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Washington Post

How to confront systemic racism? Heed the call of Martin Luther King.

By Michael Gerson
  • White people in America tend to assume, at a deep level, that America’s economic, governmental and legal systems are roughly fair.
  • Eighteen days after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “ I Have a Dream ” speech, four young girls were killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. Days later, King delivered their eulogy, and demonstrated why America would have been lost without the civil rights movement.
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Washington Post

Covid-19 live updates: Reinfection is possible but rare, data from 63 million medical records shows

By Erin Cunningham, Brittany Shammas, Hannah Knowles and Carolyn Y. Johnson
  • Federal health authorities are leaning toward recommending that use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine resume, possibly as soon as this weekend — a move that would include a new warning about a rare complication involving blood clots but probably would not call for age restrictions.
  • Federal health authorities are leaning toward recommending that use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine resume, possibly as soon as this weekend — a move that would include a new warning about a rare complication involving blood clots but probably not call for age restrictions.
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Washington Post

Why stopping the distribution of the Philip Roth biography was a bad idea

By Alyssa Rosenberg
  • Then, the New York Times followed up with a report that a female publishing executive wrote to W.W. Norton’s president in 2018 to say that in 2015, Bailey assaulted her while they were both guests at a friend’s home.
  • What happened at W.W. Norton this week was instead a clever effort at corporate image management disguised as social responsibility, and a missed opportunity to demonstrate how making recompense and continuing dialogue can go hand in hand.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune

Duluth has COVID-19 vaccines to spare; come and get them, hospitals urge

By Brooks Johnson
  • Essentia Health has also opened its Miller Hill Mall vaccination site in Duluth for walk-in appointments available to anyone seeking a first dose of the vaccine.
  • DULUTH – St. Luke's has an ample supply of COVID-19 vaccines, and the Duluth-based health system is encouraging anyone who wants to make an appointment, no matter where they live, to drive up for the shot.
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Washington Post

Daunte Wright’s wake draws family, community and activists

By Kim Bellware
  • Sharpton decried mentions of Wright’s record and said the real questions must be reserved for Kim Potter, the 26-year veteran Brooklyn Center police officer who shot Wright with her service weapon .
  • MINNEAPOLIS — Friends and family of Daunte Wright will gather here Thursday afternoon to say goodbye to the 20-year-old Black man who was killed earlier this month by police during a traffic stop.
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Cincinnati | WLWT News

‘Safety is in their DNA’: This social media app is geared toward kids and learning

  • Instead, we're playing catch-up and trying to put bandaids on issues that perhaps could have been avoided if initial design and launch placed kids and teens at the center."As Zigazoo grows through word of mouth, it has also fallen into the hands of celebrity parents -- including Rutler and his partner, singer Christina Aguilera -- whose 6-year-old daughter consumes videos on the app.
  • With a background as tech entrepreneurs -- the Ringelsteins launched and sold Dropbox-for-education platform UClass to Renaissance Learning, a Google Capital Company, for an undisclosed sum in 2015 -- they folded these exercises into an app and made the traditionally passive experience of viewing videos into something creative and social.The app's challenges fall into various categories -- art, math, health and fitness, and more -- and come from its content partners.
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Washington Post

Bill would create aviation response plan for pandemics and study disease transmission on airplanes

By Lori Aratani
  • DeFazio (D-Ore.), the committee’s chairman, and Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.), the aviation subcommittee chairman — also makes clear that the Federal Aviation Administration has the authority to impose requirements to protect passengers and airline workers during public health emergencies.
  • In addition, it would require that people wear masks on airplanes and in airports, and that airline employees and some FAA personnel be given personal protective equipment during public health emergencies linked to respiratory diseases.
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Washington Post

A hiker was lost and desperate. A stranger with an unusual hobby saved him.

By Sydney Page
  • “There’s an amazing amount of information you can get from satellites,” said Kuo, who is also a hiker, though he has never visited the area where Compean was lost.
  • Ben Kuo was working at his home about 60 miles away in Ventura County, Calif., when he stumbled upon a tweet from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, along with the photo of Compean’s legs.
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Iowa Capital Dispatch

ACLU challenges Iowa law restricting public funds for transgender medical care

By Katie Akin
  • The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa filed a lawsuit Thursday against a state law that exempts Medicaid and other public insurance plans from funding transition-related surgeries for transgender individuals.
  • The Iowa Court of Appeals dismissed the case because Vasquez and fellow plaintiff Mika Covington had not been denied coverage by the Iowa Department of Human Services.
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Washington Post

