[....] As states scramble to adapt elections for the coronavirus pandemic, the rules vary widely, each set by seemingly small bureaucratic decisions that together determine how easy or hard it is to vote — and how many people do or don’t.
Work still going on clinching $460 billion-plus coronavirus deal for this afternoon's Senate passage. But Chucks Schumer and Grassley both agree it's likely to pass today at 4 p.m. https://t.co/5pKghvrb3N@heatherscope
Note the quotation marks in the headline. Updated April 20 10:17 PM EDT:
DHS is still drafting the executive order, according to three people familiar with the situation. One possibility that has been discussed is an exemption for temporary guest workers, including those who work on farms. https://t.co/8zgHJQmOjo
The $349 billion program ran out of money Thursday, leaving traditional small businesses without funding and leading to a backlash that prompted one company to give the money back.With program out of money, backlash prompts executives at Shake Shack to return $10 million loan
Ventura County is extending its stay-at-home order until May 15th, but the county is starting to ease its restrictions in hopes of reopening soon. The new order, which goes into effect Sunday, allows some business that were formerly considered “nonessential” to operate with 10 employees. This includes bike shops, car dealerships and golf courses.
Free to read: As of Sunday, Mexico had 8,261 confirmed cases and 686 deaths. But Hugo López-Gatell, the health under-secretary who is the country’s coronavirus tsar, has admitted that the true infection level is at least eight times higher https://t.co/xf3tLkN4ET
"At a time when Trump has sought to undermine nearly every independent review of his administration’s conduct, the GAO is likely to dispatch most of its 3,000 investigators, experts and analysts into an arena that could make it a target." @kyledcheneyhttps://t.co/O1GAUGRQEP
In the last few weeks, more than half the members of the United Nations have applied for help from the IMF. Does the IMF have enough resources?https://t.co/JfJ8J6B6Tv
On coronavirus, he's basically down to the same 1/3 of the population who are conservative kooks and who have plagued us for the last 50 years at least.
Is PDF clipping of interview with Financial Times April 4
After #JNJ selected a lead #COVID19 vaccine candidate, the decision to make it available not-for-profit was easy for Alex Gorsky, Chairman & CEO, J&J. Guided by Our Credo, learn how Gorsky is using a people-first approach to lead J&J through this crisis.
The chief executive of a MA hospital, outbid for PPE by the feds multiple times, cut a deal, paid extra, hired the trucks — and then was interrogated by the FBI and had to get his Congressperson to intervene to keep DHS from heisting the shipment.https://t.co/zsgCjNOZ0Npic.twitter.com/Wgcf5u0WCY