State officials target Austin s holiday restrictions
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Austin Mayor Steve Adler, seen on March 6, announced restrictions Tuesday night that limit indoor and outdoor dine-in food and beverage services after 10:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. from Dec. 31 through Jan. 3, The restrictions ,don’t prohibit contactless services like takeout and curbside pickup.Ricardo B. Brazziell /Associated Press
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the Austin over new restrictions placed on dine-in services over the four-day New Year’s holiday as the city’s COVID-19 cases hit new highs.
Austin’s restrictions, which Mayor Steve Adler announced Tuesday night, limit indoor and outdoor dine-in food and beverage services after 10:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. Restrictions are in effect from Dec. 31 through Jan. 3, and don’t prohibit contactless services like takeout and curbside pickup.
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Alabama
Gadsden: The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Alabama topped 2,800 this week, as recent days have shown a steady climb and new record high inpatient counts – 2,804 on Tuesday – as the surge in cases continues. Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, the University of Alabama’s Division of Infectious Diseases director, said Alabama now is third in the nation in COVID-19 hospitalizations per capita, behind Nevada and Arizona. She said Alabama is sixth in the nation in the number of COVID-19 cases per capita, after falling out of the top 10. On Christmas Eve, the number hospitalized was 2,458 across the state; on Christmas Day and on Saturday, it was 2,516, according to statistics published by BamaTracker. On Sunday, the number rose to 2,631; and it jumped significantly by Monday, to 2,802 people hospitalized.
Texas Attorney General
Ken Paxton has sued Austin and Travis County after local officials announced dine-in limitations over
New Year’s Eve weekend amidst what Austin-Travis County leadership is calling our “most dangerous surge prospects” yet in the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Last night the city and county co-issued new orders mandating that establishments serving food and beverages from an on-site kitchen, food truck, or catering service – a classification that’s come to include restaurants, some bars, and live music venues – must limit dine-in operations between 10:30pm-6am effective tomorrow (Dec. 31) through Sun., Jan. 3, at 6am. Such businesses may still operate during those hours using drive-through, curbside pick-up, take-out, or delivery, while dine-in operations remain permitted between 6am-10:30pm.
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Austin, Texas’s, Mayor Steve Adler is a politician who seems like he would be a better fit for the over-regulated and authoritarian state of California, but despite being the mayor of the heavily Democrat city of Austin, he’s still a Mayor in the heavily Republican state of Texas where Greg Abbott sits at the Governor’s desk, and Abbott isn’t allowing Adler to get away with hard-left nonsense.
Adler recently attempted to shut the city down on New Year’s Eve by issuing an order to restaurants looking to allow Austinites to celebrate the last moments of 2020 and the first moments of 2021. The order stops all dine-in services from 10:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. until January 3.