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The state is expecting a severe revenue loss as tourists and residents are staying off the roads during the coronavirus pandemic. “Things were not good and COVID is making things worse.”
California was going to purchase $800 million of masks from an Alabama vendor but the delivery was incomplete. This is the state’s second incomplete mask purchase, bringing concern to the purchasing decisions.
Betty Yee uses her role as California’s state controller to uplift underserved communities, encourage female participation in politics and public office and remind others that a state is only as strong as its individuals.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said regarding the state’s decision to issue mail-in ballots to all registered voters for the fall election to avoid coronavirus concerns. (Reuters — May 8, 2020)
The estimated number of additional people that visited Georgia the week after the state’s shelter-in-place orders were lifted on April 24. Ninety-two percent of those drivers came from four neighboring states: Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina and Florida.
Last March there were 240,000 scooter rides in San Antonio, Texas, whereas there were only 50,000 rides this year. Scooter companies are seeing severe losses as the number of rides has dropped during the coronavirus. The pattern is repeating itself in cities across the country.
Even though numerous consumer and civil rights organizations opposed it, a California bill about facial recognition technology use only had a single organization support it: Microsoft. The bill passed in an 8-3 vote.
Cases continue to pile up each day that courts are closed to the public due to COVID-19, so Lehigh County will begin using technology to limit the number of people in courthouses and increase access to public proceedings.
Even though they live in ZIP codes with some of the lowest numbers of coronavirus cases, “Black Ohioans are hospitalized or infected by COVID-19 at more than twice their share of the overall population.”
The nation has enjoyed public health triumphs, with life expectancy far higher than it was a century ago. But responsibility for health has always been scattered, with disease tracking less a priority than treating individuals.
It may seem hard to believe that the time of a deadly pandemic might one day be remembered wistfully by those who lived through it. But something like that has happened before in American life.
Currently, the country has hired just a fraction of the contact tracers needed to contain the spread of the coronavirus and help the economy return to life. Experts say a national workforce is needed.
Gus Faucher, chief economist at PNC Financial, of the drastic change that the U.S. workforce has experienced in the past month due to the coronavirus pandemic, as unemployment spiked to 14.7 percent. (AP News — May 8, 2020)
The amount that Uber lost in the first quarter of the year as ride-hailing and travel significantly decreased amid coronavirus fears. The company will offload its scooter business, Jump, and is laying off 3,700 full-time workers.
Twenty miles of Seattle streets that have been closed during the pandemic will be permanently closed to car traffic by the end of May. The closures will provide extra space for alternate transportation methods.
The state only has about 300 tracers currently and has plans to begin the first phase of reopening on May 15. Some are upset that the search for contract tracers didn’t begin months ago, “We wasted two months.”
The coronavirus has revolutionized how Americans work and those changes could be permanent. For many organizations, this coronavirus-caused shift to working from home could be a welcome excuse for change.
After two and a half years of development and less than a year after unveiling a $2.8 billion (US) master plan, the New York-based Google affiliate Sidewalk Labs has cut its losses and put Toronto’s smart-city project in limbo.
How the city of Newark is making sure entrepreneurs of color are at the forefront of business expansion and real estate development
Thomas Hughes, the administrative director of a new board that will have oversight of Facebook and Instagram, having the final say over whether content should or should not be allowed. (The Hill — May 6, 2020)
The total job losses since mid-March that have been attributed to coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown. The unemployment numbers for April will be released today, May 8.
Researchers have employed a supercomputer to help with faster development of a treatment for the coronavirus. “Instead of doing the tests in the test tube, we replicate that process in the computer.”
Officials worry that citizenship and the coronavirus concerns may deter Latino participation in the 2020 Census. As the coronavirus increases government distrust, encouraging participation is harder than ever.
Boston city council members introduced an ordinance that would ban the city government from using the technology. The ACLU hopes to pass the ordinance before the existing surveillance network is renewed on May 14.
The newly released document reveals that the 300 million N-95 masks that California had ordered have yet to arrive. Gov. Newsom is now requiring a $247.5 million reimbursement by the end of the week.
Florida released a list of coronavirus deaths but blacked out the probable cause of death and description of each case. The redacted document reinforces the so-called Sunshine State’s lack of transparency in dealing with the pandemic.
Pennsylvania’s unemployment compensation fund is not expected to run out, despite the historic number of unemployed workers, but the state may have to eventually repay billions of dollars, which could increase taxes.
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