By Eric Robins, Chair of the Nevada County Democrats. “Honorable Supervisors, I come before you today as Chair of the Nevada County Democratic Party. “In today’s paper, Supervisors Hoek and Miller stated their desire to have “a conversation” about the topic of local control and reopening Nevada County. I appreciate their candor in stating…
By a 3 to 2 vote yesterday, the Nevada County Board of Supervisors tabled a resolution widely referred to — and just as widely misunderstood — as the “Open Nevada County Resolution,” despite the fact that it would have no immediate legal effect on local businesses. As Yubanet explained it: The resolution was modelled…
It’s fair to say that the filibuster, a relic of the Jim Crow era, has allowed the GOP under Mitch McConnell to turn the Senate into the graveyard of all good legislation. Under this system, the next good legislation to die there will be H.R.1 (“For the People Act of 2021“), “the most sweeping…
Deborah Fuller, University of Washington Editor’s note: So you’ve gotten your coronavirus vaccine, waited the two weeks for your immune system to respond to the shot and are now fully vaccinated. Does this mean you can make your way through the world like the old days without fear of spreading the virus? Deborah Fuller…
William G. Bain, University of Pittsburgh; Georgios D. Kitsios, University of Pittsburgh, and Tomeka L. Suber, University of Pittsburgh A year ago, when U.S. health authorities issued their first warning that COVID-19 would cause severe “disruption to everyday life,” doctors had no effective treatments to offer beyond supportive care. There is still no quick…