The Daily Yonder GOP Governors’ Cutoff of Covid Benefits Hits Hard in Rural America Data analysis revealed that between the GOP-led states that decided to end Covid benefits early, almost $11 billion in unemployment benefits will be lost, affecting around two million workers.
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Crystal Dvorak shops at a grocery store in Billings, Montana, for ingredients to make a soup with potatoes and onions she got from a food bank after losing her job as an audiologist. Montana Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte announced this month that his state will no longer accept the $300 federal unemployment benefits put in place during the pandemic. (Matthew Brown/The Associated Press)
Robert Tufano, a spokesperson for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, told The Intercept in an email that “the practice of ‘kettling’ is prohibited under the department’s standard operation procedures.” Tufano added that the practice was “not specifically banned” before June 2, 2020, but the guidelines on civil emergency standard operating procedures were since updated to include the ban. Still, the prohibition on kettling is not written into any of the department’s publicly available policies. When asked for clarification, Tufano shared internal guidelines stating that riot control agents, like tear gas, “will not be used to intentionally corral or contain crowds.”
“When a dispersal order is given, the dispersal order and egress routes will be audibly communicated repeatedly, loudly and clearly to the crowd and over the police radio,” Tufano added, citing the new policy. “Designated egress routes will not be intentionally blocked by RCAs or phys
911 Center Staffing Shortage Causing Mistakes, Delays
Since December, about 9% of Durham’s calls have been routed to the Raleigh-Wake Emergency Communications Center. Calls ring for about 30 seconds in Durham before automatically transferring to Raleigh.
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(TNS) - Durham firefighters reported at least 46 dispatching errors or concerns this year, after staffing shortages at the city s 911 center forced Raleigh operators to answer nearly 1 in 10 incoming calls.
There were 26 vacant positions out of a total of 60 at the Durham Emergency Communications Center, a city spokesperson told The News & Observer this month. Three of 18 call-taking positions were vacant, she said.
Since December, about 9% of Durham s calls have been routed to the Raleigh-Wake Emergency Communications Center, according to the city. Calls ring for about 30 seconds in Durham before automatically transferring to Raleigh.
The prison guards who slept while Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself planned to defend themselves as scapegoats of a dysfunctional system if they had gone to trial, sources have revealed.
Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, who admitted sleeping and browsing the internet instead of watching the billionaire pedophile the night he killed himself in his New York jail cell, last week avoided time behind bars in exchange for their cooperation and community service.
The pair had been charged with lying on prison records to make it seem as though they had made required checks on the sex offender before he was found in his cell in August 2019.