Dracut Selectman Candidate Pledges Food Bank Donations For Facebook Likes

Dracut Selectman Candidate Pledges Food Bank Donations For Facebook Likes

A candidate for selectman in Dracut has made a campaign promise:  the more followers he gets on Facebook, the more he will donate to the Dracut Food Pantry.

Dave Martin made the announcement via a press release this week.

Government Failures During Coronavirus Pandemic Were Even Worse Than Mainstream Media Types Feel Safe Saying:  Book Review of The Big Fail
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Government Failures During Coronavirus Pandemic Were Even Worse Than Mainstream Media Types Feel Safe Saying:  Book Review of The Big Fail

Richard Mann

The Big Fail:  What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind
by Joseph Nocera and Bethany Lee McLean
Penguin Random House
448 pages
October 2023

This book describes the business aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the problems that resulted in multiple failures, both in the states and worldwide. The authors are working journalists with extensive experience covering business who previously collaborated on an important dissection of the 2008 financial crisis. Both are well-connected with legacy media; Nocera has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

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