PANDEMIC

THE BUZZ! An American Airlines passenger is ordered to pay $40,000 to the airline for disrupting and diverting a flight Next, Another thing that changed after the pandemic, air rage incidents spiked. In 2021, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) documented approximately 6,000 rowdy passenger events, compared to approximately 1,100 in 2019. The FAA recorded 1,820 […]

THE BUZZ! ACT test scores drop to their lowest in 30 years in dramatic pandemic slide High school students are asked to take tests such as the SAT’s and or the ACT’s to gain admission to colleges and universities. But this year’s high school class is not performing as well. There is a significant drop […]

THE BUZZ! U.S. Attorney Announces Federal Charges Against 47 Defendants in $250 Million Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme Yesterday the Department of Justice announced it uncovered the biggest pandemic fraud scheme to date. They charged 47 individuals with stealing $250 million from the Federal Child Nutrition Program. The indictments involve six groups, all connected to the […]

A New Billionaire Was Created Every 30 Hours During The Pandemic: Oxfam Ok so there is a new report published by an anti-poverty organization called Oxfam .  The report shows that since this pandemic started around March of 2020 to March of 2022 there have been 573 new additions to the Billionaire list.  That breaks […]

MD COVID: $1M Prize Left In Booster Shot Lottery You still have a chance to win $1 million courtesy of the state of Maryland but you only have until today to be in consideration. I’m talking about  VaxCash 2.0, the last million dollar prize offered by the state for those Maryland residents who have received […]

Hope Chicago Partners With Five Chicago Public Schools To Send About 4,000 To College Tuition-Free There are some really amazing programs and initiatives out here that are really making a difference in the lives of kids in many communities. Hope Chicago is one of those organizations that is doing something that matters. How about creating […]

2 LAPD Officers Fired for Ignoring Call for Backup Because They Were Playing ‘Pokémon Go’ Now I’ve heard some funny stories how some people lost their job the top might be from Friday when Craig got fired on his day off but this might be just as silly. As two LAPD officers were relieved of […]

It looks like we are back in another state of emergency after Governor Larry Hogan made the announcement earlier today along with two executive orders. The Governor stated “Right now, we are experiencing the winter surge that we anticipated together with the convergence of the delta variant, the flu season and the omicron variant — […]

First Powerball drawing of 2022 produces $2 million winner in Baltimore City The New Year is officially on its way and for some so far so good. Especially for one Baltimore City resident who is now a newly mad millionaire after buying a winning powerball ticket that totaled 2,000,008 at Sam’s Lobby Shop located at […]

NYC to get its first female police commissioner to lead the nation’s largest police force So the nation’s largest Police Force just hired their new leader and there are two facts about them that you probably wouldn’t believe until it was made official. And that is the fact that the New York’s new police Commissioner […]