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2026 Outstanding Women in Business

The 18th annual Outstanding Women in Business awards recognize a dozen well-accomplished professionals from across the region and in many industries who go above and beyond. The committee selected the winners from more than 80 nominations, all of whom were worthy. The criteria evaluated each nominee’s professional achievements, community impact, ability to break the glass ceiling and mentorship of other professionals, particularly women. In addition to profiling these women in the following pages, the Worcester Business Journal will celebrate this year’s Outstanding Women in Business at a special luncheon on Oct. 28 at the College of the Holy Cross. To join the celebration of these exceptional women, visit WBJournal.com and register. – Mark Conti, editor This Year’s Judges Worcester Business Journal considered 54 Central Massachusetts professionals for the 2026 Outstanding Women in Business awards, based on 83 nominations. These nominees were independently evaluated by two volunteer judges, who scored each on their professional achievements, community contribution and mentorship of young professionals. Samantha P. McDonald is a partner at Bowditch. She is an experienced, client-focused real estate lawyer, concentrating on business and real estate property law. She has been recognized as a WBJ Power 100 in the Class of 2026 and a “Top Women of Law” in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. Dr. Kavita Babu is chief medical officer and vice president of medical affairs at Heywood Healthcare, where she provides strategic and clinical leadership to advance high-quality, patient-centered care across the organization. She is also a member of the WBJ Outstanding Women in Business Class of 2025.

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Oct 5 • 9:24 AM EDT • Business • wbjournal.com
Skydance Executive Team Set By David Ellison Ahead of Deal Close

Skydance announced the executive leadership for the combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Oct 5 • 9:08 AM EDT • Business • hollywoodreporter.com
Dhar Mann says YouTubers aren't his rivals. Hollywood is.

BURBANK, CALIFORNIA − Dhar Mann doesn't consider other digital content creators his competition.

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Oct 5 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Building something with your hands — and a career

MakerSpace NYC is one of at least 2,000 community workshops across the country.

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Oct 5 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • marketplace.org
The Hollywood hits filmed in Africa
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Oct 5 • 7:58 AM EDT • Business • cnn.com
'The Outsiders' review: A dynamic staging at the Hollywood Pantages

'The Outsiders,' winner of the 2024 Tony for best musical and based on the classic S.E. Hinton novel, has its L.A. premiere at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre.

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Oct 5 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
2026 BFI London Film Festival Preview: Political Messages, Animation

Kristy Matheson previews key highlights and stars featured in the 70th edition and why she doesn't agree with people having "a grumble about how it doesn't seem like a big or a good year for cinema."

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Oct 5 • 4:00 AM EDT • Politics • hollywoodreporter.com
Adaptation delivers book’s tone, forgets some important details

For every novel, there must be an equal or opposite adaptation – that’s how the rule goes, right? Author Ali Hazelwood’s latest film, “The Love Hypothesis,” is Hollywood’s most recent

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Oct 5 • 1:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • valpotorch.com
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Woody Marks scores for a second straight game in Week 4

Woody Marks limited to 22 total yards in Week 4 loss to the Cowboys.

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Oct 5 • 12:46 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
White House tells ‘Big Bang Theory’ creator to ‘seek psychiatric help’ after he slams Donald Trump

Chuck Lorre is the latest Hollywood legend to lock horns with the White House, which suggested via a spokesperson he ‘seek psychiatric help’ after Lorre called Donald Trump a ‘bloated orange piece of s---.’

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Oct 4 • 10:58 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Patriots’ Christian Gonzalez-Less Secondary Takes Another Hit vs. Bills

The New England Patriots entered Sunday’s matchup with the Buffalo Bills short-handed at cornerback. Their depth was tested even further early in the fourth quarter.Charles Woods left the game after making a tackle on Bills wide receiver Joshua Palmer, according to Ethan Hurwitz of Patriots on SI. Charles Woods is hurt after making a tackle […] The post Patriots’ Christian Gonzalez-Less Secondary Takes Another Hit vs. Bills appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 4 • 6:43 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Fairfax Behavioral Health opens Lynnwood outpatient clinic

Branches Lynnwood will provide group therapy and medication management with a new focus on neurodivergent teens and adults.

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Oct 4 • 3:45 PM EDT • Health • heraldnet.com
Lakewood Health System, Staples, births

An area listing of birth announcements.

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Oct 4 • 12:00 PM EDT • Health • brainerddispatch.com
Commerce awards grant to help Health Department speed up septic permit reviews

Awarded $70,000 to the Snohomish County Health Department to help it expedite reviews of on-site septic systems for new homes.

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Oct 4 • 1:17 AM EDT • Health • lynnwoodtimes.com
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High school sports roundup for Oct. 2-3, 2026

Friday, Oct. 2 Football Edmonds-Woodway defeated Lynnwood 48-6 Nathan Schlack scored three touchdowns and the Edmonds-Woodway Warriors defense held the Lynnwood Royals to 37 yards of total offense as the […]

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Oct 4 • 12:58 AM EDT • Sports • myedmondsnews.com
Saturday Scoreboard

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Here’s a look at scores from around the area: College Football:Northern St. 16 Bemidji St. 9 FSDSU 31 Illinois St. 14 FUSD 44 Indiana St. 14 FAugustana 37 USF 20 F Boys Soccer:Hot Springs 4 Douglas-New Underwood 0 FSt. Thomas More-Rapid City Christian 3 Belle Fourche 0 Girls Soccer:St. Thomas […]

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Oct 3 • 11:33 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Photos from the Green Knight Classic volleyball tournament in Woodbridge

Photos from Saturday's Green Knight Classic volleyball tournament at the Connecticut Sports Center.

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Oct 3 • 8:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Demi Moore reflects on controversial ‘Striptease’ pay: ‘Why should I not get equal to what I deserve?’

Demi Moore is looking back on the controversy that flared up after she became the highest-paid woman in Hollywood for ‘Striptease,’ which left her wondering, ‘Why should I not get equal to what I deserve?’

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Oct 3 • 5:44 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
John Green revisits the movie business at ‘Hollywood, Ending’ author event

“Hollywood, Ending,” released Sept. 22, debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times Best Sellers list and USA Today’s Best-selling Booklist.

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Oct 3 • 3:20 PM EDT • Business • ibj.com
Eugene A. Woods: Advocate Health Ranks First in the Country in Nursing Excellence Designations

Eugene A. Woods: Advocate Health Ranks First in the Country in Nursing Excellence Designations / advocate health, American Nurses Credentialing Center, Betty

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Oct 3 • 3:12 PM EDT • Health • oncodaily.com
Hollywood Brown ruled out for Week 4

Hollywood Brown sidelined with ankle injury

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Oct 3 • 11:29 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Can Skydance CEO David Ellison Make Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Fly?

