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Supervisors Discuss Vaccines, Shutdown at Orange County Board Meeting The Orange County Board of Supervisors discussed the county’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the prospect of holding a National Homeless Persons’ Day, and a new $10 million small business grant during a Dec. 15 meeting in Santa Ana, California. The largest topic of discussion for the meeting was Orange County’s anticipated arrival of 25,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine Dec. 16. “This first shipment will go to health care pr...

Utica Zoo 2020 Brewfest Holiday Boxes Available For Purchase The Utica Zoo has put together a Brewfest Holiday Box for the animal lover and beer enthusiasts on your shopping list this holiday season. Earlier this year, the Zoo was forced to cancel their leading fundraiser of the year, Utica Zoo Brewfest. Due to this and many other cancellations, the Zoo is down over $1 Million in revenue. In an effort to gain back some of the critical revenue that the zoo needs, this amazing gift box was bor...

Hong Kong’s Lai Charged With Endangering National Security Bloomberg 12/12/2020 Annie Lee and Iain Marlow (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong media tycoon and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai was charged with colluding with foreign forces under the city’s sweeping new national security law and denied bail in a court appearance on Saturday. Prosecutors told the West Kowloon Magistracy that Lai committed the offense -- calling for a foreign entity to impose sanctions or engag...

Media mogul is highest profile activist to be charged under new law as teenage activist is found guilty of flag insult.

Lai could face life in jail after being accused of conspiring with 'foreign forces'

The following article is part of Jay Jaffe’s ongoing look at the candidates on the BBWAA 2021 Hall of Fame ballot. For a detailed introduction to this year’s ballot, and other candidates in the series, use the tool above; an introduction to JAWS can be found here. For a tentative schedule and a chance to fill out a Hall of Fame ballot for our crowdsourcing project, see here. All WAR figures refer to the Baseball-Reference version unless otherwise indicated. Torii Hunter could go get it. Flu...

Hong Kong democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 73, has been charged under the city's national security law on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces, his Apple Daily newspaper reported on Friday, citing a police source.

Lai is a vocal critic of China and one of the last remaining voices of the pro-democracy protests that erupted in Hong Kong last year.

In an odd confluence of events, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe confirmed to me this week that he is running for re-election in 2022, while former deputy district attorney Joe Goethals, who recently completed a year as mayor of San Mateo, confirmed he is being urged to challenge Wagstaffe. That either might seek the office is not odd, but the particular context of such declarations, as noted by Goethals, is no less than fascinating.  Wagstaffe, long one of the stateâ€�...