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Salmon People: A Native Fishing Family’s Fight to Preserve a Way
of Life
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: January 11, 2023, 1:29 pm
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January 10, 2023 Editorial
[center]The Fight
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Aiyana George with her dad, Sam, at the end of a long day of
fishing on the Columbia River Credit: Katie Campbell/ProPublica
SNIPPET:
By the time Randy saw his dad in the paper, he was used to his
parents being arrested for fishing. He was about 8 the first
time he saw them dragged into a police car, and he cried.
Eventually, he’d get arrested, too.
Sometimes the police would stop by The Dalles Wahtonka High
School to see if he was there. If he wasn’t, they knew to search
along the river for his family.
More often than not, though, teenage Randy Settler was there in
school, frequently asleep during first-period history. He’d
spend all night setting nets and the early morning pulling them
and trucking the catch over to his mom. When he got to school,
he’d slip into the back of the classroom and nod off.
“I didn’t mind sleeping through manifest destiny,” he said.
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The Settlers became one of the most aggressive commercial
fishing families on the river. Alvin, who’d later become a
tribal judge, taught himself the law and began to test the
limits of the state’s authority over tribal fishing.
Mary Goudy-Settler and Alvin Settler took such a hard line on
treaty rights, and racked up so many fishing violations, that
one of the Yakama Nation’s council members tried to distance
them from tribal government.
But they were building something.
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The casual disregard for the lived experience of working people
in America is a sign of an unhealthy society.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: January 25, 2023, 11:48 am
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[move]Where does blind obedience to
[shadow=maroon,left]Capitalism's[/shadow]
[shadow=red,left]Social Darwinist Ideology[/shadow] of socially
and environmentally destructive Profit over People and Planet
end and a sense of responsibility start to take effect, if not
at the highest levels of government power?
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[center]The casual disregard for the lived experience
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/>of working people in America is a 🚩 sign of an
unhealthy
(SEE: 👿🦍 [shadow=red,left]Social
Darwinism[/shadow]
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/>society. [/center]
[move]"Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s
wellbeing." -- 1 Corinthians 10:24[/move]
"Fascism has always involved a morally unprincipled, ruthless,
and sociopathic pursuit of power as the supreme goal in and of
itself. ... ... Having no moral center and being perfectly
willing to lose and disdain old friends and allies is part of
the game. Fascism has no problem with self-centered individual
accumulation of wealth and/or power. To the contrary, its Social
Darwinian ethos
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/>celebrates such accumulation in the name of natural selection,
survival of the fittest, and proper social hierarchy." -- Paul
Street - January 6, 2023
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/>It's the 👿🦍 [glow=red,2,300]SOCIAL
DARWINISM[/glow], STUPID![/center]
Social Darwinists believe that the dictum “survival of the
fittest” (a term coined not by Charles Darwin but by sociologist
Herbert Spencer) means that only the 😈 fittest should
survive. Darwin's book published later ("Descent of Man") made
it clear that Darwin completely supported the morally bankrupt
views of Spencer.
Enthusiastic converts to Social Darwinism have, to this day,
used the language of evolution to frame an understanding of the
growing gulf between the rich and the poor, as well as the many
differences between cultures all over the world. The explanation
they arrived at, and continue to use to justify biosphere
trashing profit over people and planet, regardless of any
alligator tear filled mendacious claims to the contrary, is that
businessmen and others who are economically and socially
successful are so because they are biologically and socially
“naturally” the fittest.
Conversely, they reason that the poor are “naturally” weak and
unfit and it would be an error to allow the weak of the species
to continue to breed.
The money lenders have played a key role in funding this deceit
propagated in high schools and universities, where it is passed
off as "the Capitalist fiduciary duty of corporations to make a
profit above ANY OTHER CONSIDERATION, be it the health and
wellbeing of employees or the environment". It is, and always
was, legerdemain formulated by the monied elite to dress up
selfish, abusive, exploitative and cruel behavior towards "less
important" humans and/or animals experimented upon in research
labs, as "scientifically justified".
Social Darwinists believe that ethics based principles are
'limitations pretending to be virtues'. To them, ethics are
'feel good illusions' that humans invented to pretend our
species has empathy. To Social Darwinists, empathy is
irrefutable evidence of inexcusable weakness. To them, all who
are guided by ethics are deluded fools that should be eliminated
from the human 'apex predator' gene pool for the "good" of our
species.
