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The Biden Executive Order could compel taxpayers to fund homeless hotels in San Fransisco.
On Thursday, President Biden signed an executive order that might compel American taxpayers in cities such as San Fransisco to cover the expense of “homeless hotels.”
On Thursday, Biden signed an executive order aimed at rising reimbursements to states in the COVID-19 war.
According to the order, under Category B of the Public Assistance Program, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) shall make available such assistance as may be required by States (including territories and the District of Columbia), local governments, and tribal governments to allow for the secure opening and service of qualifying schools, childcare centres, health care facilities, non-congregational institutions,
Breitbart.com reports: “By September 30, 2021, FEMA shall make available assistance under this section at a 100 percent Federal cost share,” the order adds.
Although it is also important to evaluate the exact specifics, the move marks a change from the Trump administration, which promised to repay up to 75% of these operations. The order by Biden could contribute to U.S. taxpayers completely paying the expense of the homeless hotels used in San Francisco during the pandemic. The city shelters about 2,200 homeless people in over two dozen hotels, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
It is uncertain if the order is retroactive, City Controller Ben Rosenfield said. If it were the case, the city would be entitled to millions of dollars.
“I think it’s safe to say that it will apply to those who are eligible from now until September,” Rosenfield said.
Around 85% of hotel guests are likely to be eligible for reimbursement, Rosenfield said, although it was unclear on Friday whether the Biden administration changed the definition of who qualified,” the outlet added, stating that the executive order of Biden is welcomed among city officials, as the previous administration did not specify when federal funding would come to a halt.”
“Fantastic! “Supervisor Hillary Ronen said of the order from Biden. “We can now open more places for people living with homelessness to remain safe during the remainder of this pandemic”:
Fantastic! Now we can open more spots for people experiencing homelessness to stay safe during the rest of this pandemic. Can’t wait to work with Federal & State leaders on permanent fixes to homelessness. https://t.co/BeLWUPUH17
— Hillary Ronen (@HillaryRonen) January 22, 2021
In the age of the Chinese coronavirus, the California Department of Housing and Economic Development allegedly used tens of millions of federal dollars from the Coronavirus Relief Funds (CRF) to place homeless people in hotel rooms, as reported by Breitbart News in August.
“Administered by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), $600 million in grant funding will be made available to local public entities, including cities, counties, or other local public entities, including housing authorities or federally recognized tribal governments within California to purchase and rehabilitate housing, including hotels, motels, vacant apartment buildings, and other buildings and convert them into interim or permanent, long-term housing,” the Homekey program announced at the time, noting that “$550 million is derived from the State’s direct allocation of the federal Coronavirus Aid Relief Funds (CRF).”
SCHNECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The 27th annual Kids’ Arts Festival is celebrating creativity, culture and community this weekend. The festival is taking place on September 25 from noon to 4 p.m. along the Jay Street Marketplace and around City Hall in Downtown Schenectady.
Normally attracting more than 3,000 kids with their families, the festival brings free hands-on arts activities and performances.
“This year, we have a great mix of golden-oldie favorite art activities and new ones that let our imaginations soar,” said Betsy Sandberg, chair of Kids’ Arts Festival. “Alex Torres and his Latin Orchestra will bring their arts-in-education program to Downtown Schenectady thanks to funding from The Upstate Coalition for a FairGame, which supports arts and cultural organizations in three New York State casino regions.”
Other performers and student groups include the Rock Camp Kids, the Electric City Puppets, Dueling Saxophones, and Dance Me Elite performers. A poster contest offers $100 prizes in three age groups. Happiness is the contest’s theme, and official entry forms and plenty of supplies for drawing will be available at Electric City Art Gallery.
In 2020, the festival went virtual and provided four hours of virtual arts programming.
The rain location will be inside Proctors Theatre. All required COVID safety protocols will be in place if the event moves indoors.
A complete list of activities and entertainment are available on the festival website.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — When John Eastman speaks during the American Political Science Association’s annual conference next month, he may want to tread lightly. Political scientists from across the country are condemning Eastman and chiding their own organization for allowing the former Trump lawyer to participate in the discipline’s most important annual meeting.
Eastman made national headlines this week following the publication of a memo he wrote last year that outlined a six-step plan to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Eastman is scheduled to participate in two panels at APSA, both run by the Claremont Institute, which lists him as a senior fellow on its website. The “virtual roundtables” are scheduled for Sunday, October 3, and are titled “The 2020 Elections and the State of American Conservatism” and “The Supreme Court’s Current and Future Direction.”
Dr. David Karpf, an associate professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University, said Wednesday that Eastman’s plan to overturn the presidential election puts his views well outside the legitimate marketplace of ideas.
“If that was published as a blog post,” Karpf said of the memo, “I would call it laughable trash. Since it was presented to the Vice President of the United States, I would call it treason.” The memo said that then-Vice President Mike Pence should refuse to recognize electors from seven states and declare Trump president.
“The main thing here,” Eastman wrote, “is that Pence should do this without asking for permission—either from a vote of the joint session or from the Court.”
That suggestion, according to Karpf, was beyond the pale. “That’s overthrowing free and fair elections,” he said.
