Bonus round: Fiserv Forum is awesome!
Bonus round: Fiserv Forum is awesome!
Original 1/21/2022 post, "Peloton's pandemic pinnacle palls", starts here.
My guess is that there's still a glut of used bikes to be sold.
Pandemic bonus round.
Since the pandemic began, about 42 percent of U.S. adults have gained weight — 29 pounds, on average, according to the American Psychological Association’s latest “Stress in America” report.
Barnette's polling average was in the single digits through the end of March, while Oz and McCormick had been in double digits since December 2021.
With days until the primary Tuesday, detractors are frantically trying to prevent her from pulling off one of the biggest political upsets of the year. A super PAC backing one of her opponents released an ad calling Barnette, who would be Pennsylvania’s first Black senator if she is elected, "Crazy Kathy." Allies of her opponents are circulating old tweets, including one critical of former President Donald Trump.
Trump chimed in Thursday, reiterating his support for TV doctor Mehmet Oz's candidacy while trashing Barnette — a sign of how real the threat is — but still expressing a willingness to support her if she ultimately wins.
Original 4/10/2022 post, 'Undecided' leads in Pennsylvania GOP U.S. Senate primary poll", starts here.
The mixed ruling by Texas' highest civil court, which is entirely controlled by nine elected Republican justices, comes at a moment when GOP lawmakers across the U.S. are accelerating efforts to impose restrictions on transgender rights
The number of new cases is nowhere near the spikes of the omicron surge in January, and even when people fall ill, vaccines and use of immunotherapy treatments are keeping hospitalizations down. The total of newly confirmed daily cases nationally is at its lowest level since last summer.
Still, tallies of the virus in Pittsfield wastewater, a reliable predictor of future positive tests, have found increasing concentrations this month, up nearly threefold since late March, amid evidence that the highly transmissible omicron subvariant known as BA.2 is now the form blamed for most new infections, particularly on the East Coast.
Daily average of new Covid cases in Orleans Parish has increased 500% during the past month. On the other hand, daily average of new Covid cases there have decreased 89% since its January 11th peak of 1,280.
"I believe that if a woman is raped or a victim of incest that she should have a right with their family to decide what's the right choice for the child," Vos said in an interview this week. "Now, I do believe it's a child, so I think that by and large most people would choose to carry to term but I think that's a choice that I have always said the mother should make." [MJS]
Daily average of new Covid cases in Adams County has increased 600% during the past month. Although the numbers are small, the direction is wrong.
Daily average of new Covid cases in Shawano County has increased 1150% during the past month.
Original 9/1/2021 post, "Greetings from Trump's America: Scioto County, Ohio, 93% white, much Trumpier than it was in 2016, with too many unvaccinated residents getting sick with the delta variant virus ", starts here.