California officials are accusing a little known panel of impeding the health of LGBTQ Americans.
In a letter sent Thursday to the co-chairs of the Public Health Work Group, Dr. Mark Ghaly, the secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, and gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) implored the panel to take immediate steps to address issues that are hampering efforts in California and other states to collect sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data in health settings.
The issue has taken on greater import over the last year due to the COVID pandemic, as the lack of SOGI data on people testing positive for the novel coronavirus has made it impossible to know how widespread infections have been in the LGBTQ community or how many LGBTQ Americans have been killed by the virus. Many LGBTQ people have underlying health issues that make them more susceptible to COVID-19 or work in front-line industries that place them at higher risk of contracting th
The original case filed by Lander County in September challenges a trio of proposed constitutional amendments raising the state’s 5 percent cap on the net proceeds of mineral taxes.
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Subscriber only JUGGLING a load of chairs while organising storage space on his mobile, Rollerworld owner Craig Newby has his hands full. On Tuesday afternoon Mr Newby and his wife Belinda, together with family, staff and friends, were busy packing as much of their rollerskating business into a shipping container as quickly as they could. After being wiped out in the 2017 Cyclone Debbie floods, the couple was not taking any chances. It looks like it will take us 12 hours to pack everything up, he said. There s no sheds available in town to store anything, so all our stock and items will go in this shipping container or to people s garages.
Thanks to coronavirus, collecting the offering is tough â but cashing in your chips isnât! Thatâs the state of play in Nevada, where pastors are struggling to fill their pews under the governorâs unfair COVID rules. If you run a casino, you can pack it out. But if you want to worship God in a 1,000-seat sanctuary, you have to limit it to 50 people â or else.
Fortunately, some pastors in the state have had enough. Huddling with attorneys at Alliance Defending Freedom, churches like Calvary Chapel Lone Mountain and Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley decided to sue. If people can gather to bet, they argued, then they should be able to gather to pray. And at oral arguments in the Ninth Circuit Court Tuesday, three judges seemed inclined to agree.