Our policymakers are still obsessing over risks but forgetting about rewards

By Fareed Zakaria
  • In other words, even if all the blood clots proved fatal — and most have not been — the virus would still be thousands of times more dangerous than the vaccine.
  • Consider the decision from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration to recommend pausing distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after six cases of severe blood clots were reported in the United States (now nine ).
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Washington Post

What formally recognizing the Armenian genocide means for humanity

By David Ignatius
  • He didn’t live to see the emotional moment that’s likely to come Saturday, when President Biden is expected to become the first U.S. president to formally affirm the fact of the Armenian genocide .
  • On Saturday, the annual day of remembrance for the 1.5 million victims of the genocide, Gregorian would probably have asked the same question that he posed in the March 2018 interview : “What is our duty as Armenians .
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Wall Street Journal

Snap Won’t Lose Its Luster

  • Snap chat parent Snap Inc. kicked off social media’s first quarter earnings season on Thursday with a bright filter, reporting users and sales above Wall Street’s estimates.
  • Continuing to surprise investors to the upside is an impressive feat for a company whose share price has more than tripled over the last year.
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Orange County Register

Providence adds COVID-19 vaccine clinics in Santa Ana and at the Great Park

By Ian Wheeler
Health care provider Providence is adding new coronavirus vaccination sites at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine and at an Edwards Lifesciences building in Santa Ana. The Santa Ana location, off the 55 freeway at 3009 Daimler St., opened Wednesday, April 21, the company said. The drive-thru Irvine location is set to launch Monday, April 26, using one of the Great Park’s parking lots near 8000 Great Park Blvd. Providence already has a vaccine center at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton and recently started several weekly clinics in north Orange County at local community centers. Appointments for Providence sites can be made onMy […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Minnesota - Twin Cities Pioneer Press

Explainer: Why is Chauvin unlikely to face maximum sentence?

By Amy Forliti
  • For example, if a defendant is convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman — two crimes against one victim — a judge would issue a sentence on each count, and could rule that they be served at the same time or consecutively, said former Hennepin County chief public defender Mary Moriarty.
  • For second-degree unintentional murder, guidelines say the presumptive sentence for someone with no criminal record like Chauvin would be 12 1/2 years.
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Washington Post

Republicans seem to forget their own court-packing attempts

By Letters to the Editor
  • Kathleen Parker’s assertion that “nothing has changed since Biden’s 1983 assessment — oh, except that the court today leans conservative — and liberals don’t like it” was laughable and a good example of the right’s attempts to rewrite history to suit its own purposes.
  • But I disagree with the unqualified assertion in her April 18 op-ed, “ Biden should remember his own words,” that “the court today leans conservative — and liberals don’t like it.”
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Washington Post

LeVar Burton wanted to host ‘Jeopardy!’ for years. Thanks to an online movement, he’s getting his chance.

By Jaclyn Peiser
  • As of Wednesday, his dream is officially coming true — at least for a few days — thanks in part to a fierce push from fans to get him a spot as one of the celebrity guests who have lead the show since its revered host, Alex Trebek, died in November.
  • “Between hosting 21 seasons of the educational Reading Rainbow, playing the brainiac engineer Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: the Next Generation, and filling the roll of Kunta Kinte in the ever important mini-series Roots, LeVar Burton has inspired and shaped the minds of several generations of trivia-loving nerds,” wrote Joshua Sanders, who created the petition.
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Austin, Texas | KXAN News

NB I-35 to NB U.S. 183 flyover to close Sunday night for reconstruction, long-term detour planned

By Jaclyn Ramkissoon
AUSTIN (KXAN) — While two newly-constructed flyovers are opening Sunday at the I-35/U.S. 183 interchange, one existing flyover will be closing for at least a few months for reconstruction. The Texas Department of Transportation said the existing northbound I-35 to northbound U.S. 183 flyover will shut down for about four months, beginning 10 p.m. Sunday. Crews will demolish and reconstruct one portion of the flyover. A long-term detour will be put in place. Drivers looking to use that flyover will instead be directed to the Rundberg Lane exit (#241) to take a U-turn at Rundberg Lane and transfer onto the new southbound I-35 to northbound […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Minnesota - Twin Cities Pioneer Press

Want normal? State and hospitals say adults should vaccinate and kids get tested.

