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In Los Angeles and Beyond, Oxygen Is the Latest Covid Bottleneck
As Los Angeles hospitals give record numbers of covid patients oxygen, the systems and equipment needed to deliver the life-sustaining gas are faltering. This story also ran on NBC News. It can be republished for free. It’s gotten so bad that Los Angeles County officials are warning paramedics to conserve it. Some hospitals are having to delay releasing patients as they don’t have enough oxygen equipment to send home with them. “Everybody is worried about what’s going to happen in the next week or so,” said Cathy Chidester, director of the L.A. County Emergency Medical Services Agency. Oxygen,...
Kaiser Health News
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Family travel five: Trends to consider in the new year
As a vaccine program rolls out, families are considering the prospect of a vacation beyond their own backyard. Here are five family travel trends to consider in 2021. 1. Road trips will continue to rule. Whether you load into the family SUV, stretch out in an RV or test the promise of “van life,” research suggests that the open road will continue to lure traveling families. With gas prices in the affordable range, why not explore a National Scenic Byway or delve into an historic route. Popular pathways include Colorado’s San Juan Skyway, sometimes called the “million dollar highway.” Make your...
FamilyTravel.com
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Meghan McCain sets ‘View’ return after maternity leave
New mom Meghan McCain is getting back to work. The 36-year-old announced Wednesday that she’ll return to “The View” on Monday barely three months after giving birth. “I’m so excited to take my spot as the conservative seat back at the Hot Topics table (virtually),” McCain tweeted. “Did I miss anything while on maternity leave?!?” She’ll rejoin co-hosts Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines for the first week of 2021, with guests including Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Ken Jeong, Lil Nas X, Ralph Macchio and William Zabka. McCain and husband Ben Domenech welcomed daughter Liberty Sage on...
New York Daily News
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As More Red States Legalize Marijuana, Some Officials Try to Nip It in the Bud
With his state reeling amid one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the nation, the last thing South Dakota Speaker of the House Steven Haugaard wants to be dealing with during the upcoming legislative session is marijuana. But the state’s voters haven’t left the Republican much choice. This fall, South Dakota became the first state in the U.S. to legalize both medical marijuana and recreational marijuana in the same election. Haugaard, who long opposed any form of marijuana legalization, now must participate in the creation of a medical marijuana program. South Dakota voters enshrined legal ma...
Kaiser Health News
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As More Red States Legalize Marijuana, Some Officials Try to Nip It in the Bud
With his state reeling amid one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the nation, the last thing South Dakota Speaker of the House Steven Haugaard wants to be dealing with during the upcoming legislative session is marijuana. But the state’s voters haven’t left the Republican much choice. This fall, South Dakota became the first state in the U.S. to legalize both medical marijuana and recreational marijuana in the same election. Haugaard, who long opposed any form of marijuana legalization, now must participate in the creation of a medical marijuana program. South Dakota voters enshrined legal ma...
California Healthline
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Arizona election officer denounces threats against family, staff
Los Angeles (AFP) - Arizona's top election officer on Wednesday denounced violent threats against her family and staff over vote results which flipped the western US state Democratic for the first time in decades.Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, whose Phoenix home has been visited by protesters, said threats and "continued intimidation tactics will not prevent me from performing the duties I swore an oath to do." As secretary of state, Hobbs is the person who has to certify by November 30 the results of the November 3 election.Other officials across the country, including in Georgia, Nevada, Mi...
AFP
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Voters Legalize Potential $2.5+ Billion Cannabis Markets
Voters in New Jersey, Arizona, South Dakota, Mississippi, and Montana legalize potential $2.5+ Billion Cannabis MarketsQ3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and moreVoters Approve New Cannabis Markets“The marijuana industry appeared headed for a clean sweep on Election Day, with voters approving new cannabis markets in Arizona, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota that could generate more than $2.5 billion in medical and recreational cannabis sales a year by 2024,” according to Jeff Smith of Marijuana Business Daily.New Jersey, Arizona, Montana and South Dakota represented the 1...
ValueWalk
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F-16 Deployed Over Trump Arizona Rally After Another Aircraft Enters Restricted Air Space
An unidentified airplane flew into protected air space over a Donald Trump reelection campaign event in Arizona on Tuesday. An F-16 fighter jet scrambled to intercept the invading aircraft and deployed signal flares to warn it away from the event.As Arizonan rally goers gathered around Trump at his most recent campaign gathering, they looked up as an F-16 fighter jet flew overhead. As it deployed smoke flares, Trump praised its performance and hyped up the event as if it were in honor of him. Little did they know that the jet’s true purpose was purely defensive, having shot flares to stave off...
uInterview.com
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Immigrant Democratic doctor eyes Congress seat in red Arizona suburb
Phoenix (AFP) - Hiral Tipirneni represents the so-called American Dream -- an Indian immigrant who came to the United States as a child and became a doctor.Now the 53-year-old aspires to become a congresswoman. But to do so, the Democrat will need to win in an Arizona suburb that has always voted Republican red.Is it an impossible task? The polls show a race too close to predict -- a surprise in a district where Republican David Schweikert, the incumbent since 2013, won by 10 percentage points in the last election two years ago.President Donald Trump won by the same margin in Arizona's sixth d...
AFP
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Astronaut on mission to win second Arizona Senate seat for Democrats
Phoenix (AFP) - From the International Space Station to Congress? Astronaut Mark Kelly is leading an unlikely political "mission" to win a second Senate seat for the Democrats in the traditionally conservative state of Arizona.Until recently, few would have thought it possible for the Democratic Party to make major inroads in this southwestern state with a long Republican tradition.But thanks to changing demographics and growing discontent with President Donald Trump among the state's moderate conservatives, Kelly believes he can win the upper-house seat while helping deliver Arizona's elector...
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