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The Wayne County Treasurer's office last week significantly scaled back operations at its call center due to staffing shortages related to COVID-19. The center is expected to open today with additional staffing, but the shortage comes as people with back taxes work to get onto payment plans and avoid foreclosure ahead of a May 14 deadline.  Wayne County Treasurer Eric Sabree said the county plans to fully  staff the center with non-call center staff including Sabree himself starting Tuesday. The office is working to find a company to staff the center but it's unclear when that will happ...

Indians pay as Centre ignored warning of Covid-19 variants by experts Despite a warning of a disaster in the making, four scientists and a researcher told both the Telegraph and Reuters that the government did not seek to impose major restrictions to stop the spread of the virus Sabrangindia01 May 2021 Image Courtesy:reuters.com Two warnings ignored? Who is culpable? No less than a forum of scientific advisers set up by the government in early March 2021 itself and a special task force as early January 2021 warned Indian officials of a new and more contagious variant of...

Billionaires' Pandemic Profits Alone Could Cover 70% of Biden's American Jobs Plan On 4/15/21 at 6:00 AM EDT The profits earned by American billionaires during the coronavirus pandemic alone could cover the bulk of President Joe Biden's $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan, according to a new analysis. Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies released on Thursday a new report that shows billionaires in the U.S. increased their collective net worths by some $1.62 trillion between March 18, 2020, and April 12. Before last March, billionaires' combined net worth stood at $2.9...

BBC News Covid lockdown a year on: 'My dad became my best friend' Close Before March 2020, Shireen says she didn't "really care" about her dad as they'd grown apart. But during lockdown she realised she was living in the same house as her best friend. As part of the BBC Young Reporter competition Shireen's told her story to encourage others to reconnect with their families. You can find BBC online resources relating to media literacy and the skills involved in broadcasting here. Video by Jimmy Blake

April 2-5 | Avatar Mountain & Glass Bridge Tour Located in the northern mountain ranges of Hunan, the remote Zhangjiajie National Forest was known only to the Tujia, Miao, and Bai minority groups for centuries. Today, with its towering karst spires, rich brown earth, and lush forests, Zhangjiajie has become the icon of China’s striking landscapes. Made a UNESCO Heritage Site in 1992, the park is a dramatic landscape of deep, forested canyons and enormous, isolated limestone peaks, each growing their own miniature ecosystems akin to bonsai forests. Explore all it has to offer over this long ...