Public health workers focus on community, wellness

Submitted Photos Members of the county's Public Health Department participate in an emergency preparedness training event pre-COVID-19. The Health Department has been required to do these types of training events even before the pandemic.

source https://www.observertoday.com/news/page-one/2022/04/public-health-workers-focus-on-community-wellness/

Efforts to ban books jumped an 'unprecedented' four-fold in 2021, ALA report says

This often leads to books being listed in library catalogues but never able to be found when looking for them. This year, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe tops the ALA's 10 most challenged books list. The ...

source https://www.npr.org/2022/04/04/1090067026/efforts-to-ban-books-jumped-an-unprecedented-four-fold-in-2021-ala-report-says

Jury selection starts today for panel that'll help decide if Parkland school shooter gets the death penalty

(CNN) Potential jurors are due to arrive Monday at a Florida courthouse where they could be chosen to help decide the fate of Nikolas Cruz more than four years after he killed 17 people in the deadliest high school shooting in US history.

source https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/04/us/nikolas-cruz-sentencing-parkland-shooting/index.html

Pakistan is heading to early elections after Imran Khan dissolves Parliament

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan is heading to a constitutional crisis after president Dr Arif Alvi dissolved the national assembly at the request of prime minister Imran Khan, who had been facing a no-confidence motion against him that was likely to succeed.

source https://www.npr.org/2022/04/03/1090490181/pakistan-imran-khan-parliament-early-elections

Hundreds gather at Anchorage Baptist Temple to remember the late Congressman Don Young

For an hour and a half, speakers including Alaska's two U.S. senators, the governor and one of Young's daughters, told heartfelt and sometimes wacky tales from the Republican congressman's life. They recounted how he fought for Alaska for decades.

source https://www.alaskapublic.org/2022/04/02/hundreds-gather-at-anchorage-baptist-temple-to-remember-the-late-congressman-don-young/

Biden is the latest president to go off script on Russia

The buzz went on for a week after President Biden whacked a hornets nest by telling a crowd of Poles that Russian President Vladimir Putin had to go. "For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power," Biden said. Those words were still hanging in the ...

source https://www.npr.org/2022/04/02/1090270597/biden-is-the-latest-president-to-go-off-script-on-russia

The White House announces moves to gender neutral passports

Nonbinary, intersex or gender-nonconforming Americans may soon choose a gender-neutral X on their passports. The Biden administration made the announcement yesterday on the annual Transgender Day of Visibility. NPR's Melissa Block reports.

source https://www.npr.org/2022/04/01/1090192947/the-white-house-announces-moves-to-gender-neutral-passports