In fact, hardly any cities have defunded cops â the troubling spike in homicide is probably pandemic-related
February 1, 2021 11:00AM (UTC)
A protester carries a sign that reads Defund The Police during the Black Women Matter Say Her Name march on July 3, 2020 in Richmond, Virginia. Protests continue around the country after the death of African Americans while in police custody. (Eze Amos/Getty Images)
STORRS As students are set to go back to in-person classes on Monday, the University of Connecticut Friday reported eight new cases of COVID-19. Five of the new cases involve residential students, while the remaining three were found among employees, all of whom work on campus, according to the school’s public COVID-19 dashboard. Currently, 26 residential students at the Storrs campus are in isolation, either having testing positive for the.
Seeking ideas for ending violence between police and people of color, the local chapter of Links, an international society for women of color, invited a scholar, a lawmaker, a police chief and a state trooper to speak from their experience at a virtual forum Thursday night.
As the panelists called out stereotypes, lies, assumptions and faulty logic, solutions started to emerge.
In opening the forum, “Blue in Black and Brown Communities: Policing and People of Color,” Marilyn Mathews, a committee chairwoman in the local chapter, Greater Providence RI Links Inc., mentioned that U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is a fellow member of Links, an organization founded in 1946.
“I think we’re going to see much more easily widespread implementation and use of this vaccine,” said Summer Mcgee, dean of the University of New Haven School of Health Sciences.
It also does not need to be kept at such cold temperatures as the Pfizer vaccine. McGee said that is helpful reaching more people outside of cities, as well as groups like students who may be hard to schedule a second dose.
“So really this vaccine really presents some interesting tradeoffs,” said McGee. “It’s the balance of some of those logistical benefits with a little bit less effectiveness.”
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It has been a struggle many Connecticut towns have had - preserving their rural character, yet still attracting new businesses and tax dollars.
One community just outside the Hartford suburbs has made it loud and clear it believes it can accomplish both using its farmland to generate new kinds of business - something called “agri-tourism”.
The town of Ellington completed a survey of residents in 2018 to get input on its 10-year master plan for the town.
The survey indicated that it’s all about the farms in Ellington. It seems most people living there said they really like them - 85% of those surveyed said they either strongly or somewhat agree that preservation of farmland should be a top priority in Ellington.