Grammys postpone ceremony, citing omicron
variant risks
Posted By: voxpopuli, 1/5/2022 9:40:20 PM
The Grammy Awards were postponed Wednesday weeks before the planned Los Angeles ceremony over what organizers called “too many risks” from the omicron variant, signaling what could be the start of another year of pandemic upheaval for awards season. (snip) The move was announced around the same time the Sundance Film Festival canceled its in-person programming set to begin on Jan. 20 and shifted to an online format.
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Five out of the seven Hennepin County commissioners are calling for Hennepin County Sheriff David Hutchinson to resign, and a sixth says it's up to the voters to decide his future.
Commissioner Chris LaTondresse released a statement Thursday afternoon saying Hutchinson's decision to drink and drive "violated the laws he took an oath to upload and enforce." (snip) At 8:18 p.m. Thursday, District 7 Commissioner Kevin Anderson wrote that he hoped Hutchinson would make decisions "in the best interest of the people of Hennepin County" and those he leads, saying that voters will make the ultimate decision on Hutchinson's future.
The Grammy Awards were postponed Wednesday weeks before the planned Los Angeles ceremony over what organizers called “too many risks” from the omicron variant, signaling what could be the start of another year of pandemic upheaval for awards season. (snip) The move was announced around the same time the Sundance Film Festival canceled its in-person programming set to begin on Jan. 20 and shifted to an online format.
A customer who tried to intervene with a shoplifter at a St. Paul liquor store was shot and killed with his own gun during a struggle with the suspect last week, a criminal complaint filed on Monday details. (snip) With the gun on the ground. Edwards was able to pick it up and shoot Davis twice, the charges state.
Sam Kunjummen expected the process to bring his wife's parents from India to their home in Apple Valley was going to be fairly straightforward.
The IR-5 visa they are seeking, reserved for the parents of U.S. citizens, is supposed to be one of the easiest to get. (snip) The spokesperson added that U.S. embassies and consulates have prioritized services to U.S. citizens overseas during the pandemic but that they are working to resume routine visa services on a location-by-location basis.
As Minnesotans celebrate the new year, some new laws are also set to take effect.
Below are some of the state's new laws, effective Jan. 1, 2022.
A person's driver's license can't be suspended based solely on their failure to pay traffic tickets, parking fines or surcharges following a conviction for vehicle operation or parking citation. The Department of Public Safety also can't suspend a driver's license for failure to appear in court on a petty misdemeanor.
A Brooklyn Park man was charged Thursday after a hit-and-run crash over the weekend that critically injured a pedestrian, court records show.
Phonsavanh Vongphouthone, 35, is charged with felony criminal vehicular operation with greater bodily harm in regard to a crash in Crystal Saturday evening.
According to a criminal complaint, police responded to Crystal Airport Road and County Road 81 on a report of a man hit by a vehicle and lying in the street.
Chris Noth will no longer be part of the CBS series “The Equalizer” in the wake of sexual assault allegations against the actor.
Universal Television and CBS made a joint announcement Monday that Noth would no longer be part of filming “effective immediately.” (snip) Series stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis issued a joint statement Monday on social media saying they were saddened by the allegations against Noth but supported his accusers.
Gov. Tim Walz has tested positive for COVID-19, his office announced Tuesday.
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A driver for the grocery delivery service Instacart allegedly smashed an elderly couple’s groceries and left a nasty note on their receipt because of their yard sign supporting the local police department.
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Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) officials announced Northeast Middle School would move to distance learning Wednesday.
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Thursday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is set to introduce members of a community safety workgroup.
According to Frey's office, the workgroup will focus on gathering community input and reflecting community safety priorities across the city's neighborhoods.
Attorney and activist Nekima Levy Armstrong and the Rev. DeWayne Davis will co-chair the workgroup. A list of other members of the workgroup can be viewed here.
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Her ongoing campaign to convince everyone who will listen that Republicans are the epitome of evil in the United States, MSNBC host Joy Reid on Wednesday accused the GOP of hating President Joe Biden because he was the Vice President under “the Black president.”Her guests, veritable yes-men former advisor to President Bush Matthew Dowd and former Sen. Claire McCaskill, had no issues with her assertion. Dowd himself even argued that if Republicans take back control of Congress during the 2022 midterms, democracy has “failed.”
Bette Midler is the latest left-wing figure to equate last year’s January 6 Capitol riot to the September 11 terrorist attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people — claiming both events left her in similar states of shock.The Hollywood star, who recently had to apologize for smearing West Virginians as “poor, illiterate, and strung out,” commemorated the January 6 riot in a series of social media posts Wednesday. She called it “one of the most traumatic days in American history” and blamed former President Donald Trump and Fox News.
Vice President Kamala Harris kicked off the Biden administration’s remarks on the first anniversary of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot by comparing it to the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.“Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault. Dates that occupy not only a place in our calendars, but a place in our collective memory. December 7th, 1941. September 11, 2001. And January 6th, 2021.”
Arthur Caplan, who is the director of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, told CNN on Wednesday more things need to be done to punish Americans who are not vaccinated for COVID-19.A clearly perturbed anchor John Berman asked Caplan, "Why should anyone who is boosted bother at this point to do anything that makes the unvaccinated more safe?""Well, look, I want us to act as a community. I want us to act as a team. When you’re fighting a war, you need all hands on deck. I don’t want to reject those who still haven’t done the right thing. I’ll condemn them. I’ll shame them.
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GOP Rep. Liz Cheney and her father, former vice president Dick, were the only two Republicans standing in the House chamber when Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a moment of silence on the first anniversary of January 6. Pelosi announced the moment of silence as one of a series of events to mark the anniversary days in advance, and had asked lawmakers to tell her office if they planned to attend.But when it came time for the moment at noon Thursday, Cheney, a member of the select House committee probing January 6, didn't have much company on her side of the aisle.
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Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers has become persona non grata to progressives. Which is, truthfully, a remarkably easy feat. He started irritating them around a year ago when he criticized politicians who didn’t obey their own COVID-19 mandates. More recently he deplored the “woke mob” and “cancel culture.”
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The debate is over. After a year spent investigating claims of election fraud, the media has determined that any fraud in the 2020 election was too insignificant to have changed the outcome and Joe Biden legitimately won. Now we can get back to our normal lives, or whatever passes for normal now…except that’s fiction. (snip) Coup d’états differ from revolutions in that they’re generally orchestrated by or include people within government who seize power (snip) After two months of being caricatured and called conspiracy nuts or white nationalists, almost a million frustrated Trump voters went to Washington on January 6th to demand Congress investigate the election
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anything to do with the fact that NOBODY would be watching?