Introduction I’ve been interested in improving my French for a while. I’ve made it a part of my bucket list to complete the DELF B1 exam, and eventually to complete the DELF B2 so I can be independently conversational. One tool to do this is the Lingoda Language Mararthon, also called the Lingoda Language Sprint….
Author: Dustin
Social Workers as Elected Officials
Introduction Social workers play a lot of roles. As advocates, change agents, case managers, educators, facilitators and organizers social workers play an important part in helping people and communities make positive changes in their lives. Despite this, social workers are themselves sharply underrepresented among elected officials. Currently, while there are 682,000 Social Workers in the…
The Importance of Vote By Mail
Introduction With the COVID-19 pandemic threatening elections across the United States and the rest of the world, it’s been more important than ever to be able to vote at home and not risk being exposed. One way to do this is through widespread adoption of voting by mail. In most systems like this (adopted years…
Sigourney City Council Meeting, Mar 18
With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in Keokuk County and across the nation, this City Council Meeting was a little different than most. Because of the Governor’s proclamation to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people, they decided to have us in the lobby with the option to rotate in and out as we needed to…
Keokuk County Coronavirus
Introduction The novel coronavirus (Covid-19), also known as SARS-Cov2 is a new virus that is causing a respiratory illness across the United States and the globe. It was first identified in December 2019 (Cleveland Clinic, 2020) in Wuhan, China. Symptoms of Covid-19 There is an incubation period (Lauer, 2020) of 5.5 days, with symptoms appearing…