Tag: Virginia

Ex-Bear Defender Signs with the Pirates

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GT The former Bears LB Charles Snowden landed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Charles Snowden, a former Chicago Bears hurryer, has found a new home. According to the NFL Waiver Wire on November 8, Snowden was signed to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers coaching squad. The Bears signed Snowden as an unqualified free agent after the 2021 draft ended, and spent most of the year on the Chicago coaching staff, eventually rising to the active roster for two games. Many draft experts and analysts were surprised that Snowden went without drafting…

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Virginia School Board Brings Back a Physical Education Teacher Who Doesn’t Use Preferred Pronouns

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A Virginia County school has agreed to permanently reinstate a physical education teacher after he was suspended for refusing to refer to transgender students by their preferred pronouns. “Just today, the court issued a final injunction permanently preventing the Loudoun County Public School Board from sanctioning me for freely expressing my views,” Byron “Tanner” Cross told reporters after Monday’s settlement. Fox News reported. “I can now confidently continue teaching at Leesburg Primary School without fear of retribution for expressing my views,” he added. In June, the county said it would…

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Virginia teen doesn’t compete in second assault at school

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A Virginia boy convicted of raping a classmate in a school restroom reportedly did not contest any competition Monday related to a second attack inside the school at a different location. The 15-year-old was accused of touching a girl’s chest and private parts after he dragged her into an empty classroom at Broad Run High School in Loudoun County on Oct. According to ABC 7. The station stated that the no-objection petition was part of a deal with prosecutors, in which the teen accepted his conviction on the charges of…

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Virginia pharmacy gives 112 kids wrong doses of COVID vaccine

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At least 112 children in Virginia were given the wrong doses of their COVID-19 vaccines after a local pharmacy tried to make up for the lack of the new pediatric shots, according to local officials. TED Pharmacy in Aldi ‘incorrectly given’ partial doses of adult vaccines to children – likely either not giving them full protection or even giving them much, Loudoun County Health Department said. “Because they didn’t have the children’s formula, they used the adult formula but only gave a third of the amount to the kids,” said…

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Time to reveal the mask and other comments

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Time to unmask and other commentary

Middle: Time to unmask “It’s time to consider making masks optional in most settings.” Fay Flam argues Bloomberg. Mask mandates used to make sense “when few are available,” but today we have “higher potency vaccines, better testing and now powerful antiviral drugs.” States impose “real costs that public health authorities were loath to acknowledge”. Masks “suffocate human communication and interaction . . . contribute to an epidemic of isolation, loneliness and poor mental health” and increase “resistance to returning to work.” The non-handle should remain masked, “but it’s time to…

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Democrats Praise Infrastructure Vote, But Regret It Taken So Long

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Democrats acknowledged Sunday that last week’s election set a fire under them and triggered a House vote approving President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan, but admitted they spoiled their chances of helping party candidates by passing it sooner. Republican Glenn Yongkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia — Biden won the state a year ago by 10 percentage points — and Governor Phil Murphy beat Jack Citarelli in New Jersey, with the president winning by 16 points in 2020. “I think the House Democrats took this message loud and clear…

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Senator John Barrasso says Americans “rejected” Democrats’ policies

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Senator John Barrasso called last Tuesday’s races “the rejection elections” because American voters rejected the Democrats’ extremist policies. It was a rejection election. Voters across the country overwhelmingly rejected these extreme policies of the Democrats, which caused inflation, rising prices and opening borders. And now they want to raise taxes to a higher level,” Barrasso (R-Wyo.) He said on “Sunday Morning Futures” on Fox News. You might think this would be a wake-up call for the Democrats, but they still sleep like zombies on this road to socialism. And they…

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AOC rips James Carvell to blame Virginia’s loss on ‘vigilance’

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has criticized political strategist James Carville for blaming the Democratic candidate’s loss in Virginia on the “stupid idiots” of progressives — saying the term is common among “old people.” “Like the regular audience of people who take the word ‘wake up’ seriously in a political debate in 2021, there are critics James Carville and Fox News, so that should tell you everything you need to know,” the New York Democrat posted on Twitter. She went on to blame Carville, who ran Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, for…

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Glenn Yongkin’s minor son tried to vote for Virginia’s governor twice

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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s 17-year-old son tried to vote twice on Election Day, but was rejected by poll workers both times because of his age, officials said. The teenager attempted to cast his vote at the Hickory-area polling station at Great Falls Library, which is not the designated polling place for his address, election officials. He told NBC4. “This morning, November 5, 2021, the Registrar General was informed of concerns that there are 17 [year-old] “On two election day voting occasions,” the Fairfax County Elections Office mentioned to NBC4 in…

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Virginia elections prove voters are tired of hearing Trump news

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WINCHESTER, Virginia – In the first post-pandemic election, voters here showed their displeasure with Democrats, awarding victories to GOP candidates vying for the state’s two top jobs. In his victorious race for governor, businessman Glenn Allen Youngkin became the first Republican to win a statewide victory in twelve years, proving that Virginia isn’t true blue, after all. The reckoning took place in a state where Joe Biden won a comfortable landslide less than a year ago, in a place where Republicans have lost their majority in the state assembly over…

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