David Ellison has to prove the merged Paramount-Warner Bros., dubbed Skydance, can become a profitable Hollywood powerhouse amid its massive debt.

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Oct 3 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • variety.com
Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson were ’gnawing’ on wood for ‘Verity’ sex scene

The ‘Verity’ cast and crew broke down for Entertainment Weekly how they brought the ‘kinky’ bed frame bite marks to life for the film.

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Oct 3 • 8:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
How a 100-Year-Old Indie Movie Theater Stays In Business

The operator of the Cranford Theater in New Jersey battled back from the pandemic and a ceiling collapse — and is now planning to mark the centennial with a gala screening.

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Oct 3 • 8:01 AM EDT • Business • hollywoodreporter.com
Could Brewers' Woodruff Return in the 2026 Postseason?

Cleared for mound work, Brandon Woodruff is racing against time to rejoin the Milwaukee Brewers rotation.

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Oct 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
AI video tools like Slopcannon create new competition for Hollywood

AI video tools are getting better fast, giving Hollywood cheaper production -- and a flood of new competition.

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Oct 3 • 5:30 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Sidelines Scoreboard: High School Football Highlights (10/2/26)

(KSEE/KGPE) – Game of the Week: Clovis West 42, Clovis East 21 Buchanan 49, Clovis 42 Kerman 33, Kingsburg 30 Immanuel 44, Washington Union 8 San Joaquin Memorial 41, Bullard 35 Sanger 48, Madera 27 Redwood 34, Tulare Union 29 Tulare Western 49, Golden West 13 Reedley 38, Fowler 6 Sanger West 56, Fresno 0 […]

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Oct 3 • 2:38 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
HIGHLIGHTS: Glen Rose vs. Greenwood

MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – Greenwood was back at home taking on the Glen Rose Tigers and the Rangers fell 35-17. With the loss, the Rangers are now 3-3, and next week they’re at home against San Angelo Central. Watch the video above for the highlights.

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Oct 3 • 1:03 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Science Hill shuts down East

By Eric Woods Tribune Sports Editor Science Hill raced past Morristown East without much resistance from the ‘Canes, shutting East out 58-0. It was the… Login to continue reading Login Sign up for complimentary access Sign Up Now Close

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Oct 2 • 11:45 PM EDT • Science • citizentribune.com
Memorial Hermann In the Pink of Health holds 26th Annual Luncheon

Today Memorial Hermann In the Pink of Health held the 26th Annual Luncheon at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center. Memorial

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Oct 2 • 7:24 PM EDT • Health • hellowoodlands.com
David Ellison's Skydance is a pretty name. What it stands for isn't

By naming the product of two mergers Skydance, David Ellison relegates two of Hollywood's founding studios to a sub-brand stew and attempts to erase a bunch of controversial hires.

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Oct 2 • 6:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Rising costs, construction prompt pet store’s exit from Grand Rapids

A pet store and dog grooming business is shutting down its Grand Rapids location, citing rising costs, difficulties caused by construction in the area, and the changing character of the neighborhoo…

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Oct 2 • 4:37 PM EDT • Business • woodtv.com
Fox News Entertainment newsletter: Charles, William ‘furious’ over book; Harry, Meghan’s motives unclear

The Fox News Entertainment Newsletter brings you the latest Hollywood headlines, celebrity interviews and stories from Los Angeles and beyond.

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Oct 2 • 3:56 PM EDT • Entertainment • wfmd.com
Wynonna Judd Clarifies Rosie O’Donnell’s Trump Supporter Claims

“I’ve never spoken to her about politics in my life,” Judd said about O’Donnell.

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Oct 2 • 3:22 PM EDT • Politics • hollywoodreporter.com
164 slot machines seized in Sarasota County illegal gambling bust

The slot machines were taken from three locations in Englewood, officials say.

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Oct 2 • 3:00 PM EDT • Business • businessobserverfl.com
Photos | Redwood Coast Music Festival fills Eureka with listening entertainment through weekend

Venues include the Sequoia Conference Center, Veterans Memorial Building, Adorni Center, Eagle House, Red Lion Hotel, Eureka Theater and the Morris Graves Museum.

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Oct 2 • 2:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • times-standard.com
Alabama Politics This Week with Dale Jackson & Mecca Musick | Special Guest Assoc Atty Gen. Stanley Woodward, Jr.
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Oct 2 • 11:11 AM EDT • Politics • rocketcitynow.com
Five Best Books on Women in the Movie Business

The author of ‘Jungle Red!’ on revelatory stories from women on camera and behind the scenes in Hollywood.

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Oct 2 • 10:32 AM EDT • Business • wsj.com
Tom Cruise's latest risky business

Tom Cruise doesn't play things safe. Yes, obviously, I'm referring to him hanging off assorted aircraft and other insane things he does in his cinematic stunt-o-ramas. But in his 45-year history in Hollywood, Cruise has done a lot of different roles and navigated through various reinventions.

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Oct 2 • 9:58 AM EDT • Business • sanluisobispo.com
New Paramount Warner Bros. Name is Skydance, David Ellison Says

Paramount and Warner Bros. will exist as sub-brands in the larger corporate brand.

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Oct 2 • 9:11 AM EDT • Business • hollywoodreporter.com
The funniest man you know is directing the twistiest, darkest movie of the year

"Verity" director Michael Showalter’s career began on MTV’s early '90s cult sketch-comedy show “The State.” Thirty years later, he’s helming big Hollywood films.

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Oct 2 • 8:53 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
How to watch Ravenwood vs Independence high school football

You can watch Ravenwood football all season long with NFHS Network, including this week’s game against Independence.

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Oct 2 • 7:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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L.L. Bean, Super G Mart lead wave of Upstate business growth

Here's a round-up of Upstate business news, including when to expect L.L. Bean, Super G Mart, Tractor Supply, Scout's Doughnuts and more to open.

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Oct 2 • 5:02 AM EDT • Business • greenvilleonline.com
Forgotten Record Review: Traffic was a rock band at heart

If “Shanghai Noodle Factory” isn’t the greatest song ever written, it certainly deserves a place on the list. Steve Winwood sings about being just a number, “Packed like roosters in a pen/Crowing, never knowing.”

