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Though votes were reported as unofficial this evening, it’s apparent that Batavia City Schools’ $54.8 million budget and a related 1 percent tax levy increase passed with a vote of 301 to 108. It was one of eight districts to report a passed 2022-23 budget. The other proposition on Batavia’s ballot was the election of board members for three vacant seats. Chezeray Rolle came
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Biden is determined to avoid a repeat of his decision last July to celebrate “independence from the virus,” only to watch the U.S. get hit with the lethal Delta surge weeks later.
In his November 29 Best of the Web column 'Biden's partisan pandemic history,' the Wall Street Journal's James Freeman took up President Biden's remarks the previous day on the Omicron variant (transcript here). Biden's remarks implicitly trashed President Trump's handling of the epidemic in a characteristically ungracious, ungrateful, and dishonest manner. I call it 'The Biden variant.' Freeman writes in a more dispassionate spirit (links omitted): At Monday’s event the