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2 cities pursued more school for kids. Only 1 pulled it off.

Facing massive pandemic learning loss, the superintendent in Richmond, Virginia, tried to remake one of the most untouchable aspects of school – the academic calendar

The Independent UK

Train operator Northern would have lost more than £600m without Government subsidy

The operator has said the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has not gone away

Liverpool Echo

Geiko, maiko carry on performing in Kyoto

KYOTO -- Kyoto's geisha districts are at last showing signs of recovery after being hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

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Meet Elon Musk's favorite new doctor

The right's new darling is a Stanford doctor who is mistrustful of mRNA vaccines and lockdowns

Salon

Gloucestershire goat butcher crowdfunds £250k to carve out new markets post-Covid

The owners of Carbrito said pandemic lockdown measures had all but made their business obsolete

Birmingham Post

John N Dunn Group eyes return to profit after heavy impact of the pandemic

Newly published accounts for the Tyneside building contractor talk of a "big improvement" in its trading

Birmingham Post

Editorial: State that limits housing can’t figure out homeless problem

California politicians have given the green light to so many boondoggles, they’re difficult to catalog. A $100 billion train that probably will never be completed, a $3,000 municipal garbage can in San Francisco, pandemic unemployment fraud to the tune of $30 billion … it goes on and on.

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Inflation dampens otherwise bright small biz holiday season

In some ways, the bustling holiday shopping season feels like a return to pre-pandemic days: More people are out and about, shopping in groups and buying for themselves as well as gifts

The Independent UK

Changing Lives FC: Inside the initiative transforming lives of UK's migrants and refugees

An initiative set up by Changing Lives FC chief David Simmons has helped support over 3000 vulnerable people - including a football team made up of migrants and refugees

Daily Mirror

Top ATAR achieved by distance education student as Queensland's class of 2022 receives final results

Kate Sanderson switched to a distance education school when the pandemic hit and is now one of 33 Queensland students who've received the highest possible ATAR.

ABC News

Ten things we learned from sport in 2022

The biggest impact on the calendar was brought about by the need to stage the World Cup in winter.

The Independent UK

Tax dodging during pandemic cost HMRC £9bn, watchdog says

Fewer probes were conducted into people and businesses not paying the right tax as thousands of compliance staff were redeployed, the NAO found.

The Independent UK

'Nurses who served during pandemic should not have been forced into strike action'

Nurses were forced into this position because the Health Secretary Steve Barclay chose the path of confrontation over negotiation

Daily Mirror

The pandemic entered a new phase in 2022, but vaccines were still the major magnet for misinformation

A federal election and a pandemic groaning into its third year saw misinformation continue to spread apace in 2022. But one topic was particularly bad.

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China’s November Urban Jobless Rate Jumps to 5.7%

Covid outbreaks in major cities drive unemployment to highest levels since May, and end of pandemic controls may further stress job market

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Will immigration surge as asylum rule ends?

Ever since the pandemic began the U.S. has been using a public health rule intended to limit the spread of disease to expel migrants seeking asylum

Evening Standard

Early stage cancer diagnoses fell to nine-year low during pandemic

Experts warn diagnosis delays could lead to further fatalities

Evening Standard

Alfresco dining scheme trialed in Pimlico during pandemic could be made permanent

Consultation is open to the public for eight weeks

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

The best pop music albums of 2022

If 2022 was a year of at least trying to return to normalcy, part of that process for music makers was putting all they had to say out there, releasing the pent up accumulation of ideas accrued over two years of pandemic living.

The Independent UK

CES 2023: Tech world to gather and show off gadgets

CES is returning to Las Vegas this January with the hope that it inches closer to how it looked before the pandemic

The Conversation

Number of Welsh speakers has declined – pandemic disruption to education may be a cause

The recent 2022 census held unexpected news for Wales. It found the number of Welsh speakers in the country had decreased by 1.2% since the previous 2011 census, from 19% to 17.8%.

Los Angeles Times

Pandemic eviction protections, direct payments kept homelessness in check, study shows

LOS ANGELES — Eviction moratoriums and cash income from extended unemployment insurance and stimulus payments helped thousands of economically vulnerable people in Los Angeles County avoid becoming homeless during the pandemic, a new study has found.

Daily Mirror

Wetherspoons worker gets married in a Spoons boozer after two-year wait due to Covid

Emily Roche tied the knot to husband Liam in one of the budget pub chain's boozers, after waiting for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic

The New Daily

As China eases COVID rules shoppers look for canned peaches to help

Chinese shoppers are scrambling to get their hands on canned peaches, as the government scales back a number of its COVID-19 restrictions.

Fortune

COVID, burnout, and drug shortages: Children and parents are paying the price for the medical system’s dysfunction

The perfect storm came for kids this winter: fewer pediatric units, a shortage in pediatric formulations of drugs, and fewer pediatricians.

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