The Public Library, Hall of Famers, Public Health

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You can thanks steel mogul Andrew Carnegie for so many of our beautiful old libraries. By 1930, Carnegie's money had built more than 1600 libraries around the United States. But that was dusty but cluttered edifices of the past changed. They morphed into tech savvy, state-of-the-art community centers and more. If you haven't visited your local library lately.

Connor Knighton says it's time to check it out. Go back when all the world's knowledge is bound up in books, the local library is where you had to go to learn almost anything more than books and this one of our slogan is that we are more than books for technology petting zoos to podcasting studios libraries across the country are adapting to the information age had the Sunday morning we check out the future of libraries Dr. John the poke looks at the vital role played by America's public health system perhaps never more so than now.

Plus Mark Whitaker on some unsung heroes, finally being honored by the National baseball Hall of Fame John Dickerson with a status report on the January 6 hearings commentary from director Adam McKay and more on this Sunday morning July 24, 2022 will be back after this New York public library now says that I took out tropic of cancer in 1971 and never returned. Know how much that comes to a nickel a day for $20,000 like Jerry Seinfeld used to return that library book you borrowed in 1971 prepared to be surprised by what you find when you do with Connor Knighton time to check out the library 2022. On a recent Monday morning, the citizens of North County, West Virginia. Check out check the life of an old user no longer warehouse. These are marketplaces of ideas. This is a community's living room for more than two years and $32 million in renovations downtown Charleston's public library reopened to the public inside discovered a brand-new caf� lending library, and I do with the latest technology. See and hear. Which is exactly what the librarians librarians from time immemorial languish beyond the beyond the age of that Erica Connolly is the director of the county library for podcasting booths to computerized sewing machines to augmented reality screens.

The facility has been updated for the modern they will not see it here. I'm not seen the books know we have 3D machines we have robotics we have three depends brother are still plenty of books. The redesign allow the staff to rethink how they were displayed was more about engagement how we wanted our public to engage within the library. It wasn't meant to show that wasn't describing a book and then leaving one of them to stay across the country.

Library attendances declined to 21% 2009 the 2019. Borrowing is actually increased. It's just moved online collections of shifted from physical to digital material that calls libraries to shift their thinking in terms of what might bring people through the doors good morning. Welcome welcome Austin Public Library Dir. Roosevelt week begins each day reading patrons they enter the downtown branch 200,000 square-foot building fills up fast and open for all of nine minutes of this point and its bustling are always like that people come to Austin's library to play board games videogames games giant chess alongside the actual books.

There are pro books and MacBooks to check out area host jam sessions featuring the library's collection of guitars. The most unexpected physical item that you can check out the library seeds.

Seeds yes if you will plant a garden. We have CC you can check out, so that's not something you have to return writers on late fees to govern the guard Austin Central Library opened in 2017 instantly became a community hub visitation increased in subsequent years. Were you here on opening day. Oh gosh I was here was one of the most glorious days of my life, and we have 17,000 people waiting to get into this building. The building itself is part of the draw right and open spaces to lounge and meet modern libraries are attempting to meet the needs of today while staying flexible for the future. More and more of these libraries are being built so that they are very open for I think part of that is that vision of long-term, we don't know what the next thing might be Miguel Figaro is the former director of the center for the future of libraries. It's really easy to think about the future is exclusively technological and I think a lot of libraries are keeping pace with that at the same time I think were starting to see that there's a really great future for these institutions. As place the value of having an open public place in your city in your neighborhood in 2009, the city of San Francisco became the first in the country to hire a full-time social worker for its main library, dozens of cities across the country have followed suit. A lot of the social safety nets have been underfunded or removed.

And unfortunately, that often means that there's a crunch on other public institutions like public libraries. There very trusted institutions and people feel welcome within them.

People like Andrew Constantino who for time was a daily visitor to the downtown Seattle library.

The library is like your grandmother's house. If you're homeless or living in poverty. That's exactly what it's like when you are allowed to be at the library whereas you know if you're homeless, you're not allowed to be many places years ago Constantino was living on the Seattle streets and in shelters library was his refuge place to get out of the rain get back on his feet. You mentioned the importance of feeling welcome here was like to not feel welcome elsewhere always socks you know it it's like everywhere in our society. You have to buy access you know if I want to use your bathroom. I have to buy a soda pop public libraries are public place where everyone can come together in one room. Recent immigrants practice English.

He and another first-time computer users learn how to navigate the Internet.

