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Health Issues Carried Weight on the Campaign Trail. What Could Biden Do in His First 100 Days?
Joe Biden ran on an expansive health care platform during his 2020 presidential campaign, with a broad array of promises such as adding a government-sponsored health plan to the Affordable Care Act and lowering prescription drug prices. Perhaps most significantly, he pledged to get control of the covid pandemic that claimed more than 400,000 American lives by Inauguration Day. President Biden now faces major challenges in accomplishing his health care agenda; among the biggest will be bridging partisan divides in both Congress and the nation at large. Even with the Democrats’ newfound majority...
Kaiser Health News
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Health Issues Carried Weight on the Campaign Trail. What Could Biden Do in His First 100 Days?
Joe Biden ran on an expansive health care platform during his 2020 presidential campaign, with a broad array of promises such as adding a government-sponsored health plan to the Affordable Care Act and lowering prescription drug prices. Perhaps most significantly, he pledged to get control of the covid pandemic that claimed more than 400,000 American lives by Inauguration Day. President Biden now faces major challenges in accomplishing his health care agenda; among the biggest will be bridging partisan divides in both Congress and the nation at large. Even with the Democrats’ newfound majority...
California Healthline
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County's audit of votes in Georgia Senate runoff finds 5-vote difference
ATLANTA — One county’s audit of Georgia’s voting system found just a five-vote difference between machine and hand totals in this month’s U.S. Senate runoff election, according to findings released Thursday. The manual review of 43,000 ballots cast in Bartow County should give voters confidence in the outcome of the race between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican David Perdue, county Elections Supervisor Joseph Kirk said. “We know every voter’s vote was accurately counted in Bartow County because we checked — one ballot at a time,” Kirk wrote in an audit report. “Now that every vote cast in th...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Census estimates show population decline in 16 states
With a perfect storm of aging residents, low birth rates, COVID-19 deaths and immigration cutbacks, 16 states saw population decreases last year as the United States experienced the slowest national population growth since the Great Depression. The nation grew only about 7% between 2010 and 2020, similar to the previous historic low between 1930 and 1940, according to new Census Bureau estimates, which do not reflect the 2020 census counts. The agency will release the final 2020 census tally in March. California, Massachusetts and Ohio had been growing throughout the past decade until last yea...
Stateline.org
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Editorial: Trump's wild ride puts Disney's Hall of Presidents in a predicament
Walt Disney wanted his theme parks to be the happiest places on earth. So it’s a problem when attractions turn people into protesters. It happened 23 years ago with Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. Today, Mr. Trump’s wild ride has created another dilemma for the Magic Kingdom. The Hall of Presidents has been a staple attraction since the park opened in 1971, featuring animatronic figures of every U.S. president. Now the Trump-fueled insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has renewed calls for Disney to banish the 45th president. Should he stay or should he go? Neither. It’s time for Disney to put this attracti...
Orlando Sentinel
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Editorial: Why all Americans should be rooting for Joe Biden's success
When he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, Joe Biden knew if he won the election, he would be facing enormous challenges: curbing a deadly pandemic, reviving a struggling economy, alleviating the hardship of jobless workers, combating racial injustice and restoring the world’s trust in American leadership. “History,” he said, “has delivered us to one of the most difficult moments America has ever faced.” But in the months since Election Day, the moment has gotten more difficult than he could have imagined. He takes over just two weeks after a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol th...
Chicago Tribune
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WNBA's Atlanta Dream on verge of being sold
ATLANTA — The Atlanta Dream are on the verge on being sold. Co-owned by former U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, the team has been embroiled in conflict over her remarks about the Black Lives Matter movement. Dream players were open in their support of the Rev. Raphael Warnock, who defeated Loeffler in a runoff election for her Senate seat earlier this month. Despite remarks that she did not plan to sell the WNBA franchise, co-owned with Mary Brock since 2011, the league expects an imminent sale. A WNBA spokesperson told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "As it relates to the Atlanta Dream, we underst...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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'Powerhouse duo' of Washington Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell gain clout as Biden era begins
SEATTLE — With the swearing-in of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Wednesday, the transition away from the Trump era may bring a Mount Rainier-level elevation of clout for Washington state. Democratic wins in the recent Georgia runoff elections flipped the U.S. Senate from Republican control to a 50-50 tie — with Harris serving as the tiebreaker. That lifts Washington Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell to powerful committee chair positions that will enable them to steer legislation and spending on everything from health care to schools to aviation and rail...
The Seattle Times
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John M. Crisp: Unity and healing are not essential to democracy
The party of law and order had a confounding take on the attempted coup at the Capitol on Jan. 6. The party’s leader, Donald J. Trump, called the agents of this unlawfulness and disorder “very special” people and “patriots.” In fact, he loves them. Republican rank and file registered disapproval of the insurrection, but showed little interest in holding to account the man on whose account the riot occurred. Without Trump there simply would have been no insurrection. Nobody put this better than the third-highest-ranking House Republican, Liz Cheney, who, breaking ranks, said: “The President of ...
Tribune News Service
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Biden promises a new era with Latin America and the Caribbean. How much can he really do?
As president, Donald Trump focused much of U.S. policy in Latin America on curbing migration and clamping down on autocratic leaders in Venezuela, Cuba and, occasionally, Nicaragua — three countries coined the “troika of tyranny” by one of his former advisers. By all accounts, President-elect Joe Biden is expected to take a different approach. “Biden’s Latin America policy will be profoundly different than the Trump strategy, which mostly focused on inhibiting migration and turning the screws on Cuba and Venezuela to please South Florida voters,” said Benjamin Gedan, an Obama-era National Secu...
Miami Herald
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