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St. Joseph County council rescinds mask fines ordinance


South Bend Tribune
SOUTH BEND — Last summer and fall, the St. Joseph County Council spent hours, across a series of meetings, debating and ultimately passing an ordinance that allowed fines for certain violations of the county’s mask order.
The county never ended up issuing any fines, and on Wednesday, it took the council all of three minutes to kill the ordinance in a bipartisan vote, effectively ending the era of local government-mandated COVID-19 restrictions.
All eight council members present for a special meeting Wednesday voted to rescind the ordinance, which allowed the St. Joseph County Health Department to fine businesses that failed to enforce the mask order among employees. Richard Pfeil, one of the council’s three Republican members, was absent. ....

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Pregnant worker protections short of Indiana governor's goal


Pregnant worker protections short of Indiana governor s goal
TOM DAVIES, Associated Press
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Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray, R-Martinsville, speaks during a news conference at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis on Thursday, April 1, 2021. Supporters of boosting Indiana s cigarette tax expressed frustration Friday after Bray said Senate Republicans would not include the tax increase in their state budget plan being released next week.Tom Davies/AP
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indiana legislators are turning aside for the second straight year an appeal from Gov. Eric Holcomb for a law requiring more businesses to provide workplace accommodations for pregnant women.
Such steps, such as longer breaks or transfers to less physical work, are cast by supporters as ways of improving Indiana’s infant mortality rate, which federal statistics show was the country’s 14th worst in 2018 with 525 infant deaths. ....

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Mishawaka mayor criticizes 'unilateral decision' to extend St. Joseph County mask order


In an email to government and health officials Wednesday night, Mishawaka Mayor Dave Wood sharply criticized St. Joseph County’s health officer for renewing the county’s mask order, suggesting the move blindsided local leaders who expected the order to be downgraded to an advisory.
Wood has not publicly spoken about Dr. Robert Einterz’s decision Monday to renew the order through May and has declined Tribune requests for comment.
But the email, sent after 11 p.m. Wednesday, was the latest salvo by Republican elected officials who say Einterz ignored a consensus among city and county leaders that the order should be changed to a recommendation, mirroring Gov. Eric Holcomb’s path on COVID-19 restrictions. ....

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