The US is now the world leader in coronavirus infections, with more than 100,000 as of Friday. That includes more than 25,000 in New York City, where hospitals are already overwhelmed. Yet it is impossible to reconcile the messages being blasted to the country on competing platforms by President Donald Trump, on the one hand,…… MORE
Joe Biden nearly offered his cell phone number to family members of coronavirus victims on national television Friday night as he discussed the difficulty of not being able to be there for loved ones who are dying. The former vice president, who is on the verge of claiming the 2020 Democratic nomination to take on…… MORE
Joe Biden during a CNN town hall Friday night detailed how he’d respond to the coronavirus pandemic. From a remote feed in his home in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden said he starts his mornings with back-to-back briefings on the health and economic fallout of the pandemic — and that he is regularly speaking with governors who…… MORE
It was a scene I have watched play out umpteen times over the years – senators milling about as they gather to cast a vote on the Senate floor. Being the political geek that I am, I usually love those moments. Who is talking to whom? What are they saying to one another? Why are…… MORE
President Donald Trump would not explicitly guarantee on Friday that anybody in the US who needs a ventilator to combat coronavirus would have access to one. Asked during a White House press briefing whether anyone who needed a ventilator in the US would be able to get one, Trump said, “I think we’re in great…… MORE
Inaccuracies about the stock market. Baffling statements about a closed GM plant. Stating you can call coronavirus the flu. President Donald Trump on Friday continued the false and misleading claims that have become a part of White House briefings on coronavirus, wrapping up a week in which the number of confirmed cases across the country…… MORE
Rep. Grace Meng described feeling powerless when she received a call on Friday from a nurse begging for more medical support at Elmhurst hospital in Queens — one of the hospitals reeling from the virus’ rapid spread in the state. “I got this call at about the same time that we were on or near…… MORE
This week, President Donald Trump set an ambitious (and some say unrealistic) timeline to open the country back up by Easter, while the Senate and House moved at lightning speed to pass the largest economic stimulus bill in US history. Monday Fauci on Trump: ‘I can’t jump in front of the microphone and push him…… MORE
Each week during the nationwide fight against the coronavirus, I am looking at 10 leaders — usually politicians but not exclusively — whose voices matter to addressing the pandemic and working to find solutions to get the country through this. (You can see last week’s list here.) My latest list is below. And worth noting:…… MORE
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in an interview Friday that her state is not getting the health and safety equipment needed to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus because contractors are sending their products to the federal government first. Whitmer, a Democrat, said in an interview on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer”…… MORE
It was a wild night in the Tennessee Valley. Storms raged as teams tried to complete their Week 1 games. Join Cowboy and Coca-Cola Red Zone Sideline Reporter Jeff Cate as they discuss the wet and wild action of Week 1 High School Football.
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On Monday, there was a proliferation of “pink sky” shots sent in by listeners. Followed by obligatory, condescending “explanation of phenomenon” by meteorologists. Best example I’ve ever seen…lasted 5 mins, or so at Henson’s Gap/Lewis Chapel Mtn., overlooking Dunlap, Tn. Launch ramp of “Tennessee TreeToppers” hanggliding club.
I boycotted the NFL for 2 years. And I had a good reason….not faux-outrage from the right nor the left. But I digress. I hear the calls for protests…for boycotts of the NFL over Colin Kaepernick’s not being signed by any NFL team as quarterback. They say it’s because of the former 49’ers QB’s…