The ideology of the Social Darwinist is indistinguishable from
the despicable ideology of NAZI Germany, clearly exemplified in
their brutally enforced morally bankrupt concentration camp law:
“Eat your own bread, and if you can, that of your neighbor.”
Social Darwinists are governed by both unbridled greed and fear
of tomorrow, which provide the morally bankrupt excuse for
rejecting altruism and empathy and embracing a selfish, greed
dominated, hoarding modus vivendi.
--- Quote ---
> "One who fears tomorrow does not offer his bread to others.
But one who is willing to divide his food with a stranger has
already shown himself capable of fellowship and faith, the two
things from which hope is born." -- Primo Levi, author of
Survival in Auschwitz
--- End Quote ---
Social Darwinism is the morally bankrupt world view that spawned
the profit over people and planet neoliberal ideology.
Neoliberal intellectuals like Friedrich von Hayek, Ludwig von
Mises and Milton Friedman were all Social Darwinists long before
they renamed laissez-faire liberalism (that had been thoroughly
discredited by the Great Depression) with the catchy title of
"Neoliberalism".
🤔 Based on what celebrated social theorist and
geographer David Harvey has written, I'm surprised that he has
not reached the "It's the Social Darwinism, stupid" conclusion
yet (see below):
David Harvey asked, "Is there a way to capture what (to the
detriment of human civilization) is going on now" ?
YES.
David Harvey explains that neoliberal ideology serves the
following principle:
--- Quote ---
> "There shall be no serious challenge to the absolute power of
money to rule absolutely. And that power is to be exercised with
one objective: Those possessed of money shall not only be
privileged to accumulate wealth endlessly at will, but they
shall have the right to inherit the earth, taking either direct
or indirect dominion, not only of the land and all the resources
and productive capacities that reside therein, but also assume
absolute command, directly or indirectly, over the labor and
creative capacities of all those others it needs. The rest of
humanity shall be deemed disposable."
--- End Quote ---
David Harvey, “The Party of Wall Street Meets its Nemesis
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/>Also, by David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism
(Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2005.
Agelbert OBSERVATION: If the morally bankrupt, socially
destructive ideology which champions the absolute power of money
to rule absolutely, while it simultaneously deems the rest of
humanity disposable, is not SOCIAL DARWINISM, I don't know what
is. 😠
The Social Darwinist Oligarchs hate you. They want you to be
slaves on their plantation. They want you to have no rights, no
freedom, and no future. The Social Darwinist DUOPOLY is there to
turn your energy state into fear and anger and sorrow.
Whether he realized it or not at the time, when Sinclair Lewis
wrote this in 1935, he was describing the Social Darwinist
worldview: “Every man is a king so long as he has someone to
look down on.” -- Sinclair Lewis
[move]"The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the
wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall
cry himself, but shall not be heard." -- Proverbs 21:12-13
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[center]"The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the
transgressor for the upright." -- Proverbs 21:18[/center]
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Leading Civil Rights, Faith, And Housing Policy Groups Urge HUD
To Swiftly Adopt Final AFFH Rule
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 5, 2023, 1:51 pm
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[center]Leading Civil Rights, Faith, And Housing Policy Groups
Urge HUD To Swiftly Adopt Final AFFH Rule » NCRC[/center]
April 25, 2023
Fair housing, civil rights, faith and housing advocacy
organizations issued a joint statement urging the US Department
of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to move quickly in
adopting a final affirmatively furthering fair housing (AFFH)
regulation following the closure of the proposed rule’s comment
period.
“The goal of the federal Fair Housing Act and, specifically, its
mandate to affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH) was to
rectify the [glow=red,2,300]deeply inequitable systems[/glow] in
our nation caused by decades o[glow=red,2,300]f unjust
policies[/glow] and [glow=red,2,300]practices[/glow] that
deprived millions of people from gaining access to secure and
healthy housing opportunities. However, for much of the past 55
years, we’ve lacked a robust framework for actually enforcing
this important AFFH mandate. As a result, issues like unfair
appraisals, biased technologies, a dual credit market,
restrictive zoning policies, health and food
[glow=red,2,300]deserts[/glow] and aspects of subsidized housing
administration [glow=red,2,300]persist[/glow] and continue to
drive disproportionate outcomes in health, education, wealth,
homeownership, technology, environment, climate, employment and
other areas.
