The Northam administration has issued new guidelines urging unvaccinated students and staff to keep wearing masks in K-12 schools this fall — but won’t require them to do so.
The Northam administration has issued new guidelines urging unvaccinated students and staff to keep wearing masks in K-12 schools this fall — but won’t require them to do so.
Under intense pressure from the Virginia State Board of Community Colleges, the board of the Patrick Henry Community College, named after the founding father, has changed its name to Patrick & Henry Community College.
Do newspapers run front-page stories when a stomach flu hits a sleep-away camp? How about poison ivy? Athlete’s foot?
To the parents lined up to speak in favor of a motion to make masks optional for students this fall I wanted to shout, Save your breath. Their minds are made up.
There was a time - not long ago - when the word pregnant was almost always followed by “woman” or “women.” After all, it is females who give birth. Then came wokeness.
Instead of simpering platitudes about the alleged killer, why didn’t the chief ask what the hell a 14-year-old was doing on the streets at 1 a.m.?
The Northam administration has been an unmitigated disaster when it comes to mental health. That’s ironic, when you consider the damage the governor’s prolonged lockdowns, fruitless mask mandates and shuttered schools did to the mental health of vulnerable Virginians.
If you want a case study in why much of the public believes nothing emanating from the mainstream media, read The Washington Post’s latest smear job on the Virginia Military Institute.
On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted that the administration was working with social media platforms to censor messages they claim are spreading “misinformation” about Covid-19 vaccines.
Federal law requires that parents be given information about all vaccines before they are administered to minors. That is no longer the case in Washington D.C. No surprise then that the lawsuits are flying.
When Republicans in Oregon pulled a similar vanishing act in February of 2020, to thwart a climate bill, they were pilloried by the press. These Texas knuckleheads should get the same treatment.
How bad is it? When I ventured outside last Friday and the mercury was climbing into the mid-90s, I had to wipe the fog off my Ray-Bans.
Before states rush to comply with the CDC guidelines on masks in schools, remember that the health organization doesn’t make RULES it offers RECOMMENDATIONS. Governors are not obliged to obey.
Drug dealers are lacing opioids, marijuana and cocaine with fentanyl in the Washington area, reports The Washington Post. The city medical examiner identified the super-addictive and often deadly drug in 95% of the 85 overdose deaths through March this year.
New laws include making it easier for people to vote by absentee ballot, letting people vote early in person, providing curbside voting for people with disabilities, and banning the carrying of firearms within 40 feet of a polling place.
How, then, was it not also “voter suppression” if poll workers hassle people who tried to vote without a mask?
Given the limited resources available for mental health, am I the only one wondering why federal dollars are being directed to people terrified to come out from under their beds now that the Covid emergency is over?
If you want to be governor of Virginia again, start by having some respect for the voters.
Fact is, vaccines have been free and available to all adults for months. If - after weighing the risks and benefits - folks declined them, that’s their business. Leave them alone.