On May 15, city officials declared Atwater, California, a "sanctuary city." Not for undocumented immigrants, but for businesses and churches who choose to ignore Governor Gavin Newsom's COVID-19-related shutdown orders. The city won't be enforcing the governor's edicts. Those edicts, Mayor Paul Creighton told local businesses, are "between you and the state of California."

"I fear that many Americans will resist getting vaccinated against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus," Dr. Lauren S. Grossman writes at Stat. "To put this scourge behind us, I believe that our nation should, for the first time ever, require all Americans — or at least schoolchildren and workers in direct-contact jobs — to be vaccinated against this coronavirus."

DES MOINES, IOWA (May 13, 2020) — Today, Governor Kim Reynolds signed a new proclamation continuing the Public Health Disaster Emergency. The proclamation permits salons, barbershops, and massage and tattoo establishments to reopen throughout Iowa in a limited fashion with appropriate public-health measures in place. It also permits restaurants (but not bars), fitness centers, libraries, and race tracks to reopen in the 22 counties where they have remained closed.

On two days in May fifty years ago, American police and National Guard troops fired their weapons into crowds of anti-Vietnam War protesters, killing six American students at two American state universities. On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guard troops fatally wounded Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder at Kent State University.

FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA (May 12, 2020) — Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued Tuesday the following statement blasting Judge Emmet Sullivan’s decision to consider amicus filings in deciding whether to allow the Michael Flynn case to be dismissed:

One laudable side effect of the COVID-19 panic is a nationwide effort to promote "vote by mail" as a universal alternative to standing in line at polling places. One reason that effort is laudable is that it would likely decrease vote-fraud. Yes, I said "decrease." And Republicans were saying the same thing until recently.

DAVENPORT, IOWA (May 11, 2020) — The Davenport Public Library has tentatively scheduled the reopening of its Fairmount Branch (3000 N. Fairmount St) drive-up window for limited hours on Monday, May 18, 1–5PM. The window will be open Monday-Friday, 1–5PM, for hold pick-ups only.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (May 11, 2020)  Even though classrooms remain closed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, United Way, area superintendents, school districts, and cultural institutions are working together to make learning accessible to all students and families at home.

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