DL Open Thread: Sat., March 7, 2020
SXSW Canceled. This is just one event among many events that are being canceled. The economic impact is huge. $356 mill for the City of Austin alone. Something like 400,000…
@JessforDelaware This is @ChrisCoons at #AIPAC saying that Trump's reckless assassination of Qasem Soleimani was "a good step forward for peace." Trump and Chris Coons are pushing the exact kind of dangerous, warmongering foreign policy we are trying to replace.Coons really is a piece of work. He doesn't talk about Soleimani until he end, but if you want to watch 12 minutes of Coons kissing the Likud Party's ass you will want to watch the entire thing.
DOVER, Del. – In Delaware, every resident will soon have access to high speed internet. It’s been years in the making and on Thursday a plan is officially in place to bring broadband services throughout Kent and Sussex County. “This is a significant step forward in Delaware in terms of broadband technology and getting it out there to the masses,” explains Kent County Administrator Michael Petit de Mange. Finally residents that haven’t had the access or means to pay for it, will be able to get it in their homes. ... Sen. Brian Pettyjohn explains, “We need to make sure that it wasn’t just available to the higher tier incomes of families, it was something that should be available to all families and all households.”
Wars, natural disasters, public health crises – these are the moments when people need to be able to trust that their government is working well, working for them, and telling them the truth. But as the American people prepare for the threat of a coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration has challenged that trust on a number of fronts.One immediate step that President Trump must take to restore that sacred trust is to fire Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and replace him with a public health expert that the American people can have faith in.
Here is why this is such a critical first step: with Secretary Azar, we never know if he is working in the best interests of patients and public health, or if he’s focused on the needs, interests and profits of the pharmaceutical industry.