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Kentucky lawmakers heard testimony Wednesday on how first responders across the state have held up during COVID-19.
“Our EMS agencies have struggled with a multitude of challenges,” said Michael Poynter, executive director of the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services. He was testifying before the Interim Joint Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection.
Poynter rattled off the challenges. They include employees unable to work due to quarantine, shortages of personal protective equipment and the additional costs of it all. Many of the challenges were echoed by representatives for firefighters, the Kentucky Fraternal Order of Police and Kentucky State Police – all of whom testified at the meeting.
Kentucky Budget Official Gives Update on Broadband Expansion
With $300 million to spend on expanding broadband service across the state, the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority plans to solicit Internet businesses on how to best proceed in anticipation of awarding bids on projects.
June 03, 2021 • (TNS) With $300 million to spend on expanding broadband internet service across rural Kentucky, the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority plans to solicit the opinions of internet businesses on how to best proceed this summer in anticipation of awarding bids on projects.
Members of the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue discussed the upcoming broadband expansion project during a Wednesday afternoon meeting in Frankfort.
“I personally love it,” said Bailey. “But it’s hard because everyone has their own opinion.”
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper lifted the mandate for most settings along with social distancing and mass gathering limitations May 14. But the war on whether masks should be worn is far from over.
Bailey, owner of Uptown Sweets, has had to tread lightly throughout the pandemic as she deals with people’s opinions about whether customers should wear masks. Bailey has not put pressure on her employees to enforce the previous mask mandate because some of them are new to the working world, and she doesn’t want their experience to be baptism by fire.
Special Report-Giant U.S. landlords pursue evictions despite CDC ban
By Michelle Conlin
Reuters
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Marvia Robinson was dead tired from a week of overnight long-haul trips when she nosed her Greyhound bus into the station in deep predawn darkness. Still, the 63-year-old driver kept a friendly lilt in her voice as she said goodbye to the riders filing past her and stepping off the bus.
“Rough night,” she said minutes later, walking toward her Toyota Corolla in the parking lot. “I had to put two off in Tallahassee, for drinking, and then another one in Ocala.” She longed to go home to sleep.