question, should a person s non-violent attendance at the january 6th save america march have any impact on their employment? i m michael smerconish in philadelphia, and that is this week s poll question at smerconish.com. many who participated on the storming of the capitol on january 6th have been charged and may still be. scrutinizing former president donald trump. but i want to update a different story about that day. one of a middle schoolteacher who on thursday night was just fired by his school board tracing back to his attendance on january the 6th, despite his never being anywhere near the capitol. kind of ironic that the pennsylvania teacher is now out of his job while the current republican nominee for pennsylvania charted puss to transport people to attend. jason mother head at the robb middle school in allentown, pennsylvania. he attended the rally and posted about it on social media, but did not participate in anything beyond that. he was suspended with pay
get great leadership. a classic example. i got back this morning from north dakota. i am going there because this state is a gem for investment. right across the river from fargo is a town called moorehead. 25 years ago, you have minnesota with a river separating them from north carolina. moorehead. today you have 260,000 people living in fargo and the second largest campus and massive arts and bio-tech and energy and businesses. wait, go across the river, only 200 yards, you step out and it looks like cuba. only 30,000 people left in moorehead. the difference is minnesota policy and north dakota policy.
Last year, a black man named Tyree Moorehead was shot and killed during a police encounter in Baltimore. So naturally, BLM activists and other progressives are saying it was just another case of police brutality. What made the entire situation all the more ironic is that while he was alive, Moorehea.
let s focus in on the pandemic now. the u.s. has set a new record with more than 158,000 americans hospitalized with covid. the omicron variant is pushing kentucky to the brink as well once again. the commonwealth now seeing the highest positivity rate since the start of the pandemic, nearly one in three people there are testing positive for covid. cnn s miguel marquez is live in kentucky. miguel, you went back to one of the hospitals that you visited in september. what did you see this time? reporter: this was st. clair health care in moorehead, kentucky, a regional hospital that serves 11 rural counties in northeastern kentucky. it s bad. it s as bad as it was in september. some days are worse than others, and they are not sure where they are on this current wave and even if they get through it, they re not sure if there is another wave coming. health care workers are flat-out
More than 50 years ago, Polk County had thriving Black communities such as Moorehead and Pughsville. Communities were formed as Blacks migrated for work. They were filled with doctor s offices,