Weeks ago, I wrote an essay on Buffalo, being Black in America, the harms of living in a segregated environment, health, and much more. Click on the link below to read it.
Black East Buffalonians live in a segregated, unprotected environment. Black people's flourishing is fragile and uncertain as our lives.
Photo by Cyrus Crossan on Unsplash The Prince George's County Board of Elections released a toolkit to help people with early voting.
This toolkit is designed to increase voter turnout by reaching all eligible voters and getting messaging to every generation - the Greatest, the Silent, Boomers, Generation Z, Millennials and Zoomers - so that they are aware of redistricting, polling place, and election date changes.
The toolkits are a set of documents that explain date changes in Prince George's County, and more. You can download the documents here .
Additionally, the board has also released a map of ballot drop boxes throughout the county.
Primary: July 19, 2022
There is also information on early voting.
Primary: July 19, 2022
Januari McKay and Mckayla Wilkes are holding a meet and greet on June 30. You can register for the event here . The Intersection wrote an article on McKay. (This is not an endorsement). You can read that article here.
Januari McKay, a long-time advocate for those in Prince George’s County, and progressive, is running for state delegate in District 23B. She wants those who have been marginalized to be at the center of her politics and policies.
In addition, if you would like to know who is running for Prince George's County County Executive - The Intersection compiled a list of candidates.
Who are the candidates challenging County Executive Angela Alsobrooks for her position? There are five candidates, including Angela Alsobrooks, who have filed to run for County Executive.
Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash UPPER MARLBORO, MD — The Prince George’s County Board of Education has extended the deadline to Sunday, July 31 for residents to apply to serve on its five-member Ethics Advisory Panel. Panel members are appointed by the Board Chair with Board approval to a three-year term. As noted in Board Policy 0107, the panel is an advisory body responsible for interpreting the ethics policy, including issuing advisory opinions to the Board concerning its application and addressing complaints filed regarding alleged violations.
UPPER MARLBORO, MD — Graduation celebrations will begin Monday in Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) as more than 7,000 seniors prepare to walk across the stage.
Efforts to reach acceptable terms in a weeks-long contract negotiation between the Prince George’s County Schools system and the county teacher’s union have stalled, a union representative said Monday. “There is a crisis in our classrooms,” Prince George’s County Education Association President Donna Christy told school board members at a recent meeting. “When a class does not have a teacher, they might get a long-term sub.
In the state’s second largest school district, we are struggling with a variety of staffing issues, including widespread vacancies, and a lack of prospective teachers.
Photo by visuals on Unsplash We are still in a pandemic. Here are the latest numbers on the spread of the virus in Prince George's County.
New Cases: 263
7-day average: 250
What is not being discussed on the local level is the spread of BA.4 and BA.5 variants. Here are a series of articles.
The United States appears to be in the midst of another biological baton pass between Covid-19 variants, now to BA.4 and BA.5.
...with me, your local angry data nerd, Betsy Ladyzhets. This week, I’m bringing you an explainer on BA.4 and BA.5: two Omicron subvariants that may be the most contagious versions of this virus yet. Preliminary research suggests they’re also are able to bypass protection from prior infections, even of other Omicron subvariants. BA.4 and BA.5 aren’t spreading widely in the U.S. so far—at least, according to our limited surveillance—but we should be prepared for them to cause yet another Omicron surge. Plus: reflections on an old Star Trek episode, a new addition to the CDC’s wastewater dashboard, COVID-19’s disproportionate impacts on Native Americans, a sequel to the Yankee Candle Index, and more. Next weekend, I’m going to be at the Computation + Journalism conference at Columbia University’s journalism school; the Documenting COVID-19 project is presenting on our work collaborating with local newsrooms through data. If you’re planning to attend as well, reply and let me know! If you were forwarded this issue, you can subscribe here:
A World Health Organization official said on Monday that the more times a person becomes infected with COVID-19, the more likely the person is to be "unlucky" and contract long-term health effects from the coronavirus.
Three presumed human monkeypox cases have been identified in Maryland, the state health department said Wednesday.
