Now that's transparency

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/minneapolis-city-council-takes-step-toward-eliminating-police-spokesperson-role

“We need to safeguard and rebuild public trust. And right now, shifting these operations to the city rather than the MPD is one thing we can do to restore trust and save costs in the process," Schroeder said.

The legislation, which passed unanimously in the committee and is expected to pass the full council on Friday, would cut the department's funding for a public information officer, a role currently held by John Elder. All formal communications from the department to the press and the public in the future would likely be routed through the council.

According to a report from Fox 9, the decision concerned some members of the press who felt the city does not do enough to protect reporters' access to information. The public information officer is the main point of contact for reporters covering crime. Councilman Steve Fletcher said reporters do not always need immediate access to information.

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/coronavirus/software-flaw-led-to-dozens-of-false-positive-covid-19-tests-kentucky-medical-group-says

A software flaw is being blamed for showing a positive COVID-19 test result incorrectly for more than two dozen tests.

University of Kentucky laboratory scientists say they were inspecting and reviewing raw data from a testing platform when they became concerned about discrepancies in the data. They believe the testing platform, Thermo Fisher, which was authorized for emergency use by the FDA, had a software flaw that might result in false positives.

After re-testing the samples using another platform, scientists confirmed that the tests initially reported as positive for COVID-19 were negative. The flaw was only found in one of the four testing platforms that UK's clinical laboratory uses.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/aoc-introduces-amendment-to-defund-trump-opportunity-zones

Liberal congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib filed an amendment to a House spending package on Wednesday that would defund the "opportunity zone" program created by President Trump's 2017 tax law.

The amendment, if made into law, would prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from using any funds in a large House spending bill, which is currently under consideration, to administer or enforce the opportunity zone program, a tax break created by the 2017 tax bill meant to revitalize poor communities through private investments.

https://cis.org/Bensman/Trump-Point-Covidinfected-Are-Fleeing-Mexicofor-US-Hospitals

Last month, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey uttered forbidden words that drew such hot-stove backlash that neither he nor any other border state governor has dared repeat them.

Mexican Covid patients with dual U.S. citizenship, Ducey told President Trump's coronavirus task force during a June 22 governor's conference call, were driving Arizona's spiking numbers by crossing the border and "seeking the superior healthcare of our system in our border counties."

The punditocracy came for Ducey, their xenophobia and racism daggers unsheathed. The governor's "vile comments," wrote State Sen. Martin Quezada (D-Glendale) in The Tucson Sentinel, "directly endanger the lives of people like me and people who look like me." The Arizona Republic's Elvia Diaz scoffed in a June 23 column that Ducy's "blame the Mexicans routine" was intended to distract from the one true cause of the state's Covid case escalation: his relaxation of lockdown and Memorial Day restrictions. "Blaming the Mexicans, Mexico or even Americans with dual citizenship in Mexico for the Covid-19 uptick," she wrote, "is laughable at best."

Gov. Ducey shut up. But not Trump. On Wednesday, the president blamed an influx from Mexico, among other causes, for the current outbreak spread. Good, because the cumulative evidence is all on their side, according to a content analysis of Mexican and U.S. media reporting, public statements of officials, and hospitalization data. Collectively, it shows that a significant but unknown percentage of severely ill dual Mexican-American citizens, legal permanent residents, Mexican visa-holders of various sorts infected inside Mexico, and yes, illegal immigrants, in May began flooding over the California border to escape besieged Baja State hospitals. The Covid refugee flow continued into Arizona border hospitals as the Mexico contagion swept eastward through Sonora, Coahuila, and then to Texas as Tamaulipas hospitals broke down in June and into July. Before this southern wave washed northward, Trump administration officials privately fretted and planned for it. But, when their communications leaked, Latino advocacy groups roundly pilloried them as xenophobic.