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Oct 2 • 1:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • daytondailynews.com
Prep sports recap for Oct. 1, 2026

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBDWYZZ) — It didn’t take long for Richwoods to get comfortable in the postsseason. Senior Acosia Morris ran on an 86-yard run on the first place from scrimmage as host Richwoods beat Hollsboro, 65-6, in a regional quarterfinal game in girls flag football at Peoria Stadium on Thursday. Morris added a long touchdown […]

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Oct 2 • 12:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Week 5: Thursday Louisiana high school football scores

Haughton 55, Parkway 36 Bossier 34, Southwood 12 Northwood Lena 28, Ringgold 50 West Point (MS) 2, Ruston 29 Haynesville 48, Union Parish 27

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Oct 1 • 11:43 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
'Mini-Woodstock' Music Series Raises Money for Mental Health

As Johnny Ray of the Swampscott Performing Arts Center and the Marblehead Counseling Center (MCC) discussed a potential event, Ray said, “So you’re trying to put on a mini-Woodstock.” Just...

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Oct 1 • 11:19 PM EDT • Health • swampscotttides.org
Thursday Night Lights: Eastwood vs. Pebble Hills

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — High school football action starts on Thursday, Oct. 1 and KTSM+ is the place to watch our Thursday Night Lights game! EP Broadcast Company will be livestreaming the Eastwood vs. Pebble Hills game on KTSM+, set to kick off at 7 p.m., with color commentary provided by Mando “The Monster” […]

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Oct 1 • 8:48 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Midtown Costco closes, set to reopen as business center in 2027

Shoppers packed Costco on Linwood Boulevard on Thursday as the Midtown location served its final day before closing and beginning its transition into a Costco Business Center.

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Oct 1 • 7:05 PM EDT • Business • kshb.com
#9OT high school football week 6 schedule

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Week 6 of high school football in the Borderland is gearing up, and KTSM 9 News’ 9 Overtime show is ready to bring you all the action! On Thursday, Oct. 1, the El Paso Broadcast Company will livestream the Eastwood vs. Pebble Hills game for Thursday Night Lights, scheduled to […]

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Oct 1 • 4:03 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Erik Bright Joins PMK Entertainment in Executive VP Role

"Erik brings an exceptional combination of creative vision, deep industry relationships and strategic communications expertise to PMK," said company CEO Cindi Berger.

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Oct 1 • 3:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • hollywoodreporter.com
Howard Payne University hosts Community Leadership Lunch and Learn for area business and community leaders

BROWNWOOD – October 1, 2026 – Howard Payne University (HPU) hosted its annual Community Leadership Lunch and Learn Tuesday, bringing together representatives from more than a dozen area businesses and…

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Oct 1 • 2:57 PM EDT • Business • hputx.edu
Demetriou: From detective to entrepreneur: What the badge taught me about business

Greg Demetriou, former nyc detective, applies investigative skills to lead Lorraine Gregory Communications in Edgewood.

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Oct 1 • 2:03 PM EDT • Business • libn.com
Taft ISD hosts Math, Science STEM family night

Taft ISD students recently received the chance to show off their Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) skills during a family night and book fair at the district’s Woodroe Petty

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Oct 1 • 1:15 PM EDT • Science • southtexasnews.com
Young RWJBarnabas Health Patients Celebrate Disease-Free Milestone Following Advanced Sickle Cell Treatments

Pediatric patients treated for sickle cell disease through the Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapies Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute and The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital gathered with their families and care teams to celebrate a milestone once out of reach for many people living with the disease.

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Oct 1 • 1:01 PM EDT • Health • rwjbh.org
The fun is over: Beloved entertainment center in Wynwood is closing. Here’s why

The game room opened in 2017.

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Oct 1 • 12:46 PM EDT • Entertainment • miamiherald.com
WME Unveils Creator Labs to Help Clients Build Media Businesses

Clients including creator Julian Shapiro-Barnum, soccer star Erling Haaland and more have tapped into the services.

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Oct 1 • 12:30 PM EDT • Business • hollywoodreporter.com
Scientists, fishermen want feds to keep funding deep-ocean observation system

New England scientists and fishermen are urging the Trump administration to continue funding the Ocean Observatories Initiative — a network of hundreds of buoys and gliders that collect data from remote parts of the ocean. The National Science Foundation began quietly dismantling the deep-ocean observation system last summer, until the effort was blocked by the U.S. Senate

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Oct 1 • 12:20 PM EDT • Science • nenc.news
UTA Shakes Up Filmed Entertainment Group: Matt Rice Named President

The exec will be joined by newly elevated managing partners Allan Haldeman, Blair Kohan, Jay Gassner and Julien Thuan, as well as a Filmed Entertainment Board.

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Oct 1 • 12:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • hollywoodreporter.com
‘Momentous’ groundbreaking sets stage for new health, community center in Fairfax City

Fairfax City officials and some of their Fairfax County colleagues gathered Wednesday (Sept. 30) to kick off an expected three years of construction of the future Willard-Sherwood Health & Community Center. Built on the Blenheim Blvd site long occupied by the Joseph Willard Health Center, the new 100,000-square-foot facility will serve both city and county

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Oct 1 • 11:45 AM EDT • Health • ffxnow.com
New Fox Business Network FBN Lineup Replacing Maria Bartiromo

FBN will replace Bartiromo's old timeslot with 'Big Money in the Morning,' with new co-hosts for the lunchtime program and Li Claman adding a Friday evening program.

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Oct 1 • 11:25 AM EDT • Business • hollywoodreporter.com
Wisconsin native Bradley Whitford honored with Hollywood Walk of Fame star

MADISON (WKOW) -- Emmy Award-winning actor Bradley Whitford was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Wednesday.

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Oct 1 • 10:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • wqow.com
Wisconsin native Bradley Whitford honored with Hollywood Walk of Fame star

MADISON (WKOW) -- Emmy Award-winning actor Bradley Whitford was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Wednesday.

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Oct 1 • 10:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • wxow.com
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TGL renews media-rights partnership with ESPN

The Tiger Woods/Rory McIlroy-backed golf simulator league will be returning to ESPN networks for Season 3 in 2027

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Oct 1 • 10:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Live Nation Launching Creator Nation Management Business

Creator Nation will be led by Scott and Alexis Fisher, and seek to acquire and grow creator management firms and adjacent businesses.

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Oct 1 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • hollywoodreporter.com
Evolution and climate change are missing from Florida's proposed science standards

The Florida Department of Education held its first listening session at Armwood High School. Some teachers brought up their concerns about missing topics, such as evolution.

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Oct 1 • 7:51 AM EDT • Science • news.wfsu.org
Football Frenzy Week 6 Preview: Conference battles heat up

The battle for championships in respective conferences around the West Michigan area are heating up as we enter Week 6.

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Oct 1 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Inside Larry Ellison's Wide Web of Power, Money and Politics, As Oracle's Data Centers Claim Force Majeure

The $200 billion software titan has suctioned himself to many hubs of influence—from data centers to TikTok to Hollywood studios to the Oval Office itself. Tom Dotan dives deep into Ellison’s kingdom, starting on the island enclave of Lanai.

