Arsenal are losing their battle with the Scottish Government in their attempts to get Kieran Tierney available for Saturday’s trip to Manchester City. Full-back Tierney has been ordered to self-isolate for 14 days by Scottish authorities after being found to be a close contact of his international teammate Stuart Armstrong, […]
government
England’s tour to South Africa next month is in the hands of the government in Pretoria with a decision expected by the end of the week. The England & Wales Cricket Board remains confident the tour will go ahead and the team will be granted special dispensation to enter South […]
Two Senate candidates decided to run for UF Senate seats without any party affiliation, despite the unusually high number of party options in this Student Government election. Four parties are running for Student Government election, including the current majority party, Gator, as well as three new parties: Change, Progressive and […]
TikTok users in the US have been reacting to the news of a potential ban of the popular app for months. Photo Illustration by Andrea Ronchini/NurPhoto via Getty Images The US government on Friday announced that downloads of the popular social-media app TikTok would be banned starting Sunday, marking the […]
Billy Zane, the Hollywood actor best known as Rose’s villainous fiance in “Titanic,” was the celebrity pitchman for a venture capital firm that specializes in flashy global networking events. It’s the same company that taxpayers paid $2.4 million for ventilators and protective garb this year as the firm set its sights on […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press) Tsinghua University law professor Xu Zhangrun, one of China’s few remaining outspoken critics of President Xi Jinping and the communist government, was taken from his home in Beijing by police on Monday morning. Close friends of Xu’s who spoke with […]
Position Information The Arlington County Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) is hiring a Facility Manager for the new Lubber Run Community Center, a 50,000-sf facility which includes a gymnasium striped for basketball, volleyball, and pickleball, as well as a fitness center with cardio and weight training equipment, multi-purpose rooms […]
If you wanted to, you can watch Deschutes County Commission and Bend City Council meetings from home. That was true even before the pandemic. Spoiler alert! They tend to be low wattage. Exceptions do happen. Debates can get feisty. Public testimony can be passionate and compelling. A Bend City Council […]
Tiffany Arnold had been a paratransit driver for Atlanta’s mass transit system, MARTA, for nine years when COVID-19 sent the city into lockdown. Just like that, her job and all her co-workers’ jobs vanished. “How are we going to eat, how are we going to live, how are we going […]
Keith Magill | The Courier The first floor of Terrebonne’s Government Tower will open Monday for the first time since closing nearly a year ago due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “Now that the COVID-19 pandemic is beginning to level out, I want to make sure that my staff does […]
D.C. Councilmember Janeese Lewis George posted her first TikTok recently, encouraging residents to testify in upcoming oversight hearings. Screenshot/Twitter hide caption toggle caption Screenshot/Twitter They’re not making the infamous feta pasta, or posting “random things in my Wilson Building office that just make sense” TikToks yet — but two D.C. […]
TALLAHASSEE – Florida lawmakers’ latest attempt to advance vacation rental legislation narrowly cleared a House panel Wednesday, with critics condemning the move to strip away control from city and county governments. House sponsor Rep. Jason Fischer, R-Jacksonville, said his bill (HB 219) would bring “consistency” to the massive vacation rental industry, which […]
When news of the vaccine’s effectiveness broke late last year, we all rejoiced. Here, at last, was a clear route away from the Government’s fear-driven, wholly unprecedented, and socially and economically ruinous policy of lockdown. Our freedoms, stolen in a desperate bid to protect the old and vulnerable, would be […]
Lee Westwood call for Government to ‘see sense’ and reopen golf courses Lee Westwood, the European No 1, wants the Government to “see sense” and allow golf courses to reopen during the current lockdown after the way was cleared for fishing and shooting to return. After urgent representations from the […]
“Well this is an improvement,” said Robinson, who over the past month has returned to the refrigerator for lunch three times a week. “Especially because my husband passed and he was the cook in my house.” Amid soaring need and an eight-month absence of additional federal relief, vulnerable Americans have […]
“Well this is an improvement,” said Robinson, who over the past month has returned to the refrigerator for lunch three times a week. “Especially because my husband passed and he was the cook in my house.” Amid soaring need and an eight-month absence of additional federal relief, vulnerable Americans have […]
MARKS • Dennis Washington, an 11-year custodian and bus driver for the Tunica County School District, has long aspired to become an electrician as a way to make additional income. For a few months now, the 50-year-old Tunica native has searched for online certification classes. Not long into his search, his […]
Position Information Arlington County Sheriff’s Office , nationally recognized for Excellence and awarded re-accreditation by the American Correctional Association Commission (ACA), is now accepting applications for testing for Deputy Sheriff positions. In order to participate in testing, candidates will need to apply through this system (click on the word APPLY […]
For Stuart Leven, Royal Caribbean Group’s vice-president of government relations, a key takeaway from the summer summit was “never send anything to the government unless it’s got a pretty picture and an arrow on it. Don’t expect for one second they know everything about our industry.” Marella Cruises managing director, […]
Government challenged to make United Kingdom the world’s most active country by 2030 – GETTY IMAGES The Government has been challenged to make the United Kingdom the world’s most active country by 2030 as part of a new national plan to rebuild grass-roots sport following the Covid-19 pandemic. A new […]
lanzarote – Getty British travellers who are booked on a package holiday to the Canary Islands will not be offered full refunds, despite the archipelago being added to the UK’s quarantine list. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development office (FCDO) has not yet included the islands in its advisory against non-essential […]
The year 2020 will stand out in American history for a number of reasons, possibly and most importantly because it included one of the greatest failures of government in American history. This was not simply a miscalculation or some wrong-headed initiative, which all governments may make from time to time. […]