In his prepared remarks to the committee, Buttigieg pointed to his past experience as a veteran of the Afghanistan war as well as city mayor as valuable in taking a ground level approach to improving transportation. He described initiating a “smart streets” program to make South Bend’s downtown more pedestrian- and bicyclist-friendly while spurring hundreds of millions of dollars in economic investment. … [Read more...] about Buttigieg aims for ‘generational’ change at Transportation
Isolation ward
Woman Who Was Beaten By Stranger On Subway In Brooklyn Says City Officials Need To Do More To Combat Crime
Mets Fire GM Jared Porter Over Sexually Explicit Text Messages To Female Reporter Remembering MLK: 3 Friends Who Spent Time In Jail Now Give Back To Underserved Communities With Food Delivery Business MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Says Bed Bath And Beyond, Kohl’s To Drop His Products; Dominion Voting Systems Threatens To Sue … [Read more...] about Woman Who Was Beaten By Stranger On Subway In Brooklyn Says City Officials Need To Do More To Combat Crime
The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden takes office, calls for end to ‘uncivil war’
> Vaccines: Shortages of COVID-19 vaccines are forcing some states to cancel appointments with those eligible to be inoculated. Reasons for the scarce supplies are unclear, but new shipments from the government go out every week, and both federal gatekeepers and the vaccine manufacturers have said there are large quantities in the pipeline (The Associated Press). … Amazon offered to assist the Biden administration with vaccine distribution (NBC News). … At least 16,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines were ruined by temperature fluctuations in Maine and Michigan (The Washington Post). … Drug makers Pfizer and BioNTech say their COVID-19 vaccines are likely to be effective against the highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus identified in the United Kingdom (The Hill). … Unions, which fought to get their members near the top of eligibility lists for vaccinations, are poised to defend members who refuse employer mandates to be inoculated against COVID-19 (The … [Read more...] about The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden takes office, calls for end to ‘uncivil war’
UK Migrant Camp Under COVID Lockdown Amid Mass Rule Breaking
Migrants have frequently protested the supposedly poor conditions of the camp — which used to be home to British soldiers — staging protests, hunger strikes, and even some telling the mainstream media that they “wished they stayed in France“. … [Read more...] about UK Migrant Camp Under COVID Lockdown Amid Mass Rule Breaking
Leslie Marshall: Biden’s first 100 days – here’s the bipartisan, united effort the nation can expect
For the past four years, the United States has been further isolated, whether from backing out of the Iran nuclear deal or the Paris climate agreement or the World Health Organization. "America’s back," as Biden once exclaimed, and the U.S. will rejoin the international community on Iran, climate change and the fight against COVID-19. … [Read more...] about Leslie Marshall: Biden’s first 100 days – here’s the bipartisan, united effort the nation can expect
