IN THE NEWS: SEATTLE REVERSES COURSE ON DEFUNDING POLICE AS CRIME RAVAGES LOCALS

Seattle reverses course on defunding police as crime ravages locals: 'A huge crisis'
Story by Taylor Penley • Yesterday 9:15 AM---Seattle residents Victoria Beach, Eli Hoshor and Jonathan Choe said police shortages have left their city in dire straits in the aftermath of officials' anti-law enforcement rhetoric. MORE AT Seattle reverses course on defunding police as crime ravages locals: 'A huge crisis' (msn.com)

Homicides skyrocketed by 24% while motor vehicle thefts climbed by 30% in the city last year. Overall crime ticked up by 4%. 

Mayor Bruce Harrell pushed for increased police presence to curb the issue Tuesday, saying, "We need immediate action and innovation to respond to our public safety issues… Seattle saw a 4% rise in reported crime last year… We need more officers to address our staffing crisis."

CAT STUCK IN TREE GIVES FIREFIGHTERS CHANCE TO TRAIN IN CROTON

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Cat Stuck In Tree: Pet Rescue Gives Firefighters Chance To Train In Croton-On-Hudson---more at Cat Stuck In Tree: Pet Rescue Gives Firefighters Chance To Train In Croton-On-Hudson | Cortlandt Daily Voice

WE NEED A COVID COMMISSION

We Need a COVID Commission | Opinion
Story by Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya • 13h ago

When an airplane crashes, the Federal Aviation Administration conducts a detailed and thorough investigation. The purpose is not to find a scapegoat, but to ensure the same problem never resurfaces again.

Our collective response to the COVID-19 pandemic constituted history's biggest public health mistake. We did not properly protect older high-risk Americans, while many ineffective COVID restrictions have generated long-term collateral public health damage that is now upon us. Both have yielded excess deaths. Public health crashed.

It is now imperative to form a commission to conduct a thorough and open-minded COVID inquiry. To help such a commission, we have produced an 80-page blueprint with essential questions that such a commission should ask. We wrote this document with six colleagues with expertise in infectious disease, epidemiology, immunology, health policy, and public health. We call ourselves the Norfolk Group.

Here is a sample of the questions from that report: read more at We Need a COVID Commission | Opinion (msn.com)

EQUITY, EDUCATION---PARENTS SPEAK OUT AGAINST SCHOOL CANCELING HONORS CLASSES

Parents speak out against school canceling honors classes in the name of equity: 'It's not working'--Story by Kendall Tietz • Yesterday 5:00 AM

Parents at a Los Angeles area school district spoke out at a Tuesday school board meeting against the administration's decision to eliminate honors classes in the name of racial-equity because they didn’t enroll enough Black and Latin,,,,,,,MORE AT Parents speak out against school canceling honors classes in the name of equity: 'It's not working' (msn.com)

ABOUT THAT PEEKSKILL HOMICIDE

PEEKSKILL--Three charged in connection with Sunday homicide in Peekskill

PEEKSKILL − City police have charged three people in connection with a homicide this past Sunday.  Arnold J. Fernandez, 19, of Peekskill, was charged with second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, both felonies.  Two other men also were charged with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon: Errick Lowe, 26, of Cortlandt Manor and Omar Williams, 20, of Peekskill----READ MORE .AT Peekskill police have made three arrests in weekend homicide (lohud.com)

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Cortlandt Man, 2 Others Charged In Fatal Shooting Of Northern Westchester Man Cortlandt Man, 2 Others Charged In Fatal Shooting Of Northern Westchester Man | Cortlandt Daily Voice

IN THE NEWS---LAWMAKER INTRODUCES BILL TO REMOVE CUOMO NAME FROM BRIDGE

Lawmaker introduces bill to remove Cuomo name from bridge, restore "Tappan Zee" - Hudson Valley Sen. James Skoufis says this bill would replace the bridge's current name with the original 'Tappan Zee Bridge' moniker. Skoufis claims former Gov. Andrew Cuomo snuck the name change into a much larger bill passed years ago that contained spending and other legislative items. The bill also claims more than 100,000 Hudson Valley residents have been requesting the name change for years.---MORE AT Lawmaker introduces bill to remove Cuomo name from bridge, restore "Tappan Zee" (msn.com)