SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) - A planned package delivery warehouse has received approval by Santa Maria and will soon bring hundreds of new jobs to the growing city.

The Santa Maria Planning Commission recently voted 2-1 in favor of the project that is planned for a 32-acre site on West Stowell Road.

According to the City, the planned delivery warehouse will serve as the final step in the e-commerce fulfillment process, operating 24/7 to deliver goods to customers within 125 square miles adjacent to the location.

The developer of the project is Seefried Development Management, Inc., which has built similar warehouse facilities for Amazon.

However, the City of Santa Maria will not confirm at the current time if Amazon will operate the facility that will include 240,000 square feet of warehouse and industrial space.

"The city is under a non-disclosure agreement at the moment, which is very common in these types of projects," said Chenin Dow, Santa Maria Community Development Director. "We will announce that and look forward to doing that as soon as we can. With that said, from a land use perspective, it really doesn't matter who the company is in terms of what the decision that the Planning Commission is making. What they look at is, is this use appropriate with the context of what is nearby? Is it appropriate given the zoning? Is it appropriate given the traffic impacts and all of the things studying in the EIR (Environmental Impact Report) The end user will provide all of those inputs that affect all of those elements, regardless of the name of the company at the end of the day."

Based on the information provided by the developer, the City has estimated the warehouse will create approximately 800 jobs.

"500 of those are contract positions, where 300 are directly employed by the company, said Dow. "They've also indicated to us their company policy is that any employee of the project is able to access education funding, so they will pay for college. That goes beyond Alan Hancock (College) or a local college. They will cover UCSB for their members. They will cover Cal Poly, so huge opportunities associated with that workforce."

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By Christian Edwards, CNN

London (CNN) — Keir Starmer has thrown down the gauntlet to his potential rivals, defying calls to quit as Britain’s prime minister and instead challenging his would-be opponents to launch a formal challenge against his leadership of the Labour Party.

To trigger a leadership challenge, one fifth of Labour’s members of parliament (MPs) – that is, 81 lawmakers – must coalesce around a single candidate. Once one or more candidates amass that level of support, their names can be put on the ballot to run against Starmer, in a contest voted on by Labour Party members.

Despite nearly 100 lawmakers publicly urging Starmer, 63, to quit, no candidate has yet mounted a formal leadership challenge against him. There are thought to be just a handful of names capable of mustering the required 81 signatures.

Here’s a look at who they are.

Wes Streeting

There are two camps in the Labour Party at present: Those who say they want a “rapid” change in leadership mean they favor Wes Streeting, the health secretary. Those who say they want an “orderly” transition of power mean they favor Andy Burnham, the current mayor of Greater Manchester – on whom, more later.

Streeting, the minister tasked with repairing Britain’s depleted National Health Service (NHS), hails from the right of the Labour Party. Most of his life has been spent in and around politics: First as president of the National Union of Students, then as a local councilor, before serving as a Member of Parliament for a borough in East London, near the public housing estate on which he grew up.

Streeting has often expressed admiration for the government of Tony Blair, who was prime minister while Streeting was a student at the University of Cambridge. Although he briefly left Labour over Blair’s support for the Iraq War, Streeting is said to have channeled “Blairism” in his mission to overhaul the NHS, through supporting public-private partnerships and technological reform. Streeting has previously warned the NHS must “modernize or die.”

At just 43, Streeting has long been considered the moderate future of Labour and is praised as one of the government’s most effective communicators. But he has been harmed by his friendship with Peter Mandelson, the veteran Labour politician who was fired as Britain’s ambassador to Washington over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender. Given how that scandal has dogged Starmer, Streeting may also be tainted by that association.

Andy Burnham

Burnham’s backers want things to move slowly because, as mayor of Manchester, he is not an MP, and as such cannot – yet – stand to be Labour’s next leader.

That hurdle could prove insurmountable. Burnham, 56, had hoped to run for a seat in Parliament in a constituency near Manchester earlier this year, but was blocked by Labour’s National Executive Committee, in a decision that many saw as an attempt to prevent Starmer’s most formidable rival from being able to challenge him as leader.

