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Author: Mary Chastain

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Mary Chastain

Mary is the resident libertarian. She covers stories in every vertical, but her favorite thing to do is take on the media. She saw its bias against the right when she was a socialist.

Mary loves the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Blackhawks, tennis, cats, Oxford comma, Diet Coke, and needlework.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced he ended the state's mask mandate with an executive order and opened businesses to 100% capacity. Leftists began their freakout even though private businesses can keep their mask requirements. I'm sure local governments will hold their own as well.

On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas reiterated that the U.S. doesn't have a border crisis. Press Secretary Jen Psaki doubled down on his claim. It looks the DHS will tell President Joe Biden the opposite. Officials expect 117,000 unaccompanied children at the border this year, but the administration will likely run out of resources by the end of March.

Matt Meyer, the president of Berkeley Federation of Teachers, has insisted for months the public schools have to remain closed until the district achieves the "gold standard." This includes vaccinating every educator against COVID-19. But parents in the Berkeley area have slammed Meyer after a video showed him dropping off his 2-year old daughter at preschool.