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Oct 1 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • vanityfair.com
Appalachian Murder Mystery dinner theater event coming to Aspire! Conservatory

ASHLAND, Ky. — The question is simple: who killed Elias Blackwood?

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Oct 1 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • herald-dispatch.com
September Monthly Review: Health MCP Guy?

For all the time I spend talking about APIs and data exchange, this newsletter has had embarrassingly little interoperability of its own. It’s old-school SaaS, baby - UI or bust. Not all of that is my fault! Substack, for all its popularity, is (as mentioned before) really frustrating as my system of record. The primary user it optimizes towards is the reader, whose attention feeds the app, the Notes feed, and the recommendation network that Substack is actually selling. Health API Guy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe They’re falling into the same trap that Medium once sprinted into, albeit at a much more glacial speed. Younger generations may not remember (or never knew) it, but Medium once lured publications like The Ringer and Signal v. Noise onto its platform, only to lose them as it rebuilt itself around a paywall and an algorithmic feed. Substack’s original pitch circa 2020 was the antidote (you own your list), but every new feed feature chips away at it. I get it: writers are generic supply in the eyes of the Substack product team. Generic supply follows demand, so the consistent pressure on the PMs is to generate demand, which leads to every product cycle going toward discovery (Notes, recommendations, the app, live video). The end result lackluster author tools (laggy and broken analytics are truly crippling) all despite the premium price point. The archive is where it crosses from authorial gripes to actual reader impact, though. Across Substack and LinkedIn, I’ve published 1,218 posts and nearly 900,000 words since 2018. Substack’s native search can see only the 464 posts that live on Substack, and even there it’s woefully inadequate at surfacing relevant content (even for the guy who wrote it)! Readers have the same problem, writ large. Ask the Archive Fixing search (for both my readers and my own use) turned out to be extremely non-trivial, unfortunately: There’s no public API for readers to access content RSS exists for new content notification, but it only carries the 20 most recent posts and cuts paid ones off at the preview The only Substack MCP is an admin tool for analytics The export exists for authors, but it’s painfully awkward and slow. So I built something to work around that: the Health API Guy MCP. It’s a private MCP server holding the full text of everything I’ve written across Substack and LinkedIn. Add it to Claude or ChatGPT as a connector and you can ask things like: It pairs keyword search (for acronyms and case names, of which we have many) with semantic search. Every post is also labeled by topic, form, and court case, so you can pull a lawsuit’s (or multiple cases’) entire docket across Substack and LinkedIn in one query: Hail, Healthapiguyhydra This is also a bit of me eating my own cooking. I’ve spent the year arguing that headless healthcare is arriving and that developers want primitives over abstractions. Last week in Hail, Benihydra, I watched Salesforce plug its platform into Claude and bet that the records underneath outlive whatever interface sits on top: Salesforce must believe that the Hydra’s immortal head is the records, permissions, and business logic (in that they will survive whatever happens to the interface). It felt a bit hypocritical to keep my own archive behind a Substack search bar. The archive is the body. Substack is one head, and now whatever tool you might use is another. Will the EHRs follow my lead? Probably not imminently, but one can hope! Why Founding Members Only The MCP is available to Founding Member subscribers. A few reasons: It costs money and time to run. Hosting, the database, Clerk usage and AI compute for search and labeling are significant operational costs (that increase with usage). Substack gives me no way to automate access. There’s no API to check whether someone is a paid subscriber, so every user is manual operations for now. It’s a beta. We’ll need to improve things and parts will break. I’d rather they break for a small group of dedicated readers who will tell me about it. The Founding tier deserved a real benefit. Until now it was mostly a generous tip. Now it comes with something. If you’re already a Founding Member, reply to this email with the address you’d like provisioned. If you’re not and want in, upgrade here. Larger teams (such as companies) can get access too: group subscriptions at the Founding tier come with the group discount. The admin for the subscription can reply with the list of addresses to provision. Get 20% off a group subscription Pricing Founding membership is now a flat $200 a year, replacing the old suggested $150 that readers could adjust. Existing Founding Members will have access grandfathered in at their previous rate. Month in Review Articles Published Make Networks Dumb Again (Sep 11): AI is making old analog networks cheaper to use and flooding them with machine traffic in the process. A plea for agent-native rails with the intelligence at the endpoints, and for Washington to drag them to ubiquity. Interoperability, Unbuttoned (Sep 29): Interoperability is a series of workflows in a trenchcoat, and this post finally takes the trenchcoat off. A color-coded map shows which provider workflows went digital, which are fragmented, and which still run on fax. Video Content Antitrust’s System of Record Problem (Sep 3): The FTC’s investigation into Epic prompted a ninety-minute webinar, now posted with chapters and a smoothed transcript. We get into why market definition, missing B2B share data, and the SSNIP test leave antitrust poorly suited to systems of record, plus why information blocking may be doing more than any pending lawsuit. The Information Exchange: Cerner Milking Edition (Sep 18): This was so fucking fun. Ryan Tucker, Ryan Brickner, Brad Thorson, and I try an Around the Horn format, complete with points, penalties, and a mute button. We debate whether Oracle Health is dead, who would actually buy Cerner (IBM enters the chat), p(Doom), and why the front desk still hands you a clipboard. Regulatory Ask Not What Your Network Can Do (Sep 23): CDC’s RFI on public health data intermediaries lists use cases already served, unevenly, by eCR, lab reporting, IZ Gateway, and syndromic surveillance. The real opportunity sits in one question about AI: a network that can handle the next emergency without another interface project. Court cases Particle v. Epic: The Naughty Schoolteacher (Sep 4): After a summer-long vigil, the answer on Epic’s early summary judgment bid is two