Nurse Practitioner. She/her. @NPAM4NPs. Health Care Policy Advocate. CA girl meets East Coast. Engaged Citizen. Mom and Grammie. #Vegan. #Rower. #Oystergardener
I did a bunch of stories on the gaping vacancy rates in state government over the past year.
As of October: 13.4% vacancy.
Almost all agencies affected.
Enormous task left behind by the outgoing governor
Glad Rep. @RashidaTlaib brought this up today. Y’all heard that right?
Alabama diverted $400m in Covid $ to fund the construction of three mega-prisons.
It’s unconscionable that when our state had the opportunity to invest in public health, they went with mass incarceration.
BREAKING: Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin unveils a new policy that will ban the teaching of Martin Luther King Jr. to elementary school students. RT TO EXPOSE GOVERNOR YOUNGKIN’S WHITEWASHING OF HISTORY!
@davidplouffe Right but he will have to gain the nomination first. #GOP is in disarray but they might be able to get it together enough to put forward a sane candidate. #DumpTrump#TrumpForPrison
Chairman @ossoff: "It's hard for me to think of anything worse, really, Dr. Smith, than the Federal government subjecting incarcerated women to needless gynecological surgery. It's one of the most appalling things this Subcommittee has seen in the last two years."