By Dave Orrick
  • In separate statements and interviews, state health and education officials, testing sites and local hospital officials sketched out a current COVID landscape that is both optimistic and troubling as they emphasized the dual-pronged strategy amid a tug of war between an increasing — but far from fully — immune public and the more-dangerous variant that is dominating infections and increasingly sending unvaccinated, middle-aged patients to the hospital.
  • Minnesota health officials Thursday urged everyone over 16 to get vaccinated and youth and teens to get tested more frequently if the state is to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic faster.
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Vanity Fair

Prince Louis Celebrates His Third Birthday With a Bike Ride

By Katey Rich, Erin Vanderhoof
  • “The weather has been lovely so I imagine they will be out in the garden playing games and having lots of fun,” a family friend told Vanity Fair at the time about Louis’s birthday plans.
  • Even when George and Charlotte returned to school last September, Louis remained at home, but Vanity Fair understands that Louis began attending Willcocks Nursery School in London this week, the same day that the new photograph was taken at Kensington Palace.
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Iowa Capital Dispatch

Climate envoy to Iowans: ‘There’s a growing sense of urgency’

By Perry Beeman
  • “There’s a growing sense of urgency,” said Kerry, a former U.S. senator and former secretary of state who holds the newly created position of presidential envoy for climate in the Biden administration.
  • Moments before he closed a White House international climate summit on Earth Day, U.S. special envoy John Kerry urged Iowans to push Congress to approve new cuts in carbon emissions.
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Minnesota - Twin Cities Pioneer Press

Marine Debris Tracker app asks citizen scientists, volunteers to track Mississippi River pollution on Earth Day

By Frederick Melo
If you’re interested in picking up trash on Earth Day weekend, there’s an app for that. St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter will initiate the 35th annual citywide spring cleanup on Saturday morning by helping to launch a multi-state effort to combat plastic pollution along the Mississippi River. The “Mississippi River Plastic Pollution” initiative asks volunteers to track the items they remove from along the river using the Marine Debris Tracker, a new open source smartphone app available at DebrisTracker.org. Carter will place a GPS-tagged bottle into the Mississippi River at 9 a.m. Saturday, which will provide the initiative with data about the […]Read more >Similar articles >

Maine - Portland Press Herald

Maine medical marijuana trailblazer hospitalized following accident

By Hannah LaClaire
  • Providers, known in the industry as caregivers, as well as medical cannabis consumers, are pushing back against a series of program changes proposed both from the Maine Office of Marijuana Policy and the Maine Legislature.
  • Dawson Julia, a medical cannabis provider in Unity, head of the Maine Cannabis Coalition and one of the first in the state to open a medical cannabis “caregiver” store, is “fighting for his life” in a Miami hospital, according to a GoFundMe fundraiser started by his sister-in-law, Jennifer Nyman-Julia.
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Orange County Register

COVID: UC, CSU systems and Stanford plan to require students to be vaccinated

By Emily DeRuy
  • “Prior to the implementation of any changes to the CSU’s existing immunization requirements, the CSU will engage the California State Student Association, the CSU Academic Senate and labor unions,” the system said in a statement, adding that exemptions would be allowed for medical and religious reasons.
  • Stanford on Thursday also said it plans to require all students coming to campus in the fall to be fully vaccinated.
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Long Reads

The 7 Climate Tipping Points That Could Change The World Forever

  • As we go about our daily lives, the carbon-rich soils of the boreal forest and lush rainforests of the tropics are hard at work sucking up carbon dioxide, forming what are known as terrestrial carbon sinks.
  • But as conditions become warmer and drier, wildfires are happening more frequently and burning over greater areas, threatening the vast reserves of carbon stored in the soils of the boreal region and potentially transforming the forest into grassland or tundra.
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Orange County Register

Laguna Woods sees virus cases slowing to a crawl

By Brooke Becher
  • Third Mutual passed a resolution that would set a special election schedule regarding a ballot initiative to restate and amend the mutual’s insurance policies as outlined in the Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions (CC&Rs) and bylaws.
  • Citywide, coronavirus cases within Laguna Woods have slowed to a crawl, with only four new cases reported in April, Village Management Services CEO Jeff Parker said during a regular meeting of the Third Mutual board on Tuesday, April 20.
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Axios

Latino leaders push “Marshall Plan” for Central America to address migration and poverty

By Russell Contreras
  • Hispanic U.S. House members are pushing for an aggressive, multiyear "Marshall Plan" for Central America to tackle regional violence, corruption and economic devastation.
  • The big picture: The call for a Central American plan, similar to a U.S. program that rebuilt Western Europe following World War II, comes as both political parties and the Biden administration struggle to find short-term solutions to the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
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New Hampshire | Concord Monitor

Harriet Tubman’s lost Maryland home found, archaeologists say

  • Tuesday morning state and federal officials announced that Schablitsky, guided in part by the coin, believes she has found the site where Tubman lived with her parents and several siblings during formative teenage years before she escaped enslavement.
  • Officials said bricks, datable pieces of 19th-century pottery, a button, a drawer pull, a pipe stem, old records, and the location all pointed to the spot being the likely site of the Ben Ross cabin.
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East Idaho News

