Print article Alaska’s top public health officials and hospital representatives urged legislators to extend the state’s COVID-19 emergency declaration Thursday as the clock ticks toward the mid-February date when it expires. The declaration provides authority for everything from mandated airport COVID-19 traveler testing and increased hospital capacity to National Guard deployments for vaccine distribution. A 30-day extension expires Feb. 14. Gov. Mike Dunleavy last month introduced legislation to extend the declaration potentially into September. But now that bill, Senate Bill 56, is stalled in committee and faces some resistance in the Legislature, where it’s increasingly possible that lawmakers may not be willing or possibly able, given the tight timeline to approve a declaration that some Alaskans see as part of a larger crackdown on individual freedoms.
Bluff Park community comes together for cook who lost everything in tornado
Community rallies to support tornado victim By Shilo Groover | February 3, 2021 at 5:53 PM CST - Updated February 3 at 7:19 PM
HOOVER, Ala. (WBRC) - A Hoover community is coming together to rally behind a family who lost everything in the tornado.
Rod Bonner has been the head cook at the Bluff Park Diner for almost two decades, but he says losing everything is showing him just how much he is loved.
“Rod was here when I bought the diner. I was really fortunate to have a person like Rod here,” Rod’s boss, Brett Hubbard, owner of Bluff Park Diner.
Huggins partners with Public Health to administer expiring COVID-19 vaccines
Huggins Hospital nurse Amy Varney, RN, assists a patient through a vaccine clinic Sunday that was set up overnight to help the state save doses set to expire that day. (Courtesy Photo) (
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Huggins Hospital nurse Amy Varney, RN, assists a patient through a vaccine clinic Sunday that was set up overnight to help the state save doses set to expire that day. (Courtesy Photo) (
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February 03, 2021WOLFEBORO Over the weekend, local public health officials informed Huggins Hospital of approximately 100 doses of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine allocated for Carroll County that were set to expire on Sunday. With quick action and mobilization of teams, Huggins Hospital, County Coalition for Public Health (C3PH) and local EMS collaborated to make sure no doses would go to waste.
Attorney general saga should make us all very angry Author: Libby Bakalar Lizzo said it best: “Why men great ‘til they gotta be great?” Ruth Botstein and I didn’t get the courtesy of 48 hours’ notice when our “friend” and colleague of a decade-plus, Ed Sniffen, illegally fired us for off-hours, anti-Trump tweeting that offended Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s loyalist agenda. It happened three hours after the governor was sworn into office, and we packed our boxes that very day. I worked with Ed for 12 years. He was kind, smart, professional, great to work with, handsome and charming. But the day he illegally fired me and Ruth, I knew it was all a lie. I then watched for two years as he desecrated the rule of law in Alaska. There was, seemingly, no order he wouldn’t follow. I started referring to him, only half-jokingly, as “Nuremberg Ed.”