “I was hopeful the new rule would have respected current science.”

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UM Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter welcomes the crowd at the dedication of the new and renovated Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College. Photo by Kevin Bain/Ole Miss Communications

A line of blustery, threatening weather moving through the area didn’t stop more than 100 University of Mississippi students, faculty, staff, administrators and alumni from celebrating the successes of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College on Thursday (March 30) afternoon.

The crowd squeezed into the Honors College’s great room to dedicate the expanded and renovated building, putting the cap on a two-year project. The ceremony, which was relocated from outdoors because of the weather, also marked the 20th anniversary of the Honors College and was followed by a reception and open house.

“The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College is an incredible asset to our university,” Chancellor Jeffery Vitter said. “It distinguishes us among peer institutions and allows Ole Miss to offer exceptional personalized opportunities to extremely talented students. I am very excited to be celebrating its expansion and renovation today.”

Others making remarks during the ceremony were Dean Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez; David Buford, director of risk management for the State Institutions of Higher Learning; Honors College alumni Dr. Marc Walker and Christin Gates Calloway; and Jim Barksdale, who helped launch the Honors College when he and his late wife, Sally McDonnell Barksdale, donated funds to expand the university’s Honors Program in 1997.

Moving into the new space was “a 10-year dream come true,” Sullivan-Gonzalez said.

“The new building represents a great blend of classroom and study space to go deep into conversation with peers on the tough questions of the day,” he said. “We are grateful for the new and renovated space at the SMBHC.”

The $6.9 million project added 15,000 new square feet to the existing building, bringing the total to 32,290 square feet. The renovated section includes seven new classrooms, a new kitchen, study area, a great room, computer lab, three new study rooms and new faculty offices.

“This is great and I’m so proud of what has been accomplished here during the past 20 years,” Barksdale said. “In life, you always want the chance to do something significant and different.

“This opportunity came along at the right time, the right place and with the right people. What a wonderful return upon our investment.”

Both Calloway and Walker said their Honors College experiences have proven invaluable to their careers.

“My professional path for the past 11 years has been built upon my Freshman Ventures at Weyerhaeuser Paper in Seattle and my medical missions trips to Bolivia, all made possible through the Honors College,” said Walker, a 2006 alumnus who earned his bachelor’s degree in biology with minors in chemistry, religion and philosophy. He earned degrees from both Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School and is set to become chief resident in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Yale-New Haven Hospital next year.

“I’ve learned that surgery is a lot easier with the right tools and a committed team. That’s exactly what the Honors College offers.”

A Kosciusko native who earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2011, Calloway said the Honors College is where she “grappled with some of the toughest social, educational and political challenges of our time.”

“The Honors College is one of the most unique and enriching opportunities I’ve ever experienced,” said the doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. “Had I not attended here, I wouldn’t have had the courage, determination and tenacity to continue my education at some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning.”

The Honors College has grown tremendously from its humble beginnings. Opening with an initial class of 121 students in 1997, its student body has grown to more than 1,400.

The program annually attracts high-performing students from across the state and country. The average ACT score for incoming scholars last fall was 30.9, and their average high school GPA was 3.92.

For the last two years, more than 400 freshmen have joined the SMBHC each year. To accommodate the growing student body, the Honors College broke ground on its expansion in 2014, and the new addition opened in March 2016. The original building was then renovated, and work was completed in December.

“Our students enjoy deep conversations, and this is a welcoming space that encourages us to take time to engage in meaningful discussion,” Sullivan-Gonzalez said. “This provides the needed infrastructure to assure that this program will be the ‘tip of the spear’ to lead the university’s academic charge for years to come.”

The Barksdales made the idea of an Honors College possible, enabling the purchase and renovation of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority building to house the new program. That first gift also endowed 16 scholarships and provided funding for operating expenses.

Other generous donations include endowments from the Parker estates to fund scholarships, and from Lynda and John Shea to support study abroad fellowships.

