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Apr 13 2024
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Hidalgo County settles lawsuit with family of man who died after pandemic arrest
A McAllen federal judge on Friday afternoon signed off on a confidential settlement between Hidalgo County, four deputies, two nurses and the family of a 22-year-old man who died after suffering a severe neck injury over an Easter weekend 2020 arrest for allegedly violating a local COVID-19 emergency order and public intoxication. U.S. District Judge Ricardo H. Hinojosa approved the settlement
MyRGVNewsApr 09 2024
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White House, Senate Democrats unveil bill to battle pandemic aid fraud
Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping, roughly $1.3 billion bill that would expand the federal government’s powers to find and prosecute pandemic fraud, as Washington scrambles to recover the federal aid stolen by scammers during the worst economic crisis in a generation. The measure, which would deliver on an earlier budget request from President Biden, arrived as the Justice
Washington PostApr 05 2024
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Protests, pandemics, and prices push Europe into reforming its Green Deal
In late 2019, the European Union kicked off its Green Deal with the aim of leading the world into a sustainable future. Then came Covid, surging inflation, broken supply chains and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. All of that elevated energy costs, protectionism and competition on the EU agenda, making the ambitious clean shift more politically and economically challenging. So while now should be
FortuneApr 08 2024
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Outdoor gear industry facing challenges after “insane” post-pandemic growth
Across 30 years in downtown Golden, Bent Gate Mountaineering has withstood three economic downturns including the Great Recession of 2008 and the pandemic recession of 2020. The store, at 1313 Washington Ave., attracts customers ranging from serious mountaineers to tourists who buy T-shirts and rain ponchos for shows at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, but it’s facing increasing competition in the
The Denver PostMar 21 2024
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Albany Woman Sentenced for Pandemic Unemployment Fraud
ALBANY, NEW YORK — Jamie Johnson, a 38-year-old resident of Albany, was sentenced today to over three years in prison for her role in a scheme to fraudulently claim $701,441 in unemployment benefits. This fraudulent activity exploited the New York State Department of Labor’s (NYSDOL) unemployment insurance system, including funds from federal programs designed to support those unemployed due
Shore News NetworkApr 18 2024
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How navigating Netflix’s DVD-to-streaming transition helped prepare Airbnb’s new CFO for surviving the pandemic
Taking on the CFO role at a Fortune 500 company requires substantial preparation. And Airbnb’s new finance chief has been battle tested. Ellie Mertz, an 11-year veteran of the short-term rental company, began her tenure as CFO on March 1, succeeding Dave Stephenson, who filled that position beginning in 2019 and was since been promoted to the newly created role of chief business officer. “
FortuneMar 13 2024
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The day the pandemic shut down schools
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Landon DeBoer remembers going to school on March 13th of 2020. He didn’t know it would be the last day of his senior year in an actual school building. “We kind of knew that something was up. I had heard a lot about this virus that it might be coming, that school is going to get postponed. I think people were thinking it was going to get canceled for like a week or
KelolandApr 06 2024
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CDC State of the Pandemic -- Early April, Hospitalizations and Deaths Continue to Fall
Not much new to report on since my last Covid Update four weeks ago, with the expected seasonal trend toward lower hospitalizations and deaths continuing apace. Weekly hospitalizations are now on track to record even lower levels than those reached during last year’s late spring/early summer nadir, and the weekly death toll is expected to follow suit in due course. The only real question at
Daily KosApr 02 2024
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Why Oregon schools' pandemic recovery lags behind much of the nation
Sitting in his living room with his mom, fourth grader Judah Moisan holds up a post-it note where he's written the words "Priority," and "Frenzy."
They're song titles, he explains, for his first album with his future punk rock band, which will be called Siblings of War. Judah plays bass. Their band will be kind of like Green Day, he says, except made up of ten-year-olds instead of "old
NPR (Online News)Apr 17 2024
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Home prices soared 40% during the pandemic—but Zillow sees them rising less than 2% this year
In roughly two years during the pandemic housing boom, home prices rose more than 40%. Since then, home prices continued their upward ascent. Capital Economics, for its part, recently said that the national average house price has risen almost 50% since the start of the pandemic. First American, yesterday, released its home price index report that found “house prices nationally are now 52%
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