May 10, 2021 / 11:05 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) The Indianapolis City-County Council on Monday night restored county virus restrictions after state legislators’ veto override stripped health officials of their power to make guidelines during health emergencies.
Under the new law, if local health leaders want tougher restrictions than the state issued, a city or county council will have to pass them. The measure also allows the county commissioners or mayors to reverse emergency decisions, such as shutdown orders, issued by their local health departments.
The City-County Council passed Proposal 170 in a 19-5 vote on Monday night to restore the virus restrictions already in place in Marion County. Dr. Virginia Caine, director of the Marion County Health Department, was at the virtual meeting along with the councilors.
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Elaine Maestas remembers her sister, Elisha Lucero, going out of her way to help people.
“Even if it was like the last of her money, the last 20 dollars, and she knew you needed gas to get to work, didn t matter if you were a friend, a family member or somebody that she just met, she would help you out,” Maestas said.
Lucero was a pillar for her family. She was a loving aunt to Maestas’s children and a caregiver for her father when he became ill. But after she got in a car accident, Maestas said, “we really noticed a drastic, drastic change – that she was starting to not really be herself.”
Members of the Louisiana Legislature s Black Caucus want the House Speaker Clay Schexnayder to remove the chairman of the House Education Committee from his post.
Rep. Ray Garofalo (R-Chalmette) proposed a bill that would have banned the teaching of “divisive concepts” about race and sex in Louisiana schools, colleges, and universities. The committee voluntarily deferred the bill, but a vote to kill the bill outright died by a 7-7 vote. This allows Garofalo to resubmit the bill for consideration later in the session.
“This bill is about equality - not racial equity, Rep. Garofalo said last week in a statement he emailed to Louisiana news organizations. This bill addresses the growing concern of what many are calling the indoctrination of our children through racist and sexist programs in our schools education curricula and policies.”
Black Ohio Democrats oppose GOP proposal to change redistricting dates
Updated Apr 28, 2021;
Posted Apr 28, 2021
A Republican proposal to change Ohio s redistricting deadlines received a blow on Wednesday after a key group of Democrats came out in opposition. (Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland.com)
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The Ohio Legislative Black Caucus, which represents Black members in the Ohio House and Senate, issued a statement on Wednesday saying they are “deeply concerned” that Republican Senate President Matt Huffman’s proposal would reduce chances for public input on the process of redrawing the state’s political maps later this year.
“Using the guise of the delay in Census data does not justify giving the General Assembly free rein to reconfigure the redistricting schedule that was approved by voters in 2015 and 2018,” the statement read. “The Census delay should be addressed by extending all of the deadlines by the same amount of time, so that the overall process beg