An error by the Florida Department of Health produced a COVID-19 positivity rate for children of nearly one-third, a stunning figure that played into the debate over whether schools should reopen. A week after issuing that statistic, the department took it back without explanation. The next weekly report on children and COVID-19 showed the rate…
As coronavirus cases began to grow in San Joaquin County in June, Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs proposed requiring citizens to wear a mask in his city in the center of the fertile valley, where agriculture is king and poverty pervasive. The response he received from the county emergency services director, a key figure in coordinating…
The Villages is an active over-55 community north of Orlando in central Florida.The unique community offers recreation, shopping, dining and health care, with 50 golf courses, 12 country clubs and three town squares, according to TheVillagesFlorida.com. It also has more than 90 miles of golf cart paths.The Villages' population grew rapidly during the past decade from about…
President Trump said in a tweet that a GOP lawmaker told him he will not change the names of military bases, after a provision to rename military bases named for Confederate officials passed in Congress with a veto-proof majority. The president said Senator Jim Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, informed him he…
A group of men who appeared to be American officials were seen forcing open a back door of the Chinese consulate in Houston as a US closure order took effect at 4pm on Friday. Earlier the same group…