Idaho colleges and universities looking at ways to make some student fees optional

The following is a news release from the Idaho State Board of Education. The Idaho State Board of Education asked Idaho’s college and university presidents to study their student fee structures with the intent of potentially making some fees optional. “We want to understand how an optional student fee structure can be developed to the benefit of students and if so, what would it mean for the institutions financially and how such a program would be implemented,” State Board President Debbie Critchfield said. Student fees cover institution costs in three areas: facilities, technology, and student activities. The presidents will focus on […]Read more >Similar articles >
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Vanity Fair

“This Is Going to Be a Global Moment”: All Eyes Are on Facebook as It Weighs Whether to Ban Donald Trump for Life

By Caleb Ecarma
  • “The Facebook Oversight Board’s decision on the Trump case—expected in late April—will show whether that expulsion can be justified by something other than an impulse to appease angry users and butter up a new administration.”
  • As the tech world waits to see whether Facebook kicks Donald Trump out for good or lets him back in, lawmakers are following along, seeing the case as a milestone in the fraught relationship between Big Tech and free speech.
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The Salt Lake Tribune

Eric C. Ewert: The endless hucksterism worked. Utah is the fastest-growing state for the last decade

By Eric C. Ewert | Special to The Tribune
  • Utah added nearly a half a million people (474,466) in a decade and grew at an astonishing 17.1% (though we won’t gain a representative in Congress this time).
  • They routinely embrace every strip mall, housing development, freeway lane, methane well, coal mine, water diversion, golf course, RV park, truck stop and business park with open arms (and taxpayer money) in their growth-addicted worldview.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune

S Carolina quirky liquor laws give sour grapes to wine giant

By JEFFREY COLLINS
  • But the public tasting rooms request has caused the measure to grind slowly through the Legislature in a state where quirky alcohol laws protect small retailers, harkening back to the days of saloons and booze only in private clubs and bartenders making drinks with minibottles typically found on airplanes..
  • Wholesalers and liquor stores are against the bill because they don't want Gallo to be able to sell the wine directly after the tastings.
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Vanity Fair

“We’re Not Trying to Bankrupt Fox”: Inside the ADL’s Push to Get Tucker Carlson Off the Air

By Charlotte Klein
  • He has the right to share his point of view,” Greenblatt said of Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host whom he recently urged the network to fire.
  • Greenblatt said the goal of his speech at this week’s conference was to encourage companies either directly advertising on Tucker Carlson Tonight or spending money across other Fox properties to use their leverage to send a message about the host, whether through pulling back spending or making their views known to executives.
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Maine - Portland Press Herald

On Earth Day, Mills announces $500,000 grant program for clean energy start-ups

By Kevin Miller
  • MONTVILLE — The state will create a $500,000 competitive grant program that will help to fund at least two clean energy start-up companies in Maine, Gov. Janet Mills announced Thursday.
  • Mills unveiled the new program on the same day that President Joe Biden announced he was committing the United States to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 52 percent over 2005 levels by the end of this decade.
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Philadelphia Inquirer

A bit of the new stirred in with the old

ATLANTIC CITY - Drinking at the Shore is always a different sort of proposition. In places like Sea Isle or Wildwood, it's all about quantity over quality. I almost never drink, say, Red Stripe beer at home (or listen to much reggae), but dammit if every summer I don't find myself somewhere listening to a middling rendition of "Legalize It" and drinking $3 Red Stripe on special. […]Read more >Similar articles >

Alabama News Network

Montgomery County Commission Invites Montgomery County Students to Apply for Apprenticeship Program

The Montgomery County Commission once again invites Montgomery County students, ages 16-22 years old, to come work for the county. The 2021 Montgomery County Student Apprenticeship program begins Monday, June 7 and runs until Friday, July 30. Students have the opportunity to work for offices throughout the county including the County Commission, Sheriff, District Attorney, Probate, Engineering, Parks and Recreation, Community Corrections and more. Application can be found on the homepage of the county website,www.mc-ala.org. Applications are due to the City-County Personnel Office by 5:00 p.m. Friday, May 14, 2021. Students must be […]Read more >Similar articles >

