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 Hospitals in Northwest Indiana have been at the center of the Regionâs response to COVID-19 throughout the yearlong global pandemic. They put off elective surgeries and other non-urgent treatments last year to repurpose space for extra intensive care beds during several peak periods of coronavirus infection. Currently they are injecting hundreds of people each day with the COVID-19 vaccine that everyone hopes will bring an end to the health care emergency. A rendering of the new Franciscan Health hospital in Crown Point shows the main entrance of the hospital. Provided Through it all though, some Region hospital leaders have had to keep one eye on the present and another looking toward the future, as several major hospital and health care construction projects currently underway promise to make available more dynamic and innovative treatment options for Northwest Indiana residents in a post-pandemic world. ....
Republicans have two tasks ahead of them in next year’s midterm elections: to hold on to the working-class voters former President Donald Trump attracted to the party while also trying to win back some of the college-educated suburbanites he repelled. ....
share-square-617113 ATLANTA As the Braves won five National League pennants during the 1990s and 14 consecutive division titles from 1991-2005, they showcased the value of securing and developing quality homegrown talent. Here is a list of the top five players drafted and developed by Atlanta: 1) Chipper Jones, 1990 (first overall) While honoring Hank Aaron during a recent memorial service, Jones recalled learning that, as the Braves prepared for the 1990 Draft, Aaron told a group of the team’s scouts, “You better take the Jones boy.” Whether it was their belief in Jones or Todd Van Poppel’s unwillingness to sign, Atlanta certainly made the right choice when it made Jones the top overall pick. Van Poppel, a hard-throwing high school pitcher from Texas, drew most of the hype leading up to the Draft. But Bobby Cox, Atlanta’s general manager at the time, and legendary scout Paul Snyder opted to take a chance on a switch-hitting shortstop from Florida. ....
Copy to Clipboard President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence (Getty Images) No other political figure in the US has found himself or herself on as shaky ground as Vice President Mike Pence in recent times. The No 2 of the outgoing administration has been at the receiving end both in his own administration as well in the Congress where the opposition has taken him on. While the 61-year-old drew ire of President Donald Trump and his allies for not objecting to the congressional certification of President-elect Joe Biden on January 6, when the world came crashing down at the Capitol Hill, he has also been pressured by the Democrats to invoke the 25th Amendment of the Constitution to remove Trump after the Capitol unrest. ....
Vice President Mike Pence’s political future looks murky after he decisively broke with President Trump to preside over the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. ....