LANSING, Mich - Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic, the voicemail of one Michigan agency says that employees are working remotely to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Since 2020, more than 20,000 government workers have started working remotely instead of showing up to offices in Lansing.
The voicemail of the Michigan Office of Administrative Hearings and Rules says, “To lessen the spread of COVID-19, we are currently working remotely,” Detroit News reporter Beth LeBlanc wrote in a Feb. 21 social media post.
The agency conducts administrative hearings and helps promulgate rules.
Neither the agency’s media line nor the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity responded to a request for comment about the voicemail.
A Michigan Capitol Confidential reporter visited the Lansing office on Feb. 24 and was not allowed beyond a security checkpoint. A security manager said the reporter could only enter the building’s work areas with an escort. The building is open only for hearings, the manager said. Click here to read more.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF - Bombshell in the Diddy prosecution ... CNN destroyed the only known copy of the 2016 video in which Diddy is seen beating Cassie in the hallway of an L.A. hotel ... this according to new court documents.
Diddy's defense team and prosecutors filed a joint letter about evidence in the case. According to the defense ... CNN purchased the video showing Diddy attacking Cassie in the hallway of the InterContinental Hotel in L.A. The letter claims "CNN purchased the only known copy of the Hotel's surveillance footage, uploaded that footage into a free editing software, altered the video and then destroyed the original footage, even though it knew about and repeatedly reported about the federal investigation." Click here to read more.
DENVER, COL - As a nurse in rural Colorado after World War II, Loretta Ford described herself as a lone ranger. “Whatever went on in health, I was called,” she said. “I took care of it.”
Ms. Ford, who died in January at the age of 104, co-found America’s first nurse practitioner program. She believed that nurses were more than doctors’ helpers: They were decision-makers capable of treating patients.
In one speech, she recounted how physicians had rigid ideas about the line between nursing and medicine—that it was okay for a nurse to use a stethoscope while taking blood pressure, “but if she moved that stethoscope eight inches, oh, that was medicine.” “I used that stethoscope in lots of places at 3 a.m. I could never figure out who they thought was making all these decisions.”
Today, there are almost 400,000 nurse practitioners in the United States. Thanks to Loretta Ford’s pioneering program, nurse practitioners in many states now diagnose and treat patients independently without physician supervision. Not in California, however. Until 2020, nurse practitioners couldn’t practice in California unless they were operating under a collaboration or supervision agreement with a physician. Although this might sound reasonable, in practice, the arrangement is a lucrative handout to physicians: They get to cash checks and restrict competition. The physicians typically have little or no involvement in medical decisions for the nurse practitioners’ patients. Click here to read more.
FALKVILLE, Ala. - A Falkville High School student just received a life-changing gift from her teacher!
Chelsey Bowers, who is completely blind, just received a pair of special AI-powered glasses.
The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are already helping Bowers in her day-to-day life.
The glasses have a camera that can take pictures of Chelsey Bowers' surroundings.
After taking the picture, the glasses read and describe what’s going on to her.
Bowers will be graduating from Falkville High School in May.
Her teacher since ninth grade, Leslie Freeman, wanted to make sure she had all the tools she needed before she moved onto the next stage of her life.
“I heard about those Meta glasses,” said Freeman. “We knew that this would be something that would be beneficial for her to gain that independence here at the end of her senior year.” Click here to read more.