paragraphs and a remedial assignment. Particle advances to the next grade, and market definition gets another year of discovery. The Epic Discovery Files (Sep 8): Texas’s motions to compel arrive with a 251-page appendix of requests, objections, and meet-and-confer letters with Cravath. Inside: Epic using generative AI for document review, denied interoperability requests in scope, and Noerr-Pennington raised against lobbying discovery. Epic v. Health Gorilla: “Working as Designed” (Sep 9): Epic wants nothing to do with the data breach MDL, and explaining why puts fresh discovery on the public docket. The spiciest allegation: Health Gorilla told GuardDog to scrub its law firm business from its website instead of cutting off access. Veeva v. Epic: Legal Bypass Surgery (Sep 15): Veeva asks the Wisconsin Supreme Court to skip the Court of Appeals, while law professors and three policy groups line up as amici. Meanwhile, Epic’s lawyers apologize for another round of citation errors, including a quote that never existed. Texas v. Epic: Behind the Black Bars (Sep 17): The court portal served up Epic’s unredacted filings, revealing a $5 million document review budget and the AI workflow behind it. Also inside: the 200-plus company names Texas wants searched, and one very expensive Zoom invitation. OpenEvidence v. Doximity: Consequences Will Follow (Sep 25): OpenEvidence tells the court it will not comply with a discovery order, and its own lawyers at Quinn Emanuel say they won’t defend the choice. Add years of Slack reported unrecoverable, and Rule 37 sanctions come into view. Health Tech Keeps Choosing Violence (Sep 28): Doximity moves to end OpenEvidence’s case, Epic asks Texas to show its work, and a sleepy Audacious Inquiry patent fight sprouts antitrust and information blocking counterclaims. The main event is a long-sealed Cognizant v. Infosys ruling that hints where system of record antitrust claims can survive. EHRs One Verb for Oracle Health (Sep 14): Oracle’s earnings call quantifies every data center to the decimal point, while Oracle Health gets a single verb: “accelerate.” Panning the few healthcare mentions turns up an agentic care management system, a research-to-care ledger play, and the question of whether healthcare gets Larry’s patience. Epic’s Forretress Under Siege (Sep 30): Judy Faulkner tells a panel Epic paused hundreds of projects to harden its software and calls it a “shame,” while a spokesperson insists the roadmap hasn’t changed. Project Glasswing, a Pokémon-branded QAN sprint, and a trove of Jodel grievances reconcile the two Epics and preview the Jevons paradox coming for all software. Industry Analysis Scanning for a Network (Sep 1): Scan.com raises $220M to build the imaging network labs never got, speedrunning Zocdoc’s consumer-to-B2B pivot. Its wedge to network density may be the most American one available: personal injury litigation. The Front Desk Wants the Damn Whole Building (Sep 16): Hello Patient buys Converse Health, pushing its AI front desk into referrals, chart work, and prior auth. The copilot categories keep blurring, and your distribution partner is still your final boss. Cross-industry Comparisons A Different Patchwork Quilt (Sep 10): Healthcare loves to envy open banking, but the US version has no mandate, a toll booth at Chase, and data quality problems of its own. The grass isn’t greener; it’s another American patchwork quilt, and perhaps a worse one. Hail, Benihydra (Sep 21): Salesforce brings its platform into Claude, Slack, and its own agent, inviting the interfaces that might replace it. Cut off one head and more grow back, so long as the records underneath stay put. Living on A Trade Secret Prayer (Sep 22): Six credit unions are suing Fiserv, the Epic of core banking, by claiming their own member records as trade secrets. Banking has no Cures Act, so its lawyers reach for legal alchemy that healthcare has already tried. Other News None this month External Media Nabla Accelerate NYC: I kicked off fall conference season at Nabla’s Accelerate event in New York, where Delphine Groll opened by asking the room to picture the company it wants to become and the one it doesn’t. I liked her framework of bureaucracy, fear, and ego as the blockers. I also love vendor conferences/events in general - different vibe than industry biggies. Healthcare 101 with Nikhil Krishnan: I briefly guest lectured Out-Of-Pocket’s Healthcare 101 class. Appreciated Nikhil’s takeaways cover whether AI doctors can query HIEs, why healthcare’s data-liberation rules beat most industries’, and the hi-res graphic is in the comments. HCN: Epic Probed by the FTC: I joined the HCN guys to talk through the FTC’s investigation into Epic. Cedric’s new hairdo was an unexpected plot twist. The episode also covers MFN drug pricing, healthcare M&A and Eli Lilly’s acquisition streak. Fall Conferences: At eHealth Exchange’s Annual Meeting in Austin on Oct 27, I’ll moderate a panel on the tensions between AI, HIEs, and timely patient access with Jean Ross (Primary Record), Therasa Bell (Kno2), Byron Crowe (Doctronic), and Michael Marchant (Freenome). Here’s the rest of my schedule if you want to meet up: CommonWell (Redwood Shores, CA): Oct 13-14 Will be participating in a fun Jeopardy event Open@Epic (Madison, WI): Oct 20-23 Will be enjoying Verona, Willy Street, and other local adventures eHealth Exchange and Sequoia Project (Austin, TX): Oct 27-29 Yeehaw HLTH (Vegas): Nov 15-18 Groundhog Day, Venetian Edition RSNA (Chicago): Nov 30-Dec 2 See me at “Governing AI in Breast Imaging: What Health Systems Are Actually Doing” Digital Health Counsel 2026 AI Summit (Seattle): December 2-3 Will likely be speaking to a bunch of lawyers about information blocking Posts I Liked ChatGPT’s Epic integration: game changer or nothing burger?: Joshua Liu, MD offers five thoughts on OpenAI’s Epic launch, starting from the point that it rides the same open APIs available to anyone. He argues read-only access leaves ordering to Art and the ambient startups, and asks why HCA is piloting it alongside Commure. He’s sorta a must-follow at this point - consistently excellent, thought-provoking takes. Epic, Lilly, and the Discovery pass: Seth Chaney reads Epic’s first major Discovery deal (with Eli Lilly), as well as its revised developer terms on commercial displays, as the pipe finally opening between EHRs and pharma. Life sciences and health continue to collide. Scott Rossignol on EHR payer platforms and ePA fees: Scott argues the top ambulatory EHR vendors are turning the prior auth mandate into a per-member-per-year toll on payers, for an API whose operating cost has nothing to do with covered lives. His fix is two lines of regulatory text: put the CRD/DTR/PAS certification criteria in the Base EHR definition, and bring payer-facing ePA connectivity under § 170.404’s cost-based fee rules. It’s a good solution. Health API Guy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

