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Outside agitators spurred riots in the city, chief and mayor both said. Rochester, New York Police Chief La’Ron Singletary abruptly retired today after days of...

Michigan state financial analysts now expect that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a much smaller effect on state revenue and on corporate and income...

Rushing in with an all-encompassing Medicare for All plan, or its stepping stone, the so-called public option as a way to control costs invites more than trouble. This is socialized medicine. Quality, availability, and choice will disappear faster than a Soviet dissident.

Recently, the federal government and state regulators in Florida have approved the release of a strain of genetically modified mosquitos into the Florida Keys in an effort to fight mosquito borne diseases such as chikungunya, dengue fevers, malaria, and yellow fever.

“Quarantine policies during the COVID-19 pandemic have created a burden of social isolation, a burden which falls most heavily on patients of limited economic means, cognitive impairment, and chronic psychotic illness.”

Researchers suspect T-cells have such a large role in protecting the public from COVID -19  that herd immunity could be achieved at a 20 percent rate rather than the 60 to 80 percent assumed for other infectious diseases.

Michigan offered to nursing homes $5,000 for each recovering COVID-19 patient they accepted and now the U.S. Department of Justice has requested data from Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania for actions that "may have resulted in deaths of elderly nursing home residents."

A major exodus out of New York City may be a very real possibility.

The public is frustrated with how little the lockdowns seem to have controlled the virus. The idea of an inexpensive, easy, and rapid test seems like an obvious solution, but is it?

A federal task force granted state fish and game agencies in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington state the authority to kill hundreds of sea lions to save the struggling steelhead and salmon populations from extinction.