The Internet and always on limitless hope of information didn't replace libraries. It may have made them more essential. The side effects of some of the technologies where we do become so focused in on online information or online discourse that we forget how to connect with other people. Libraries retrain you. I think to be a member of the public to be part of the civic discourse while coping made those connections challenging. Most libraries closed during the height of the pan. There's been a recent slew of grand opening. Newly renovated libraries have popped up everywhere from Michigan to Fayetteville, Arkansas from Spokane Washington to Washington DC. I really think that far from any idea that some people might have that the library is somehow obsolescent. You know or irrelevant. It is actually the opposite. I think that our society as a whole needs more institutions and public areas that are like the library, much more a model for how we should treat other people than just an artifact of the past measles diphtheria scarlet fever and hooping cough. All of them diseases that are all but history thanks in part to the United States public health system. Dr. John the Polk takes a look at our public health workers and finds their tough job has become even tougher. Monkeypox is now spreading around the world and putting the US public health system.

Once again on the front lines in the battle to keep the country safe. I've heard many people say oh no, it's going to be another pandemic just like Tobit.

What would you say to them working extraordinarily hard and we are still on Dr. Rochelle Belinsky, Dir. of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the CDC has been responding aggressively educating health professionals and patients alike. There's no crystal ball.

Of course, but do you see monkeypox getting out more widely to the general population more more education on how to test for the total number of cases in the US has been growing steadily and is now more than 2800. While anyone can get monkeypox. The virus is spreading predominantly among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. To our knowledge right now most of the close personal contact with the US public health system, front and center. We thought this would be a good time to explore what the system actually does.

Why is public health different than the practice of medicine in medicine. It's the individual. That's the patient in public health. You can think of the individual, the community the planet as the patient Michelle Williams as Dean of faculty at the Harvard THM School of Public Health. She says the estimated 270,000 public health workers in this country. Unsung heroes do you think that one of the problems is that the public really doesn't value public health enough because they take it for granted.

Yes, when public health works.

Nothing bad happens. So you don't notice that that child that had a spell on the bicycle got up and is just fine because they're wearing a helmet, public health workers have a lot on their plate, including eliminating disease, cutting down on workplace injuries ensuring clean water and better sanitation reducing injuries from fires in car crashes and keeping our food safe to eat here and check to make sure he's not stacking this notice back where this is all copies of the bills of bacteria don't want that. Trey Williams is a health inspector, Oklahoma City. This is the kind of stuff that the general public has no idea that nothing in this right were absolutely hereinbelow today we the US public health system has a long history in 1799. Boston set up one of the country's first health departments led by none other than Paul Revere since 1900. Advances in health and safety have increased the US life expectancy by an estimated 25 years. Still, during the covert pandemic. Local health departments have had to scramble and improvise, providing the service to the public. Patrick McGaw heads up the Oklahoma City County health Department people drive under that don't have have an appointment. Nothing coping vaccinations boosters shot smiling eyes. It's warmer it's friendlier in your own car. The structure of the public health system is extremely complex.

Local and state departments, educational institutions, private industry and at the top government agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the CDC and the FDA know one person runs the whole system and not every branch has the resources it needs. Why in the world would anybody still need to use a fax will basically it's about the doctors offices that are all have secure forms of transferring information about you as a patient and technology to securely share health information electronically has existed for decades. Yet, at the height of the pandemic doctors were faxing orders for covert test.

This machine we need a healthcare information exchange that is just at our fingertips that the health departments in the hospitals in the primary care physicians can all share information so quickly and easily. But that's not what we have instead there's a patchwork of reporting systems across the country that don't defectively talk with each other critical during the early stages of outbreaks like covert and monkeypox and Dr. Belinsky says there are more challenges does SADC have the authority to demand that public health agencies around the country send information to it reporting cases from around the country is voluntary to the data systems exist right now to adequately collect all the information needed a lot of work to what really helpful workforce laboratory system in place that public structure truly lies so that we could deliver software. Why don't we have those systems in place right now long underfunding public health structure, and Michelle Williams says the public health system faces a brain drain. We know that burnout is real and it is pervasive when was your last vacation I haven't had a vacation calendar is already crazy is estimated that since 2008 at least 38,000 state and local public health jobs have disappeared. The collision of public health and politics hasn't helped lots of hate mail. Lots of hate email and in Oklahoma City. Patrick McGaw is feeling the heat packs that were off all kinds of stuff.

So when people question your motives. What is that feel like so I see that I have staff on the front lines, giving everything they have their family time their own health, their own finances and then to be attacked and called all kinds of things.

It didn't just happen because the pandemic arrives something else happened. Something cause people to lose faith and it's to the public's demise. It may do away with public health. Despite these challenges, what Michelle Williams is seeing at Harvard makes her optimistic what's happening with applications to your public health school year over year 50% increase in our applications.