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Local sports recap for Sept. 30, 2026

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Defending state champ Nolan Eccles appears ready for another run to state. The Dunlap senior fired a 3-under 69 to lead the Eagles to a class 3A regional championship at Ironwood Golf Course Wednesday. Eccles collected seven birdies on the way to earning medalist honors. Washington, Metamora, and Morton advanced from […]

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Harry Smith and Siddhi Sundar Launch 'Creative Executive' Platform

The Oscar-winning actor and producer appears in a 90-minute episode during a season that also features Todd Black, Caleeb Pinkett, MAJOR. and Jon Mone.

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Don't miss the fall festival fun this weekend

This weekend, New Hampshire’s fall festival lineup includes the 150th Deerfield Fair, Apple Harvest Day in Dover and Bretton Woods’ first Oktoberfest.

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Upworthy Launching Entertainment Studio Led By Sarah Yourgrau

One of the dominant digital platforms of the early social media era has hired Sarah Yourgrau to help it develop positive, uplifting stories to new platforms.

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Evolution, climate change missing from Florida's new K-12 science standards

The Florida Department of Education held its first listening session at Armwood High School. Some teachers brought up their concerns about missing topics, such as evolution.

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Disney Entertainment TV Comms Chief Naomi Bulochnikov-Paul Departing

She has been with the company since 2017.

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Disney Comms Executive Naomi Bulochnikov-Paul Departing

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Rapid weight loss on popular drugs could ‘starve’ the brain, expert warns

Dr. Tommy Wood warns GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy can shrink brain tissue when caloric restriction cuts off vital energy the brain needs.

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Selma Blair Set for Coming of Age Film 'Schmoolie the Deathwatcher'

In the Theresa Burkhart Gallagher-penned project, Isaac Krasner is set to play the title character Schmoolie alongside a cast that also includes Luenell, Ariel Martin, David Mazouz and Sania Halifa.

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Connor Wood thinks ‘it’s an act of God’ that he and Rylee Arnold were paired together on “DWTS”

The comedian tells “Entertainment Weekly” that they’ve managed to avoid any crash outs thus far.

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Reel Wheels Entertainment™ Unveils Hundreds of Film and Television Icons, Backed by Award-Winning Hollywood Talent

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Dentsu is making a bigger Hollywood bet with 'Angry Birds 3'

Ad agency group Dentsu is becoming one of Hollywood's newest players, and "Angry Birds Movie 3" is the most visible part of its push.

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Debt service and the Pentagon. Private equity and the politics of the US housing market. The return of black lung disease & the Franco-Prussian War in color.

Thank you for opening your Chartbook email. RALPH BALSON. 1890—1964. Oil and enamel, signed. Source: Gavekal This going to hurt - the two 7s in the US: diesel and mortgage rates Source: Gavekal In the US housing market, costs are soaring and the role of corporate, private equity-backed buyers is high on the mid-term election agenda. HEY READERS, THANK YOU for opening the Chartbook email. I hope it brightens your day. I enjoy putting out the newsletter, but tbh, what keeps this flow going is the generosity of those readers who clicked the subscription button. If you are persuaded to click, please consider the annual subscription of $60. It is both better value for you and a much better deal for me, as it involves only one credit card charge. Why feed the payments companies if we don’t have to. Subscribe It is striking how, since 2020, big banks have dropped out of the political spotlight in the US. For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Rates of the lung disease pneumoconiosis among working US coal miners have risen to levels not seen in nearly 40 years Source: Bloomberg Chinese Clean Technology Exports For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Ralph Balson (1939) Portrait of Grace Crowley Cole, G. O. & Haseman, S. M., (2023) “‘The Substance of Paint’: Class and Materiality in the Work of Ralph Balson”, Open Library of Humanities 9(2). Ralph Balson (1890–1964) was an English plumber and house painter who emigrated to Australia in 1913 and subsequently became a key member of Sydney’s artistic avant-garde. He is credited with having the first solo exhibition of purely abstract painting in Australia in 1941. Despite his role in developing Australian non-objective painting, Balson remained principally a house painter, working on his art practice at weekends. In 1955 he retired on a state pension and became a full-time artist. Balson’s artistic education and methods were critically shaped by his working-class background. He did not travel abroad until 1960 and was an avid auto-didact. His materials, palette, techniques and compositional strategies were likewise informed by his trade. Balson’s profession as a painter-decorator made him conspicuous within the predominantly middle-class Sydney art scene, though his painting partner Grace Crowley considered it an advantage in their pursuit of constructive painting. This paper explores the impact of Balson’s trade on his trajectory towards pure abstraction. While his art was at odds with the predominantly figurative mode of class-conscious art in Australian Modernism, we argue that it is embedded in the experience of class through its creative adaptation of labour into aesthetics. Source: OLH Svetlana Alexievich, The Art of Oral History No. 1 Paris Review Issue 257, Fall 2026 Interviewed by Elena Kostyuchenko INTERVIEWER How were you able to go to Chernobyl? Did you need special papers? ALEXIEVICH It was a time of chaos. They let me right into the zone. … More than anything, there was confusion. Adamovich [Ales Adamovich, the Soviet Belarusian writer], I remember, persuaded Gorbachev to send in the scientists, who showed up without even bringing their shaving kits. They were told that there had been an explosion at a nuclear power plant, but for some reason they thought that they’d be there for only a day or two. The first time I went was several months later, and people kept telling me about things they didn’t understand—how the fishermen couldn’t find worms, because they’d burrowed deep into the earth, how the milk wouldn’t curdle at the cheese factories. The honeybees wouldn’t come out of their hives. The evacuations started, I think, in the first month. The old women hid, they wouldn’t leave. I mentioned radiation to one of them and she said, “I’ve seen that radiation, all right! It’s yellow with green in it. I saw puddles of it in my garden, and I told the other women, and we ran and looked, and she had it in her garden, and the other one, too!” God, it was wild, the way the mind made sense of it. There was a story going around about Gorbachev telling the scientists to show him the radiation. “We can’t, it’s invisible.” “But I want to see it!” I also ran into the soldiers who’d been flown in on helicopters from Afghanistan. I asked them, “What are you doing here with your machine guns?” They said, “We’re collecting the radiation, that’s what.” So you had some of them running around with their guns, others out in the village washing off firewood or burying soil in the soil. These were the kinds of things that exploded our worldview. They made you realize that culture was just a chest filled with old manuscripts. There were no books in there that could help me. Our philosophers turned out to be useless when faced with the unprecedented. Derrida, Baudrillard—philosophy fell silent. What was happening? How would we live with it? That’s when I decided it simply needed to be witnessed. Which is what I did. INTERVIEWER I wanted to ask about how you talk to people. … ALEXIEVICH Yes, we sit and we talk—about what interests me and about life in general. About love, about everything in the world. That way, what comes out is three-dimensional. If you cut straight to the part you need, which is what journalists do, it won’t be interesting, and it won’t be the truth, either. Not the whole truth. INTERVIEWER Do people always open up when you ask questions, or can questions get in the way? ALEXIEVICH You have to ask questions, of course. Your job is to scour away the banality and return people to their true selves, to make them face what they rarely tap into. With every new person, you have to find a new way to do it. When you ask an interesting question or you share what happened to you, you help people really think about what they’re saying and not just repeat whatever they’ve picked up from the newspaper. But not everybody is capable of it, not everyone wants to put themselves through that. Either the chemistry starts to kick in or it doesn’t. A person might be wonderful, but you can tell that the conversation just isn’t going to happen. You can try to push it, but it will be a product of your own intellect, rather than of that mysterious connection. Life doesn’t come from the mind. Some people I can call two years after our last conversation, and they’ll say, “Oh, Svetochka! I think of you all the time,” and we’ll start talking again. With others, that won’t happen. That doesn’t mean they’re not extraordinary people, just that you can’t connect with them. They might have some insight, but you don’t have the right antenna to pick up their signal. Source: The Paris Review Colorized Franco-Prussian war … the ruins of Strasbourg with a French photographer and his mobile dark room. Ralph Balson (1961) Matter Painting If you’ve scrolled this far, you know you want to click: Subscribe

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When “DEI” research is cut, what happens to community health?

