ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state lawmakers repealed a decades-old law Tuesday that has kept law enforcement officers’ disciplinary records secret, spurred by the national uproar over the death of George Floyd.

The measure to make officers’ records and misconduct complaints public is among several police accountability bills racing through the state legislature. Lawmakers passed other bills that would provide all state troopers with body cameras and ensure that police officers provide medical and mental health attention to people in custody.

Many of those bills were first proposed years ago, but got new momentum after huge protests nationwide condemned police brutality.  

After three months of near total blackout of cinemas nationwide, movie theaters are preparing to reopen — even if it means only a few titles on the marquee and showings limited to as little as 25% capacity. The larger issue may be whether moviegoers feel safe to return to theaters amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

AMC Theaters, the world's largest theater operator, said Tuesday that it expects to have 97-98% of its theaters worldwide reopened by mid-July. The National Association of Theater Owners, the trade group that represents exhibitors, expects some 90-95% of cinemas around the world will be opened by mid-July.  

And you can expect to see one major change.

See, now that dine-in restaurants are starting to reopen, it's going to be a different experience as you'll most likely have to wait longer for a table that is six feet apart from other tables, and everyone will be wearing masks. At truck stop restaurants though, you're most likely going to have fewer menu options.

The reopening of schools around the world following the coronavirus crisis has been the subject of much debate. In England, for instance, some pupils returned to the classroom last week, but many parents opted not to send their children back over safety concerns.

In fact, more than two-fifths of primary schools — the U.K. equivalent of kindergarten and elementary school — did not open for reception, year 1, and year 6 classes on June 1, as recommended by the U.K. government. This was according to a poll of 10,953 U.K. schools by the National Education Union published last week.

The U.K. government is now expected to drop plans to send all primary school children back before the summer holiday, according to reports.

Indeed, research has suggested that certain conditions must be met in order for schools to reopen without causing a second wave of coronavirus cases.  When you recycle an old mobile phone, there’s a growing chance that the precious metals inside could be turned into jewelry. Pandora, the world’s largest jewelry brand by volume, is moving completely away from newly mined silver and gold in its products—and to reach a goal of 100% recycled silver and gold by 2025, one of the sources it turns to will be old electronics.  The McKinney Chamber of Commerce, Leadership McKinney Alumni Network and the City of McKinney are seeking residents in the city who want to get more involved.  There are currently 20 boards and commissions in the city, ranging from the Historic Preservation Advisory Board to the Planning & Zoning Commission. Other groups include the McKinney Arts Commission, the McKinney Housing Authority, the Board of Adjustment, the Parks & Recreation Advisory Board.  Two-thirds of Americans are receiving more money from unemployment benefits than they did from their jobs, largely because of a supplemental $600 weekly benefit that’s part of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act.  The weekly supplemental $600 benefit is set to expire at the end of July if the U.S. Senate and President Donald Trump don’t pass the $3 trillion HEROES Act stimulus package, which would extend the $600 weekly add-on unemployment benefit into January 2021.

The right to vote is a state issue. States were free to exclude anyone they wanted to from voting and they did. It was not until after the Civil War that the federal government stepped in to force states to guarantee voting rights regardless of race, color, or sex — and eventually the right of eighteen-year-olds to vote — by amending the Constitution.

There are no such guarantees in the U.S. Constitution for persons convicted of crimes. In fact, prior to the 1974 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Richardson v. Ramierz, the courts had not determined the constitutionality of states restricting voting rights. The Richardson court held that the Fourteenth Amendment allowed states to restrict voting rights to persons for "participation in rebellion, or other crime."

Whether a person with a felony conviction is permanently barred from voting is determined on a state-by-state basis. Restoring the voting rights of felons has had an uneven history. Over the years, states have loosened the restrictions only to reinstate them later.

Almost all states prohibit felons from voting, but most reinstate the voting privileges at some point. States vary in how they handle restoring a felon's voting rights and typically fall into three categories:

Never lose the right to vote: There are two states (Maine and Vermont) where felons never lose their voting rights. They are able to vote even from a prison cell.

Kudlow made reference to the surprise May jobs report being due to around three million temporary unemployed returning to work, and looked ahead to a potential situation if President Trump did not win re-election in November.

“If he doesn’t win re-election, and Joe Biden wins, while continuing his path to the left… Given the policies he has discussed, the stock market will be slammed and the economic recovery post-pandemic will not pan out.

