Posted By Nina Rangel on Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 9:49 AM click to enlarge People park on the beach in South Padre Island, pre-COVID. Quelle surprise. Multiple media reports documented maskless and tight-packed crowds at Texas’ South Padre Island last week, following Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s decision to lift the statewide mask mandate and capacity restrictions. Many Texan school districts including the majority of San Antonio’s held their spring breaks last week, and more across the country will hold the weeklong reprieve through this Friday. Abbott s decision to rescind statewide pandemic protocols shortly before spring break has medical experts worried about a surge in cases in the coming weeks. Especially as revelers let down their guards.
Claverly Hall complete; Apthorp scheduled to finish this summer
BACOW: All of us hope that by fall we will have returned to some semblance of normality but we’re also planning for contingencies. If this virus has taught us anything, it is that we need to be flexible, and adaptable.
GAZETTE: Along those same lines, the pandemic has fundamentally changed the nature of work for so many. Do you have a sense of what work will look like at Harvard going forward?
BACOW: I think we’ve learned that people can work far more effectively from remote locations than we ever might have imagined. I have not set foot in Mass Hall since March 13, except for five minutes to reclaim a notebook that I left there shortly after I departed. If you had told me that I could do my job from my study here at Elmwood for a year without seeing the deans and VPs, the faculty, students, staff, alumni, donors, or the governing boards in person, I would have said, “No way.” But now we’ve all learne
Two Judges Rule Against CDC s Eviction Moratorium
Two separate U.S. district court judges have rule that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not have the authority to issue an eviction moratorium. March 16, 2021, 6am PDT | James Brasuell |
U.S. District Judges in Texas and Ohio have ruled that an eviction moratorium issue by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in September 2021, signed by former President Donald Trump, and since extended until March 31 by President Joe Biden.
U.S. District Judge J. Philip Calabrese of Ohio is the most recent to rule against the mortarium, saying that the CDC overstepped its authority in issuing the moratorium. U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker in the Eastern District of Texas issued a similar ruling just two weeks earlier.