“I’m just going to run to the grocery store!” How many times have we said this without thinking about it? For most of us, it's usually an easy walk or a short drive to get the cheese we forgot. In reality, though, 13% of the U.S. population (about 39 million people) live in “food deserts,” which means living more than a mile from a grocery store in urban areas and more than 10 miles in rural areas. This was the case for people in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, where a quick run to buy food wasn’t an option. In the 1930s, federal maps marked the Hill as "hazardous" for lending, a practice known as redlining that steered investment away from Black neighborhoods. Decades of disinvestment followed, and residents went about 30 years without a nearby grocery store. This made it hard to keep healthy eating habits and contributed to chronic disease. When a grocery store finally opened in the area in 2013, researchers saw the opportunity and launched the PHRESH study, which initially compared the health of participants from the Hill district to those in the Homewood district. Over time, the study expanded to other factors such as brain health and Alzheimer's risk. Residents like Roderick Blair overcame initial hesitation to share their health data, trusting it would benefit their neighborhood. Then, in August 2026, the NIH abruptly canceled the study’s grant, citing that it was “subjective” and fell outside their scientific scope—an effect of the administration’s interpretation of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Research like PHRESH can help determine what changes in a neighborhood actually improve health, so cutting it has left that question unanswered. Other canceled studies have examined health issues like maternal health, preterm birth rates, or sickle cell disease. Courts have reversed some of these grant cancellations, but not all of them. If we really want America to be healthier, research into why some communities get sicker than others is absolutely critical. The law that created the federal minority health research institute passed with bipartisan support in 2000. But these days, as evidenced by grant cancellations, the political shift in attitudes toward DEI means we often lose access to the health information we need to help all communities thrive. DEI vs. health equity vs. equality and the overlap (or lack thereof) The letters “DEI” evoke very different reactions depending on who you are in the U.S. DEI programs can address gender, disability, age, and other factors, but the fiercest debate centers on race. For some people, hearing DEI brings to mind policies that may have cost them a job or a college seat because they are white. Others see DEI as a matter of justice: a way to expand representation and opportunity for groups that have been historically marginalized. Both perspectives are rooted in lived experience, and both center on the same question: whether hiring and admissions practices are fair. Hiring and admission practices, though related, are not the same as health equity. Health equity is “the attainment of the highest level of health for all people.” It’s the recognition that some groups of people consistently experience worse health outcomes than others. For instance, black mothers die from pregnancy-related complications at three times the rate of white mothers, and rural Americans are more likely to die from issues such as heart disease and cancer. Equity is also often conflated with “equality,” which leads to misunderstanding of how to actually best support communities. Equality ignores the fact that we aren’t all starting life with the same resources or circumstances, whereas equity is about helping people get what they specifically need based on their situation so they have the chance to achieve the same outcome as anyone else. For example, if every household in Pittsburgh got a $30 grocery gift card, that would be equal. But during the decades the Hill District went without a grocery store, that card wouldn’t have helped much. Equity means making sure everyone can actually access a store in the first place. DEI policies can overlap with health equity in many ways. For example, they may help expand access to quality education and stable, well-paying jobs, which in turn can provide health insurance, safer housing, and improved finances—all of which can reduce health disparities. But to make that happen, we first need data to identify disparities in communities and to develop solutions that effectively address them. What we lose when the research stops Community data is important to health equity because: You can’t fix what you don’t see: Data show which communities are most affected by health factors such as infection, heart disease, and cancer. If we don’t know what is happening and where, then we can’t develop interventions to help. Poor health costs everyone: Chronic disease is expensive—both to the individual person and to the overall economy. Understanding what groups of people are most at risk allows us to develop interventions that can save everyone money. Disparities exist for many communities: Health equity includes disparities that exist due to a whole host of factors, such as family background, race and ethnicity, rural vs. suburban residence, gender and sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, and lower income. This means many Americans can benefit from research into differences in health outcomes and how to improve them. Trust is easy to lose: Some participants in the PHRESH study were initially vocal about their concerns about participating. But that trust was earned because the researchers kept their promises and centered their work on the community. When projects are canceled mid-cycle, researchers have no choice but to leave behind communities they had promised to help. This hurts trust in the long run. It’s also a very inefficient use of resources, and it will take significant time and effort to redo the work when the government realizes this work is important again. How should we talk about health equity? This is hard because the words “equity” and “DEI” are currently very politically charged. So whether you’re a public health professional, teacher, or friend, how we talk about this topic matters. The right framing can help people who might otherwise be skeptical see why health equity research is important and deserves funding. Here are some suggestions to help your conversations: Choose your words strategically: Who are you trying to reach with your message? Are they likely to be resistant to terms like “diversity” and “equity”? If so, find alternative words to use to still get the message across. It is frustrating to be in that position, but the goal of improving health is too important not to try to make inroads. Sometimes simply reframing can help the message reach those who need to hear it. Focus on the problem: The terms “health equity” and “DEI” are abstract. Make it more specific. For example, discuss differences in maternal death or ways to improve health outcomes in rural communities. These still have equity at their core but will likely be better understood by those you’re talking with. Focus on systems: Disparities exist, but if they are communicated poorly, people can mistakenly think the issue is the individual’s fault. Disparities are largely driven by failures of the system—such as lack of access to health care and a long legacy of racism. When discussing the disparities, frame them around these systemic issues to ensure blame isn’t placed on the individuals impacted. Tell stories: Personalize these policies by using stories from those impacted that connect to the data you’re trying to convey. This helps make the policies and outcomes more concrete and meaningful. Bottom line Some communities end up sicker than others. That’s just the facts. We can argue about the best way to do that research, but canceling it simply because it may be linked to DEI doesn’t make anyone healthier. It just leaves communities like the Hill district behind. And in the end, it causes us all to move backward in our efforts to improve health in this country. Love, EM Big thanks to MacKenzie Isaac & Legairre Radden, who reviewed this piece and generously shared their expertise and lived experience to help improve it. Dr. Liz Marnik, PhD, is Executive Director of The Evidence Collective and a science communicator and immunologist working at the intersection of public trust, science, and public health. To discuss communication training on topics like health equity and storytelling, email Liz at liz@yle.health or learn more on our website. Your Local Epidemiologist (YLE) comprises a team of experts, ranging from physicians to immunologists to epidemiologists to nutritionists, working together with one goal: to “translate” ever-evolving public health science so that people are well-equipped to make evidence-based decisions. The YLE suite of newsletters reaches over 475,000 people across more than 132 countries. This newsletter is free to everyone, thanks to the generous support of fellow YLE community members. To support the effort, subscribe or upgrade below: Your Local Epidemiologist is a reader-supported publication. 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Can Great Drama Series Change the World, Iberseries 2026 Panel Asks

Creatives behind the likes of 'Borgen,' 'The Best Immigrant,' eco-thriller 'After Us,' sexual aggression drama 'Pubertat,' and historical HIV drama 'Henki' shared their motivations and goals at Iberseries.

