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DeSantis Signs Law Preventing Local COVID Orders, Vaccine Passports

(Headline USA) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis moved to suspend all remaining COVID-19 restrictions imposed by communities across his state, signing into law on Monday freshly passed legislation giving him sweeping powers to invalidate local emergency measures put in place during the pandemic — including mask mandates, limitations on business operations...

CDC Took Cues from Teachers Union Over School Reopenings

The nation’s largest teachers union, the American Federation of Teachers, successfully lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to delay school reopenings, according to emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. As the CDC was preparing to issue guidance advising all public schools to reopen fully in...

ADVISER: Biden Still Wears Mask Outdoors Out of Habit

(Headline USA) One of President Joe Biden's top White House advisers suggested Sunday that he's still wearing a mask outdoors out of habit although the latest public health guidance says he doesn't need it. Questioned about Biden's practice, senior adviser Anita Dunn told CNN's “State of the Union” that she realized...

Cuomo Barred NY Health Officials from Revealing True COVID Death Toll

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office hid the coronavirus death toll in the state’s nursing homes for months, often in direct defiance of state health officials, according to a new report from the New York Times. Senior aides attempted to prevent the New York State Health Department from releasing the...

Whitmer’s Health Director got $155K Severance a Month AFTER Leaving Mich. Gov’t

(Bruce Walker, The Center Square) After declining four previous requests to testify, former Michigan Director of Health and Human Services Director Robert Gordon was finally compelled to testify Thursday before the House Oversight Committee. Gordon abruptly resigned his position in January, and signed a controversial nondisclosure agreement the following month that...

Extremist Governors to Put Ore. and Wa. in COVID Lockdowns AGAIN

(Headline USA) When the coronavirus pandemic hit the Pacific Northwest states of Oregon and Washington, their governors quickly reacted with shutdowns. Now they are about to impose new restrictions again as they claim infections and hospitalizations are rising to alarming levels. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is putting 15 counties that encompass the...

COST BLOWOUT: Calif. May Let Adults Add Parents to Health Plans

(Headline USA) California could become the only state to let adult children add their parents as dependents to their health insurance plans, a policy proposal aimed at increasing insurance coverage among low-income people living in the country illegally who aren't eligible for government-funded coverage. Former President Barack Obama's health law let...

Miami School Says It Won’t Hire Teachers Who Received ‘Experimental’ COVID Vaccines

A private school in Miami said it will avoid hiring new teachers who have received the coronavirus vaccine, citing concerns about the "experimental" nature of the shots. "It is our policy, to the extent possible, not to employ anyone who has taken the experimental COVID-19 injection until further information is...

Harvard-Educated Dem. Claims People w/ Down Syndrome Are Neither Male nor Female

A Harvard-educated Democrat lawmaker argued recently that "modern science" recognizes six sexes, not just two. Texas state Rep. James Talarico, a former English teacher who holds a master’s degree in education policy from Harvard University, insisted there are actually six sexes during a committee hearing on a bill that would...

Blighted San Francisco Flails and Fails in Dealing w/ Its Homeless Problem

(Christopher F. Rufo, RealClearInvestigations) San Francisco is coming undone. In recent years, the city has manifested a series of visible and persistent inequalities, with a spoils-to-the-victor world for its technological elite, and a chaotic, brutalized world for its dispossessed. In the city’s Tenderloin district, men openly hawk drugs on the street...

CDC Now Says Masks Not Needed Outside in Most Situations

(Headline USA) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased its guidelines Tuesday on the wearing of masks outdoors, saying fully vaccinated Americans don't need to cover their faces anymore unless they are in a big crowd of strangers. And those who are unvaccinated can go outside without masks in some...

Cuomo Cites Privacy in Hiding Nursing Home Info from the Public

(Associated Press) Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office said it won't reveal what it told the U.S. Justice Department about COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes, partly because doing so would be an "invasion of personal privacy.” The Justice Department last year asked the governors of several states --- including New York --- to...
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