TIME

The Story Behind TIME’s George Floyd ‘Justice—Not Yet For All’ Cover

By Victor Williams
  • But in a testament to how tenuous this moment of joy and resolution is, Hillz delivered the final artwork from an airport in Minneapolis while en route to the funeral of Daunte Wright, another unarmed Black man recently killed by a police officer (and whose death occurred while Chauvin’s trial was in session).
  • Houston-based artist Ange Hillz, meanwhile, went to work: in 24 hours, he created this week’s TIME cover portrait of Floyd, to accompany a story from TIME’s Janell Ross .
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TIME

George Floyd’s Family Reacted to the Verdict With an Uncontrollable Cry. That Sound Echoes Through Black America

By Janell Ross/Minneapolis
  • Guilty, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill said, as he read the jury’s April 20 verdict on the first of three charges leveled against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Perry Floyd Jr. That’s when I heard those involuntary sounds come up and out.
  • They had, for the first time in Minnesota history, convicted a white police officer of murdering a Black man while on duty.
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Iowa Capital Dispatch

U.S. House passes D.C. statehood bill, but votes still lacking in Senate

By Laura Olson
  • WASHINGTON — For the second time, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a measure to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, sending the historic bill to the Senate on a party-line vote.
  • “If Democrats were serious about statehood, they would pursue it through a constitutional amendment — requiring two-thirds of the House of Representatives and Senate to approve and three-quarters of states to ratify,” said Rep. Jim Hagedorn, R-Minn., in a statement after the vote.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal

Ruffin’s tenacity helped push ‘Mystere’ to June reopening

  • Lamarre outlined that process, and the company’s reopening strategy, in a wide-ranging interview this week as Cirque announced the return of those shows, along with Blue Man Group at Luxor on June 24.
  • Cirque du Soleil CEO Daniel Lamarre says Treasure Island owner Phil Ruffin’s passion for returning “Mystere” to the stage was a determining factor in the show’s June 28 restart.
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Denver Post

The Spot: 3 major topics that Colorado’s lawmakers and leaders are focused on

By Erica Hunzinger
  • This week, The Spot is narrowing in on the main issues in front of lawmakers and leaders — gun laws, changes to policing and the top educators in the metro area — as well as calling your attention to things you may have missed.
  • Colorado Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg says this could be the week his fellow Democrats lawmakers roll out their slate of legislation in response to the King Soopers shooting.
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The Salt Lake Tribune

Kaitlin Eskelson: With help, travel industry will drive America’s economic rebound

By Kaitlin Eskelson | Special to The Tribune
  • Being held May 2-8, this year’s NTTW is the 38th annual celebration of the U.S. travel industry’s contributions and an opportunity to remind visitors and residents alike of the incredible value the travel industry holds not just for our local economy and workforce but also for our community’s identity and culture, while reminding our leaders and policymakers of the travel industry’s ability to help power recovery efforts from the crippling effects of COVID-19.
  • However, the travel industry’s ability to bounce back after periods of economic hardship — and inject much-needed revenue directly into Salt Lake County’s visitor economy and that of the state — is why the theme of this year’s National Travel and Tourism Week (NTTW) is the “Power of Travel.”
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Portland Oregon | KOIN News

Oregon reports 993 new COVID cases

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — 993 new COVID cases were reported in Oregon on Thursday, as cases continue to climb. One new death was reported, bringing the state death toll to 2,467. 283 Oregonians remain hospitalized due to the virus, with 69 of them in ICU beds. Oregon’s 2,467th COVID-19 death is a 67-year-old man from Linn County who tested positive on April 21 and died on April 21 at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. He had underlying conditions. Doc talks new OHSU study on COVID-19 variants The new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases reported today are in the following counties: Baker (14), Benton (24), Clackamas (116), […]Read more >Similar articles >

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Supply of COVID-19 vaccine nearing demand in Wisconsin

By SCOTT BAUER
  • State health leaders said Thursday that while the gap between supply and demand is closing, there is an increasing emphasis on reaching those who may have difficulty getting vaccinated or who have been hesitant to receive the shot to date.
  • As an example of the closing gap, this week 250,000 doses were requested from vaccinators, down from 400,000 the week before, said Julie Willems Van Dijk, deputy secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
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Washington Post

The White House is creating a smokescreen for why it hasn’t raised refugee admissions

By Editorial Board
  • AS OFFICIALS tell it, President Biden has not yet raised his predecessor’s historically low ceiling on resettlements — despite having promised to do just that — because of concerns that it would overburden the government’s resources.
  • The U.S. refugee program, which has thrived with bipartisan support for decades to legally resettle carefully vetted people fleeing the world’s most desperate places, has nothing to do with the current surge of asylum seekers crossing the southern border.
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Vox

Republicans’ opening bid on infrastructure is about a quarter of the size of Biden’s plan

