by WorldTribune Staff, May 12, 2020 As coronavirus curves are flattened, business owners are defying extended lockdown orders, contending the greater risk to the public are authoritarian power grabs by Democratic governors. In Colorado, a restaurant in Castle Rock which opened to a huge Mother’s Day crowd on Sunday was shut down for at least […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 12, 2020 Day by day, more and more in Michigan are defying what they see as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s draconian coronavirus lockdown order. The barber of Owosso is still in business. The mayor of Perry is reopening city hall and is encouraging businesses in the city to do the same. A […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, May 12, 2020 Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s policy of forcing New York’s nursing homes to take in patients infected with the coronavirus added more than 1,700 deaths to the count of those who died in the facilities, The Associated Press reported. The nursing homes disaster in New York “is on you, Gov. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 11, 2020 Baltimore police on Friday launched what the city’s police commissioner described as an aerial surveillance “experiment” which records the movements of everyone in the city during the day. The privately funded surveillance plane, known as the Aerial Investigation Research (AIR) Pilot Program, is operated by an Ohio-based company and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 10, 2020 Officials in Michigan deployed state police to shut down a barbershop after its owner had reopened for business on May 4 in defiance of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s coronavirus lockdown order. Michigan State Police paid a visit to Karl Manke’s barbershop in Owosso and served paperwork from the Attorney General’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 10, 2020 While most other states are in various phases of reopening amid the coronavirus crisis, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has essentially banned the reopening of schools, barbershops, salons, gyms, bars and restaurants and other “non-essential” businesses until there is either a vaccine, herd immunity, or an “effectively and widely available […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 8, 2020 Sen. Rand Paul, the only member of Congress’s upper chamber known to have contracted COVID-19, returned to Capitol Hill on Monday without the piece of equipment that has become a symbol of the pandemic — the face mask. “I have immunity. I’ve already had the virus, so I can’t […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 8, 2020 A U.S. District judge ordered the reopening of gun stores in Massachusetts effective at noon on Saturday, May 9. Judge Douglas P. Woodlock ruled on Thursday that Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s order closing gun stores as “non-essential” business infringed on Second Amendment rights. The ruling came in a Second […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 7, 2020 Most of New York’s new coronavirus hospitalizations are people who have been sheltering at home, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on May 6. The news is the latest blow to the models and the health “experts” that have guided the nation’s economy into freefall. Calling the data “shocking,” Cuomo said […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 7, 2020 In backing the pastor of a Virginia church who was threatened with jail time for violating the state’s coronavirus lockdown restrictions by holding a service with more than 10 people, the Department of Justice paved the way for more places of worship to sue governors who ban in-person services. […]
