It feels like a new day in America. Our president is overseas NOT embarrassing the country. The U.S. Senate just passed a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday. And - of course - we are all emerging from a year of isolation blinking into the bright light of society returning to some semblance of remembered normalcy. With the aggressive push of vaccines, the rates of infection and hospitalization are rapidly dropping.

That deserves some clarification... The rates are dropping in states where a large percentage of the states' population is vaccinated. There is a great disparity between the states, and - as one might expect - severe infections are highest in states with the lowest percentage of vaccinated residents:
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6 comments (Latest Comment: 06/16/2021 17:22:25 by Scoopster)

Good Morning. Today is flag day. It's also a SCOTUS day. Orders will be shared at 9:30 am. Opinions will start to come out at 10 AM.
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11 comments (Latest Comment: 06/14/2021 18:32:50 by Will in Chicago)

Sorry - T-rex jokes and animals in costumes will never not be funny to me. :lol:



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7 comments (Latest Comment: 06/11/2021 21:57:58 by TriSec)

Here in the U.S. we tend to think of even-numbered years as "election years". House members have to run every 2 years, the president every 4 years, and senators every 6 years. Odd-numbered years, however, are - in some cases - election years for state and local races. I focus on the commonwealth of VA, both because of its proximity to DC, and for it being my former home for 9 years.
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10 comments (Latest Comment: 06/09/2021 15:51:47 by livingonli)

Good morning. We returned from NY basically unscathed. We went out to est with my Sister's family Friday night.

Indoors.
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15 comments (Latest Comment: 06/07/2021 19:34:59 by livingonli)