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Stranded pedestrians in Dallas’ Joppa community get a lift from City Council

October 13, 2020

The southern Dallas community of Joppa got some much-needed relief Tuesday when the Dallas City Council allocated $500,000 to provide immediate, free, “on-demand” transportation via Dallas Area Rapid Transit during construction of a long-awaited pedestrian bridge over the nearby Union Pacific Railroad tracks.

Access has long been a problem in Joppa — pronounced jop-ee — a freedman’s town founded in 1872 by emancipated slave Henry Critz Hines. Joppa, with an estimated population of about 750, lies 6 miles southeast of downtown, between the wetlands of the Trinity River and the Union Pacific train tracks.

Adam Bazaldua, whose District 7 includes Joppa, was among those voting for the measure, which the council approved unanimously, with nary a murmur of dissent.

Even so, Bazaldua called it “an example of what should be considered a basic quality of life that we are unfortunately viewing as a celebration. Because, don’t get me wrong, this

White House aide says physician withheld health specifics to lift Trump’s spirits

October 5, 2020

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White House communications director Alyssa Farah said Sunday that White House physician Sean Conley withheld specific details at Saturday’s press briefing about Donald Trump’s medical condition in order to “convey confidence” and “raise the spirits” of the president.

Driving the news: Conley and the White House have come under intense criticism after Chief of Staff Mark Meadows provided an anonymous statement to reporters on Saturday saying that Trump had a “very concerning” period on Friday, contradicting the more rosy assessment Conley had provided in a television briefing just moments earlier.

Pressed by Axios’ Alayna Treene at a briefing earlier on Sunday, Conley said he was “trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president, his course of illness has had.”
“I didn’t want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction, and in doing so, you know, it came off that we

Michigan could lift ban on food assistance for drug felons

September 30, 2020

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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The lifetime ban from receiving food benefits for those with more than one drug-related felony conviction could be lifted under a bill that passed the Michigan Senate on Wednesday.

The current law punishes offenders long after they’ve served their sentences and increases the chance they will commit more crimes, according to supporters of the legislation. Federal law allows states to permanently ban residents with drug-related felonies from receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

The bill now goes to the House. If signed into law, Michigan would join 26 other states in lifting the ban, according to the Michigan League for Public Policy, which supports the bill.

Drug users can’t rehabilitate without access to a healthy meal, the bill’s sponsor Sen. Jim Ananich, a Flint Democrat, said in a media release.

“Holding food assistance out of reach as a way to continue penalizing those who have already

Latest Wolf administration guidelines lift spectator ban at high school sporting events, with conditions

September 27, 2020

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Any spectators count toward the state’s COVID-19 mitigation limit of 250 people or fewer for outdoor events, or 25 people or fewer for indoor events, the state says.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The office of Governor Tom Wolf on Wednesday announced changes to the COVID-19 guidance regarding spectators at sporting events in the commonwealth.

Spectators will now be allowed to attend the events, but they will count toward the state’s gathering limitations of 250 people for outdoor events and 25 people for indoor events.

And they also must follow the state’s Universal Face Covering Order and adhere to social distancing guidelines.

The guidance leaves it up to individual school districts to devise a way for spectators to attend sporting events while still conforming with the state’s COVID-19 mitigation guidelines.

The Wolf administration re-iterated its recommendation that high school and youth sporting events should be postponed until at least the end of

Overnight Health Care: New wave of COVID-19 cases builds in US | Florida to lift all coronavirus restrictions on restaurants, bars

September 27, 2020

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Welcome to Friday’s Overnight Health Care.

a person sitting in a parking lot: Overnight Health Care: New wave of COVID-19 cases builds in US | Florida to lift all coronavirus restrictions on restaurants, bars | Trump stirs questions with $200 drug coupon plan

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Overnight Health Care: New wave of COVID-19 cases builds in US | Florida to lift all coronavirus restrictions on restaurants, bars | Trump stirs questions with $200 drug coupon plan

COVID-19 infections are on the rise, even as many Americans are back at work and school. Florida is letting restaurants and bars open without restrictions, and Trump’s sudden interest in sending seniors drug coupons is raising all sorts of questions.

We’ll start with the coronavirus big picture:

New wave of COVID-19 cases builds in US

The U.S. has never gotten control over the coronavirus. The pandemic has killed more than 200,000 people in America, but efforts that could slow the spread and truly lower the case count have never been fully embraced. So here we are.

Confirmed COVID-19 cases are rising again in the United States, building a new crescendo

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