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Washington: The first incentives were relatively modest: doughnuts, hunting licenses, baseball tickets. And cheeseburgers. Beer. Whiskey. Maybe even a savings bond, enough to buy a nice toaster someday. The United States has a surplus of coronavirus vaccine doses on its hands, and long gone are the days when people waited hours to get jabbed. Dwindling demand has forced governors and mayors to get creative. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, tried to market the vaccines by offering burgers and fries from Shake Shack, which he dutifully, awkwardly ate on camera while trying to keep a s...

By JOEL ACHENBACH, ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA, FRANCES STEAD SELLERS AND KEVIN WILLIAMS | The Washington Post | Published: May 17, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. WASHINGTON — The first incentives were relatively modest: doughnuts, hunting licenses, baseball tickets. And cheeseburgers. Beer. Whiskey. Maybe even a savings bond, enough to buy a nice toaster someday. The United States has a surplu...

Ten days after hearing some of his constituents in Lynchburg express their anger about a trio of solar panel farms proposed near their village, state Rep.

4:03 With Ohio moving towards lifting all health orders in the next three weeks, DeWine is making a big push to encourage people to get the vaccine.   Part of that push is a $1 million lottery he’s calling “Ohio Vax-A-Million.” DeWine hopes the million-dollar drawings gives an extra boost for people to get the shot.  “We got people who have got their vaccine. We've got people who have not gotten their vaccine and absolutely say, I'm never going to get that's fine. We respect that. It's the people in the middle who are going to determine whether we get the numbers that we need to re...

Ohio offers $1 million weekly prize as vaccine incentive By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS - Associated Press Kent State University student Regan Raeth, of Hudson, Ohio, looks at her vaccination bandage April 8 as she waits for 15 minutes after her shot in Kent. On Wednesday, Gov. Mike DeWine announced the end of the state’s mask mandate as new COVID-19 cases decrease and more Ohioans get vaccinated. DeWine said the mask mandate will end June 2 except for nursing homes and assisted living facilities. COLUMBUS — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has made many newsworthy statements in his long political career,...