By Ella Nilsen
  • Though it’s a fraction of Biden’s proposal, the Republican plan is actually larger than the last $305 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill Congress passed in 2015 that was signed into law by President Barack Obama.
  • Not only is the cost much smaller; the Republican plan deals more narrowly with fixing America’s roads and bridges and other forms of transportation infrastructure, while Biden’s does that and more, doubling as a sweeping climate plan and a substantial investment to make long-term care more affordable.
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Washington Post

D.C., Maryland say they are clearing vaccine waitlists, as outreach efforts expand

By Lola Fadulu, Jenna Portnoy
  • Maryland had worked through its 800,000-person pre-registration list as of earlier this week, officials said, although not all have scheduled appointments yet and about 5,000 new people register each day.
  • “We believe that the best way to reach those who are people of color, and those with English as a second language, and those who may be underserved, is to actually come out into the community,” said Shelly McDonald-Pinkett, the chief medical officer at Howard University and manager of the vaccination site.
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Portland Oregon | KOIN News

Parents rally to save Portland Children’s Museum as former leaders stay mum

By Courtney Vaughn, The Portland Tribune
  • Now, the museum board is refusing to provide any information to the public regarding how the Portland Children's Museum arrived at this point, what financial contribution they would need to remain open, and what, if anything, can be done to prevent these closures."
  • "Over the last year, the Board remained publicly silent while the museum floundered," Elisabeth Utas, part of an informal group rallying to try to restore funding for the museum and school, said in a statement released to media.
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Washington Post

Putin’s Russia isn’t a model for anyone

By Frida Ghitis
  • Russians in huge numbers took to the streets again on Wednesday to protest their government’s treatment of Alexei Navalny, a man they fear may soon die because he dared to criticize President Vladimir Putin.
  • Today, Putin’s Russia stands for rampant corruption, stark income inequality, aggression toward its neighbors and state-sponsored assassinations of those who dare to criticize the system.
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Chicago Sun-Times

Stress-induced drug use during pandemic is reason to de-criminalize harder drugs: Foxx

By Fran Spielman
  • Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx on Thursday pointed to stress-induced drug abuse during the pandemic as the impetus to get moving on her plan to wipe clean the record of convicted marijuana dealers and expunge offenses for heroin and cocaine possession.
  • Foxx called Illinois’ groundbreaking decision to legalize marijuana a “gateway conversation to deeper conversations around treating addiction as a public health issue and looking at the drug economy that has flourished in these neighborhoods while every other bit of economy has abandoned” those communities.
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Seattle Times

Health officials lean toward resuming Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine — but with a warning

By Lena H. Sun and Laurie Mcginley

Federal health authorities are leaning toward recommending that use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine resume, possibly as soon as this weekend – a move that would include a new warning about a rare complication involving blood clots but probably not call for age restrictions. The position would be similar to one taken by […]Read more >Similar articles >
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New Hampshire | Concord Monitor

In Chichester, a selectman’s refusal to wear a mask spurs debate over what is ‘right’ 

  • Via zoom, Houle, in an understated yet pointed manner, told Selectmen Jason Weir that his refusal to wear a mask at the Select Board meeting on April 6, which forced a week’s postponement, was selfish.
  • At the April 13 meeting, before Houle had his say and longtime resident Bette Bogdan had her say and Town Administrator Jodi Pinard had her say, Select Board Chair Richard Bouchard addressed a complaint concerning Weir, totally separate from Mask-Gate.
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STAT

Listen: The latest mask debate, FDA in limbo, & gene therapy’s uncertain upside

By Damian Garde and Meg Tirrell and Adam Feuerstein
  • For more on what we cover, here’s the latest on the FDA ; here’s the news on genome editing for sickle cell disease ; here’s more on gene therapy’s commercial prospects ; here’s where you can subscribe to the First Opinion Podcast ; and here’s our complete coverage of the coronavirus pandemic .
  • We cover all that and more this week on “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech podcast.
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Alabama Political Reporter

RAGA finance director resigns amid January 6 robocall fallout

By Eddie Burkhalter
  • The association’s former director, Adam Piper, resigned in January after mounting criticism once the involvement of the group’s dark money fundraising arm, the Rule of Law Defense Fund, in the deadly rally became publicly known.
  • The finance director for the Republican Attorneys General Association has resigned, and in an email to attorneys general said she was doing so because of the association’s nomination as director a man who the finance director said approved robocalls urging people to attend the Jan. 6 rally at the U.S. Capitol.
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US news | The Guardian

