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Moderna COVID vaccine gets key endorsement — vaccinations are safe and will end pandemic
Fox News | Sally C. Pipes
December 17, 2020
Inoculations like these will be essential to end the nightmare of hospitalizations and deaths that has had such suffering around the world. But vaccines are useless until they are injected into our arms. We must, quite literally, roll up our sleeves and get to work to put the coronavirus pandemic into the history books.
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On this webinar, PRI welcomes back an all-star panel of experts representing legal, regulatory, and policy industries to discuss state and federal changes to data privacy and cybersecurity during 2020 and what the future holds for tech, digital privacy, and cybersecurity in 2021.
Leslie Lenkowsky – Democracy Under Lockdown
PRI Next Round Podcast
December 14, 2020
Dr. Leslie Lenkowsky, an expert on philanthropy and public affairs, offers his insights into American civil society’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and what increased restrictions on personal freedom mean for our democracy. Dr. Lenkowsky is a professor at the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University and a member of the philanthropic studies faculty of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
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Would-be Education Secretary Lily Garcia Should Meet Mia Giordano
Townhall.com | Lance Izumi
December 17, 2020
Garcia, who headed the National Education Association, referred to children with disabilities as “the chronically ‘tarded’ and medically annoying” in a speech a few years ago. While Garcia apologized for her remarks, she did not apologize for the one-size-fits-all public school system, which she and the NEA so adamantly defend, but which fails to meet the needs of many children with learning disabilities.
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Flattening The Curve Is More Important Than Ever.
American Council on Science and Health | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
December 15, 2020
What should we do in the interim, given the widespread “pandemic fatigue” — people tiring of sheltering, distancing, and the closing of businesses? We need to recall the observation of The Great One. No, not Dr. Tony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health—the other one, hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, who once explained, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”
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Nevada Experience Shows Charter and Private Schools Could Lose Out on Covid-19 Funds
Right By the Bay Blog | McKenzie Richards
December 17, 2020
Putting aside the valid concerns of the violation of federalism, the overestimation of costs, and increased federal spending and taxes, it is important to realize how such funding could adversely affect charter and private schools nationwide.
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Biden’s Trade Policy with China
Right By the Bay | Evan Harris
December 14, 2020
A lengthy Section 301 investigation and report, “Findings of the Investigation into China’s Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and Innovation Under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974,” highlights China’s unfair practices related to intellectual property and theft, access to propriety technology and software, and licensing to name a few of the many grievances.
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California’s Scandal-Plagued Unemployment Agency
Right By the Bay Blog | Rowena Itchon
December 15, 2020
Some inmates even used such obvious fake names like “poopy britches” and Joe Doe. Of California’s 700 death row inmates, 133 names were used for fake filing. The majority of the alleged fraud took advantage of the supplemental $600 per week unemployment benefits passed under the CARES Act.
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