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Nearly three months after devastating flooding tore through Western Washington, volunteers in Whatcom County are stepping up to help people rebuild their damaged homes. But the money from donations is about to run dry, and lingering uncertainty over federal funding means many people are still displaced. As the sun set over the North Cascades on […]

Në një takim të anëtarëve të Aleancës për Shqiptarët, nën udhëheqjen e zëvendëskryeministrit Arben Fetai, u mbajt mbledhja e Kuvendi Themelues të Aleancës, transmeton Portalb.mk. “U thirr një Kuvend për Themelim, i cili miratoi konceptin “Aleanca e Re”, si hap strategjik drejt një VLEN-i më të fuqishëm dhe të unifikuar”, njoftoi Fetai, duke shtuar se […]

Copince Ngoma, membre de la communauté autochtone Bakouele, a toujours dépendu de la forêt luxuriante du bassin du Congo. Les forêts de son village, situées dans la région de Sangha en République démocratique du Congo, constituent un vaste répertoire pour la chasse, la pêche et les plantes médicinales, dont il a besoin pour prendre soin […] The post Quelle est la prochaine étape pour l’engagement majeur visant à mettre fin à la déforestation dans le bassin du Congo ? appeared first on Nouvelles de l'environnement.

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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. The latest candidate to enter the Georgia Republican primary for governor is a health care executive whose company supplied hospital and nursing home workers during the Covid emergency under a state contract. Billionaire Rick Jackson’s companies have been paid nearly a billion dollars by state agencies since fiscal 2020, according to a Healthbeat analysis of government records. That includes about $710 million, starting in 2020, from the Department of Community Health, for health care staffing services. Much of that work ended by 2023, but Jackson Healthcare subsidiaries remain state contractors for other services. The candidate’s campaign materials describe a rags-to-riches story of growing up in foster care and going on to build a health care empire. Jackson Healthcare, founded in 2000, has grown to include 21 subsidiaries, most of them providing health care staffing. Jackson Healthcare also owns USAntibiotics, which says it is the country’s sole manufacturer of two widely used antibiotics. The company operates in all 50 states, according to his campaign website. Jackson, 71, who entered the governor’s race in early February, has quickly gained steam against previous front-runner Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in the primary, with two recent polls showing Jackson leading among voters who have made a decision. Jackson plans to spend at least $50 million of his fortune to fuel his campaign, according to news reports. Jackson’s companies have active contracts with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities but the agency did not respond to multiple queries about the value of those contracts. A Department of Public Health representative also refused to answer questions about that agency’s contracts with Jackson Healthcare subsidiaries. If Jackson becomes governor, he may need to take steps to separate his business interests to avoid ethical or legal challenges over conflicts of interest, legal and ethics experts said. His campaign wouldn’t make Jackson available for an interview with Healthbeat but said the company “has always and will always follow the law” with respect to its state contracts. Georgia law generally prohibits elected officials from holding contracts with the state government, said Matt Maguire, a longtime Atlanta attorney who specializes in government contracts. But there are several exceptions – including for contracts that existed prior to an official being elected. And Georgia law isn’t clear on whether Jackson Healthcare or its subsidiaries could bid for new contracts, Maguire said, pointing to a possible exception for professional employment services. There are also exceptions in the case of an emergency, or if there is only one company that could provide the needed services. Edward Queen, an attorney and professor at the Emory University Center for Ethics, said that if Jackson is elected, he should disengage from decision-making related to his businesses, and assets related to those businesses should be put in a blind trust. Queen said he would expect Jackson to resign from Jackson Healthcare and its subsidiaries, and the company should refrain from bidding future contracts with the state while he is in office. “If you want to do the state’s business as an elected official, then focus on the state, not whatever your ongoing organization or corporate interests are,” Queen said. It’s important to create such firewalls to bolster the public’s trust in the government and ensure that officials act in the public interest, experts said. “If there are any questions as to whether the government contracts with this governor are changed, enhanced or in some way further benefit the governor, there will always be a cloud of suspicion as to whether he’s violating that fundamental ethics principle,” said Kedric Payne, an attorney who leads the ethics program at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan national organization focused on democracy. Queen and Payne said the public should be informed about elected officials’ business interests well ahead of Election Day. Georgia’s party primaries for governor are scheduled for May 19, with the general election set for Nov. 3. “Information about the government contracts of the candidate should be made public,” Payne said. Jackson Healthcare supplied doctors and nurses during Covid Jackson points to his health care experience as evidence of his commitment to the state’s well-being. “When Covid hit Georgia, Gov. [Brian] Kemp asked Jackson for more doctors and nurses,” a campaign ad states. “And Jackson delivered again, refusing to send help to New York until Georgia got the emergency care it needed.” Georgia’s largest health agency, DCH, paid a Jackson Healthcare subsidiary $709 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds starting in 2020 for the staffing services. The agency also paid the Alpharetta-based company an additional $511,353 in state funds, said spokesperson Lauren Williams. The funds paid for doctors, nurses, therapists, laboratory technicians, housekeeping, and food service workers during the pandemic. DCH worked with DPH to “triage” requests from Georgia facilities that faced staffing challenges, Williams said. Jackson Healthcare subsidiary Healthcare Workforce Logistics then created contracts with the selected facilities. The costs were subsequently paid by DCH after approval of documentation, Williams said. She did not answer a question about whether those contracts are still active. The DCH agreement was described as a sole-source contract by Georgia Health News in 2021, and the bidding opportunity is not listed in the Georgia Procurement Registry, the online database that details state contracting opportunities. Healthbeat requested a copy of the contract from the state via an open records request on Feb. 10 but had not received it by Friday. Jackson will work to increase health care access and lower costs for Georgians, campaign spokesperson Brian Robinson said, adding, “Other politicians talk about it, Rick will get it done.” Subsidiaries have had contracts for mental health services Jackson Healthcare subsidiaries held contracts with other state agencies as well. DBHDD has held contracts with subsidiaries since at least 2015 for mental health care professionals to work at state psychiatric and other facilities, state records show. Those contracts appear to have been awarded through a competitive bidding process, with other companies also winning contracts. Department spokesperson Camille Taylor did not respond to a question about how much the company had been paid for its services, but state records indicate the agency has paid Jackson Healthcare subsidiaries about $239 million since fiscal 2020. Jackson Healthcare subsidiaries also worked for the Department of Human Services, which includes the Division of Family and Child Services that oversees the state’s foster care program. DHS used the existing DCH contract with subsidiary Healthcare Workforce Logistics in 2022 and 2023 due to a staffing crisis, agency spokesperson Ellen Brown said. DHS paid a total of $7.4 million to the company for workers to help with “complex youth in foster care, including youth who require hospitalization at psychiatric residential treatment facilities, youth with intense behavioral and mental health needs, youth with moderate developmental delays, and youth with autism,” Brown said. That contract is no longer in effect, she said. Jackson has been a longtime donor to GOP politicians, including to some of his current opponents for governor: Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger; Attorney General Chris Carr; and former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, who was then a Republican but is now running in the Democratic primary. Rebecca Grapevine is a reporter covering public health in Atlanta for Healthbeat. Contact Rebecca at rgrapevine@healthbeat.org.

