January 28, 2021 at 5:52 pm
Third grade teacher Cara Denison speaks with students virtually while live streaming her class via Google Meet at Rogers International School on Nov. 19, 2020 in Stamford, Connecticut. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Do you hate your internet provider? Or maybe you’re one of many people who only have one option to choose from? So here’s a question for you: How would you feel about a government option for your internet? Representative Drew Hansen of Kitsap County is the sponsor of a new bill in Olympia that would allow local government to offer broadband internet.
“We have a lot of people in this state who just either don’t have high speed internet access at all, or they have it and it’s expensive, and it’s not very good,” Hansen explained. “We had a hearing yesterday on this bill, and we heard people from all over the state, like a mom in the Spokane Valley who has a special needs kid who, you know, she’s got to
December 17, 2020 at 7:17 am
Third grade teacher Cara Denison takes questions while live streaming her class via Google Meet at Rogers International School on November 19, 2020 in Stamford, Connecticut. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, most children in Stamford Public Schools attend alternate days of distance learning and in-class participation as part of the school district s hybrid education model. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Gov. Jay Inslee issued new recommendations Wednesday, advising a large portion of Washington schools to begin a phased return to in-person classes, starting with younger students.
Inslee cited emerging data indicating that COVID-19 doesn’t spread as prominently among young children, and expressed confidence that stringent health and safety measures can help control the spread of the virus in schools. That includes wearing masks at all times, maintaining six feet of physical distance whenever possible, improved ventilation, and
Pfizer s vaccine authorization means 2.9 million high-risk people will get the shot within days the first step in a 9-month path to normalcy Aria Bendix A nurse prepares to inject staff with the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at Bradley Manor residential care home in the UK on December 9, 2020. The FDA has authorised the first coronavirus vaccine in the US, a two-dose regimen from Pfizer and BioNTech. Some frontline healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities could receive the shots in as little as 24 hours, likely on Monday. The US could immunize 20 million people by the end of 2020, but social distancing and mask wearing will need to continue well into 2021.