Monthly Archives: August 2021
Fake COVID-19 Vaccination Cards Worry College Officials
(Associated Press) As the delta variant of the coronavirus sweeps across the United States, a growing number of colleges and universities are requiring proof...
Will Gyms Go the Way of Arcades and Movie Rental Stores?
(Associated Press) Going to the gym was always part of Kari Hamra's routine until last year's government-ordered shutdowns forced her to replace the workouts...
Zuckerberg’s Cash Fuels GOP Suspicion and New Election Rules
(Associated Press) When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to help fund election offices as they scrambled to deal with the coronavirus pandemic...
Weary US Businesses Confront New Round of Mask Mandates
(Associated Press) Businesses large and small, from McDonald's and Home Depot to local yoga studios, are reinstituting mask mandates as U.S. coronavirus cases rise....
Subway Franchisees Are Fed Up with Megan Rapinoe’s TV Ads
(New York Post) Megan Rapinoe kicked up another round of controversy at the Tokyo Olympics — and now a group of Subway franchisees are...
How High Will Inflation Be in 2021?
(Gerald P. Dwyer, American Institute for Economic Research) What will inflation be for 2021? Forecasts of inflation on the order of 3 percent or a...
Report: Denver Spends More on Homeless People Than on Students
(John Ransom, Headline USA) A new survey of government spending on homelessness in the Denver area says that the money spent on homeless people exceeds the...
Community ‘Violence Interrupters’ Work to Stem Rising Crime
(Associated Press) When Rasheedat Fetuga became a teacher, she worked hard to help protect her students, many of them poor and from a nearby...
Senate Shelves Trump’s Medicare Drug Savings Plan to Fund Infrastructure
(Michael McAuliff, Kaiser Health News) The Senate’s release of its bipartisan infrastructure plan signals that lawmakers are poised to throw former President Donald Trump’s...
Dr. Fauci’s Federal Agency Spent $424K Experimenting on and Euthanizing Beagles
(Brad Polumbo, Foundation for Economic Education) According to a new exposé from the anti-animal-experimentation advocacy group the White Coat Waste Project, the National Institutes of Health...
