Dallas Democratic Party Pushes Vaccine Registration With New Project By Shakari Briggs Dallas UPDATED 7:08 PM CT Jan. 29, 2021 PUBLISHED 3:12 PM CT Jan. 29, 2021 PUBLISHED 3:12 PM CST Jan. 29, 2021
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DALLAS It’s not about political sides, but about registering as many elderly residents in underserved communities throughout Dallas as possible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. In roughly under a week, the Dallas Democratic Party made more than 1,200 calls to “Get Out the Vaccine.”
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The Dallas County Democratic Party has created the Get Out the Vaccine project that focuses on registering seniors in underserved communities for the COVID-19 vaccine
Interestingly, according to a report by the Texas Tribune, four U.S. House Democrats sent a letter to Biden asking him to rescind his order on land leasing. Those reps – Vincente Gonzalez of McAllen, Henry Cuellar of Laredo, Lizzie Pannill Fletcher of Houston, and Marc Veasy of Fort Worth – argue that the order is “far-reaching,” would eliminate jobs, increase imports from foreign counties, and reduce the country’s domestic problems, among other issues.
Biden has set a goal of eliminating pollution from fossil fuel in the power sector by 2035 and from the U.S. economy overall by 2050, speeding what is already a market-driven growth of solar and wind energy and lessening the country’s dependence on oil and gas. The aggressive plan is aimed at slowing human-caused global warming that is magnifying extreme weather events such as deadly wildfires in the West and drenching rains and hurricanes in the East.
DeSantis said Thursday he’s proposing $550 million, an increase of $50 million from this year, in the 2021-2022 state budget “to continue raising the minimum K-12 teacher salary to the goal of getting the average minimum salary statewide to be $47,500.”
The governor said the budget also would include salary increases for “other eligible teachers and instruction personnel.”
DeSantis said his proposed budget “builds off that success” of increasing teacher minimum salaries. But teacher advocates expressed concern that, like last year, his proposal largely might abandon the most experienced teachers.
“We think it is great that he is putting priority toward educators’ salaries,” said Vanessa Skipper, vice president of the Brevard Federation of Teachers. “But we hope that the money will be more balanced and that veteran teachers will see an increase to their pay as well.”
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. Kaycen Bradley grew up in Glasgow, Kentucky with dreams of joining the U.S. Army. After graduating from high school in 2016 and moving to California, he began working with a recruiter to make his dream come true.
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President Joe Biden reversed a ban on transgender service members
The ban prohibited troops from transitioning and transgender recruits from joining the military
One Kentucky native said he will now be able to enlist
Kaycen Bradley said he always felt the ban would be overturned
Then, in July of 2017, a tweet from former President Donald Trump brought an abrupt halt to those plans. Several months prior, Bradley, who is transgender, had started hormone replacement therapy. Trump’s newly announced ban on transgender service members would prevent him from joining, Bradley was told.