Joe Biden Ends Reelection Bid

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The debate around President Joe Biden’s ability to vigorously take on a second political battle with former President Donald Trump is over. President Biden, as he expresses in the note above, is withdrawing from the election and will focus on serving out his term.

Hate in NYC & Chestertown

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Big city. Little village. A bus driver in New York City near Columbia University beckoned to a man running on the street whom he had just seen bludgeoned in the head to hurry and get on to his bus.

The Vaccination Imperative

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Dr. Leana Wen, former Baltimore Health Commissioner, nails what must happen immediately on the COVID vaccination front. Read her no nonsense Washington Post oped, but the gist is: Use It or Lose It. Wen argues that the Feds should give states and local governments guidance on getting vaccinations into people’s arms.

Auchincloss on Testing and Schools

Auchincloss Calls for More Testing to Get Schools Open -- But More than that Needed

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Newly elected and sworn in (today) U.S. House of Representatives Member Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) penned this oped in today’s Boston Globe calling for massive expansion of COVID testing to get schools reopened, but his proposal needs some other legs to stand on.

Fauci Sees Light at End of Tunnel

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Happy New Year! Cliches can set in fast, but the declaration that everyone is glad to be done with 2020 is one with which I wholeheartedly agree. It’s hard to imagine 2021 being worse, so let’s toast the law of averages that eventually things must improve.

A Coronavirus Economic Plan That Doesn’t Forget People

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My friend and fellow TWN Notetaker Richard Vague has recently been appointed by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf to be Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Banking and Securities. Vague recently wrote this letter to a US Senator on what would be needed to deal with the economic shock of the cororavirus crisis.