Contact Tracing in the Workplace


Brian Skinner Contact tracing, COVID-19

  By Brian Skinner, Esq. We are all now acutely aware that COVID-19 is a highly contagious and potentially fatal virus that disproportionately impacts persons, and particularly older adults, with preexisting conditions and weakened immune systems. As businesses begin to reopen, both employers and their employees have concerns about the potential risks involved in returning …Read More

WV DHHR Announces Medical Cannabis Grower Permit Approvals


Brian Skinner Medical Cannabis

October 2, 2020 The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Bureau for Public Health, Office of Medical Cannabis (OMC) today announced the successful applicants for medical cannabis grower permits.   These permit holders will cultivate medical cannabis plants before sending them for processing into allowable forms for patient use.  The allowable forms for …Read More

One-Year Federal Transportation Funding Measure Approved


Brian Skinner Government & Policy, Transportation

  Route Fifty — By Andrea Noble — October 1, 2020 President Trump signed a continuing resolution Thursday that will avoid a government shutdown through December and provide a one-year extension of federal transportation funding. The extension of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act adds $13.6 billion to the Highway Trust Fund. The approval allows the …Read More

New Virus Relief Proposal Includes Less Aid for States and Localities


Brian Skinner COVID-19, Local Government, State Fiscal & Economic Policy

  Route Fifty — By Bill Lucia — September 29, 2020  State and local governments would see a combined $417 billion in direct federal aid under an updated coronavirus relief proposal that House Democrats revealed on Monday, a sum that is well short of the amount included in an earlier version of the plan, but that also …Read More

Ohio lawsuit: Regulators ‘punting’ on medical marijuana program expansion


Brian Skinner Medical Cannabis

Marijuana Business Daily – September 28, 2020 An Ohio medical marijuana grower filed a lawsuit against state regulators alleging that government overseers have been hamstringing the MMJ program’s growth, despite clear demand for more business services.According to Law360com, Fire Rock sued the state Department of Commerce over its failure to either grant or deny an application filed …Read More

Health on Wheels: Tricked-Out RVs Deliver Addiction Treatment to Rural Communities


Brian Skinner Opioid Drug Crisis, Rural America

Route Fifty – – By Markian Hawryluk – – September 28, 2020   STERLING, Colo. — Tonja Jimenez is far from the only person driving an RV down Colorado’s rural highways. But unlike the other rigs, her 34-foot-long motor home is equipped as an addiction treatment clinic on wheels, bringing lifesaving treatment to the northeastern corner of the state, …Read More