We will endure : Gov. Kemp highlights resilience during pandemic, sets eyes on the future
Kemp called on Georgians to put differences aside and leave 2020 in the dust, saying what matters now is taking the next steps to end the pandemic. Author: 13WMAZ Staff, Madilyn Harrell (13WMAZ) Published: 2:23 PM EST January 14, 2021 Updated: 2:23 PM EST January 14, 2021
ATLANTA Gov. Brian Kemp delivered his 2021 State of the State Address before the General Assembly on Thursday morning.
Kemp began by talking about the economic difficulty the state and Georgians have faced since the beginning of the pandemic.
He said Georgia “didn’t know the challenges ahead,” but has continued to persevere through the tough times in the spring and summer.
Dr. Kevin Whitaker, Jamestown Public Schools superintendent is pictured.
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Kevin Whitaker likened the state’s fiscal situation and its impending effect on schools to a confidence game.
“Think about a three-card monte where you move the cards around and you try to find the ace or the king or you have those cups and shells where there’s a marble underneath one of them and they get moved around,” the Jamestown Public Schools superintendent said. “That’s what’s going on in the state right now.”
Whitaker provided a budget update to the district’s board of education during a school board meeting earlier this week, emphasizing that “we are in an environment of missing information” as New York state continues to grapple with a $15 billion budget deficit that has yet to be improved upon due to a lack of federal aid.
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Vietnam veteran and Purple Heart recipient Alford Washington, Sr., receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Alanna Williams at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System’s gymnasium in New Orleans on Thursday. Washington was part of the Pathfinder Unit in Vietnam where he survived a plane crash that killed 7 people in Oct. 28, 1967. He said he had no concerns receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. (AP photo)
The massive, year-end catchall bill that President Donald Trump signed into law combines $900 billion in COVID-19 aid with a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill and reams of other unfinished legislation on taxes, energy, education and health care.
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