SOME ITEMS IN THE NEWS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: GAZETTE KATZ ARTICLE, NURSING HOME SCANDAL, ASSORTED EDUCATION ISSUES, SPORTS, CHINA, COVID, WHO AND MUCH MORE

--Veteran Bronx educator claims she was fired after refusing ‘Black Panther’ salute... P ledge your allegiance to “Wakanda Forever” — or else.A veteran Bronx educator claims she was fired in part because she refused to mimic a salute to Black power from the 2018 comic-book movie “Black Panther” during superintendent meetings. At official gatherings of high-level Department of Education bosses, then-Bronx superintendent Meisha Ross Porter often asked the group to do the arms-across-the-chest gesture of solidarity from the mythical African nation of Wakanda. The salute is considered a symbol of empowerment.  When Rafaela Espinal — a Dominican-American who describes herself as Afro-Latina — declined to join in, she “was admonished and told that it was inappropriate for her not to participate,” according to a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed Feb. ...MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/02/20/nyc-educator-fired-for-refusing-black-panther-salute-suit/

--GAZETTE ARTICLE ON THE KATZ property, sold for "affordable"/low income housing, 2 buildings; more here 

--FOR THOSE FOLLOWING TWITTER ISSUES, CANADA/B.C.’s top court can hear Twitter defamation case after jurisdiction battle; MORE HERE

--THE ESCALATING NURSING HOME SCANDAL; CUOMO AND THE NURSING HOME SCANDAL, RATTLED AND MORE, NY POST, AND JOURNAL NEWS, NEWS 12; AS WELL AS THE LINK TO THE EMPIRE REPORT, ETC.-SEE THE VERY LATEST BY CLCKING HERE.

--WOMEN'S SPORTS...AN ARTICLE... Political correctness could threaten women’s sports... READ MORE HERE

--NYC BUSINESSES ARE BARELY HANGING ON  https://nypost.com/2021/02/21/nyc-businesses-are-barely-hanging-on-amid-covid-19/

--CCP Withheld Pandemic-Relevant Data From WHO, Leaked Documents Reveal.....nternal documents that were leaked to The Epoch Times show that the Chinese communist regime has a large amount of data on influenza and other diseases that have symptoms similar to COVID-19, but did not disclose it to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the outside world.....The Wall Street Journal reported on Feb. 12, that Dominic Dwyer, a member of the WHO expert team and an Australian infectious disease expert, said that when the WHO expert team conducted an investigation into the source of the epidemic in Wuhan, the CCP refused to provide the data of 174 COVID-19 patients ............MORE AT https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-communist-regime-withheld-pandemic-data-from-who-leaked-documents-reveal_3704771.html?utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-02-21-3

--AND NOW MATH IS RACIST  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/02/concerned-about-education-these-days.html

--SAD NEWS...ALLAN AUNAPU, FIRST CAPTAIN OF THE HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER, HAS DIED

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PIERS MORGAN, THE ESCALATING NURSING HOME SCANDAL & GOV. "SAINT" ANDREW CUOMO

When New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo held his lengthy daily pressers during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, I tweeted my praise for his style.

'Incredibly impressed by Gov. Cuomo's leadership,' I wrote last May. 'Firm, factual, empathetic.'  That was certainly how it seemed at the time.

I found Cuomo's calm detail-oriented empathy-laced authority a stark and gratifying contrast to Donald Trump's appalling science-refuting bogus cure-spewing handling of the crisis at presidential level.

And many agreed with me, as Cuomo was showered in plaudits in mainstream and social media.

Nobody was more pleased with his performance than the Governor himself, who embarked on an extraordinary victory tour last Fall promoting a book entitled: 'American Crisis: leadership lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic.'

It seemed dangerously premature for any Governor to be writing a self-aggrandising tome about his brilliant leadership in a crisis that still had a long way to run.

But Cuomo was very keen to ride the vainglorious self-publicity wave and his ego soared to Trump levels as he did so.

In an interview with New York magazine to promote the book, he even described his own briefings as 'incredible'.

'People wanted information,' Cuomo explained. 'They tuned in, and the communication was on a wholly different level. There was a sincerity and authenticity and a credibility that they discerned from the briefings. And they believed it.'

