As the Washington, D.C., region's coronavirus vaccination efforts continue, public health officials are homing in on segments of the population slow to get the shot - such as law enforcement officers. While no comprehensive surveying has been done in the region, Virginia officials say less than half of State Police troopers are vaccinated and about 50 percent of corrections officers in the state have been vaccinated. Large police departments have slightly better rates, with 58 percent of officers vaccinated in the District of Columbia and 65 percent vaccinated in Prince George's County, Md. Montgomery County, Md.'s high countywide vaccination rate is mirrored among its officers, about 71 percent of whom have gotten the shot. That's better than some areas around the country - such as Las Vegas, Atlanta and Columbus, Ohio, where roughly one-third of officers were vaccinated as of early last month. The reasons are varied, and experts say hesitancy among officers is similar to … [Read more...]

Joe Biden’s inaugural promise was to bring bipartisanship back to Washington, D.C. But nearly five months into Biden's term, the status of bipartisanship in his government is fragile — and that puts the Democrats in political peril heading into the 2022 midterms. Earlier this year, Democrats used the reconciliation process to ram their COVID-19 relief bill through Congress without any Republican support. Now, many Democrats want to do the same with Biden’s massive “infrastructure” bill, the American Families Plan, little of which is devoted to actual infrastructure. Encouragingly though perhaps temporarily, President Biden Joe Biden Ex-Biden adviser says Birx told him she hoped election turned out 'a certain way' Cheney rips Arizona election audit: 'It is an effort to subvert democracy' News leaders deal with the post-Trump era MORE has made an effort to engage Republicans in infrastructure negotiations . Yet, most Democrats — … [Read more...]

PHILADELPHIA — The new Museum of the American Revolution , which opens here on Wednesday, stands on the site of a defunct welcome center built for the Bicentennial. Which would have seemed like the perfect metaphor if R. Scott Stephenson, the museum’s vice president for collections, exhibitions and programming, hadn’t happened to also mention the 18th-century privy at the back of the lot that was excavated during construction. “It was dug in 1776 and filled in 1789,” Mr. Stephenson said during a recent tour of the building. “So, basically, it held trash spanning from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.” The museum, built with more than $150 million in mostly private donations, occupies a prime piece of patriotic real estate in historic Philadelphia, right across from Alexander Hamilton’s First Bank of the United States and a few blocks from Independence Hall. If it doesn’t quite throw the old heroic narrative out the window, it does draw on … [Read more...]

Founded in 2011, the Bronx Documentary Center is a gallery and teaching space in the Melrose neighborhood that offers screenings, exhibitions and education programs in documentary film and photography to members of the local community. The aim, said Bianca Farrow, the center’s education manager, is to help people use photography “as a tool to be confident in themselves, in the stories they have to tell, and creating a community interested in exploring their own histories.” As part of that mission, the center operates the Bronx Junior Photo League, a nine-month photography and college success program, and the Bronx Senior Photo League, courses for older adults held at senior centers in the borough. Over the last year, the pandemic ruled out in-person instruction. But the center adapted: It offered classes virtually or as phone calls, and sent each student a camera, which they used to document their own lives as the world shifted around them. Earlier this year, The New York Times … [Read more...]

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nancy Pelosi New Alzheimer's drug sparks backlash over FDA, pricing Sunday shows preview: Biden foreign policy in focus as Dem tensions boil up back home It's not just Manchin: No electoral mandate stalls Democrats' leftist agenda MORE (D-Calif.) on Sunday said she doesn’t “give up on [Sen.] Joe Manchin Joe Manchin Maher goes after Manchin: 'Most powerful Republican in the Senate' It's not just Manchin: No electoral mandate stalls Democrats' leftist agenda Progressives want to tighten screws beyond Manchin and Sinema MORE [D-W.Va.],” after the senator announced last week that he will vote against a sweeping bill to overhaul elections, putting the future of the legislation in question in the evenly-split Senate. “I don't give up on Joe Manchin. When he was governor and Secretary of State in West Virginia he initiated many of the initial ideas that are in the HR 1, S.1, the For the People Act,” Pelosi told host Dana … [Read more...]