Eastman’s notoriety goes beyond that memo. In 2020, he was widely criticized for an op-ed he wrote that suggested Kamala Harris is not an American citizen. Eastman, who was a law clerk for Clarence Thomas, was also a professor at Chapman University School of Law. He retired from that position after giving a speech at the January 6 “Save America” rally that preceded the storming of the U.S. Capitol.
“He’s not a political scientist, but he and the Claremont Institute try to gain legitimacy by having little panels at APSA, where they present those sorts of arguments, or at least don’t have those arguments criticized,” Karpf, who is an APSA member, said. “That’s dangerous for American politics and APSA should not be associated with it.”
Karpf said that he believes those who attend the conference should make their views on Eastman and the Claremont institute clear. “Claremont should not be welcome anymore,” he said. “That’s not about the diversity of ideas. That’s about recognizing that there are some ideas that are so far outside of the boundaries of American political discourse that we should be not lending them our platform.”
This is not the first time political scientists have taken issue with APSA. In 2011, scholars opposed John Yoo’s participation in that year’s annual meeting. Yoo was a lawyer for former Pres. George W. Bush, who wrote documents outlining the alleged legality of torture techniques. In their response to members’ objections, APSA’s governing council said that it supported members’ right to protest Yoo’s presence “as we support the right of APSA members to produce panels and speakers on topics they think it important for the association to consider.”
In that letter, APSA clarified that “organizers of the affiliated group panel on which he participated,” not APSA itself, invited Yoo to the meeting. “These groups exist explicitly to bring forward diverse points of view,” the letter continued.
Like Yoo, Eastman is set to participate in a panel organized by an outside group, the Claremont Institute. On its website, Claremont Institute solicits donations of $5,000 to “support” its panels at the annual APSA conference.
“You may designate a gift at any level to APSA panels,” the Claremont page continues, “where our scholars teach the true principle of government and their application to today’s policies.”
For his part, Karpf has said he supports the diversity of ideas wholeheartedly. “I agree with the stance that we should have a diversity of ideas at the conference. I also would readily acknowledge that there are gray areas where it’s a difficult call,” he said. “But I think every political scientist, who has spent any time in America in the past four years, certainly since January 6, can look at that memo and immediately acknowledge that that is nowhere close to the line. There are difficult cases. And then there is this. This is not a typical case. This is so far beyond the line.”
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Come Monday, it’s either vaccination or termination for those who work in state run hospitals and nursing homes. Security officers are among those who work at state hospitals who are being forced to make that decision. The lawsuit claims that the vaccine mandate goes against their constitutional rights.
In a newly filled lawsuit against Governor Kathy Hochul, Heath Commissioner Howard Zucker, and the New York State Health Department, 10 individual state hospital security officers are fighting for the option to have regular COVID tests instead of being mandated to get the vaccine. They say it’s unfair that teachers would have the option for regular testing, but they won’t.
“Students who are 12 years or younger can’t be vaccinated,” said Dennis Vacco. “Inherently, the population in schools is less vaccinated than the population in hospitals or in health care facilities. To say nothing of the fact that health care facilities are constructed to prevent the spread of illness within the facility.”
(NEXSTAR) — Netflix announced on Thursday that “Tiger King,” the global phenomenon that premiered last March, will return with season two later this year. In the announcement, Netflix promised “more madness and mayhem.”
“Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” followed zookeeper Joe Exotic—real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage—and captivated audiences during the first few weeks of lockdown. According to Netflix, the original series was watched by over 64 million households in the first four weeks following its March 2020 premiere.
In July, a federal appeals court ruled Joe Exotic should get a shorter prison sentence for his role in a murder-for-hire plot and violating federal wildlife laws. He was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in federal prison after being convicted of trying to hire two different men to kill animal rights activist Carole Baskin.
A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver found that the trial court wrongly treated those two convictions separately in calculating his prison term under sentencing guidelines.
The panel agreed with Maldonado-Passage that the court should have treated them as one conviction at sentencing because they both involved the same goal of killing Baskin, who runs a rescue sanctuary for big cats in Florida.
According to the ruling, the court should have calculated his advisory sentencing range to be between 17 1/2 years and just under 22 years in prison rather than between just under 22 years and 27 years in prison. The court ordered the trial court to resentence Maldonado-Passage.
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RENSSELAER, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A Rensselaer County businessman was sentenced in a wire fraud scheme to import Chinese goods and then marketing those goods as U.S. made. The U.S. Department of Justice says Daren Arakelian, 53, has been sentenced to three months in jail for deceptively marketing those goods at his company.
Arakelian owned and operated Great 4 Image, a company that contracted with various federal agencies to produce backpacks, duffle bags, cinch bags, hydration packs, t-shirts and individual suspension trainers. Each of his company’s contracts required Great 4 Image to comply with the Buy American Act and/or the Trade Agreements Act, laws that Congress enacted for the purposes of promoting the United States’ trade interests.
The Buy American Act restricts the federal government’s purchase of goods that are not domestic products. The Trade Agreements Act establishes additional restrictions on purchases of products made outside the United States, and generally prohibits government contracting officials from purchasing products that are not entirely from the United States or a designated country.