Në ngrenien e syfyrit ka bereqet dhe përfitime të tjera shpirtërore. Por, Syfyri nuk është vetëm një praktikë fetare; ai luan një rol kyç në përgatitjen e trupit për sfidat fizike të agjërimit. Nga pikëpamja mjekësore, konsumimi i këtij vakti ofron disa përfitime thelbësore për shëndetin: 1. Mirëmbajtja e nivelit të energjisë Gjatë syfyrit, trupi […]

LSU President Wade Rousse said the university will comply with a state law that requires posting displays of the Ten Commandments in each classroom, but he is waiting for posters to be donated.  “Personally, I think shining a light on God is never a negative thing, but that’s just a personal statement of mine,” Rousse […]

O ministro Gilmar Mendes, do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), decidiu nesta sexta-feira (27) anular a deliberação da Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito (CPI) do Crime Organizado que quebrou os sigilos bancário, fiscal e telemático da empresa Maridth Participações, ligada à família do ministro Dias Toffoli. O ministro afirmou que o objeto de investigação da CPI não […] Fonte

A Alemanha voltou a enfrentar fortes perturbações no transporte público nesta sexta-feira (27). Ônibus, bondes e metrôs pararam logo pela manhã em Berlim, assim como na maioria das grandes cidades do país. A categoria reivindica uma melhor organização dos horários de trabalho, e a mobilização deve continuar no sábado (28).

TOPEKA — State Rep. Avery Anderson says the Kansas Legislature’s committee on state building construction can’t be trusted to provide meaningful recommendations on which state agency capital improvement projects deserve to be in the budget. Anderson, a Newton Republican elected to the House in 2020, said consideration should to be given to modifying the mission […]

Five Indigenous Yanomami infants have reportedly died from a preventable respiratory illness called pertussis, or whooping cough. The outbreak began Jan. 7 in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in Roraima state in northern Brazil. A representative of the Urihi Yanomami Association (UYA) told Mongabay that health authorities have been slow to respond.   Three of the […]

Town officials will answer at a meeting March 9 at the Speedway Municipal Center. The post What’s going on with Speedway’s proposed $12 sewer rate increase? appeared first on Mirror Indy.

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Joe Flaherty was a dock worker and high school dropout on the wrong side of 30 when he found an unexpected writer’s life beginning as a columnist for the Village Voice. A couple years later, he was running the 51st State campaign of Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin as two of the city’s most famous […] The post LISTEN: The Other Guy Was No Joke appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.

O presidente da Comissão de Urbanização, Transporte e Habitação (CUTHAB), vereador Pedro Ruas (Psol), encaminhou pedidos de providências para atender as demandas dos moradores do Beco do Buda, uma das vilas do Morro do Chapéu, no extremo sul de Porto Alegre, que, segundo Ruas, esperam há mais de 50 anos pelas autoridades. Sem saneamento básico, […] Fonte

Two flood disasters, just four years apart, each underscored the threat posed by the moody and volatile Nooksack River. The crises in 2021 and December 2025 have spurred increasingly urgent calls to “dredge the Nooksack,” or take gravel out of the river, a measure experts say would likely be ineffective. Community advocates aren’t wrong, though, […]

A last-day vote in the Indiana Legislature advanced a controversial provision allowing the state to scrutinize and potentially eliminate college degree programs tied to low earnings, despite warnings from some lawmakers that the policy risks undermining essential but often underpaid professions. Senate Bill 199 directs the Indiana Commission for Higher Education to review programs whose […]

Friday morning, but she rushed over to celebrate with her nonetheless.  “She was like, ‘I have no idea what, but we must be doing something fun,’” Schulof said, laughing.  After previously failing on a vote in the Utah Senate, a revived and revamped “Biscuit’s Bill” won final approval from the Utah Legislature on Friday. The […]

Lawmakers are contemplating a measure that would prevent the public from accessing law enforcement audio and video recordings that show a person’s death after the bill’s sponsor argued that new restrictions are needed to preserve the dignity of the people depicted in the footage. But the legislation, House Bill 1223, has prompted criticism from First […]

El futbolista portugués no podría ayudar deportivamente en el campo al equipo que en la actualidad se encuentra en LaLiga Hypermotion.