They are running towards the opportunity to have an impact in this world and I am inspired by that because we are going to prevail.

It will take more time but we are going to prevail. Not being where I need to tell you is about to be destroyed is keep the bad news like in case you haven't noticed, it's hot out in all sorts of places all around the world. We have thoughts on the climate crisis from the man behind the recent movie.

Don't look up Academy award-winning director Adam McKay this past week around the planet. We've seen the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK catastrophic fires in Spain, Portugal, France, Morocco, China, a large swaths of the US.

Not to mention the tail end of unprecedented flooding in Australia.

Temperatures and events that were predicted for the year 2050 are happening right now, which means that while we always knew that man-made carbon emissions cause global warming. The speed of that warning, which, in fairness, scientists warned us was hard to predict much much faster than we ever thought. And yeah, this should be extremely alarming to everyone he'd events, flooding, firestorms, blackouts, food shortages and mega droughts are coming more and more, and after this week.

Whether you're a Republican or Democrat or whatever time for tolerating in action on climate should be over government is to corrupt or incompetent to take real action on climate amount quickly. If a media outlet refuses to talk about climate or downplays it turn the channel.

If a company won't stop emitting carbon stop buying their product before anyone gets to down about what just happened this week. Remember, we have the science but we have to start using it on a large World War II level scale and taking action right this very second word is now very clear after this week will lose everything.

Much, much faster than we ever thought. This is intelligence matters with former acting Dir. of the CIA.

Michael Morel bridge Colby is cofounder and principal of the Marathon initiative project focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition states put her mind to something, we can usually figure it out what people are saying and what we can know analytically and empirically as our strategic situation or military situations not being matched up with follow. Intelligence matters were ever you get your podcasts take out with Maj. Garrett this week Stephen Law ally of Mitch McConnell in one of Washington's biggest midterm monument list for me to Senate races you think Republicans have the best chance of taking a democratic seed with Nevada not Georgia. George is right up there, but New Hampshire's surprised New Hampshire people really just kind of don't like you have for more from this week's conversation, follow the take out with Maj. Garrett on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts in Cooperstown New York today. The National baseball Hall of Fame welcome seven new members and as Mark Whitaker tells us for several of them.

It's an honor long overdue for the truth fan entering the National baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York is like being admitted to a shrine. This is the very first class of inductees. It is a set of five gentlemen Hall of Fame president Josh Weyrich showed us the plaques honoring the patron saints of the game inducted in 1936 names that we know you just might know Ty Cobb got the most votes. That's why he's there in the middle. But, of course, Babe Ruth, Kristi Mathison on his swagger, Walter Johnson, the greatest players of their air, our where the first class the blank spots on the nearby wall will be filled by seven player were being inducted this morning. Six of them chosen by special committees set up to highlight players who haven't gotten there. Do it's a sign of how the hall is increasingly trying to tip its To the diverse history of the game is all in effort to make up for passing for past sins. I would say it's really just to make sure that everybody is given a fair shake in some cases it may just be that the lens of time has changed the perspective of baseball one inductee coming into focus. Played way back in the 1870 John W. Jackson, better known as Bud Fowler. He was the first black professional player to help integrate white leagues if you thought Jackie Robinson was the first to break the color barrier in 1947, think again.

Bud Fowler, a black player from the Cooperstown area was playing in white professional leagues 70 years before that he found a game that you love and it was with him throughout his life as a player coach, a promoter of a person who loves the game in a very different time in America so he play for integrated teams in that. After the Civil War set correctly word integrated. Joey showed up Yankees Hall of Famer Dave Winfield is going to give the speech this morning, welcoming Fowler to the hall.

He visited Fowler's grave not far from Cooperstown just a few days ago.

It was more than 858 I know little bit about my genealogy and heritage, and I know that my great-grandparents were born at the same period of time slavery was still intact that so I can only imagine what Bud Fowler went through at that time Fowler played alongside whites for about 10 years before the racial door slam shut in 1920 the Negro leagues formed teams of professional players who roam the country. One alumnus is another of this year's inductees. Many men yo so became known as Mr. White Sox others include Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and yes Jackie Robinson 16 years ago, the Hall of Fame honored some of the players from back then there were only players in 2006 from the neighborly 17 Negro leaders and at the time. There was one Negro league veteran who is considered a shoo-in.

John Jordan O'Neill Junior known far and wide as Buck was buckling alike as a player allows the a great defensive first baseman.

