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At a Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce meeting in the early 1970s, Len Laurance said that eventually Ketchikan would host more than one million cruise ship passengers each season. The proclamation, made at a time when less than 70,000 cruise passengers visited the First City, was met with guffaws by the audience. But Laurance, who died at 88 on April 8, was right. In both 2018 and 2019, Ketchikan had more than one million cruise visitors and would likely have had more than 1.3 million in 2020 if no...

Vaccine inequity will make containment measures more difficult In the midst of a raging second wave, which is touching new peaks each passing day, the Central government has abdicated its responsibility to ensure vaccine equity through free vaccination for the poor across all age groups. While State governments were never consulted or given prior notice about the change in vaccination policy, giving the two vaccine manufacturers a free hand to decide the price at which vaccines will be sold to...

Alaska Mental Health Trust Awards More than $1.2 Million in Grants Statewide   Tuesday PM (SitNews) Anchorage, Alaska - The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority awarded more than $1.2M in grants to organizations across the state in the third quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2021. In Ketchikan, Community Connections ($100,000 for Rock Wall Stabilization and Mitigation Measures) and Ketchikan Wellness Coalition ($52,500 for Ketchikan Reentry Coalition Housing Project) are ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, government officials at all levels are reevaluating their health and safety protocols and adjusting workplace guidance based on ever-shifting case metrics. While all states had begun reopening over the summer, rising cases have caused many jurisdictions to either pause their progress, or return to more restrictive measures. Jurisdictions across the country continue to pro...

Daily Monitor Wednesday March 10 2021 Review the Hoima Sugar ESIA report, mitigation measures, Ugandans, public On August 14 last year, Nema issued a certificate of approval for the ESIA report authorising Hoima Sugar to take over more than 21 square miles of Bugoma forest to plant sugarcane, among other activities.  According to the certificate, Nema permitted Hoima Sugar to use 21 square miles out of the 22 square mile lease the latter secured from Bunyoro Kingdom at Shs3b against the will o...

As the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, government officials at all levels are reevaluating their health and safety protocols and adjusting workplace guidance...

As the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, government officials at all levels are reevaluating their health and safety protocols and adjusting workplace guidance...

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What NFL’s Game Plan Can Teach America About Handling COVID-19 February 2, 2021 With just days to go before the Super Bowl, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is cheerleading the National Football League (NFL) for its COVID-19 mitigation strategy, The CDC has published a paper jointly authored by CDC and NFL and the NFL Players Association medical experts and epidemiologists. The publication shares the benefits of the NFL’s COVID-19 miti...

15th Finance Commission recommends maintaining vertical devolution at 41 pc ANI | Updated: Feb 01, 2021 21:08 IST New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): In order to maintain predictability and stability of resources, especially during the pandemic, the report of 15th Finance Commission (FC) on Monday recommended maintaining the vertical devolution at 41 per cent, the same as in its report for 2020-21. The 15th FCs report, with 117 core recommendations, was ta...