With the death of Sally McDonnell Barksdale in December 2003, the Honors College was renamed in her memory in spring 2004.

“The University of Mississippi and, indeed, all of the state’s citizens are indebted to the Barksdales for their continued and transformative support,” Vitter said. “For 20 years now, the impact of the Honors College has been far-reaching, helping create a vibrant legacy of attracting the best and brightest to Ole Miss.”

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PFAS Chemicals Are Turning Up In Milk, Eggs, Fruit And Closing Farms

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Fred Stone at his farm in Arundel, Maine.

“Forever chemicals” linked to cancer are turning up in farm produce across the country, leading farms to lay off workers, incinerate cranberry harvests, kill cows, and dump thousands of gallons of dairy milk.

Such long-lived “fluorinated” compounds have been measured in the drinking water in over 600 locations in 43 states, near factories or military bases that use them in firefighting foams. Best known as PFAS chemicals (short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), they line numerous waterproof consumer goods, from hiking shoes to pizza boxes.

Now their emergence in farm produce has spurred state and federal agencies to ramp up efforts to test for the chemicals in a wider variety of foods, and to fund studies to track how the chemicals enter the food supply.

In June, the FDA announced the results of its first tests for PFAS compounds in supermarket staples, including cooked meat, fruit, and iced chocolate cake. The health agency said it did not see a “food safety risk” in its sampling and did not find PFAS chemicals in most foods. But it did report PFAS in milk and produce that had been farmed near polluted locations. While researchers at the National Institutes of Health and CDC are still studying the health effects of the chemicals, some are known to hinder growth and learning in children, lower chances of pregnancy, and increase the risk of cancer.

Farmers, meanwhile, are already reeling.

“They’ve ruined us,” Fred Stone, a Maine farmer who stopped selling milk after PFAS chemicals turned up in it in 2016, told BuzzFeed News. At his Stoneridge Farm in Arundel, the suspected source is PFAS-laced sludge that Stone had spread on his fields as fertilizer, a practice the state has permitted many farms to do. The milk tested at 690 parts per trillion for PFAS, nearly 10 times the Environmental Protection Agency’s guidelines for two of the chemicals. More than two years on, Stone and his wife still take care of their remaining 60 cows but can’t sell their milk. Stone estimates he’s spent some $10,000 on tests and is losing over $400 daily. “Our assets are our livestock and our farm, and … we’re nothing now. And this is an operation that goes back 100 years,” Stone said.

MAINE

Well beyond Stoneridge Farm, Maine state officials are grappling with contaminated sludge on farms. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection tested 44 samples from other farms and compost facilities, for example, the Intercept reported last month. The agency detected at least one PFAS compound in every sample.

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Fred Stone checks on his cows in March.

Last week, the state reported the first results of statewide milk testing: Three farms that had also used possibly contaminated sludge did not show detectable levels of PFAS in the milk. Also, the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry tested 26 samples from retail milk bottled or sold in Maine, including Horizon Organic, HP Hood, and Cumberland Farms Dairy Pure brands, and announced that all fell below the state’s detection limit.

“We estimate that this sample effort captures 75% of all milk sold in Maine and all Maine-produced fluid pasteurized milk sold in the state,” agency spokesperson Jim Britt wrote to BuzzFeed News in an email.

But Patrick MacRoy of the Maine-based nonprofit Environmental Health Strategy Center told BuzzFeed News that the state’s results were wanting: First, he said the state’s detection limit of 50 parts per trillion was too high. Second, the state needed to test many more farms that used PFAS-laden sludge. And finally, retail milk is typically a mix of milk from many dairies, so problematic milk would be diluted and might escape detection.

“The state needs to actually go out and test all the farms that have a history of sludge use,” MacRoy said. “That’s the only way we’re going to understand where the hot spots are and where the farms are unknowingly producing contaminated milk.”

