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TexasTowelie's JournalShot mandate opposed: Protest against Baylor Scott & White COVID-19 vaccine requirement Saturday
TEMPLE - Opposition to Baylor Scott & White’s mandating that its staff take shots to protect them from complications of COVID-19 has brought a split in the local medical community.
On one side is leadership concerned about infections among both its workers and their patients.
On the other are people concerned about being forced to take shots that are still deemed experimental by the Food and Drug Administration. A protest to “Stop the Mandate” is set for 10 a.m. Saturday on the public sidewalk in front of Baylor Scott & White-Temple and on the other side of 31st Street.
Some staff members are filing for an exemption for both medical and religious reasons. The deadline for Baylor Scott & White employees to do so is today.
Priscilla Estrada, a surgical technologist, said that she was objecting on “strong moral convictions” and she hoped that other nurses would join her. “There’s no long term studies of it,” Estrada noted, explaining she was concerned about possible future effects of the COVID shots.
Read more: https://www.tdtnews.com/news/coronavirus/article_7f565060-fb04-11eb-b720-235034256f35.html
(Temple Daily Telegram)
Reynosa camp migrants worry about basic needs ripped away
Uncertainty, sickness and fear washed over the Reynosa migrant encampment Friday after Mexican law enforcement descended upon them Thursday night and left them bereft of one of their basic needs — a way to cook food.
They took propane tanks that were used in four kitchen sites splayed across a makeshift labyrinth where nearly 5,000 migrants call home. A majority decided to camp there after being expelled from the U.S. under a public health code known as Title 42.
About 9 p.m. Thursday, migrants said many of them congregated near visitors who were delivering a late night meal. At the same time, however, a group of armed Mexican officers brandishing rifles began encircling the plaza.
A video provided to The Monitor showed the men in black uniforms walking around the campsite. A narrator behind the camera said they were taking the propane tanks.
Read more: https://myrgv.com/local-news/2021/08/20/reynosa-camp-migrants-worry-about-basic-needs-ripped-away/
(McAllen Monitor)
Federal judge rules for Texas, temporarily restores federal health care funding extension
by Karen Brooks Harper, Texas TribuneA federal district judge on Friday temporarily reinstated a 10-year extension of a federal health care program that Texas uses to help pay for health care for uninsured Texans and is worth billions of dollars annually.
The agreement was set to expire next year after federal health officials in April rescinded the Trump-era extension to the 1115 waiver agreement — which Texas has had with the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services since 2011 and is up for review every few years — and ordered Texas to collect public input, as the agreement requires, while it renegotiates a new extension beyond its original October 2022 expiration date.
The decision did not stop the funding for the current waiver, which provides $3.87 billion in annual funding to partly offset free care provided by Texas hospitals to the uninsured, and to pay for innovative health care projects that serve low-income Texans, often for mental health services.
In his order Friday, U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Parker granted a preliminary injunction sought by Texas to block the federal government from rescinding the original Trump-era agreement. The decision removes the requirement, at least for now, for Texas to negotiate its deal with CMS if it wants 1115 funding beyond October 2022.
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/20/exas-1115-waiver-judge-ruling-medicaid/
What to know about Frisco real estate broker Jenna Ryan, who pleaded guilty in Capitol insurrection
besides that her singing sucks: https://www.democraticunderground.com/107855629Over the course of two weeks in January, Jennifer “Jenna” Ryan went being from a Frisco real estate broker with a robust online following to a household name.
Ryan, who stormed the U.S. Capitol and documented it on social media, is the first North Texan to plead guilty for her actions during the January insurrection, according to federal court records filed Thursday.
The 51-year-old real estate broker pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building, court records show.
The offense carries a maximum penalty of up to six months in prison and a fine of no more than $5,000. A sentencing date has been scheduled in November for Ryan, who has been free since turning herself in to the FBI.
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/01/27/frisco-real-estate-broker-jenna-ryan-facing-two-more-charges-booted-from-paypal-and-more-new-facts/
Okay, outing your younger brother and declaring bankruptcy after owing $100,000 to the IRS are normal, everyday events for most people.
We should be grateful that Jenna is disenchanted with politics so she vowed to never vote again.
What to know about Frisco real estate broker Jenna Ryan, who pleaded guilty in Capitol insurrection
Source: Dallas Morning News
Over the course of two weeks in January, Jennifer “Jenna” Ryan went being from a Frisco real estate broker with a robust online following to a household name.
Ryan, who stormed the U.S. Capitol and documented it on social media, is the first North Texan to plead guilty for her actions during the January insurrection, according to federal court records filed Thursday.
The 51-year-old real estate broker pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building, court records show.
The offense carries a maximum penalty of up to six months in prison and a fine of no more than $5,000. A sentencing date has been scheduled in November for Ryan, who has been free since turning herself in to the FBI.
