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riversedge's JournalArizona Republicans' attempt to hide 'audit' documents from the public goes down in flames
https://twitter.com/lau56/status/1437930293227409408?s=20
Geez, how much more corrupt can AZ Republicans get??
Arizona Republicans' attempt to hide 'audit' documents from the public goes down in flames
https://www.rawstory.com/arizona-republicans-fail-in-attempt-to-hide-audit-documents-from-the-public/
Bob Brigham September 14, 2021
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"The AZ Supreme Court won't hear [Arizona Senate President Karen Fann's] appeal of the Court of Appeals' ruling that audit documents possessed by Senate subcontractors are public records. The Senate will have to turn over communications, invoices and other audit-related records," Jeremy Duda of the Arizona Mirror reported Tuesday.
Duda noted the records would include who is getting paid, "contracts or agreements the audit team has with outside funders" and communication among subcontractors.
Jim Small, the editor in chief of the Arizona Mirror, offered his analysis on Twitter.
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"To drive home what this means: The AZ Supreme Court is rejecting the claim by [Arizona Senate Republicans] and [state Senate President Karen Fann] that they are above the law," he wrote.....................................................................................................
1 in 3 COVID cases in Wisconsin are children, Oak Creek parents push for mask mandate
Source: cbs58
Posted: Sep 14, 2021 5:04 PM CDT
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Parents are concerned in the rise in COVID cases as the Milwaukee County Health Department is reporting one in three COVID cases in Wisconsin are children.
Some schools in the Milwaukee area are seeing a rise in cases. The Waukesha School District, where masks are optional, is reporting 54 cases. Oak Creek/ Franklin School District is reporting 44 cases as of Sept. 10. Oak Creek is one of the few districts in Milwaukee County without a mask mandate.
"It's just been very frustrating to know that the people that are in charge have decided they weren't going to listen to any of the science supporting masking in schools," Stephanie West said.
Stephanie West has four children in the Oak Creek/ Franklin School District. She already had one daughter exposed this year. She said that notification of exposure did not come until one week after she came into contact with the person..................................
Read more: https://cbs58.com/news/1-in-3-covid-cases-in-wisconsin-are-children-oak-creek-parents-push-for-mask-mandate
People learning the hard way.
https://twitter.com/CBS58/status/1437944252655362051?s=20
https://twitter.com/WPR/status/1437944116986384384?s=20
DOJ asks judge to block Texas from enacting abortion law
Source: the hill
By Mychael Schnell - 09/14/21 11:21 PM EDT
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an emergency motion Tuesday night to issue an order that would stop Texas from implementing its new controversial abortion law, which prohibits abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy.
DOJ argued in its motion that Texas adopted the measure “to prevent women from exercising their constitutional rights.” It is specifically asking for a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction to stop the implementation of the law.
“This relief is necessary to protect the constitutional rights of women in Texas and the sovereign interest of the United States in ensuring that its States respect the terms of the national compact,” the DOJ said in the 47-page motion.
“It is also necessary to protect federal agencies, employees, and contractors whose lawful actions S.B. 8 purports to prohibit,” the department added....................................
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/572317-doj-asks-judge-to-block-texas-from-enacting-abortion-law
It's reportedly costing billions of dollars to treat hospitalized unvaccinated COVID patients
Source: the week
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A new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation pegged the preventable cost of hospitalizing and treating unvaccinated COVID patients between June and August at an estimated $5.7 billion, CNN reports.
Using data from both the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service as well as health care studies, the report's authors found that each of the 287,000 "preventable" COVID-19 hospitalizations in the last three months cost around $20,000. When multiplied together, the two numbers amount to the $5.7 billion figure.
The analysis deems "preventable" hospitalizations to be "hospitalizations of unvaccinated adults for COVID-19 treatment primarily, while accounting for any post-vaccination infections that would have been expected if this population had been vaccinated," per CNN. The authors believe $5.7 billion to likely be "a conservative estimate of costs."
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Overall, the monetary cost of COVID treatment for the unvaccinated is important to note, the authors write, because it is "borne not only by patients but also by society more broadly, including taxpayer-funded public programs and private insurance premiums paid by workers, businesses, and individual purchasers."
Read more: https://theweek.com/coronavirus/1004848/its-reportedly-costing-billions-of-dollars-to-treat-hospitalized-unvaccinated
I have not seen hardly any articles about the cost of hospitalization of these patients.
Very short article. I wish it would have included whether the people had insurance or not.
Umbrella time: forecast is calling for an overwhelming amount of MAGA tears & Larry Elder meltdowns
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Make sure you grab your umbrellas and raincoats tomorrow. The forecast is calling for an overwhelming amount of MAGA tears and Larry Elder meltdowns.
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NOPE!!!
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FBI director faces new scrutiny over investigation of Brett Kavanaugh
Source: the guardian
Claim that FBI lacked authority to conduct further investigation into Kavanaugh may be inaccurate
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At the heart of the new questions that Wray will face later this week, when he testifies before the Senate judiciary committee, is a 2010 Memorandum of Understanding that the FBI has recently said constrained the agency’s ability to conduct any further investigations of allegations of misconduct.
It is not clear whether that claim is accurate, based on a close reading of the MOU, which was released in court records following a Freedom of Information Act request.
The FBI was called to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh during his Senate confirmation process in 2018, after he was accused of assault by Christine Blasey Ford, a professor who knew Kavanaugh when they were both in high school. He also faced other accusations, including that he had exposed himself to a classmate at Yale called Deborah Ramirez. Kavanaugh denied both accusations.
The FBI closed its extended background check of Kavanaugh after four days and did not interview either Blasey Ford or Kavanaugh. The FBI also disclosed to the Senate this June – two years after questions were initially asked – that it had received 4,500 tips from the public during the background check and that it had shared all “relevant tips” with the White House counsel at that time. It is not clear whether those tips were ever investigated....................