NEW MEXICO

Across the country, a New Mexico farm with heavily contaminated milk now has the attention of the FDA and the USDA. Without naming the farm, the FDA’s June announcement included tests near a site in Clovis — and the agency reported that it found the chemicals in the milk, as well as in the cheese.

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Art Schaap’s farm is close to an Air Force base in New Mexico.

Around the time of those tests, dairy owner Art Schaap of Clovis told Search Light New Mexico that he was dumping 15,000 gallons of milk daily and was looking to euthanize 4,000 cows after the Air Force found sky-high levels of PFAS in his water last year, some 171 times the EPA’s health advisory level of 70 parts per trillion. Cannon Air Force Base is a short drive from the dairy farm.

In March, the USDA began two studies of PFAS in cows from Schaap’s herd; the agency will analyze blood, plasma, and tissue samples from some 120 cows, to calculate how PFAS levels in water translate to PFAS levels in milk and meat.

“Right now we can sample the blood, but we don’t know how that correlates to levels in the meat at all,” Shanna Ivey, professor of animal science at New Mexico State University, who is working with the USDA, told BuzzFeed News. The university is working with 10 live cows from Schaap’s farm to study how long it takes for PFAS to leave the animals once they start drinking water without PFAS compounds in it.

Ivey said the results will be shared with the FDA and the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and its Agricultural Research Service. “Any area that has an Air Force base which has agriculture co-located is going to be facing similar problem,” she said.

MASSACHUSETTS

So far, no federal agency has put a legal limit on PFAS compounds in food — the EPA’s levels are merely guidelines, Ivey pointed out. But that hasn’t stopped businesses from rejecting Schaap’s dairy products or food from contaminated sites elsewhere.

In Massachusetts, for example, Ocean Spray rejected cranberries from a PFAS-contaminated bog on Cape Cod for two years running, despite state and FDA tests that failed to detect PFAS in the fruit, according to meeting minutes from a local PFAS remediation group that included local government and military officials. The cranberry crop was incinerated. (Massachusetts is the number two producer of cranberries in the US after Wisconsin.)

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection tested affected cranberry bogs in 2016, 2017, and 2018, and almost no cranberry samples had detectable levels of PFAS.

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A cranberry harvest in Massachusetts.

COLORADO

In an early sign of the economic effects of PFAS, Venetucci Farm near Colorado Springs stopped all agricultural production and let go of staff after PFAS chemicals were discovered in 2016 in the water used by the property, linked to firefighting foams used at Peterson Air Force Base.

Susan Gordon, a former manager at Venetucci, struggled to make a case for keeping the farm and produce, but had trouble finding government safety data for food, she told BuzzFeed News. Erring on the side of “extreme caution,” Gordon said, the owners shut the farm down.

Private tests of the farm’s produce shared with BuzzFeed News showed that the compounds had infiltrated almost every type of food tested, including spinach, garlic, and carrots, as well as eggs, pork, and beef from cows raised on the property.

Ultimately, any potential health risks from consuming the tainted food would depend on how much a person ate and how frequently, Christopher Higgins, a civil engineering professor at the Colorado School of Mines, told BuzzFeed News by email.

“The primary takeaway from the Venetucci data is that it is not far-fetched for these chemicals to end up in a wide variety of foods at measurable amounts at PFAS-impacted sites,” Higgins said. He is part of a research team that won an EPA grant to study the extent to which PFAS compounds accumulate in food. “It’s one thing to show it in a greenhouse or even in a controlled experimental plot (as we did), it is another to see some chemicals show up in food that people are actually eating,” he said.

It’s possible other farms in the area are affected, but owners in every state are now wary of testing for the chemicals.

“No farmer in his or her right mind would go looking for it, because it would ruin them,” Gordon said.

CORRECTION

Jul. 02, 2019, at 16:36 PM

Maine’s detection limit for PFAS contamination in milk was misstated in an earlier version of this post.

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