Ex-WSU football coach Nick Rolovich, who is appealing his firing through university channels, says the human resources department’s approval of his request for a religious exemption was arbitrarily overturned by the athletic director. Seattle’s KING 5 News reported (here), “It is u[...]
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November 4th, 2021 - 11:00 pm § in Health, Schools & Colleges
Fired anti-vax coach questions WSU’s process
November 1st, 2021 - 7:08 pm § in Health, Law and Courts
Should cops be fired for fake vaccine cards?
Do we even need to debate this? Lancaster is a city of about 60,000 in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Amish country. That city doesn’t require its employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19, but those who don’t have to wear masks in city buildings at all times. Anti-vaxxers usually [...]
Why are deadly car accidents soaring?
Americans are killing themselves and each other with cars. Road deaths are soaring (see story here). Experts attribute it to reckless driving, drinking and drugs, more speeding, more people not using seatbelts — in short, people are going nuts on the streets after being cooped up in their home[...]
Suddenly, school board elections really matter
You need to know who’s running for your community’s school board. It isn’t easy, because these elections are officially non-partisan, so there’s no party labels to help you identify toxic candidates. You have to dig through voter pamphlets, look up endorsements, and search th[...]
When wearing two hats is a bad idea
A Maryland doctor-legislator has been punished by the state medical board “for performing surgery while appearing virtually for legislative meetings,” The Hill reported on Friday, October 29, 2021 (read story here). Dr. Terri Hill (photo, left), a cosmetic surgeon who’s been a Demo[...]
A letter to readers about school board controversies
A letter from the National School Boards Association to President Biden (read it here) requesting “federal law enforcement and other assistance” to protect children, educators, and school board members from “threats of violence and acts of intimidation” after a series of dist[...]
This isn’t free speech or protest
Getting up in front of a school board meeting and saying you object to vaccine and mask requirements is free speech. Peacefully marching with signs in front of a school district administration office is protest. The following is NOT free speech of protest: dumping chemicals on a school board member&[...]
Can Halloween candy kill?
Sure, if the psychopath down the street laces it with strychnine. But that aside, can you overdose on it? How much would kill you? The American Chemical Society calculates 262 “fun-sized” candy bars or 1,627 pieces of candy corn will deep-six the “average” person. What is &[...]
October 20th, 2021 - 2:38 pm § in Christianity, Health, Law and Courts, Religion, Schools & Colleges
What to make of Rolovich’s strange choice of a lawyer
Former WSU head football coach Nick Rolovich, fired Monday for not complying with the state’s vaccination mandate, intends to sue the university and “all parties responsible for” his termination, his lawyer announced in a press release on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 (read story her[...]
Wyoming’s legislative emergency
The emergency is vaccine mandates. And a special session is being convened to pass GOP-sponsored bills which “call for banning vaccine passports and enacting $500,000 fines for companies that fire, demote, promote, compensate or refuse to hire an individual based on whether they are inoculated[...]