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Tom Cruise, Alejandro G. Iñárritu Talk Digger at Academy Museum

“I was very successful since I was a kid,” Cruise told a packed Academy Museum screening. With his latest film, the actor, and Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, are putting that star power to the test.

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“American Idol” alum Caleb Flynn found guilty of murdering wife as she slept

The singer made it to the reality show’s Hollywood Week in 2013.

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'Kind' mental health team in Northants earn 'outstanding' rating

Berrywood Hospital in Northampton and St Mary's Hospital in Kettering were inspected in July.

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Neighbors blast Glenwood South crime, businesses push back

Residents who live near Glenwood South voiced frustrations Tuesday night over crime, noise and large crowds they say are affecting their neighborhoods.

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Family questions mother's remains after police search business tied to funeral home probe

Days after police searched a Glenwood cremation service, an Alsip woman is questioning whether the urn she has actually contains her mother's remains.

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Messmer, Shorewood, Dominican football co-op set to dissolve

Messmer, Shorewood and Dominican will end their shared football program after the 2026 season.

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Andrew Garfield got ‘so scared’ playing basketball with Woody Harrelson: ‘He’s fiercely competitive’

The erstwhile Spider-Man actor “fully froze and folded” going up against the “White Men Can’t Jump” star.

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Wood County Health Department confirms measles case; multiple possible exposure sites in Bowling Green

The individual was infectious while visiting several sites in Bowling Green on specific days and times, according to the health department.

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CAS launches program for breakthroughs at science frontiers

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The Streamers Tried To Conquer Labor Day…and Whiffed

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) What? Another Streaming Ratings Report already? You betcha. Nielsen has moved up the release of their Streaming Ratings data by two weeks, which means I’ve got two extra issues to get out. But I love this change because it will make this report more timely and easier to publish regularly. This week—with the viewership data for the week of 31-Aug—we’ve got some huge, huge topics to discuss. On the film side, two theatrical films (The Mandalorian and Grogu on Disney+ and Scary Movie on Paramount+) contend with two non-Netflix straight-to-streaming films (Mayday on Apple TV and The Runner on Prime Video). The streamers went all in to win Labor Day weekend in America. And we have a bunch of TV shows to analyze, both new shows (Netflix’s The Gentleman, Hulu’s Chad Powers, and an Alix Earle reality show) and weekly shows like Reacher, Ted Lasso, House of the Dragon and Lioness. All that, plus nepotism in Hollywood, some eye-popping fantasy football stats, all the flops, bombs and misses, and a whole lot more. Let’s dive right in! (Reminder: The streaming ratings report focuses on the U.S. market and compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly top ten viewership ranks, Luminate’s Top Ten Data, JustWatch and Reelgood interest data, Samba TV household viewership, company datecdotes, Netflix hours viewed data, Google Trends, and IMDb to determine the most popular content. While most data points are current, Nielsen’s data covers the weeks of August 31st to September 6th, 2026. You can find a link to my terminology here.) Subscribe Film - A Slew of Labor Day Disappointments? A lot of streamers released big new films this week, why? My theory is that the streamers know that four-day weekends can propel streaming films to glory. But if you’ve been reading more over the last two years, you know that big holiday weekends aren’t driving big viewership numbers the way they did post-Covid. And interestingly enough, Netflix didn’t put out a big new film this week. But four other streamers did, trying to take advantage of the holiday with some (not cheap) swings, including… The Mandalorian and Grogu on Disney+ (a Star Wars film that cost $165 million and made $177 million at the US domestic box office) Mayday on Apple TV (rumored $100 million budget, no theatrical release) The Runner on Prime Video (at least a $40 million budget, but likely $50 to $80 million, no theatrical release). Scary Movie on Paramount+ ($30 million budget, made $108 million domestically). (Paramount+ also released a made-for-streaming film based on the Thundermans IP, and I’ll discuss that later.) So…how’d they do? The Mandalorian and Grogu Leads The Way (But That Isn’t Enough) Let’s start with The Mandalorian and Grogu (which I’ll abbreviate to Mando for most of this article). We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… How Mando, Mayday, The Runner and Scary Movie performed on streaming... How the powerhouse weekly released shows (Reacher, Ted Lasso and Lioness) have accumulate a LOT of viewership… How House of the Dragon finished its run… The latest Netflix show to have a sophomore slump… Whether top creators can drive viewers to their shows… Nepotism in Hollywood and the music business... All the flops, bombs and misses for the week… And more… ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. Coming Soon! Since Nielsen has accelerated their streaming data release schedule, I’ve got a lot of Streaming Ratings Reports coming your way! Next issue, I’ll be looking at the second season of Peacock’s The Paper, the latest season of Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and a very, very expensive Daily Wire fantasy series that’s now on Prime Video. Plus Crew Girl and Dang! on Netflix, a new Tyler Perry film, and one of the biggest bombs of the summer, Supergirl. In the next two issues, I’ll take a look at the return of the NFL to streaming, Toy Story 5 on Disney+, Backrooms on HBO Max, and The Breadwinner on Netflix. On the TV side, we’ve got Netflix’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, Dancing with the Stars on Disney+, Apple TV’s Slow Horses, a Reacher spinoff on Prime Video, and Paramount+’s MobLand, a Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey comedy on Apple TV, a sequel to a Cosby Show spinoff on Netflix, The Great British Baking Show, and the Unabomber film. And while doing all that, I want to take a look at adult animated shows, Ride or Die’s cancellation, and Netflix’s summer films. So much great stuff! Long term, two bits of comic book news. The X-Men cast has been announced, and go ahead and color me bull-ish, if not very, very bull-ish on this bit of comic book IP. In weirder news, HBO Max ordered a “true crime” show by Jimmy Olsen about Gorilla Grodd being falsely convicted of murder. I mean, what? I don’t know, let’s see what happens.

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