• President Donald Trump late Tuesday threatened to torpedo Congress’ massive COVID-19 relief package in the midst of a raging pandemic and deep economic uncertainty, suddenly demanding changes fellow Republicans have opposed. 90.7’s economic analyst Hank Fishkind says the consequences of a veto would be severe.
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• The most wonderful time of the year is a struggle for many business owners as they adapt to the holiday shopping season during the pandemic. Many are hoping online sales will carry them through this month.
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• By rights, Joe Biden won a decisive victory. Yet Tuesday night felt like a disappointment. In part, it was the order in which votes were counted and the uncertainty it produced. In part, it owed to polls foretelling a blue wave that never materialized. Trump’s team simply outhustled the Democrats in the exurbs and rural towns. Biden overwhelmingly won minority votes, but Trump did better than last time with Hispanic and Black voters. The returns made it clear that Democrats have a messaging problem with working-class voters who are buying into Trump’s promises of economic prosperity. Whether he delivers or not, that individual anxiety beat out principled outrage over 230,000 dead from COVID, children in cages, and brazen financial corruption. …
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• The University of Central Florida is encouraging students to “armor up” against coronavirus and they’ve hired a team of student ambassadors to help.
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• The virus might eventually behave more like the common cold, according to Vineet Menachery, a coronavirus researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch.
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• For millions of struggling Americans, the bottom’s about to fall out of the economy, and their elected reps don’t seem to care. The clock is running out on the added unemployment assistance that allowed workers to stay home and helped COVID cases decline. Republicans say the benefit creates an incentive for workers to stay home, which isn’t entirely wrong: Two-thirds of laid-off workers get more money from unemployment than they did from their employers, and they don’t have to risk their lives to get it. But that says more about wages and working conditions than it does about the diligence of the jobless, something that seems not to have occurred to the well-heeled suits in Capitol cloakrooms. Last week, Senate …
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