‘Aren’t our lives worth more?’: Daunte Wright mourned at Minneapolis funeral

By Chris McGreal in Minneapolis
  • Two days after the streets of Minneapolis filled with people celebrating the conviction of a former police officer for murdering George Floyd, the city held a funeral on Thursday for Daunte Wright, another young Black man shot dead by police during a traffic stop.
  • The killing of Wright, 20, two weeks ago by a police officer who said she mistook her gun for a Taser shocked a city still reeling from Floyd’s death and anxiously watching the trial of his killer, Derek Chauvin.
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Bloomberg Politics

South Carolina Senator Tim Scott to Give Biden Speech Rebuttal

By Billy House
  • Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina will give the Republican Party’s nationally televised rebuttal Wednesday to President Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress.
  • I’m glad he’ll be delivering the Republican address following the president’s remarks on Wednesday,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in a joint statement with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
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Portland Oregon | KOIN News

‘Once in a generation’: Multnomah County Chair reveals $2.8B budget

By Lindsay Nadrich
  • Furthermore, $52 million is coming in from the income tax voters passed last year called the Metro Supportive Housing Services Measure, which will help provide rent assistance and subsidies, in addition to growing the number of shelter and outreach programs.
  • (KOIN) -- Efforts to tackle homelessness and COVID-19-related crises are driving much of the $2.8 billion budget for Multnomah County, according to Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury, who calls it a "once in a generation" plan.
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Maine - Portland Press Herald

COVID-19 hospitalizations surge across Maine, hit record levels at Lewiston’s CMMC

By Colin Woodard
  • York County’s largest hospital, Southern Maine Health Care Medical Center in Biddeford, saw a sharp increase in COVID-19 inpatients, going from an average of 6.7 last week to 12.3 per day for the week ending Thursday.
  • Hospitalizations for COVID-19 hit a record level at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston this week as statewide inpatient numbers surged to highs not seen since mid-February.
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Fast Company

The five best arguments that Apple’s App Store is a monopoly

By Mark Sullivan
  • Case in point: Spotify’s lawyer Horacio Gutierrez pointed out that not only is his company required to use Apple’s payment system (and pay the “Apple tax”), but the music app is also prohibited from directing users of its free iOS app to online promotions offering three months of Spotify Premium for 99¢.
  • But as Daru points out, Apple had access to its proprietary app store data about Tile downloads and metadata, and it could use that data to make the decision to enter the personal thing-tracker market, and to design its product the way it did.
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San Antonio Current

Vandal smashes Artpace window, affecting exhibition by San Antonio artist José Villalobos

By Kelly Merka Nelson
In an apparent act of vandalism, someone earlier this week shattered a window atdowntowncontemporary art complexArtpace.

According to artist José Villalobos, the vandal hurled a brick through one of the Main Avenue windows facing his exhibition "De Los Otros."Artpacepositioned the installation by the windows so passersby could view it from the outside.

"Early this week I was informed that the windows, which allowed 24/7 access to view my exhibit, were vandalized," Villalobos said in a Wednesday Instagram post. It was accompanied by multiple photos of the broken window and glass littering the building interior.

In several images, a chunk of brick and glass shards are visible on one of the cots used in the installation.


Villalobos is a Latinx and gay artist whose work protests "the toxicity of machismo.""De Los Otros" centers on the true story of a gay farm worker who was a part of the Bracero Program, which brought millions of Mexican laborers to the United States in the mid-20th century.

In his post, Villalobos said it was hard not to imagine that the attack might have been directed toward him or due to the nature of his work.

"A brick was thrown through the main space, and it's difficult not to feel that this is a personal attack as a queer individual," he stated. […]Read more >Similar articles >
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San Antonio Current

North Central San Antonio bar Rod Dog’s Saloon to reopen following massive renovation

By Nina Rangel
North Central San Antonio bar Rod Dog’s Saloon will reopen Saturday, May 1 after a lengthy renovation brought on by a 2019 blaze.

The space has undergone massive construction, and will celebrate with a grand reopening party that will feature a pool tournament, darts, drink specials and eats from local chef Will Nichols of Lil Joe's Smoked Wings.

The neighborhood haunt near McArthur Park was in operation for nearly 25 years, but has remained shuttered after an October 2019 fire.

The grand reopening event will begin at 6 p.m.