“Our organizations commended HUD’s leadership for releasing its
updated Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) proposed
rule this year, an important step toward expanding fair housing.
Now that the proposed rule’s comment period has closed, we call
on HUD to move swiftly in adopting a final rule that creates
more equitable, well-resourced and inclusive communities in
which all residents can thrive. In order for the final rule to
accomplish this, a number of elements must be strengthened, such
as:
1. Local fair housing outreach and enforcement capacity should
be a fair housing goal category.
2. The requirements of the community engagement process must be
clarified.
3. HUD must increase transparency in the equity planning
process.
“In addition, HUD must address the full scope of the AFFH
mandate.
“We look forward to working with HUD to advance an effective
final AFFH rule, and we are eager to further work with the
broader administration to implement the regulation in a way that
truly benefits everyone in this nation.”
This statement was issued jointly by the following
organizations:
🗽 The National Fair Housing Alliance
🗽 American Civil Liberties Union
🕊️ Justice in Aging
🌞 National Coalition for Asian Pacific American
Community Development (National CAPACD)
🗽 National Community Reinvestment Coalition
🗽 National Housing Law Project
🕊️ National Low Income Housing Coalition
🗽 The Arc of the United States
🌞 UnidosUS
ncrc.org/leading-civil-rights-faith-and-housing-policy-groups-urge-hud-to-swiftly-adopt-final-affh-rule/
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[shadow=red,left]Social Darwinist Ideology[/shadow] of socially
and environmentally destructive Profit over People and Planet
end and a sense of responsibility start to take effect, if not
at the highest levels of government power?
[move]"The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the
wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall
cry himself, but shall not be heard." -- Proverbs 21:12-13
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📢 Dear 👨‍🔬 Colleagues: You Don't
Hate People — You're just stretched really 🥺 thin
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June 1, 2023 by Edwin Leap, MD
[center]Dear Colleagues: You Don't Hate People[/center]
[center]— You're just stretched really
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It's something one hears too often in healthcare. I've heard it
my entire career at one time or another. More in the last few
years, with the shortages, pandemics, lions, tigers, and
bears...
A nurse, physician, medic, or someone else involved in the
madness of bedside care comes back to their desk, collapses into
their chair in frustration, and says "I really hate people!"
It might be because their intoxicated patient keeps pulling out
his IV, blood pooling on the floor and dragged all across his
sheets. Later he was squatting in the corner, relieving himself
on the floor of his room.
It could be because a family member of a patient is particularly
demanding, and due to their own fears and frustrations, says
angry, biting things to the staff member. It makes it hard to go
back into the room.
Sometimes it's because there are just too many patients, who are
too sick, and the demands keep rising. Physicians and nurses
alike face this as people live longer and have more complex
illnesses. It's made worse because administrators keep piling on
charting requirements; medical records systems add new
time-stamps to track; and nurses, patient care techs, labs
techs, respiratory therapists, and all the assorted staff of the
hospital are in short supply. To top it off, housekeeping is
wildly overworked and underpaid.
Patients can't get discharged because they can't go to nursing
homes, or to their own homes due to weakness and infirmity. They
lie in the hospital for days or weeks in a perpetual holding
pattern, like a commuter flight circling Charlotte.
Other times it's far more painful. The team staggers out the
room where they tried to save the child who was beaten to death
by an adult. Men and women go to separate corners, cry, scream,
and dream of justice.
The car crash, caused by an impaired driver, leaves a young
mother paralyzed, a young father near death.
The great-grandmother, doing her best, is raising her great
grand-children on virtually no money, because the children's
mother and father can't escape fentanyl, or meth, or any other
substance.
A fellow staff member berates a colleague. It happens to
everyone. I've received my own share of this from other
physicians. We are not a monolithic group. Everyone in
healthcare is potentially divided by tribe and family. We can be
very cruel and our words, which should heal, can cut like #11
scalpels.
After all of this, people say "I hate people, I really do!"
To which I try to reply, "I've seen you take care of patients.
If you hated people, you wouldn't do this job. You love people,
you just hate the way things [glow=red,2,300]are[/glow]."
Before COVID, during COVID, after COVID, it has always been hard
to take care of the sick and dying. There have always been and
will always be tragic situations, hateful people, unkind fellow
travelers.
All of it takes a toll. The suffering, the wounds, the death,
all imprint themselves on our memories and likely onto our DNA.
