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Acclaimed Bay Area restaurant to temporarily close after outcry over Black Lives Matter mask
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A former employee of The Girl & The Fig says she was asked to remove her Black Lives Matter face mask at work.Janelle Q. via Yelp
LATEST Feb. 18, 11:00 a.m. The Girl & The Fig has reopened. For the full story, see here.
Feb. 10, 4:30 p.m. The Girl & The Fig is temporarily closing after receiving threats and backlash over former employee Kimi Stout s allegation of being pressured to quit for wearing a Black Lives Matter mask to work, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.
President John Toulze told The Chronicle that he ultimately made the decision to shut down after seeing plans for a protest outside the restaurant circulate on social media, citing concerns over the staff s safety.
AJ TaylorFebruary 6, 2021Last Updated: February 28, 2021
Following a report that bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) participated in a “widespread and well-known” scheme misspending millions of taxpayer dollars over a decade, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is introducing legislation to hold these bad actors accountable. The misspent funds were intended for the development and procurement of vaccines, drugs, therapies, and other medical countermeasures needed to respond to public health emergencies like a pandemic.
“As we continue to battle the greatest public health emergency in recent history, it is appalling to learn that Washington bureaucrats have spent the last decade using money intended to respond to something like COVID-19 for their own personal piggy bank wasting your money, instead, on moving fees and salaries. This is criminal, and it’s why Congress should take action to create more transparency and accountability and ultimately to
Sen. Ernst: Feds Misspent $500 Million Meant for Vaccines, Public Health Emergencies
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials spent more than $500 million that Congress set aside for developing vaccines on office moving expenses, administrative costs, news media subscriptions, lawyers, and salaries, according to a letter that was made public by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa).
Beginning in 2009 under President Barack Obama and continuing through 2019, HHS’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) misused funds appropriated by Congress for the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) so frequently that it became known informally as the “Bank of BARDA,” according to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.