“We’re the mighty watchful eye, Guardians beyond the blue.”

Dr. Celine Gounder, an epidemiologist and senior fellow with the Kaiser Family Foundation, regarding President Biden’s claim that the pandemic is over. Many health experts agree that Biden’s announcement could complicate the administration’s efforts against COVID-19 and could disincentivize Americans from getting booster shots. (NPR — Sept. 20, 2022)

Utah Senate candidate Linda Paulson, in her District 12 Senate seat campaign video, in which she dances and raps about her political values. Paulson says she’s pro-religious freedom, life, police, right to bear arms, the right to free speech and says she believes in the traditional family unit. Paulson will run against state Senate minority leader, Karen Mayne. (KJZZ — Sept. 15, 2022)

Historian Joseph McGill, regarding the change in tour protocols for Virginia’s executive mansion to exclude visits to the Carriage House, where enslaved workers once slept and worked; some tours simply have not mentioned slavery at all. The change marks a shift away from Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s predecessor, Ralph Northam, who participated in a multiyear effort to tell a more complete history of the mansion. (VPM — Sept. 2, 2022)

Rebecca Vallas, of the Century Foundation, regarding how supplemental security income, commonly known as SSI, does not adjust for rising costs of living and maxes out at $841 a month, which often locks recipients into housing instability and deep poverty. (NPR — Sept. 15, 2022)