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In a surprise move today, CDC followed the lead of the various states that have lifted their masking and physical distancing recommendations. However, CDC’s new recommendations come with a twist. The CDC’s recommendations only apply to fully vaccinated people in non-healthcare settings. Here’s what your business should consider as it decides whether to “unmask.”
The May 13, 2021 CDC Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People states that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask or physically distance in any non-health care setting (except prisons and homeless shelters and public transportation), except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance. According to the CDC, prevention measures (including masks and physical distancing) are still recommended for unvaccinated people.
Waterville’s $4 million Alfond Municipal Pool project nearing home stretch
Matt Skehan, director of both the Waterville Parks and Recreation and Public Works departments, said the pool facility is expected to open for the season June 19.
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Bill Graham, project manager for Weston & Sampson, the contractor working on the $4 million Alfond Municipal Pool project, stands Thursday with Matt Skehan, director of both the Waterville parks and recreation department and public works department, at the pool complex.
Amy Calder/Morning Sentinel
WATERVILLE Work on a $4 million project to replace the pool and do renovations at the Alfond Municipal Pool complex on North Street is nearing the home stretch, with the facility expected to open Saturday, June 19.
The Vital Republican Role for Fixing Broken Government | Opinion Philip K. Howard
, founder, Campaign for Common Good On 5/13/21 at 7:30 AM EDT
In his recent speech to Congress, President Joe Biden called upon America to prove democracy still works.
While many Americans agree with much of what he proposes, making government work requires more than new spending. Failing schools, unaccountable police, decade-long infrastructure permitting and other public failures have convinced most Americans that democracy needs reform, not just greater ambitions.
Two-thirds of Americans, according to a 2019 AP/University of Chicago poll, believe government needs major structural changes. Yet political realities leave Democrats mute on reforming government. Neither Biden nor the Democrats in Congress will fix the imbedded bureaucratic rigidities because of their political alliances with public unions and other interest groups.
An American Classical Liberalism
Every four years, as the November presidential election draws near, I have the same daydream: that I don’t know or care who the president of the United States is. More importantly, I don’t need to know or care. I don’t have to vote or even pay attention to debates. I can ignore all campaign commercials. There are no high stakes for my family or my country. My liberty and property are so secure that, frankly, it doesn’t matter who wins. I don’t even need to know his name.
In my daydream, the president is mostly a figurehead and a symbol, almost invisible to myself and my community. He has no public wealth at his disposal. He administers no regulatory departments. He cannot tax us, send our children into foreign wars, pass out welfare to the rich or the poor, appoint judges to take away our rights of self government, control a central bank that inflates the money supply and brings on the business cycle, or change the laws willy-nilly accordi