Health Commissioner Levine warns Vermonters against Super Bowl super spreaders
This year, watching the Super Bowl could be more hazardous than playing in it. And a “super spread” no longer means a favorable betting line or a great snack buffet.
Masks off: Florida supermarket goes back to normal
The Oakes Farms Seed to Table Market in Naples, Florida, has decided to go back to normal living. Video footage filmed this week shows shoppers and employees happily choosing to forego masks despite Collier County’s mask mandate.
Newsom on track to be first governor ousted for COVID lockdowns
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is less than 100,000 signatures away as of Thursday from being forced into a recall special election.
Vermont arts industry struggling to survive state’s restrictions on economic activity
The Vermont Arts Council is sounding off on how the economic crisis associated with the coronavirus lockdown has devastated the state’s artists and creative workers, stripping them of $195 million in revenue in 2020.
The Paycheck Protection Program didn’t save jobs, was ‘inefficient use of funds,’ economists say
The small business relief Paycheck Protection Program was inefficient and didn’t actually save many small business jobs compared to other programs, economists said.
Cuomo blames ‘federal guidance’ for New York Health Department undercounting nursing home deaths
Cuomo’s administration revealed on Thursday that at least 12,743 nursing home residents had died from COVID-19 as of Jan. 19, a figure nearly 50% larger than the official tally of 8,505 deaths reported by the New York State Department of Health that day.
Critics question New York’s approach to online sports betting
State leaders in New York appear to finally be ready to legalize online sports betting, but critics don’t care for the approach of having a likely high tax rate and state government monopoly.
Teachers clash with New Hampshire Gov. Sununu over vaccination plans
The state’s largest teachers union is pushing to move educators higher up in the COVID-19 vaccine line, and blasting Gov. Chris Sununu for prioritizing ski patrol workers over teachers in the first round of inoculations.
Nearly 20% of American renters are behind on payments, analysis shows
“The pandemic has hit the nation’s most vulnerable communities hard,” Parrott and Zandi wrote in the report released Monday. “Not only have they been more likely to get sick, but they have been more likely to lose their income and savings, and now they are more likely to be evicted.”
John Klar: Sacrificing America’s children to COVID
We have shut down businesses and schools, and imposed a crushing psychological and economic burden on America’s children, for a disease that threatens a tiny demographic swath.
More than 100 Vermont communities get election money from Facebook Zuckerberg group
A full 112 Vermont communities received ‘coronavirus response grants’ from the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a not-for-profit formed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to provide assistance to local election officials.
Petition to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom reaches 1.2 million signatures
The recall effort follows growing outrage over Governor Newsom’s COVID-19 policies, specifically his decision to suspend all outdoor dining and enforce mandatory stay at home orders.