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New Jersey...

 

Philip D. Murphy, a New Jersey Democrat whose aggressive approach to controlling the pandemic became a focal point of the bid to unseat him, narrowly held onto the governor’s office in an unexpectedly close election that highlighted stark divisions over mask and vaccine mandates, even in a liberal-leaning state.

For Democrats who had long assumed Mr. Murphy’s victory was assured even as the national electoral picture darkened, the 24 hours after polls closed proved tense: Mr. Ciattarelli at one point held a substantial lead.

Every public opinion poll throughout the campaign had showed that Mr. Murphy would coast to an easy victory. But Mr. Ciattarelli hammered away at the state’s high taxes and polarizing issues such as whether schools should teach about systemic racism, and he repeatedly asserted that Mr. Murphy’s tough Covid rules were undermining personal liberty.     

Pill...

 

Dragged down by the President's low-40s approval ratings, Democrats lost the governorship of Virginia -- a state Biden had won a year before by 10 points -- and very nearly saw heavily favored New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) toppled as well.

Friday was almost certainly the best day of Biden's presidency, with the economy creating more than 500,000 jobs in October, unemployment dipping to 4.6% (it's lowest mark since May 2020). 

Also Pfizer announcing that its experimental antiviral pill showed an 89% effectiveness rate in reducing hospitalizations and deaths from Covid-19.

"America is getting back to work. Our economy is starting to work for more Americans," Biden said of the October jobs report, which soundly beat expectations.

So don't tax the pharmaceutical companies at this time, let them work on Alzheimer disease treatment for a quick production of a product, a pill that can treat millions. 

Just a thought.

Skills...

 

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De-Risk...

 

The government assumed the financial risk of development, which allowed us to get the vaccines so quickly. But the public is paying a huge chunk for research, development and manufacturing. Congress appropriated nearly 10 billion tax dollars to support development and manufacturing of COVID-19 diagnostics, treatments and vaccines.

 Both Pfizer and Moderna used the National Institutes of Health patented messenger RNA technology to create their vaccines. The U.S. committed to buying hundreds of millions of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines in advance with a price tag of $1.9 billion. Pfizer is being paid handsomely to produce the vaccine.

The U.S. invested $20 billion in pharmaceutical companies to quickly move forward on clinical trials, development and production capabilities. Moderna had never before produced an approved drug, so the government paid for its production capability and virtually “de-risked” the enterprise for making the vaccines by committing to buy them when brought to market.

Millions around the globe have survived the pandemic as a result of the vaccines. Also it saved the world trillions of dollars in economic loss.   Just a thought.

Forcible...

 

A New York judge postponed a court appearance for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to respond to a misdemeanor forcible touching charge after a prosecutor called the criminal complaint "potentially defective" and asked for more time.

In a letter to Albany City Court Judge Holly Trexler, Albany District Attorney David Soares asked that Cuomo's arraignment, which had been scheduled for Nov. 17, be delayed for 60 days "to reduce the risk of a procedural dismissal of the case."

Mr. Soares, a Democrat, asked the judge, Holly Trexler of Albany City Court, to delay Mr. Cuomo’s arraignment, which had been scheduled for Nov. 17, “to reduce the risk of a procedural dismissal of this case” and to give the district attorney “time to continue with our independent and unbiased review of the facts in this case.”

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The head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus threatened to shut down Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) plan to vote Friday on an infrastructure bill, releasing a statement sticking to the progressive demand that the bill should only move in tandem with a broader social benefits package that Democrats have sought for months.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) said liberals are holding firm to their insistence that both bills move together.  Progressives have the numbers to sink the infrastructure bill if it comes up alone - if they stick to that position.

A short time later, however Pelosi said she would move forward with the plan to vote Friday on the infrastructure bill. She indicated she thinks enough progressives will back it for it to pass.

The progressive statement was a a warning shot to Pelosi, who just moments earlier had announced tghe plan to vote Friday afternoon on the infrastructure bill and the rule on the larger benefits package - but not the package itself.

Now others would like their names to be known by all means possible. 

Just a thought.

Sewer...

 

This "Climate Change" is been used every time a problem occur without good respond to it, so it is "Climate Change".

Six inches of rain came down in New York City crippled the city transportation system, flooded certain areas such as the subway system and stopped the trains. Transportation became awful due to many cars  left in the street any where. 

Was there a good plan to overcome just a 6 inchs of rain?

New York found that building skyscrapers gives more benefits to the builders who as a result donate large sums of money to the political campaign for the Mayor and others.

These buildings as many expert said doesn't help the climate nor it matched with a space of green parks, play ground, transportation system, sewer system, roads, parking garages etc..

Digging deep for another underground subway system [second Ave] to serve another community of crowded city may help businesses but doesn't match the Gravity theory where water, rain, flooded sewage end up.

Rain is going to come down as it has been coming down since the beginning of life.

De-Fund...

 

The vote marked a significant setback for activists dedicated to defunding or dismantling a police department that had for years been confronted with accusations of racism and the use of excessive force. Tuesday night was the first time voters in Minneapolis had the chance to weigh in on a concrete proposal to overhaul policing, and they rejected it by a 13% margin.

At least four city council members who previously supported replacing the police department with a wider encompassing Department of Public Safety lost their elections Tuesday while at least six won either as incumbents, challengers, or filling vacant seats, according to unofficial results from the City of Minneapolis.

Mayor Jacob Frey, re-elected, said he wanted to ensure an integrated approach to public safety, hire more community-oriented officers, build safety beyond policing, and get serious about reform on a "multi-jurisdictional level." But the public safety ballot measure, which would have given the city council shared oversight of the department, was not something he supported.