Yes, we did. READ AND SEE MUCH MORE AT https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9253759/PIERS-MORGAN-Emmy-shameful-lying-slippery-obfuscation-goes-Gov-Saint-Andrew-Cuomo.html

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--COURTESY OF TOM FARANDA'S FOLLY: HA! Amazon wants no mail-in ballots for a unionization vote. Amazon Seeks to Postpone Alabama Unionization Vote. Tech company pushes for in-person union ballot in place of mail-in option allowed due to pandemic...WALL STREET JOURNAL; read more HERE.

--GIRL'S BASKETBALL, OVER AND BACK WITH CROTON'S ANA ENG; MORE FROM LOHUD HERE.

--The following letter was published in a recent issue of the Gazette. OUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW--To the editor:  2020 was a constant barrage of reminders that politicians believe the laws do not apply to them. Mr. Masur’s letter (The Gazette, Dec. 17/23) is a fitting coda to a cynical year.  READ MORE HERE.

--HOLTEC/INDIAN POINT...."New York State sued the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Friday for refusing to listen to the state’s concerns before approving the sale of the Indian Point nuclear power plant to Holtec, a New Jersey decommissioning firm." MORE FROM LOHUD/JOURNAL NEWS AT https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/buchanan/2021/01/22/new-york-sues-federal-government-over-indian-point-sale-holtec/6678858002/ 

--KEYSTONE PIPELINE CANCELLATION via TFF and the WSJ https://tomfaranda.typepad.com/folly/2021/01/keystone-pipeline-cancellation-not-impressed-and-neither-is-the-wsj.html

--President Biden was spotted going maskless at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday night — hours after signing an executive order mandating the use of masks on federal land to battle the coronavirus pandemic.   The newly inaugurated president went bare-faced not only during a televised address to the American people, but also outside the context of the speech...READ AND SEE MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/01/21/biden-maskless-at-lincoln-memorial-hours-after-mandate/

SEE MORE FROM THE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THEE BUT NOT FOR ME VIRUS CHRONICLES AT  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/01/more-from-good-enough-for-thee-but-not.html

--ALBANY TIMES UNION: Industry, unions ask: How much will green energy cost New York consumers? MORE AT https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Industry-unions-want-to-know-how-much-green-15888494.php

--THE END OF WOMEN'S SPORTS?; STUDENT/PARENT CONCERNS, TRANSGENDER ISSUES....Biden sparks TERF war with gender discrimination order....WASHINGTON — President Biden set off a heated identity politics debate less than 24 hours into his presidency when he signed a gender discrimination order that has drawn heat from critics who accuse him of erasing women’s rights. Language in the order would allow transgender women to participate in women’s sport leagues......MORE AT https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-end-of-womens-sports.html

--THE JAN. 14TH THROUGH JANUARY 20TH EDITION OF THE GAZETTE: THROUGH SIX GAMES TIGERS PLAYED WINNING BASKETBALL; THE GAZETTE IS ON SALE JUST ABOUT EVERYWHERE.  Pick up a copy to read the article.

--The Washington Post Tried To Memory-Hole Kamala Harris' Bad Joke About Inmates Begging for Food and Water; MORE AT https://reason.com/2021/01/22/the-washington-post-memory-holed-kamala-harris-bad-joke-about-inmates-begging-for-food-and-water/

Also caught by the NY POST: Washington Post caught scrubbing Kamala Harris ‘prisoner’ story--CONCERNED YET? You should be https://nypost.com/2021/01/22/washington-post-caught-scrubbing-kamala-harris-prisoner-story/

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The New York Times quietly updated a month-old report about the siege of Congress which perpetuated the idea that U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick might have died after being struck by a fire extinguisher. Now affixed to the top of the report, headlined: Capitol Police Officer Dies From Injuries in Pro-Trump Rampage, is an update note. "New information has emerged regarding the death of the Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick that questions the initial cause of his death provided by officials close to the Capitol Police," the missive states in italic letters. READ MORE AT https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-york-times-capitol-police-officer-brian-sicknick-fire-extinguisher

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Democratic New York Rep. Antonio Delgado on Sunday lent his voice to a growing bipartisan chorus calling for a probe of the bombshell admission by a top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo that his administration hid data on coronavirus deaths in nursing homes.....“Politics should never come before people’s lives,” tweeted Delgado, who represents the Hudson Valley. MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/02/14/ny-dem-rep-delgado-calls-for-cuomo-nursing-home-scandal-probe/

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READ THE COLUMN THE NY TIMES DIDN'T WANT YOU TO SEE  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/02/part-14-at-request-of-our-local-authors.html