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/01/27/frisco-real-estate-broker-jenna-ryan-facing-two-more-charges-booted-from-paypal-and-more-new-facts/
Judge tells Rutgers to hand over details on athletic spending to union
A Superior Court Judge ordered Rutgers University to turn over information about how much money they are spending on athletics programs after a faculty union went to court to get detailed financial data under the state’s Open Public Records Act.
Judge Alberto Rivas said that Rutgers improperly denied a request by a union representing full-time faculty members and other graduate workers and postdoctoral associations that could offer insights over the financial implications of athletics on the rest of the university.
“Rutgers is a public institution and should freely share information about its finances with the Rutgers community and the people of New Jersey,” said Rebecca Givan, the president of AAUP-AFT. “Nobody should have to sue to get basic transparency from their own public institution.”
According to the union, Rutgers athletics had an estimated shortfall of $57.2 million during the last school year and those losses are covered by academic programs and mandatory student fees.
Read more: https://newjerseyglobe.com/education/judge-tells-rutgers-to-hand-over-details-on-athletic-spending-to-union/
Three more Gannett newspapers move to unionize
Three more Gannett newspapers announced plans to unionize, with 31 employees of the Asbury Park Press, Courier News and Home News Tribune signing on in a bid to join the NewsGuild of New York.
The Bergen Record, Daily Record and New Jersey Herald voted to form a union earlier this year, and a group of digital producers for Gannett newspapers in New Jersey and four other states voted to unionize earlier this month. All have joined the NewsGuild, an arm of the Communications Workers of America Local 31003.
“For over a decade, we have lived in fear for our livelihood as our corporate owner, Gannett, decimated our newsrooms with routine layoffs and buyouts, depriving our readers of decades of institutional knowledge and damaging our local journalism,” the 31 journalists and staff said in a statement posted on their website.
Journalists at four other Gannett-owned newspapers in the state – The Daily Journal, Courier-Post, Burlington County Times, and New Jersey Biz — have not publicly announced plans to unionize.
Read more: https://newjerseyglobe.com/media/three-more-gannett-newspapers-move-to-unionize/
Three more Gannett newspapers move to unionize
Three more Gannett newspapers announced plans to unionize, with 31 employees of the Asbury Park Press, Courier News and Home News Tribune signing on in a bid to join the NewsGuild of New York.
The Bergen Record, Daily Record and New Jersey Herald voted to form a union earlier this year, and a group of digital producers for Gannett newspapers in New Jersey and four other states voted to unionize earlier this month. All have joined the NewsGuild, an arm of the Communications Workers of America Local 31003.
“For over a decade, we have lived in fear for our livelihood as our corporate owner, Gannett, decimated our newsrooms with routine layoffs and buyouts, depriving our readers of decades of institutional knowledge and damaging our local journalism,” the 31 journalists and staff said in a statement posted on their website.
Journalists at four other Gannett-owned newspapers in the state – The Daily Journal, Courier-Post, Burlington County Times, and New Jersey Biz — have not publicly announced plans to unionize.
Read more: https://newjerseyglobe.com/media/three-more-gannett-newspapers-move-to-unionize/
Married State Police detectives who lied about bar fight terminated, barred from public jobs
Two married New Jersey State Police detectives will give up their posts and be barred from future public employment after lying about their role in a North Wildwood bar fight, acting state Attorney General Andrew Bruck announced Monday.
Sgt. Gregory and Sgt. Dorothy Ogden, both of Hammonton, were accepted into a pretrial intervention program, and the charge of falsifying or tampering with records levied against each of them will be dismissed if they complete the program, according to Bruck.
The two admitted they submitted false written reports to their superiors about the fight, Bruck said.
Lawyers for the Ogdens did not return requests for comment.
The Ogdens were initially charged in April, when authorities alleged they did not immediately notify their superiors they were involved in a February 22 bar brawl and then submitted a late report that contained falsehoods.
Read more: https://newjerseymonitor.com/briefs/married-state-police-detectives-who-lied-about-bar-fight-terminated-barred-from-public-jobs/
Minnesota GOP chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan forced out amid scandal
Minnesota Republican leaders forced Jennifer Carnahan out as head of the state party on Thursday, turning a page on a scandal that threatened to consume GOP politics ahead of a pivotal election year.
Carnahan leaves as chair of the party amid allegations that she created a toxic workplace environment, one that blurred personal and professional lines, ignored concerns about sexual harassment and retaliated against employees who didn't fall in line.
The party's 15-member executive board voted 8-7 to give Carnahan a severance of three months salary, roughly $38,000, to leave her role. Carnahan, who attended the meeting virtually, was the deciding vote to give herself severance on the way out. The board also approved investigations into the party's finances and human resources protocols.
"It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as chairwoman for the Republican Party of Minnesota," Carnahan said in a statement after the vote. "However, I signed up for this party to help us elect Republicans and I want to ensure that we can continue to do that."
Read more: https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-gop-chairwoman-jennifer-carnahan-forced-out-amid-scandal/600089307/
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