A number of offices and individuals have turned to video conferencing platforms in this age of stay-at-home orders. Even if you can't be there in person, these platforms allow you to be there virtually -- a face and a voice on a screen in real time.
The actions governments and private businesses have taken in reponse to the coronavirus has served at least some good. They have exposed rules and regulations
we could easily live without. Included on that list: the bans against plastic grocery bags.
Just in case we all forgot, there's still a contest for the Democratic presidential nomination underway between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.
Even in the best of times, government bureaucracies are cumbersome and indifferent. Now that they are required to respond to rapidly changing circumstances, when the rules and red tape should be simplified and cut to meet pressing needs?
The $2 trillion stimulus bill is now law. And is so often the case with enormous pieces of legislation cobbled together in response to a crisis, we're going to spend a lot of time figuring out exactly what's inside.
