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2022 - 9 - 27

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Sue Mingus, who championed her husband's jazz legacy, dies at 92 (The Washington Post)

She formed jazz ensembles, produced a Grammy-winning album and published books to promote the legacy of her husband, the composer and bassist Charles ...

Her son described her as “a fireball” who “didn’t care what other people thought,” recalling that for a time Ms. Musicians from Mingus Dynasty and the “Epitaph” orchestra were then chosen for the Mingus Big Band, a 14-piece ensemble that she created to ensure his music was regularly performed. She also published books including “Charles Mingus: More Than a Fake Book” (1991), which included 55 of his original scores; produced a documentary, “Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog” (1998); and campaigned against bootleggers who released pirated recordings of her husband’s concerts. Mingus was educated at all-girls schools, and after graduating from Smith College in 1952, she moved to Paris to work as a journalist. She eventually landed a job in Rome at the in-flight magazine for Pan Am and married an Italian sculptor, Alberto Ungaro, before returning to New York with her husband in 1958. “There’s really no explaining the popularity,” she told the Times She knows what musicians to choose, she knows who understands the music.” [the New York Times in 2007](https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/arts/music/29kapl.html), recalling that she pieced together the ensemble by calling musicians credited on the back of his albums. Yet to many jazz historians and musicians, she played a crucial role in shaping the legacy of her husband, whose music combined traditional blues and gospel with complex harmonies, free-ranging melodies and an abiding love of collective improvisation. “Charles’s music is Charles’s music,” she told The Washington Post in 1999, two decades after he died of a heart attack at age 56. “I liked his aloneness in the tumultuous room, his concentration on the outsized beef bone at hand.” Sue Mingus, who founded jazz ensembles, published music books and produced Grammy-nominated albums as part of a resolute four-decade campaign to promote the legacy of her late husband, the brilliant and mercurial composer, bandleader and double bass virtuoso Charles Mingus, died Sept.

Mike Causey, Federal Diary columnist for three decades, dies at 82 (The Washington Post)

He was a well-read mainstay of The Washington Post, covering news affecting millions in the federal workforce.

Amid the junk, he kept a T-shirt with a front reading “Anyone can be a daily columnist.” On the back was printed: “For two weeks.” (The column, since renamed Federal Insider, runs in print once a week and is handled by Joe Davidson.) “I never claimed to have six good ideas a week, just to write six columns a week,” he told Washingtonian. “Many of my columns had breaking news — the type The Post news section wouldn’t have for two weeks. 12, 1940, in Indianapolis to parents, he often joked, who fled the Depression in Kentucky for the Depression in Indiana. He soon moved to the newsroom, writing stories about police, the Postal Service and a slew of what he called “the sky-isn’t-falling” features that plugged in empty space on the page. Tens of thousands of government employees hung on his words, they knew they could trust him and no amount of page-one bylines could substitute for that.” If morale seemed curiously low a few floors down, he suggested in the Tribune interview, maybe it was because of “an underling firing everybody while the boss thought they were just all leaving to write novels.” “People, no matter who they are, have to pay the rent,” he told the Chicago Tribune. They don’t make the same commitments of devotion and patriotism as CIA employees must.” Such talk, he said, was misleading as the contracting industry boomed and carried with it many fresh problems and concerns. At the Office of Personnel Management, “which sounds like the dullest thing going,” Mr. After early stints working in a Kentucky tobacco warehouse and a New York print shop — and almost getting a tryout with the Cleveland Indians — Mr.

Trump weighed bombing drug labs in Mexico, according to new book (The Washington Post)

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman's "Confidence Man" details unusual, erratic interactions between Trump and world leaders, members of Congress and ...

Residents take pride in Huntington Terrace's community spirit (The Washington Post)

WHERE WE LIVE | The Bethesda, Md., neighborhood's convenient location and schools are a draw for buyers.

“They’re bringing new ideas to elevate the neighborhood and make everyone feel like they’re part of it,” John said. In the past year, the lowest-priced house sold was $825,000 for a three-bedroom, two-bathroom, according to Ziegel. Metro and Ride On buses serve the neighborhood along Old Georgetown Road. John said Halloween is one of the highlights of the neighborhood. Another house has a skeleton-themed safari boat in the front yard. Its schools, including Bradley Hills Elementary, located in the heart of the neighborhood, are also a draw. John and Maggie Bree said the money collected goes toward at least three events, including a Memorial Day party and Fourth of July get-together, along with various block parties and maintaining the community’s Triangle Garden. De Ravin likes the neighborhood so much that his family has lived in three different houses on the same street for the past 22 years. He said the community’s land was part of two large tobacco plantations stretching back to the early 1700s. Sokolove said that, like most of the bedroom communities of Washington, at the time, Huntington Terrace probably had racial covenants preventing African Americans and other historically excluded populations from living there. “I shared my experiences growing up here and how much it meant to my husband and I to raise our family in Huntington Terrace,” she said. Huntington Terrace has neighbors with a mix of ages and varied occupations, Maggie said.