But to everyone who thinks, in the midst of the fight, "I hate
people," I submit that you don't.
Quite the opposite. I think you love people.
If you didn't, you would never be there in the first place,
telling us about your hatred. Which is, by the way, just another
way of saying that you care enough to keep doing the job even
when it's [glow=red,2,300]terrible[/glow]. You're just stretched
thin; physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
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/>So, keep the faith brothers and sisters.
The world needs you. Especially the people you think you hate.
You see, I know the work you do.
Hatred doesn't look a thing like that.
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The Practice Test
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on his Substack column, Life and Limb
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COMMENT by Charles_Beauchamp 👍
I can vouch as a rural general internist at the pinnacle of the
[glow=red,2,300]Stroke & Diabetes Belts[/glow] and the Southern
Chronic Poverty Areas in NE NC that:
1) Hospital at Home services are needed;
2) 24 x 7 outpatient call is sometimes impinging on having
unconditional regard for patients;
3) Daunting are the forensic aspects of our care for those with
Intermittent Explosive Disorder & the ubiquitous availability of
guns to settle disputes;
4) Unless cultivated and curated regularly and with "vigah",
community pride in helping others can sputter to a standstill;
5) Riding on country roads to do home visits can be very
hazardous to one's health, especially at dusk and later during
hunting season;
6) Prior authorization of urgently needed medications is more
than a major nuisance;
7) Managed (very poorly) Medicaid with four different coverage
options in sparsely populated areas = a sign of insanity of the
politicians;
8 ) Sham phone call coming in on the clinic number --> wish one
could push a button to fry the origin of the robocall
9) The lack of local youth trained & certified to be community
health workers and home caregivers = a bad reflection on the
school system's inability to give youth the vision and the means
of becoming care team players in rural areas.
10) It is very difficult to recruit replacements for ole farte
physicians like yours truly in rural areas
11) Lack of help in making needed referrals, transporting
patients from the hinterlands to tertiary care centers,
arranging ongoing home care....etc = impairment of needed care
and increase in unnecessary deaths, especially during the
pandemic;
12) disparities in pregnancy outcomes, lack of adequate means of
protecting the fetus in its transition to becoming a person,
lack of protection of the mother, lack of [b]doulas and ready
access to needed care = [glow=maroon,2,300]third world
pregnancy[/glow] [glow=red,2,300]outcomes[/glow][/b]
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Expanded SNAP work requirements will do more harm than good
😟
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Date: June 11, 2023, 1:31 pm
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June 6, 2023 by by Robin Dickinson, MD
SNIPPET:
As physicians, we know our advice to patients to eat a
particular diet for their health condition is at least as
important as medication, and often more so. Caring for our most
vulnerable by making sure they have food to eat should be a
non-partisan issue. So why is the government making access to
food even more challenging? 🥺
Full article:
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"Every day, every night hospitals have to deal with the
social crises associated with aging and infirmity."
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: June 12, 2023, 4:50 pm
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June 10, 2023 by EDWIN LEAP
[center]A Different Kind of
[glow=maroon,2,300]Orphan[/glow][/center]
[move]All around us, every day in medicine[/move]
SNIPPET:
While some hospitals have more of the ‘exciting stuff,’ than
others, much of what I and my amazing colleagues do is treat the
injuries and illnesses of a rapidly aging population.
Although that may sound mundane it really isn’t. As humans live
longer and medical science advances, managing the
i[glow=maroon,2,300]nfections, heart disease, lung disease,
stroke, fractures, head injuries and other assorted
travails[/glow] of the
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/>elderly becomes ever more complicated. Indeed, we’re getting
better at it. We’re just not so good at adding quality of life
to quantity, but that’s another discussion for another day.
We also do more than manage the medical issues. Every day, every
night hospitals have to deal with the social crises associated
with aging and infirmity. Whether it’s how to arrange home
health after a broken arm, or where to place the confused and
violent patient with dementia, there are few easy answers as
skilled nursing beds fill up, neurologists and psychiatrists are
few and far between and perhaps most poignant of all, men and
women are aging all alone.
Whether this happens because they had no children, lost their
children to disease or injury, or are estranged from their
families, it comes to the [glow=maroon,2,300]same[/glow]. Many
seniors with [glow=red,2,300]disability or chronic
illnesses[/glow] have no advocates and
[glow=maroon,2,300]little[/glow] hope of flourishing in their
later years. 😞
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As I was contemplating this I had a minor epiphany. And since
it’s almost Sunday, I’ll throw in some James 🕊️
(brother of Jesus).
