Tag: COVID-19

What happens once federal transfers recede? Will pumped-up budgets bait lawmakers into setting new spending baselines that place big demands on state taxpayers in just a few years, a kind of pandemic stimulus-induced hangover?

Budget boost over a fiscal cliff: States surf a federal windfall

Ted Bolema, Eileen Norcross · December 1, 2021 12:00 pm

Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (23) against the Golden State Warriors during a preseason NBA basketball game in San Francisco, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019.

LeBron James tests positive for COVID-19

Virginia Aabram · December 1, 2021 1:39 am

Trump denies he had COVID-19 before Biden debate

Christopher Hutton · December 1, 2021 12:00 am

Youth: America not the ‘greatest’

Paul Bedard · December 1, 2021 12:00 am

Omicron variant was present in Europe a week before detection in South Africa

Virginia Aabram · November 30, 2021 11:46 pm

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021, in Washington.

Fauci and Obama team up to encourage children to get vaccinated

Ryan King · November 30, 2021 11:32 pm

Oklahoma governor’s bid for National Guard COVID-19 vaccine exemptions denied

Mike Brest · November 30, 2021 10:53 pm

CNBC’s Jim Cramer pushes Biden to implement national vaccine mandate

Ryan King · November 30, 2021 10:22 pm

Conservatives call for government shutdown to block Biden vaccine mandate

David M. Drucker · November 30, 2021 8:56 pm

Schumer opens door to more COVID-19 spending

Susan Ferrechio · November 30, 2021 8:56 pm

Greek Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis listens during an interview with the Associated Press in Athens, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Mitsotakis said years of austerity have left Greece with about 200,000 fewer civil servants than before its debt crisis erupted in late 2009. He added that the country has made significant overall progress, which should allow it to tap international capital markets "in the foreseeable future." (AP Photo/ Petros Giannakouris)

Greece to fine elderly more than $100 monthly for vaccine refusal

Elizabeth Faddis · November 30, 2021 7:24 pm

Beltway Confidential

‘I represent science’ is the talk of tyrants

Christopher Tremoglie · November 30, 2021 6:19 pm