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Time

Keep your mask handy: These chains and retailers are maintaining their face covering policies

  • "Children under 2 years old and people with medical conditions or disabilities who may be adversely affected by a face covering do not need to wear one," CVS Pharmacy said.Dollar GeneralEmployees, vendors and customers are required to wear face coverings in all Dollar General stores, distribution centers and offices.
  • Face coverings will be supplied to anyone in need of one at stories within Kroger's portfolio.Lowe'sThe home improvement chain requires all of its employees to wear masks at all locations while working with customers.
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Axios

Sen. Tim Scott to deliver Republicans’ rebuttal to Biden’s joint address

By Alayna Treene
  • Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) will deliver his party's response to President Biden's joint address to Congress next week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced on Thursday.
  • As Sen. Scott likes to say, he is living his mother’s American dream, and he has dedicated his career to creating more opportunity for our fellow citizens who need it most," McConnell said.
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Orange County Register

Tree-planting highlights CSUF’s commitment to sustainability

By Jen Karmarkar
  • From left, Council Member Fred Jung, CSUF Senior Associate Vice President of Administration & Finance Dr. Ali Izadian, CalFire Regional Urban Forester Lynnette Short, Mayor Bruce Whitaker and Mayor Pro Tem Nick Dunlap pose for a photograph during an Arbor Day celebration at Cal State Fullerton on Wednesday, April 21, 2021.
  • From left, Fullerton Mayor Bruce Whitaker, CSUF President Framroze Virjee, Mayor Pro Tem Nick Dunlap, CalFire Regional Urban Forester Lynnette Short and Council Member Fred Jung pose for a photograph during an Arbor Day celebration at Cal State Fullerton on Wednesday, April 21, 2021.
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Orange County Register

Biden eyeing capital gains tax as high as 43.4% for wealthy

By Bloomberg
  • President Joe Biden will propose almost doubling the capital gains tax rate for wealthy individuals to 39.6% to help pay for a raft of social spending that addresses long-standing inequality, according to people familiar with the proposal.
  • Biden is expected to release the proposal next week as part of the tax increases to fund social spending in the forthcoming “American Families Plan.”
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San Antonio Current

EVO Entertainment to offer San Antonio teachers and nurses free admission in May

By Nina Rangel
Movies-and-more venue operator EVO Entertainment will show its appreciation for teachers and nurses next month by offering them free tickets for film showings.

“The nurses and teachers in our communities deserve all the recognition in the world, so we’re happy we can provide them with a little escape,” said Mitch Roberts, chief executive ofEVO, which operates entertainment sites in Schertz, New Braunfels and San Marcos. […]Read more >Similar articles >
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New York Post

New York Comic Con sets ‘very limited’ in-person event for October

By Ben Cost
  • “Right now, we see a path forward for safe, amazing events that are going to look a bit different than usual, so that’s where we’re heading,” said Kristina Rogers, the US comic portfolio director for parent company ReedPop, in a statement to The Wrap .
  • After going virtual last year over COVID concerns, New York Comic Con is slated to return as an in-person event at the Javits Center this October.
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Washington Post

Texas goes to war with corporate America

By Karen Tumulty
  • Big companies are taking a stand against new Republican proposals that could lead to long lines at the polls, make it harder for many, especially racial minorities, to vote, and put more control of elections into partisan hands.
  • It is hard to think of a situation that better reflects the state of Republican politics today than the fact that GOP leaders in Texas, of all places, have decided to declare war on corporate America.
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Washington Post

Everyone is tired. We need to give ourselves an actual break.

By Christine Emba
  • So instead of snapping back to normal once we’ve had our shots, we should take our newly recognized existential tiredness as an indication that it’s time to change course — to realize that we need to give ourselves an actual break.
  • And many Americans are actually declining the shot out of fear that the side effects longed-for by the Zooming classes might force them to miss out on much-needed pay.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune

Elected officials call for justice and reform at Daunte Wright’s funeral

By Shannon Prather, Kim Hyatt, Katie Galioto and Matt McKinney
  • The funeral for Daunte Demetrius Wright Thursday filled the Shiloh Temple International Ministries with friends, family and others who have had loved ones killed by police including relatives of George Floyd, Philando Castile, Jamar Clark and Oscar Grant.
  • Mourners including the state's top political leaders filled a north Minneapolis church Thursday to honor the life of a 20-year-man killed by Brooklyn Center police, and demand justice.
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Orange County Register

Coronavirus tracker: California continues its decline in cases as of April 21

By Jeff Goertzen
India surpassed a grim milestone, surpassing 300,000 new daily cases of the coronavirus, according to end-of-day data released Wednesday, April 21, from Johns Hopkins University. That represents more than one-third of the world’s 889,975 new cases recorded that same day. Meanwhile, California continues its decline in new cases, recording the lowest daily infection rate of any state in the United States with 39.3 new cases per 100,000 people, according to data released Wednesday, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s down from 40.3 the day prior. According California public health websites, there were 1,970 new cases of […]Read more >Similar articles >