“I think you will have a very clear contrast between growth policies from President Trump and, frankly, recessionary policies from Vice-President Biden.”

Fox News does not hide its right-bearing political viewpoint and is one of the few media organisations that is in Donald Trump’s good books.  One of the reasons why Republicans are opposed to a second round of stimulus payments is that they consider them to be too broad-based and poorly targeted. The May unemployment report has strengthened their resolve to focus on more targeted legislation. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told President Trump last week that the next relief bill must be “narrowly focused.”

These free TV Apps let you watch your favorite shows - without the bill.  As cable subscription prices rise higher and higher and customer satisfaction ratings dive lower and lower, cutting the cable has never been more popular.

Sure, there are the usual big names in streaming services available for a monthly fee, but it’s possible to kick subscription fees entirely.

Luckily, there are more options than ever for replacing your traditional cable setup. Many free streaming services have stepped up to offer access to content overlooked by subscription-based services.

And you aren’t confined to squinting at your phone’s screen or gathering the family around the old iPad to watch your favorite TV series and movies — you can download apps to your Smart TV or even gaming consoles like XBox One and PS4.

Of course, there are some rather shady options out there that stream pirated content. But there are plenty of free, legal streaming apps that provide no-strings-attached cable cutting solutions.

Like an amplifier with its signal, music doesn’t invent emotion; it takes what is there and makes it louder. One might worry that boosting an emotion might at points be risky. After all, not everything we feel is necessarily worthy of encouragement. It is possible to use music to magnify feelings of hatred or to inflate violent impulses – and the culture ministries of fascist dictatorships have been fatally skilled at doing just this. But almost always, we face a very different issue around music: we’re not building up our courage to lay waste to civilisation. We want to strengthen our capacities for calm, forgiveness, love and appreciation.

In our relationship to music we’re seeking the right soundtrack for our lives. A soundtrack in a film helps accord the due emotional resonance to a specific scene. It helps us register the actual pathos of a situation that might be missed if we relied on words and images alone; it helps us fully recognise the identity of a moment.

Exactly the same is true in our lives: we’re constantly faced with situations where something significant is going on; at the back of our minds the helpful emotional reaction is there – but it’s subdued and drowned out by the ambient noise of existence. Music is the opposite of noise: the cure for noise. By finding the right piece of music at the right time we’re adding an accompanying score that highlights the emotions we should be feeling more strongly – and allows our own best reactions to be more prominent and secure. We end up feeling the emotions that are our due. We live according to what we are actually feeling.

Like an amplifier with its signal, music doesn’t invent emotion; it takes what is there and makes it louder. One might worry that boosting an emotion might at points be risky. After all, not everything we feel is necessarily worthy of encouragement. It is possible to use music to magnify feelings of hatred or to inflate violent impulses – and the culture ministries of fascist dictatorships have been fatally skilled at doing just this. But almost always, we face a very different issue around music: we’re not building up our courage to lay waste to civilisation. We want to strengthen our capacities for calm, forgiveness, love and appreciation.

In our relationship to music we’re seeking the right soundtrack for our lives. A soundtrack in a film helps accord the due emotional resonance to a specific scene. It helps us register the actual pathos of a situation that might be missed if we relied on words and images alone; it helps us fully recognise the identity of a moment.

Exactly the same is true in our lives: we’re constantly faced with situations where something significant is going on; at the back of our minds the helpful emotional reaction is there – but it’s subdued and drowned out by the ambient noise of existence. Music is the opposite of noise: the cure for noise. By finding the right piece of music at the right time we’re adding an accompanying score that highlights the emotions we should be feeling more strongly – and allows our own best reactions to be more prominent and secure. We end up feeling the emotions that are our due. We live according to what we are actually feeling.

Update: Walmart has extended its weekly senior hour until the end of May. It also has reserved a special pickup time for online orders for seniors and those most vulnerable from COVID-19.  Walmart is trimming its hours for the second time in a week due to the coronavirus.  

Follow These Steps to Make An Easy Jump into Budgeting for Beginners.  Step 1: Set a Financial Goal;  Step 2: Log Your Income, Expenses and Savings; Step 3: Adjust Your Expenses to Match Your Income; Step 4: Choose a Budgeting Method; Step 5: Follow Through.