The week in review with Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda

The week in review with Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda 03/29 by Silvio Canto Jr | Politics:

Guest: Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda.......The Coronavirus story continues.....New York City is the center of attention......Biden or Cuomo....Vietnam 1973....President Reagan 1981..and other stories....

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New Yorker stay home

You can’t make this up.

Well, truth is stranger than fiction, as someone said.

Let’s check out what Rhode Island is up to:

On Saturday, the National Guard will help them conduct house-to-house searches to find people who traveled from New York and demand 14 days of self-quarantine.“Right now we have a pinpointed risk,” Governor Gina Raimondo said.  “That risk is called New York City.”New York is the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., on Friday reporting a total of 44,000 cases.Rhode Island has just over 200, and it has begun an aggressive campaign to keep the virus out and New Yorkers contained, over objections from civil liberties advocates.Raimondo, a Democrat, said she had consulted lawyers and said while she couldn’t close the border, she felt confident she could enforce a quarantine.

Honestly, I understand what they are doing. They don’t want New Yorkers to bring the coronavirus to what some call “Little Rhody” and others “The Ocean West.”

I wonder what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MSNBC will say about all of this!

On a more serious note, it is a sign of the times and how suddenly borders, and who comes into your state, are a major concern.

I wonder if Governor Raimondo will turn over any illegal aliens to ICE…

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The NY Times in a cartoon

Over the years, we've had our problems with The New York Times.   This cartoon nails it!

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A book about our parents and grandparent

My book "Cubanos in Wisconsin" was published in 2013.    

I've been asked a lot of good questions and shared some nice conversations with friends about the book.  

My original objectives for writing this book were two fold:

1) Say "thanks" to my parents for a job well done.  In other words, it took a lot of courage to leave their homeland and start anew.  Our parents did it and we should say "gracias" at every opportunity; and.

2) Introduce my sons to our family past, i.e. how did we get to the US?  Or, why do they have a Cuban father?  What do all of those "black and white pictures" on their grandparents' wall mean?  Who is that fellow named Jose Marti?   

As I wrote the book, it became clear that I had a 3rd objective:  We need to start a conversation between the old and the new, or the ones who came here years ago and the ones born in this wonderful nation that embraced us.

So get the book, read it and sit down with your grandparents.  Your "abuela" will cook the food you love and your "abuelos" will make you very proud with some amazing stories!

PS: You can listen to my show (Canto Talk) and follow me on Twitter.