(FREE) PAINE IN THE MORNING: 12 things you need to know this Wednesday – October 20, 2021

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Protesters Stage Walkouts Across California In Defiance Of School Vaccine Mandates – On Monday, faculty and students at schools across the state of California staged walkouts in defiance of vaccine and testing requirements set to take effect this week. – READ MORE

Washington State’s Nick Rolovich out as head coach after failing to meet COVID vaccine mandate – Washington State football’s Nick Rolovich and four assistants are out of the program after failing to meet a mandate that required state educational employees to receive the coronavirus vaccine by Oct. 18, the school said.

Rolovich, Ricky Logo, John Richardson, Craig Stuzmann and Mark Weber were not in compliance with Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s proclamation on state employees getting the vaccine, and the sides began the “separation process” based on the terms of their contracts. – READ MORE

Report: Ace Hardware Shelves Go Bare While Supply Chain Crisis Rages – Ace Hardware is reportedly finding it difficult to keep shelves full due to the supply chain crisis threatening grocers, emergency medical services, and holiday shoppers.

Operations manager John Ketels told thechroniclesonline.com his store in St. Helens, Washington, is having difficulty stocking items due to lack of warehouse inventory. – READ MORE

Procter & Gamble Raising Prices on Consumer Staples as Shortages and Bidenflation Bite –Procter & Gamble is raising prices on consumer staples and hiking its estimate of cost inflation.

The consumer products giant—which makes Tide detergent, Bounty paper towels, Gillette razors, and Crest toothpaste—says it is paying more for raw materials and transportation than it expected and sees no easing of inflationary pressures. – READ MORE

Minnesota Hospital Shuts Down ER And Urgent Care Amid Nurse Strike – A hospital in Minnesota confirmed it temporarily shut down its emergency room and urgent care facility due to a nurse strike.

Allina Health, located in Plymouth, said in a statement that due to the strike, emergency and urgent care services at its WestHealth location were suspended from Sunday morning until Wednesday. – READ MORE

Chicago Begins Placing Police Officers On “No-Pay Leave” Status Amid Vaccine Showdown – The Hill is confirming that the Chicago Police Department has begun placing officers on unpaid leave on Monday night into Tuesday for not being in compliance with the department’s Covid mandate to disclose vaccination.

Perhaps wishing to avoid the kind of crime spree chaos sure to unfold by mass firings of officers (even more so than “typical” weekends that see high numbers of shootings), which the police union predicted will be as much as 50% of the force, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has so far indicated a “very small number” of officers have been placed on “no-pay status”. Likely the city’s strategy is to fire small groups of officers in piecemeal fashion in hopes of avoiding the kind of large-scale revolt that’s coming. – READ MORE

Midnight runs: Biden secretly flying underage migrants into NY in the dead of night –Planeloads of underage migrants are being flown secretly into suburban New York in an effort by President Biden’s administration to quietly resettle them across the region, The Post has learned.

The charter flights originate in Texas, where the ongoing border crisis has overwhelmed local immigration officials, and have been underway since at least August, according to sources familiar with the matter. – READ MORE

Biden Admin Dubs Transgender Individual Rachel Levine ‘First-Ever Female Four-Star Admiral’ Of USPHS Commissioned Corps – President Joe Biden’s administration named Rachel Levine, a top U.S. health official and transgender woman, the “first-ever female four-star admiral” of the U.S. Public Health Services (USPHS) Commissioned Corps on Monday.

Levine, 63, served as the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health before being nominated to be assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services in the Biden administration. Levine, who is biologically male, is the first openly transgender official confirmed by the U.S. Senate. – READ MORE

Washington Post Op-Ed: Don’t ‘Whine’ About Supply Chain Shortages, Empty Shelves – An opinion piece published in The Washington Post encourages Americans to not “rant” about the supply chain crisis and other economic troubles.

As dozens of cargo ships coming from Asia remain stranded off the coast of California, social media users have been posting images of empty store shelves and expressing frustration that they are unable to make formerly routine purchases. However, Micheline Maynard — an author and contributing columnist for The Washington Post — told readers to not complain about the phenomenon. – READ MORE

PHOTOS: 66 Cargo Ships Hover Near L.A., Long Beach Ports; UPDATE: 100 Ships – LOS ANGELES, California — Sixty-six cargo ships were at anchor off the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the busiest and second-busiest container ports in the United States, respectively, on Monday as an ongoing cargo crisis continued.

Update: The total number of ships anchored at the Port of Long Beach was reported Tuesday as 100, a new record. – READ MORE

They Insist Everything Will Be Fine As We Face Shortages Of Chicken, Coffee, Diapers, Fish Sticks, Frozen Meals, Carbonated Drinks… – Officials in Washington continue to assure us that we don’t have anything to be concerned about, but meanwhile the shelves just continue to get even emptier.

On Friday, #BareShelvesBiden was the number one trending topic on Twitter, and I am sure that the Biden administration must have been thrilled by that. Biden insists that he and his team are on top of things, but so far nothing that they have done has worked. In fact, this crisis just seems to keep getting worse and worse. And because we are facing such a “hydra of bottlenecks”, there aren’t going to be any easy solutions… – READ MORE