Most opinion polls show that Burnham is the most popular politician in Britain. Where Starmer is often accused of lacking a political vision, Burnham champions “Manchesterism” – a brand of business-friendly, “aspirational socialism” that seeks to put essential services back in public control and make life “doable” for ordinary Britons.

Burnham, also Cambridge-educated, points to the success of his policies in Manchester – the fastest-growing city economy in Britain, where he has been elected mayor for three consecutive terms – and asks why his bold vision cannot be brought to the rest of

Por Brenda Goodman, CNN

Desde los primeros indicios del brote, los mensajes de funcionarios del Gobierno, agencias de salud y numerosos expertos han sido reiterativos: no hay motivo para preocuparse. No entren en pánico. La situación está bajo control.

“Tenemos esto bajo control y no estamos preocupados”, dijo este lunes el secretario del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Estados Unidos, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., durante una conferencia en la que se le preguntó sobre el brote de hantavirus que pasó de un crucero a una cuarentena.

“Lo que ocurre con este caso”, dijo el presidente Donald Trump en la misma conferencia, “es que es mucho más difícil contagiarse. Existe desde hace mucho tiempo. La gente lo conoce muy bien. Espero que todo esté bien”.

En una sociedad donde siguen frescos los recuerdos de las pérdidas y alteraciones provocadas por la pandemia de covid-19, funcionarios federales y estatales han asegurado repetidamente al público que el hantavirus —incluso la cepa Andes, que puede transmitirse de persona a persona— no representa la amenaza que enfrentó el mundo hace seis años.

Es cierto que no se trata de covid-19. Aunque la enfermedad causada por el virus Andes puede ser grave e incluso mortal, no es tan contagiosa como el sarampión o incluso la gripe, lo que significa que podría contenerse con mayor facilidad. Los funcionarios también destacan que el covid-19 era un virus completamente nuevo, mientras que este no lo es. El conocimiento sobre el virus Andes sigue siendo limitado, pero ya ha sido estudiado anteriormente en contextos de brotes.

Se espera que se identifiquen más casos, pero tanto los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de Estados Unidos (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) como la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) afirman que el riesgo para la población general sigue siendo bajo.

Aun así, algunos expertos en salud consideran que, en ciertos momentos, el mensaje oficial ha sido excesivamente confiado y demasiado dispuesto a descartar la posibilidad de una amenaza. Las declaraciones destinadas a calmar la ansiedad podrían terminar socavando la confianza pública si más adelante resultan no ser ciertas.

También existe un equilibrio difícil entre simplificar el mensaje y terminar siendo demasiado ambiguo.

A última hora del domingo, después del regreso a Estados Unidos de 18 pasajeros del crucero MV Hondius, el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos anunció que una persona había dado “levemente positiva por PCR” para la cepa Andes del hantavirus.

Esa formulación desató una ola de críticas.

“Por suerte, el centro receptor está preparado para manejar esto. Pero quien haya escrito que alguien dio ‘levemente positivo’ es un idiota”, escribió el doctor Jeremy Faust, médico de emergencias del Hospital Brigham and Women’s de Boston y editor del sitio especializado MedPage Today. “Tiene el virus”.

Este lunes, el doctor Brendan Jackson, de los CDC, explicó durante una conferencia que la persona se había realizado dos pruebas antes de llegar a Estados Unidos: una positiva y otra negativa. Señaló que los análisis posteriores ayudarán a los médicos a establecer un diagnóstico más definitivo.

Aun así, para algunos, el episodio ejemplifica los problemas de comunicación en torno al brote de hantavirus.

“¿Qué significa ‘levemente positivo por PCR’? ¿Presenta síntomas o no? ¿Es un caso confirmado o sospechoso? ¿Qué pruebas se realizaron? La comunicación clara y precisa en salud pública importa”, escribió en redes sociales la doctora Krutika Kuppalli, experta en enfermedades infecciosas del Centro Médico UT Southwestern y exfuncionaria médica de la OMS. “Este es otro ejemplo del vacío de liderazgo que estamos viendo, y cuando los mensajes son vagos, la desinformación llena los espacios”.

El doctor David Berger, médico australiano que anteriormente trabajó como m