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Month: January 2021

Teachers wait for Covid vaccines

Teacher Naseeb Gill has been through a full range of reactions since the pandemic closed down in-person learning 10 months ago. She scrambled to set up virtual lessons for her fifth-grade language arts students in the spring. By fall, she was excited about returning to the classroom, but on just her second day back she

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Record heat for second day in a row

Temperatures have climbed ~20° above normal for the date. Both Palm Springs (89°) and Thermal (90°) set new record high temperatures for today’s date. Indio tied the city’s record of 89°. RECORD HEAT in the Coachella Valley!Both Palm Springs and Thermal set new record high temperatures for today's date. Indio tied the city's record of

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Despite Trump administration promise, there appear to be no more ‘reserve’ 2nd vaccine doses to release

Hopes of a surge in Covid-19 vaccine shipments under a new policy to release second doses held in reserve appear to be evaporating — with the revelation that those doses have already been distributed, contrary to recent indications by the Trump administration. A senior administration official told CNN that when the administration announced that it

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Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers to vote on whether to form company’s first US union

Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers at an Alabama facility will begin voting next month on whether to unionize their workplace, potentially paving the way for the first US-based union at the e-commerce giant. The election will allow approximately 6,000 employees at the company’s Bessemer, Alabama, facility to cast a vote by mail-in ballots beginning Feb.

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