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Business what to do in our state. it is the antithesis of sort of this bottom-up belief that localities know what to do best when it comes to schools. >> and not just about schools. conservatives used to be about less bureaucracy and less central control, you know, letting people tax and legislate and governor and close to the people affected by those policies as they could with the national government doing things like making sure the constitution and its rights are followed consistently throug...

And buy new one. gold is a good thing to get today. >> ainsley: save all your jewelry from high school boyfriends and go melted it down. >> steve: talk about stuff in the news. you know, we are on the right side going down on the omicron. the number of cases is going down, thankfully. but heres the thing. there is still a lot of mask mandates in various localities. and we have got some images to show you of these democrat lawmakers who are behind the mandates but apparently when it comes time fo...

Piling on, telling the community again and again you cant trust law enforcement. spills over into deadly violence. thats what is being played out today. >> pete: we have been hearing from white house officials lately. they like to say that they support additional funding for local police departments through the american rescue plan. but any money from the american rescue plan is just leftover covid stimulus. because, when they were pushing the american rescue plan, they were not talking about re...

Couple things i keep in mind. one is the desire to reduce as much as possible the burden from omicron. and thankfully, young children are at the lowest risk for severe infection for hospitalization and for death. theyre not at zero risk, but theyre at very low risk. but you have to balance the measures that were asking children and families to do to prevent omicron against some of those costs. and the costs are real. the surgeon general today was talking about the mental health costs. what will ...

Nonetheless very much a part of our community and so we wanted to extend to them the authority -- or the capacity to participate in local elections. >> shannon: how do you respond to that argument there are people that are here and living under the conditions that are set by the low katz and should be able to -- localities and should be able to vote on who some of the leaders of some of the ordinances are. >> the right to vote is sacred in our democracy. there are people who become citizens in o...

56% as you can see there say going back is a large or moderate risk. the u.s. surgeon general acknowledges the country is in a difficult position. >> year three going into this pandemic there are a lot of people who are frustrated, who are tired, who are exhausted and i think weve got to take that into account as we think of the next stages of the response. our goal should be to get to a place where we can pull back on these types of restrictions as often and quickly as possible and as safely as...

Very clear. theyre tired. i want my kid back in school and i dont want them wearing a mask because the science tells us a, b, c, and d. now you have the political pushing the practical. in other words, the practical part of, okay, no masks, if youve got the vaccine, et cetera, is coming into play because of the politics of whats coming down the road. and you want to be off of that messaging, that negative messaging that voters have come to believe about where we are with covid right now. put on ...

Why not? why has that been difficult? >> chuck, youre 100% right. thats what we do need. we need a set of metrics, and they have to be simple. are hospitals being overwhelmed and are deaths too high, and then well look at them, and then are we coming down or going up. if we look at these metrics, those metrics apply to the country, they apply to states and to localities. and i think one of the things we have to do is say heres what were looking at, heres our three-element dashboard and when thes...

To achieve transportation greenhouse gas production. that means more walking and bike riding to make the roads safe. that means more green scooters and less driving for you. the "new york times" spilled the beans about that writing: they have to encourage people to drive less. blue states are leading the way. colorado, for instance, new state rules dictate if localities want to expand highways they need to offset the extra emissions with cleaner projects like bike trails and land use changes. if...

And thankfully, young children are at the lowest risk for severe infection for hospitalization and for death. theyre not at zero risk, but theyre at very low risk. but you have to balance the measures that were asking children and families to do to prevent omicron against some of those costs. and the costs are real. the surgeon general today was talking about the mental health costs. what will it take for children to get back to a normal where theyre no longer needing to be afraid of each other,...