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is
this: to look after orphans and widows in their
[glow=maroon,2,300]distress[/glow] and to keep oneself from
being [glow=red,2,300]polluted[/glow] by the world.” James 1:27
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That seems fairly 🕊️ straightforward. It’s a
statement free of politics. (Unlike [glow=red,2,300]so
much[/glow] that comes from my fellow 😒 believers in
these [glow=red,2,300]dark days[/glow].)
But as I thought about my aging mother, my aging in-laws, the
men and women I see in the ER, confused and frightened, lonely
and without help or hope, I realized what I was missing.
Full article:
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"It baffles me that the Legislature keeps gas prices low
... ...but will not work to put a roof over their heads."
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Date: June 15, 2023, 1:36 pm
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June 14 2023
[center]Rev. Devon Thomas: Homelessness can
[glow=maroon,2,300]affect us all[/glow] when we least expect
it[/center]
SNIPPETS:
It baffles me that our Legislature will work to keep gas prices
low for struggling families but will not work to put a roof over
their heads.
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Housing and homelessness will always be problems to which our
communities should pay close attention. If the state will not
take up the problem, it falls to us in our local communities to
do the right thing and provide a place to sleep for a neighbor
in need.
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In People 85+, the fastest-growing segment of the population,
lifespans are NOT matched by health spans
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Date: July 23, 2023, 10:19 pm
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[move]In "The Measure of Our Age," elder justice expert M.T.
Connolly offers both a warning and challenge about our eldercare
systems.[/move]
SNIPPET:
We’re not ready for old age. Not as individuals, not as a
society. That’s the sobering news from lawyer M.T. Connolly,
former coordinator of the Elder Justice and Nursing Home
Initiative at the U.S. Department of Justice. In her new book,
The Measure of Our Age: Navigating Care, Safety, Money, and
Meaning Later in Life
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/>she outlines how our institutions, laws, and cultural
practices
have [glow=red,2,300]failed[/glow] to keep up with our amazing
advances in longevity over the last century. As a result, many,
if not most of us, are spending our final years with far less
[glow=teal,2,300]security, health, purpose, and joy[/glow] than
we could be having. (Americans have been
[glow=maroon,2,300]falling behind[/glow] peer countries on
[glow=red,2,300]mortality rates[/glow] in recent years
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We aren’t prepared to care for people living longer, either. As
many a midlife person can tell you, I’ve found my own journey
through the land of caring for an elderly parent to be difficult
in ways I never anticipated—often unnecessarily so. Gaps and
ambiguities in the law made it hard to figure out who could
decide and do what, despite my mother’s diligent planning.
Well-known financial institutions my family had trusted for
decades turned out to be predatory—with whole divisions set up
to take advantage of an aging population. Help was hard to come
by, as was knowledge of how to navigate confusing systems of
insurance, home care, and the constantly-shifting needs of a
person with diminishing capacity. All of it was crushingly
expensive—and my mother was one of the lucky ones of her
generation, reaching old age with a pension and educated
children to help oversee her medical needs and combat the
scammers that seemed to lurk around every corner, some wearing
handyman overalls, others in suits and ties.
Connolly has written a book not just to warn us, but to prepare
us and to offer insight into the changes and adaptations we must
make in order not just to live longer, but to live longer
better. She spoke to the Institute for New Economic Thinking
about what prompted her to take on the challenge of aging and
what she envisions for a final stage of life that is healthier
and happier.
Lengthy article:
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My final stop was at the beloved Dente’s Market, whose owner
who, like his city, nearly drowned but ...
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Date: July 24, 2023, 3:52 pm
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July 17, 2023, 3:31 pm By David Goodman
[move]Just when Rick Dente thought it was over, three tenants
who lived above his store came down, ropes around their waists.
They banged open the door and rescued the exhausted
shopkeeper.[/move]
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The mud-filled back room of Dente’s Market where Rick Dente was
trapped and nearly drowned on July 11, 2023 before being rescued
by his tenants. Photo by David Goodman/VTDigger
[center]Vermont Conversation: ‘[glow=teal,2,300]☝🏻
Someone[/glow] was watching over me’: A near death and a second
chance for Barre
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