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The deadline to register for an upcoming election is 29 days before that election, Oct. 5 is the last day to register to vote for Nov. 3 election.
Attention Medicare And Medicaid Diabetes Patients
Stay Connected To The Arts And Each Other
New Medicare Plan Helps Make Insulin Affordable at Last
Despite being physically separated during these challenging times, the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood is excited to offer an opportunity to stay connected to the arts and each other. Have you always wanted to take time for a passion of yours or to learn to play an instrument, sing or dance? Despite being physically separated during these challenging times, the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood is excited to offer an opportunity to stay connected to the arts and each other. The Center will connect you with a working professional artist who conducts online lessons via Zoom or other online conferencing platforms in either one-on-one or a small group format. The private lesson option gives students the ability to progress at their own pace, allowing them to gain a more complete understanding of the art form being taught in the comfort and safety of their own home. The small group option still allows for individualized feedback as well as the collaboration that comes from working with friends. No prior experience is required to participate; each lesson is adapted to meet the students Each Other, Page 11A
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6 Dates You Need to Know in Broward County for Voting By Monica Elliott - President, League of Women Voters of Broward County
Remember when Election Day was the day you actually voted? That’s been changing for several years, but never so dramatically as this year, when the majority of the voting is likely to occur before the first Tuesday in November. That means there is more than one date to remember during this election. In fact, we think there are six key dates to note. Sept. 24 - Oct. 1 - Supervisor of Elections (SOE) office mails Vote-By-Mail (VBM) ballots, IF you have requested one in advance. Remember, your ballot may not be mailed until the last day of the mailing period and then it may take three to five days before it actually arrives at your house.
Oct. 5 - Last day to register to vote for Nov. 3 election at www.RegisterToVoteFlorida.gov. Online registration takes two minutes. To register online, you must have a drivers license or a Florida Identification Card issued by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. If you get down to the wire, you have until midnight on Monday Oct. 5 to register. But do it now! Oct. 19 - Last day for safely returning your Vote-By-Mail ballot via the U.S. Postal Service (return envelope is prepaid). After this date, it would be best to drop-off your VBM ballot (in its return envelope) at one of the 22 early voting sites. VBM ballots must be received, not postmarked, at the SOE by 7 p.m. on Nov. 3. Request Vote By Mail ballot here. Remember: SIGN the
Preliminary Covid-19 data shows that some Covid patients without a prior history of diabetes are presenting with types 1 diabetes, and others with type 2. So a newly announced plan that will cap out-of-pocket costs for insulin at just $35 a month will be good news.
Nov. 3 - Election day. Still haven’t voted? You must go to your precinct. And if you still
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just took a major step towards improving affordability for seniors with Diabetes. Thanks to a newly announced plan, more than 1,750 health plans will soon cap out-ofpocket costs for insulin at just $35 a month. This action deserves praise -by lowering out-of-pocket costs, the administration can ensure that the most vulnerable Americans have access to the lifesaving drug. Let’s hope this is just the first of many likeminded reforms on the horizon. In the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, it’s more important than ever for Americans to stay on top of their health. For those suffering from Diabetes, this can prove challenging.
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thing, they photograph or record—during that virtual visit becomes fair game for scrutiny and investigation not just by school officials but by every interconnected government agency to which that information can be relayed: the police, social services, animal control, the Department of Homeland Security, you name it. After all, this is the age of over-criminalization, when the federal criminal code is so vast that the average American
unknowingly commits about three federal felonies per day, a U.S. Attorney can find a way to charge just about anyone with violating federal law. It’s a train wreck just waiting to happen. In fact, we’re already seeing this play out across the country. For instance, police carried out a welfare check on a 12-year-old Colorado boy, who was then suspended for flashing a toy gun
outside of the return envelope. Oct. 19 - Nov. 1 - Early voting period from 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. at 22 early voting sites across Broward County. Bring your identification with photo and signature. You can vote at any early voting site. Oct. 24 - Last day to request that a Vote-By-Mail ballot be mailed to you. But, do not return it to the SOE by mail. Return it to an early voting site, as it is too late to safely mail the ballot. VBM ballots must be received, not postmarked, at the Supervisor of Elections offices by 7 p.m. on Nov. 3. Request Vote By Mail ballot here.
Virtual School Dangers The Hazards of a Police State Education During COVID-19 By John Whitehead - Rutherford Inst
Apart from the technological logistics of ensuring that millions of students across the country have adequate computer and internet access, consider the Fourth Amendment ramifications of having students attend school online via video classes from the privacy of their homes. Over the course of the past 30 years, the need to keep the schools “safe” from drugs and weapons has become a thinly disguised, profit-driven campaign to transform them into quasi-prisons, complete with surveillance cameras, metal detectors, police patrols, zero tolerance policies, lock downs, drug sniffing dogs, school resource officers, strip searches and active shooter drills. Suddenly, under school zero
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tolerance policies, students were being punished with suspension, expulsion and even arrest for childish behavior and minor transgressions such as playing cops and robbers on the playground, bringing LEGOs to school, or having a food fight. Things got even worse once schools started to rely on police to “deal with minor rule breaking.” As a result, students are being subjected to police tactics such as handcuffs, leg shackles, tasers and excessive force for “acting up,” in addition to being ticketed, fined and sent to court for behavior perceived as defiant, disruptive or disorderly such as spraying perfume and writing on a desk. This is what constitutes a police state education these days: lessons in compliance meted out with aggressive, totalitarian tactics.
The COVID-19 pandemic has added yet another troubling layer to the ways in which students (and their families) can run afoul of a police state education now that school (virtual or in-person) is back in session. Apart from the technological logistics of ensuring that millions of students across the country have adequate computer and internet access, consider the Fourth Amendment ramifications of having students attend school online via video classes from the privacy of their homes. Suddenly, you’ve got government officials (in this case, teachers or anyone at the school on the other end of that virtual connection) being allowed carte blanche visual access to the inside of one’s private home without a warrant. Anything those school officials see—anything, they hear—any-
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