On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) stated that he wants to get vaccines into arms quickly, “But we’re also holding our providers accountable that we want those arms to look like North Carolina’s population.” Cooper stated that during the early part of the vaccine rollout, “we did not hit enough of our people of color in underserved communities. And that’s why, in North Carolina, we created our own database to have 100% of the vaccinations, we will know who those vaccinations go to. Our goal is to get those vaccinations off the shelves and into arms, but we also want those arms to reflect the makeup of our population, making sure that we get our vaccines to black North Carolinians, to Hispanic North Carolinians, and we want to make sure that we do that, and we’re getting help from the feds now, and that has been critical.” He later added, “Every single day I’m working on vaccine distribution in North Carolina. It’s not simple, though, when you have millions of people who need it, but not enough vaccines for all of them. So, then you’ve got to decide how to distribute it. Our motto is fast and fair. We want those vaccines off the shelves and into arms before the next shipment comes. But we’re also holding our providers accountable that we want those arms to look like North Carolina’s population. And that’s not as easy as it sounds. Because we want to be fair about this, but the most important thing we need to do is to make sure that we get those vaccines in arms and we want more and more. So delighted that 80,000 doses of J&J vaccine, with the one shot, coming to North Carolina. We’re going to get those out there quickly, and, hopefully, get a lot of uptake on that, as well.” Cooper further stated, “So, first, we targeted our 65-and-over population.” Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett ...
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Patriots Likely To Host Cowboys In 2021 As 17th Game
BOSTON (CBS) — With the NFL moving full speed ahead toward a 17-game regular season, there’s now some clarity on what that schedule will look like for NFL teams. For the Patriots, it appears as though it will lead to a home game against the Dallas Cowboys. READ MORE: US Probing Engine Fires In Nearly 1.9 Million Toyota RAV4 SUVs NBC Sports’ Peter King laid out the formula for the 17-game season. In short, it will pit the AFC East vs. the NFC East in 2021, with teams playing the corresponding team in the other division based on which place the team finished in 2020. READ MORE: Watch Live @ 10: Gov. Baker Update On COVID Vaccines In Massachusetts With the Patriots finishing in third place in the AFC East and the Cowboys finishing in third place in the NFC East, they’ll be set to play in 2021. King also noted that the AFC will host the extra game in 2021, and the NFC will host them in 2022, and the conferences will switch every season. That means AFC teams will have nine home games in 2021, while the NFC will have nine home games a year later. MORE NEWS: Armed Masked Men Rob Milford Smoke Shop Then Crash Getaway Car The Patriots hosted the Cowboys in 2019, a game which the Patriots won 13-9. The Patriots have won six straight games against the Cowboys, dating back to 1999. Prior to that, the Patriots went 0-7 vs. Dallas from 1971-96. ...
A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Longwood Gardens’ $250 Million Expansion Project That Gets Underway Today
KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. (CBS) — A big day at Longwood Gardens. Its $250 million expansion project gets underway today. It’s hard to imagine, but Longwood Gardens is about to get bigger, better and even more beautiful. READ MORE: Thieves Steal ATM From West Philadelphia Laundromat “There’s no other conservatory in the world like this,” Longwood Gardens President and CEO Paul Redman said. Longwood Gardens is embarking on what it’s calling its most ambitious project in a century — $250 million to transform 17 acres of gardens. And at the center of it all, this crystalline glasshouse, the size of a football field. Glasshouse “Or, as I like to call it, the ‘Crystal Palace,’” Redman said. Redman recently walked Eyewitness News through the breathtaking vision. “It’s going to be a unique structure that’s going to be like floating on water,” Redman said. “There’s going to be a series of canals and islands. When you walk into this new conservatory, it’s going to be like walking into a grand cathedral in Europe or something.” The project is called Longwood: Reimagined. And it’s meant to expand and revitalize what’s now the west side of the conservatory. The colorful Acacia Passage and neighboring Silver Garden will remain, but everything west of that will be fenced off starting March 1. “It’s about horticulture and education and just enjoyment,” Redman said. READ MORE: Philadelphia School District, Teacher's Union To Hold News Conference About Return To In-Person Learning, Sources Say To that end, the fan-favorite Bonsai Display will eventually be featured in an outdoor bonsai courtyard. The plan also calls for new classroom space and a restaurant with spectacular views of the main fountain garden. “So, imagine having lunch at Versailles, and being able to see the waters dance and perform within a beautiful garden,” Redman said. “That will be our new restaurant.” Those parts are expected to open by 2024. First up though, is the much-loved ...
Sen. Cotton: Pelosi’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Bill ‘Swamp Looking After Itself’
During an appearance on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) slammed the $1.9 trillion spending bill passed by the House of Representatives. He deemed it the “swamp looking after itself.” “One reason I think Joe Biden thinks there’s no time to waste is that Democrats can see cases have plummeted since early January,” he said. “They can see that we now have three effective vaccines, and vaccination rates are surging. So, I think they’re worried they won’t have the coronavirus as an excuse to pay off all of their clients and patrons in a $1.9 trillion blowout bill. As you said, less than a dime of every dollar goes to the coronavirus.” “Just take a look at the payoff of some of their constituencies, $350 billion for states that are poorly run and that have long-standing problems but didn’t even lose money because of the coronavirus, places like California and New York,” Cotton continued. “A hundred and thirty billion dollars for schools but only a nickel of that money — of each dollar of that money is going to be spent this year. Most of it is for future years. Again, paying off teachers’ unions.” “And then maybe the worst of all, the worst of all, they’re going to give a lot of Americans a $1,400 check,” he added. “Federal employees are going to get that same check. They are also going to get $1,400 a week — a week, every single week if their kids aren’t in school. So, if you’re working in the middle of the country, hard to make a living, you get one $1,400 payment once. If you’re a federal bureaucrat in Washington, where your schools are still closed, you get it every single week. Talk about the swamp looking after itself.” Follow Jeff Poor on Twitter @jeff_poor ...
Biden’s trumped-up rescue plan is a solution looking for a problem
The Biden administration hit the ground running with an explosive agenda focusing on three crises that require immediate attention without delay: first, the COVID-19 pandemic; second, the related purported weak economy, especially COVID-related job losses that require a stronger stimulus than we have seen so far, in President Biden Joe Biden Biden offers support to union organizing efforts Senate Democrats nix 'Plan B' on minimum wage hike Kavanaugh dismays conservatives by dodging pro-Trump election lawsuits MORE ’s opinion; and third, the economic inequality crisis. The trilogy of crises follows former White House chief of staff and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel’s famous adage: Never let a crisis go to waste. President Biden has invented three to focus his attention and build voter support, in part because three is more compelling than one. Current emphasis is mainly on the second leg of the trilogy — the economic fallout from the coronavirus — probably because it is the most likely to quickly disappear without the opportunity to spend a massive sum, $1.9 trillion, to truly shock voters with the size of the problem and its solution. The third leg of the trilogy stool — the war on economic inequality — is longstanding and Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan does not directly address it. Biden’s proposal, termed the American Rescue Plan , is bound for the Senate after House passage early Saturday. It comes on top of three laws passed in March 2020, costing more than $1.9 trillion and addressing the same subjects while deaths from the virus rapidly surged. A fourth bill signed into law on Dec. 27, 2020, restored federal unemployment assistance to $300 per week (down from $600 from mid-March 2020 through July, and $400 from August to about mid-September) in January 2021 through mid-March, and provided a new one-time payment of $600 to couples earning less than $150,000 per year and lesser amounts to individuals, as well as other extensions. This ...