The Trade Agreements Act effectively waives the requirements of the Buy American Act for designated countries. China is not a designated country.
As part of his March 2020 civil settlement with the United States and his guilty plea, Arakelian admitted that he devised and implemented the scheme to defraud the federal government.
Arakelian is also ordered to serve a two-year term of supervised release, to begin after he is released from prison, as well as perform 100 hours of community service. Arakelian went into custody after sentencing.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — After more than seven years on the job, New York State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker has put in his letter of resignation. Zucker has led the State Department of Health throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, but he became a controversial figure in the COVID-19 nursing home scandal under former Governor Andrew Cuomo.
“Dr. Zucker has submitted his resignation, our Commissioner of Health. I agree with his decision,” Governor Kathy Hochul said announcing the departure at a press conference in New York City Thursday.
Hochul called Zucker a “dedicated public servant” and thanked him for his work during the pandemic.
“He understands that in this time I’ve wanted to take the first 45 days to assemble a new team going forward. That process is ongoing,” she continued.
In his resignation letter, Zucker said he would work to provide a “smooth transition.” He touted his work on tackling issues like Ebola, Zika and COVID-19. And he said, “There comes a time when the baton should be passed.”
The New York State Department of Health said it “thanks the Commissioner for his years of dedicated service and commitment to public health.”
Assembly Republican Leader Will Barclay said, “Dr. Howard Zucker’s resignation as Commissioner of the State Department of Health (DOH) was an obvious and overdue step.”
Barclay hopes whoever replaces Zucker doesn’t have ties to the previous administration or its controversies.
Hochul has not yet named a replacement, but says that Zucker will stay on until the new person takes over.
WASHINGTON (WWLP) — Everything you need to build and furnish a home come from businesses that employ hundreds of thousands of people and creates billions of dollars in revenue. From concrete, lumber and nails to carpets, appliances and furniture, every item must be manufactured, shipped, sold, and delivered, creating a national network that is an essential driver of the U.S. economy.
National Manufacturing Day is October 1, and is held annually on the first Friday in October. The idea is to showcase the importance of the related industries and modern manufacturing careers by encouraging companies and educational institutions nationwide to open their doors to students, parents, teachers and community leaders. These manufacturers estimate they will need to fill 4 million high-skill, high-tech and high-paying jobs over the next decade.
The U.S. Census Bureau has released an interactive visualization showing the value of shipments and employment for select manufacturing industries that produce housing-related products. The housing manufacturing data come from an annual survey that provides the most detailed statistics on the U.S. manufacturing sector: the Annual Survey of Manufactures.
Beginning Monday, the Census Bureau will start a weeklong celebration of manufacturing with blogs, infographics and other key content on a Manufacturing Day webpage to recognize the observance on the first Friday in October.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Rochester police are searching for a suspect after a car was stolen with a baby inside Wednesday.
According to investigators, the 6-month-old child was in the back seat of the vehicle on Fernwood Park around 2 p.m. when it was stolen. They say keys were in the vehicle and it was running when it was taken.
Police found the vehicle on Bedford Street with the child inside, unharmed, a short time later. The suspect had fled the scene.
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BOSTON (NEXSTAR) — A group of high school students in Massachusetts had to ride on a party bus complete with a stripper pole and neon lights during a recent field trip — an experience their teacher said highlights problems with the education system.
Jim Mayers, an 11th grade Advanced Placement language and composition teacher at the Brooke Charter School in Boston, said in the since-deleted tweet that the original charter bus had fallen through, Masslive.com reported Monday.
Mayers included a photo of the students on board, adding, “they didn’t really care about the bus, and a lot of great planning by a lot of great people made for a fantastic day.”
“It is a funny story, but there actually is a real bus shortage and it speaks to major flaws in our education system,” he said, encouraging people to reach out to local officials to demand a financial solution to the shortage. He is now using the attention he’s getting because of the original tweet to urge people to better understand educational inequities and other problems facing the nation’s schools.
“I’m worried that there is too much attention being paid to the tweet itself, or simply the fact that it went viral, instead of attending to the many systemic issues that are facing not just my students, but students all across the country,” he wrote in a follow-up tweet.
Districts across the nation are struggling to hire enough drivers to shuttle kids to school, and some states have become creative, including Massachusetts, which is enlisting National Guard members to drive school transport vans.
The original tweet was just meant give his fellow teachers a laugh. “If it’s gotten people to talk about the overall infrastructure of our education system, and the different ways schools are prioritized, then that’s good too,” he wrote. He then urged readers to attend their next local school board meeting or read up on the topic.
As students returned to the classroom at the end of this summer, many for the first time in a year, school districts across the country found they were far short of the necessary number of drivers. “It is one of our serious situations we’re facing right now—right behind COVID,” said Skye Duckett with Atlanta Public Schools in August, when they were down about 30 drivers.
Montgomery County Public Schools need to fill more than 100 vacancies in Maryland, or thousands of students won’t have a ride. Meanwhile, in Delaware, one charter school wants to pay parents to pick up and drop off their kids instead of using the bus. The going rate was $700 per child.
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