
Hail and farewell: A tribute to those we lost in 2022
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Lee Cowan remembers and celebrates some of the amazing people who left their mark, and made the most of their time with us:
His class, his style, and his grace made Sidney Poitier ("Lillies of the Field," "To Sir With Love") extraordinary among actors, but also a model of social consciousness. Every role he played pushed past the boundaries of what society would allow back then. When the script for "In the Heat of the Night" called for his character, Virgil Tibbs, to be slapped by a White man, Poitier told the studio, "If he slaps me, I'm going to slap him back."

There have been 27 major disaster declarations issued by President Trump so far in 2025. The disasters range in size and scope, from the L.A. wildfires to Midwest tornadoes and the Texas flooding as well as several winter storms. Many of them have resulted infatalities and billions of dollars in damage to property and businesses, but one major deadly weather event that occurred in June hasn't been declared: an extreme heat wave.