I think he would be in everybody's top five all time Negro league defensive first baseman Bob Kendrick is the president of the Negro leagues baseball Museum in Kansas City, cofounded by Buck O'Neil Toby one season in the buildings he made one error the entire season got over the book he was going to pick it.

O'Neill played mostly for the Kansas City monarchs and was a major league scout and finally the first black coach in the majors with the Chicago Cubs, but O'Neill was more than he remained a goodwill ambassador for baseball all his life started playing baseball. What a fellow member Ella Kidwell 1219 98. He told David Letterman about when he first play baseball. All of them around watching them play in always had good hands and the old member told me about an hour I was. I am going to remember most about Buck is that you always felt better leaving book that you did when you came to see Kendrick was with O'Neill when the class of 2006 was announced and somehow O'Neill didn't make the cut out as I will book we didn't get enough votes and he looks at me and he smiles out a cookie crumbles and asked me how many of God said 17 hits the table in jubilation.

He was ecstatic that 17 of his colleagues had gotten their rightful place in the National baseball Hall of Fame, now owned hair was that you could put 17 and block out and then O'Neill is asked to speak at the induction ceremony for those 17 at the age of 94 so I got a lot of things I like doing what I'd rather be right here right now representing the people that help build the bridge across the chasm of prejudice.

I've often said that it was one of the most selfless acts in American sports history because baseball fans were saying. This should be your Hall of Fame induction speech and there was this very kind and gentle man speaking only have 17 others, all of them be. They didn't have a voice and he became their voice and you die two months after that speed, and now I do over 16 years later, he's finally in the Hall of Fame. It was a very special person. His niece Angelo and Terry will give his induction speech.

You said you think that the hardest thing about giving the speech that you might cry. Yes, I haven't been able to write her cigarette outcry and tears of sadness or tears of joy about tears of joy and remembrances. Terry insists there is no bitterness over the long delayed recognition well of course I would prefer that he would be there. However, I have now or any member of the family has any lasting disappointment. He is in a place where he knows that he has attained his lifelong dream. You feel like he'll be there in spirit exactly visitors to the baseball Hall of Fame are greeted by a statue of Buck O'Neil listen closely and you might hear his spirit echoing the greatest say in all my love, I love you folk folk folk. It's been another week of hearings on the events of January 6, 2021 we have thoughts from our John Dickerson January 6 hearings that ended Thursday have taken place during the same summer months that 235 years ago. The founders devoted to writing the Constitution on this very day in 1787 the delegates in Philadelphia discussed the creation of the electoral college. The process of picking presidents that rioters try to interrupt on January 6, 2021 like this summers hearings, the founders obsessed about a chief executive who would use the power of office to stay in power. The founders new humans were deeply flawed, but in the end they knew the experiment would only succeed if some share of those who participated in government data moral core is there no virtue among us.

As James Madison.

If there be not we are in a wretched situation. No form of government can render a secure the hearings showed that there is virtue among us, the capital police, Justice Department officials, Republican governors and state officials. VP Pentz White House aides all showed it, but like the final episode of the hit drama. You can feel the seeds of a sequel that will challenge the heroes all over again because many of the political habits that led to January 6 are displayed in the response of Trump loyalists to the hearings about January 6 diversion distraction line. It's why conservative judge Michael looting testified that Donald Trump and his supporters are clear and present danger to American democracy, a hearing this past week offered a clear example of the instinct of accommodating the inexcusable, the committee outlined how, on January 6 president Trump did nothing for three hours to stop the rioting at the capital despite the presidential obligation to preserve, protect and defend, but Donald Trump was like a fire chief who did nothing more than warm his face in the flames by the standard of any professional failure.

This grave would disqualify a person from the job but to speak that plain truth out loud in the party. Donald Trump leads would cripple your reputation in the party, just as it has Liz Cheney's. Instead, the conditioned response is to distract so they office of the third most powerful member of House Republican leadership tweeted about the hearing all hearsay. It wasn't Trump officials were under oath, recounting their direct experience trying to get the president to act, but by attacking the witnesses, Trump defenders admit they have no evidence he did his job at issue is more than the actions or inaction of a single president, but the standards of the presidency, and whether a large portion of those who the founders relied on to maintain the standards have become practiced in lowering them or casting them aside entirely for listening. Please join us when our trumpet sounds again next Sunday morning me to remarry mar all my goodness, I want to tell you about our new shout to his knees, and in each episode, Nina weekly gastric cover on the quirky find inspiring and informative stories that exist on the ball because well maybe you do to the newest and Terry to sign trying to be quire to the right and wrong way to wash her arm. Also getting the things that you just kind of well probably not able to do in daytime television so watch out. Tristan is ever you get your podcast on the got