Lubbock could be one plane ride, one visitor, one brush with the wrong person away from a possible measles outbreak. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified over 800 measles cases so far this year — the most since a 1994 outbreak. The outbreaks have so far mainly been clustered among populations …
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As a small child, for Lane Joslin, every dish towel became a dress, or long hair. The Christmas wish list included Barbie dolls. Pink nail polish eventually became a subtle way to self express. Joslin’s mother, Barbara MacLeod, remembers well strapping her child into a car seat listening to exclamations of, “I’m a girl, I’m …
In a plan for her first 100 days, released June 18, 2019, Klobuchar explained her position on and plans for private school vouchers, listing as a goal: “Prevent the expansion of private school vouchers. Senator Klobuchar will stand firmly with our public schools and end discussions of Secretary Betsy DeVos’s $50 billion proposal to fund …
U.S. Vice President and former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence warned graduates at Taylor University’s commencement Saturday morning they should be “prepared to stand up” in the face of “opposition” to their religious beliefs. Most of the audience at Taylor, a Christian university in Upland, greeted the vice president with a standing ovation, but a few …
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Connecticut legislators said Thursday that they are holding off on changes to the state’s childhood vaccination laws, including the religious exemption. After holding several public hearings this year on vaccine policy — many of which lasted hours — lawmakers said they want more immunization data and input from the state Department of Health before rolling …
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On June 17, 2019 Inslee tweeted: “Donald Trump’s Muslim ban was wrong in January 2017 and it’s wrong now. When I’m president, I will put an end to the ban — and work to prevent future blanket entry bans, too.”
In October 2014, after the National Organization for Marriage encouraged social conservatives to vote for Moulton instead of his openly gay republican opponent, Moulton rejected the support, with a spokesperson saying: “Seth Moulton fundamentally disagrees with everything NOM stands for and has long said that equality is the civil rights fight of our generation…fighting against …
On his campaign website, Yang states: “Who you love and how you love are up to you. The law should recognize and protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans individuals. I’ve always been pro-gay marriage; why should straight people have all of the fun? People are people and all love is beautiful.”
So far this year, 880 cases of measles have been confirmed across 24 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the greatest number of cases reported in 25 years and since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. Despite efforts by health officials to quash misinformation about vaccines, however, the anti-vaxx movement …
Delano is officially the first city in Kern County, and possibly in the state, to have the national motto “In God We Trust” placed on its patrol cars, but Bakersfield could soon be next. At Wednesday’s city council meeting, Bakersfield pastor Angelo Frazier plans to make a presentation during public comment, proposing Bakersfield follow in …
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