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Fort Worth Tx, on Thursday a federal judge in Texas ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make public the data it relied on to license Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, imposing a dramatically accelerated schedule that should result in the release of all information within about eight months.
Continue reading Federal Judge Orders FDA to Speedup Release of Pfizer Vaccine Data
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Trenton NJ, When the Department of Education failed to appear at Thursday’s Senate Education Committee hearing on the pandemic’s impact on schools and students, Senator Joe Pennacchio said he was disappointed but not surprised.
January 4, 2022
Rutgers Community Members:
I am writing to you today to inform you of important changes to how we will start the new semester, including the temporary use of remote instruction where possible, critical new vaccine requirements, and other important updates to our operating status. These important changes will affect you and every member of the university community.
Continue reading Rutgers University: Significant Changes Related to COVID-19
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Trenton NJ, Senator Steven Oroho and Senator Joe Pennacchio have filed requests for public records related to the Murphy administration’s $53 million settlement for veterans home deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Middletown NJ, Assemblyman Gerry Scharfenberger (NJLD13-R) has one word for Governor Murphy as he seeks an extension to his emergency powers next week – NO! This preemptive, definitive statement comes as news broke that the New Jersey Governor is officially requesting a 90-day extension to his “limited” Emergency Powers during the January 10th voting session in the State’s Legislature:
Continue reading Time to End Governor Murphy’s Emergency Powers
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Ridgewood NJ, according to the US Labor Department the number of people voluntarily quitting their jobs set an all time record of 4.5 million in November. That’s an increase of 370,000 people who quit.
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Ridgewood NJ, seems politicians learned NOTHING from the first rounds of Covid. So now, with the holiday break over, and time to get kids back in the classroom, and after taxpayers shelled out about $190 billion in ransom payments to the teachers unions to get them to, you know, teach, 2,200 schools are closed today. And guess what: they are almost all in blue states and blue cities.
Continue reading Kids Belong in School or the School of their Choice
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Glen Rock NJ, Bourgh of Glen Rock has gone fully remote for all meetings for the 1st quarter of 2022.
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Ridgewood NJ, CBS legal correspondent Jan Crawford was asked on “Face the Nation,”ie…”Fake the Nation” , what was the most underreported story of 2021, she responded by taking to task politicians and public health experts for “the crushing impact that our COVID policies have had on young kids and children.” CBS News cut her comments from the show .
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Ridgewood NJ, effective December 30, 2021 – Masks Are Required for All Who Enter Village Buildings – For everyone’s safety, masks must be worn by both vaccinated and unvaccinated persons entering all Village buildings.
Continue reading Masks Are Now Required for All Who Enter Village of Ridgewood Buildings
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Oakland NJ, early on Wednesday ,Oakland Police reported that while waiting for test results at a local business, multiple victims say two male suspects offered them tests to speed up the waiting process. After the victims received what they believed to be a COVID-19 test, they provided the men with their personal identifying information.
Continue reading Oakland Police : No COVID-19 Lab-tech Test Scam, Medical Workers Were legitimate
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Continue reading Valley Health System Limits Non Emergency Uses of Emergency Room
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Ridgewood NJ, a new report from Swiss Policy Research concludes that after 22 months of the COVID pandemic: “Sweden Has Been Vindicated.”
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Paramus NJ, it’s hard to believe a state could have mishandled COVID patients worse than New York, which sent recovering COVID patients to recuperate in nursing homes, allowing them to spread the sickness to other residents, and then fudged the numbers showing how many people died.
