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In February, following a global movement to affirm that Black Lives Matter, Republicans rejected a resolution honoring Black History Month because they didn’t like all of the names of people being honored on the resolution.
Most notably, the conflict centered on the names of people of color who were killed by police. According to Sen.
https://www.afinalwarning.com/496669.html (Natural News) The new Republican governor of Montana lifted a statewide mask mandate in place since July 2020. Gov. Greg Gianforte rescinded the mandate on Feb. 12, fulfilling a promise he made the previous month. He stated that he would continue wearing a face mask despite the mandate’s repeal. But some cities are not planning to lift their local mask-wearing requirements as they consider Gianforte’s repeal premature.
Former Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, Gianforte’s predecessor, ordered the mask mandate back in July of last year. It originally applied to counties with four or more active COVID-19 cases but was eventually expanded to cover the entire state in November 2020 when the number of Wuhan coronavirus cases and hospitalizations shot up. The number of confirmed cases in Montana has declined significantly ever since.
Feb. 16, 2021 | MacIver News Service
The Wisconsin State Senate approved a series of bills to protect individual rights amidst the COVID crisis on Tuesday afternoon.
If the bills become law, government officials won’t be allowed to close churches or force people to get vaccinated. The senate also passed a bill that require Evers to produce a plan on getting state employees back to work, and another bill that would allow dentists to provide vaccinations.
All those provisions were included in the Assembly’s “COVID Relief Bill,” but the Senate stripped them out so Gov. Evers would sign it into law. However, those provisions were very important to conservative voters, so Senate Republicans reintroduced them as separate bills. (Eventually they would also add them back into the COVID Relief Bill.)