Should you take a green cruise? (The Washington Post)

Historically, cruise lines haven't been model citizens when it comes to environmental protection. So when a ship claims to be green, travelers have every ...

[Avalon Waterways](https://www.avalonwaterways.com/), a riverboat cruise operator, to his clients with green concerns. The [Green Marine certification](https://green-marine.org/certification/) is a voluntary environmental certification program for North America’s maritime industry. [one of the most vocal](https://www.uniworld.com/us/why-uniworld/uniworld-cares) when it comes to the environment. [French Waterways](https://www.french-waterways.com/), says travel advisers do their best to differentiate between truly green businesses and those that are all talk. “It was just a bonus for me that it also happened to be a green cruise.” The highest-scoring cruise line was [Regent Seven Seas](https://www.rssc.com/), with a C+. When he vets a cruise partner, he always looks for conscious environmental choices, such as reducing energy consumption and waste or securing a Blue Flag marina certification. In its onboard lectures, the crew also discusses the fragile marine ecosystem and the company’s responsibility to preserve it. With consumer interest in green travel on the rise, many cruise lines are making bold environmental claims and hoping to get your business. (The company, like Hurtigruten, did not receive a Friends of the Earth rating.) This year it introduced an environmental impact report, detailing progress against 11 sustainability goals. (Hurtigruten did not receive a rating from the organization, which graded only major cruise lines.) [Marcie Keever](https://foe.org/team-members/marcie-keever/), the oceans and vessels program director with Friends of the Earth, said cruising remains “one of the dirtiest vacation choices.” But on the inside, they are green, according to the company.

Hurricane Ian live updates: Cuba loses power; tornadoes strike ... (The Washington Post)

Hurricane Ian is headed for the gulf coast of Florida after making landfall in Cuba. The hurricane is expected to bring storm surge and heavy rain to the ...

more frequently in recent years](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/09/29/record-us-hurricane-landfalls-climate/?itid=lb_the-atlantic-hurricane-season_9). And last summer alone, [nearly 1 in 3 Americans experienced a weather disaster](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/09/04/climate-disaster-hurricane-ida/?itid=lb_the-atlantic-hurricane-season_10). [seven safety tips to help you get ready for hurricanes](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/05/03/hurricane-safety-prepare-noaa/?itid=lb_the-atlantic-hurricane-season_6). Read more about [how climate change is fueling severe weather events](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/10/22/climate-curious-disasters-climate-change/?itid=lb_the-atlantic-hurricane-season_11). [intensified this fall with conditions prime for storms](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/17/hurricane-season-tropical-atlantic/?itid=lb_the-atlantic-hurricane-season_1). For the seventh year in a row, hurricane officials expect [an above-average season of hurricane activity](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/05/24/noaa-atlantic-hurricane-outlook-2022/?itid=lb_the-atlantic-hurricane-season_5).

Trussonomics Mess Has Even France Fearing Contagion (The Washington Post)

The French are worried about the UK. Not because of any competitive threat from an unshackled post-Brexit economy that's tearing up European Union rules ...

The UK’s global reserve currency and relatively low debt-to-GDP levels failed to protect it from a drubbing linked to a projected budget-deficit blowout. If this winter brings a worse recession than expected, while failing to ease the burden of high energy prices, it won’t just be London’s central bankers contemplating some tough decisions. The UK’s policy adventurism after Brexit is certainly in a league of its own, having spooked markets more than even Italy’s new hard-right coalition. Whereas the 2020 pandemic taught governments to fight recessions with stimulus spending, Trussonomics is a warning that the conditions are no longer ripe for it. The struggle to withdraw the monetary punch-bowl that underpins unsustainable asset-price booms — such as housing markets from Sweden to New Zealand, where prices rose almost 30% last year alone — is coinciding with war, an energy squeeze fueled by natural-gas shutoffs by Russia and a resurgence of populism. It’s made the heirs of French President Francois Mitterrand look pretty good: France expects a budget deficit of 5% of GDP next year, while Barclays estimates the UK’s will be around 9%.