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/14/brett-kavanaugh-fbi-investigation-documents
Past time this issue was investigated.
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1437941678090846209?s=20
The FBI was called to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against Brett Kavanaugh during his Senate confirmation in 2018, after he was accused of assault by Christine Blasey Ford. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP
Activists going after WI school boards are aided & funded by national conservative groups & donors
Activists going after Wisconsin school boards are aided and funded by national conservative groups and GOP donors
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2021/09/03/wisconsin-school-boards-crossfire-parents-aided-gop-groups/5702386001/
Thomas Beaumont and Stephen Groves
Associated Press
MEQUON — A loose network of conservative groups with ties to major Republican donors and party-aligned think tanks is quietly lending firepower to local activists engaged in culture war fights in schools across the country.
While they are drawn by the anger of parents opposed to school policies on racial history or COVID-19 protocols like mask mandates, the groups are often run by political operatives and lawyers standing ready to amplify local disputes.
In a wealthy Milwaukee suburb, a law firm heavily financed by a conservative foundation that has fought climate change mitigation and that has ties to former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election helped parents seeking to recall Mequon-Thiensville school board members, chiefly over the board’s hiring of a diversity consultant. A new national advocacy group, Parents Defending Education, promoted the Wisconsin parents’ tactics as a model.
In Loudoun County, Virginia, a Justice Department spokesperson in the Trump administration rallied parents in a recall effort sparked by opposition to a district racial equity program. In Brownsburg, Indiana, a leader of a national network of parents opposed to anti-racist school programs helped a mother obtain a lawyer when the district’s superintendent blocked her from following his Twitter account.
This growing support network highlights the energy and resources being poured into the cauldron of political debate in the nation’s schools. Republicans hope the efforts lay the groundwork for a comeback in congressional elections next year. Some see the burst of local organizing on the right as reminiscent of a movement that helped power the GOP takeover of the House 10 years ago.
“It seems very tea party-ish to me,” said Dan Lennington, a lawyer with the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, which has offered free legal advice to several parent groups pursuing or weighing school board recalls, including the one in Mequon. “These are ingredients for having an impact on future elections.”
Lennington’s group is funded in part by the Bradley Foundation, a Milwaukee-based nonprofit that supports conservative causes. The foundation’s secretary, GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell, advised Trump as he sought to overturn the 2020 election results and has since worked to push for tighter state voting laws...........................
@DanRather The Rule of Trump: No matter how bad you think it is. It's worse. Much worse.
Show and sweet. Rather is spot on. t
I also think that Gen. Milley should gone public with the fact he was trying to protect nuclear weapons from Trump who was mentally deteriorating fast.
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The Rule of Trump: No matter how bad you think it is. It’s worse. Much worse. As in a dumpster fire inside of a nuclear reactor worse.
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8 Tennessee public school employees dead from COVID in first month of school
8 Tennessee public school employees dead from COVID in first month of school
No government or private agency is keeping comprehensive count of deaths
https://tennesseelookout.com/2021/09/09/a-grim-statistic-tennessee-public-school-employees-die-of-covid-19/
By: Anita Wadhwani - September 9, 2021 5:00 am
Just before she went to bed on Tuesday, Tennessee Education Association president Beth Brown got word of yet another public school teacher who died this week as a result of COVID-19. Brown returned to what has now become a painful but familiar ritual since the pandemic first began.
“One of the very last things I did last night was write a note of sympathy,” Brown said Wednesday. “Unless we get more mitigation measures in place, this is going to keep happening.”
At least eight Tennessee public school employees – three elementary school teachers, one pre-k assistant, a cafeteria worker, a bus driver and two high school teachers – have died since the school year began after contracting COVID-19. The total is an imperfect tally of a grim statistic that no one government agency or private entity is currently monitoring in a systematic way.
The state Department of Education does not keep track of COVID-19 deaths of school employees, according to spokesman Brian Blackley. The Tennessee Education Association does not keep a formal count either. ........................
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A spokesperson for Gov. Bill Lee, sent a list of the deceased employees and asked for the comment about what the deaths meant to the governor, did not respond Wednesday.
Since last weekend, Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, has been posting on social media local news reports of teachers’ deaths as a result of complications from COVID-19 with urgent messages about the need for universal masking in schools and vaccinations among eligible Tennesseans......................................
Wisconsin nursing homes see spike in COVID-19 cases as federal vaccine mandate for staff looms
All staff should have been vaccinated by NOW!! --or go find work elsewhere!
and damn--why haven't the patients been vaccinated by now???
https://twitter.com/Emilee_Fannon/status/1437779057748348932?s=20
By: Emilee Fannon Facebook | Twitter
Posted: Sep 13, 2021 4:08 PM CDT
MADISON Wis. (CBS 58) -- Nursing homes in Wisconsin are experiencing a spike in COVID-19 infections as the highly contagious delta variant continues to drive up cases and facilities prepare for a federal vaccine requirement for workers.
Wisconsin's nursing homes reported 55 residents tested positive for COVID-19 during the week of August 23rd to 29th, the highest weekly total since January, according to data tracked by the federal government.
While nursing home residents and staff were some of the first offered the vaccine in December, some industry leaders say a spike in new infections has largely been linked to breakthrough cases with residents experiencing mild symptoms.
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Currently, 62% of nursing home staff in Wisconsin are fully vaccinated, according to federal data. Meanwhile, 86% of residents are vaccinated.
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"If we get staff who are on the fence about getting vaccinated and they have other options in the health care industry, I'm afraid what that's going to do to the employment base in long-term care," said Sauer. ........................................
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