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And its left up to states and even certain localities to make their own decisions. so what you get is this hodgepodge of rulings and other things. california will drop rulings very shortly, but certain places like santa clara and california are still sustaining those rules. so theres no -- its no wonder that people and parents in particular are are confused. as far as children are concerned, the point is, examination as you just -- you and tom just stated. children are not vaccinated, either bec...

Been victim to fear-mongering by manipulating faulty data. people are now in this perpetual state of panic and fear when you are talking about the lowest risk population. at the end of the day, anybody who wants to wear a mask can and should wear a of course that. you do you. wonderful the rest of us need to move on. especially when we are talking about young, healthy children. the lowest risk population, there is no quality data demonstrating the benefit for these children wearing these masks i...

Out, were finally getting out of this. and now we look at our area since september of last year, we have had full hospitals, we have had huge numbers of covid cases. we got up to 40 test positive rate just a few weeks ago. were down to 25%. its still massively high. in we were over 5% in 2020 we thought that was critical and we had to wbuckle down. so i think we should be preparing for an endemic phase where were not in the pandemic and we dont have cases going up and down like a yo-yo. were jus...

That was an important piece of the law, and by the way, it worked for a long time. nearly 50 years. then came 2013 when a case known as shelby county versus holder came before the supreme court. shelby county, alabama, did not like to get permission to change its election laws so the county sued and in 2013 in a 5 to 4 decision the supreme court gutted the voting rights act. it did so by ruling that the formula for deciding which states and localities should be required to get pre-clearance when...

Weight restrictions were placed on it. people have to oftentimes go out of their way. and, given all the things that we are facing, the partnership between the federal government, states, and localities. in this, case two states. to be able to address the transportation infrastructure as well as other issues is huge. when you cant get your products to market, when you cant add travel to school or work safely, that impacts everyones lives. and so, this infrastructure bill will play a role in lowe...

That means more transit walking, rolling, riding to unlock the climate benefits of those modes, et cetera, et cetera. making the roads safe for all users. that means more of those annoying green scooters, less driving for you now the new york times inadvertently spilled the beans about all for this writing recently. increasingly, experts warn that if states abo want to slash planet warming emissions from cars and trucks, it wont be enough to sell more electric vehicles. theyll also have to encou...

So shes said we are not there yet but believes were heading there. whey is interesting, she did say that she does understand how in certain localities, the factors on the ground could be different. and she does understand how governors and other local leaders are moving to relax mask mandates even now given that their local conditions may be higher vaccination rates, hospitals that are less full, and more control disease. so i think shes understanding of that. if you recall, a year ago, she was ...

Appropriations committee. she traveled with president biden for that visit of that bridge, and other infrastructure issues. senator baldwin, after the president, of course, on ash wednesday as a roman catholic went to mass and received those ashes that we saw on his forehead, he traveled to wisconsin with you to make this point about what the infrastructure bill is delivering for wisconsin. are voters of wisconsin actually getting that message today? >> oh, they sure are. we talked about the bri...

Killing us, we understand what these military groups are, but we also understand when they are shooting from the localities surrounded civilians. to provoke us, for us to respond, and to start an escalation on the other side in response to the fire. it is also important for us to be on the same page in terms of information. the fact that the partners are sharing with us the information, we are very grateful for that by the way, for the cooperation of our intelligences. here in this tension from ...

Performance. 53% disapprove. now among key demographics, hes underwater women. theyre running away from him a suburbanites they are too. and independents forget about them. look at those numbers now on the pandemic. just 39% approve of the job biden is doing and 57 percent disapprove of that support mask mandates, vaccine mandates. its also dropping and localities across the country are following suit . r so todayig in the parents rights hotspot of loudoun county, virginia, they just announced t...