Paralympic hopes for Corkman who lost sight as a child
After battling leukaemia then losing his sight as a child, sports-mad Donnacha McCarthy thought his competing days were over. He tells CHRIS DUNNE he now hopes to compete in the Paralympics in Japan
Donnacha McCarthy with the bike he uses for the para-triathlon. He says: “I couldn’t imagine how I was ever going to be able to play sport, not being able to see.”
Chris Dunne
IT’S a long way from a farm house in West Cork to the world stage in Tokyo, competing at the Paralympics 9,792km to be exact.
COVID antibody treatments effective but underused in SD
A treatment that can reduce symptoms and hospitalizations and possibly prevent deaths due to COVID-19 is widely available in South Dakota and across the country, but health experts say the monoclonal antibody drugs are not being used as often as they could.
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A relatively new medical treatment that can reduce symptoms, speed recovery and even prevent death due to COVID-19 in some patients is widely available across the U.S. and South Dakota but is not being used as much as health officials and medical providers would like.
North and South: Anti-gunners Targeting State Preemption Statutes Ammoland Inc. Posted on
Lawmakers in at least three state capitals are considering laws to repeal state preemption statutes.
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Anti-gun lawmakers in at least three states are pushing legislation to undo state firearms preemption statutes in an effort to return to the days when gun owners could easily fall victim to legal rat traps by crossing an invisible line between two jurisdictions with gun laws that might conflict with one another.
Legislation has been introduced in Florida, Oregon, and Washington all by Democrats to repeal state preemption statutes that have been around for several years and have always worked.
From these links, you may also be able to access information on the individual legislators.
Last session we dealt with 130 bills on our tracking list that could have impacted gun rights, gun owners, hunting, hunters, and the sale, breeding and care, of hunting dogs, etc.
2021 Partial Gun Bill List as of Thursday, January 14, 2021
HOUSE BILLS
HB 25 – Sales of Ammunition – 2021 – by Rep. Dan Daley (D) Requires background checks for sale or transfer of ammunition. Effective Date: October 1, 2021
HB 123 – Carrying of Firearms Without Licenses – 2021 – by Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R)
Removes requirement that license to carry concealed firearm is required in order to carry such firearm; limits areas in which concealed carrying of firearm is prohibited; revises criminal penalties; revises provisions relating to carrying of concealed weapons by nonresidents; provides for issuance of concealed carry licenses for reciprocity purposes; specifies that person not otherwise prohibit
Michael Connelly doesn’t take much time off between projects. The author of 35 international bestsellers announced Monday that The Lincoln Lawyer, a TV series based on six of his novels, has been picked up by Netflix. The announcement came just days before shooting will wrap on the seventh and final season of his hit Amazon series Bosch, about Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch. Since .