Good evening,

Helmut Schwan

Head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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    the traces of the pandemic will also be visible in the grades for this school year. Especially those students who already had a hard time will fall further behind. The Hessian Ministry of Culture now wants to counteract this with a funding program. Remedial courses and online tutoring are just as much a part of this as learning camps, cultural offers, sport, exercise and support from social pedagogues and psychologists. The state government is making a total of 60 million euros available in the current budget year. In doing so, it wants to tie in with a similar federal program, which comprises a total of one billion euros and provides an additional 74 million euros for Hesse.

    Mood of optimism everywhere, because the damned virus is on the retreat - and hopefully it will remain. Vaccination, vaccination, vaccination is and will remain the best strategy against Corona. However, the vaccinee soon doesn't really know how to do it properly. The range of substances with their actual or supposed side effects can hardly be overlooked. And now the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians is also coming around the corner with the proposal to administer AstraZeneca every four weeks, i.e. two months earlier than previously recommended. Monika Ganster has researched whether there is more to it than advertising with the slogan “How to save your vacation”. Marie Lisa Kehler writes in her comment that the general practitioners will have to be measured against this promise in any case in the next few weeks,whether or not they get enough vaccine: “The patients will come. With great expectations in the bag. "

    The anti-Semitic demonstrations of the past few days, one of them in Frankfurt, have made it clear that such hatred is widespread in Germany far beyond right-wing extremist circles. The conflict over Palestine is a welcome opportunity for many to incite against Jews. In the opinion of Meron Mendel, director of the Anne Frank educational center in Frankfurt, one should not give up, however, above all the young people who spread hatred on the streets. In an interview with the Rhein-Main-Zeitung, Mendel says that not everyone who demonstrates there is an anti-Semite. Mendel advocates seeing both: On the one hand, the unspeakable comparisons of the Israeli military strikes with the Holocaust and the calls to destroy Israel. On the other hand, there are also those peoplewho simply wanted to express their solidarity with the civilian population in Gaza. Unfortunately, during demonstrations it is always the case that those who shouted the loudest and advocate the most radical theses set the tone.

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    And in addition, from the beginning of June the northwest runway at Frankfurt airport, currently still used as a parking area for aircraft due to the consequences of the corona pandemic, will be put back into operation +++ the negotiations on a new coalition in Frankfurt are apparently delayed, mainly due to unresolved issues Personnel issues +++ drivers in Wiesbaden have to be prepared for the fact that in the future they will only be able to drive 40 kilometers per hour on certain streets in the city center.

    Take care of yourself,


    your Helmut Schwan

    The

    weather

    for

    Wednesday

    It stays wet, but the soil can still tolerate quite a bit of rain.

    The weather, which will at best be "changeable" again on Wednesday in the Rhine-Main region, continues to affect the mood.

    On Thursday it should rain less, the maximum temperature rises from 17 degrees on Wednesday by two degrees. 

    Have

    your

    birthday

    on

    Wednesday:

    Dietmar Bücher

    , Idstein building contractor and architect (77);

    Hans-Jürgen Drescher

    , dramaturge, President of the German Academy of Performing Arts, Bensheim (67);

    Thomas Berlemann

    , Chairman of the Board of the Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation, Frankfurt (58);

    Carsten Tag

    , CEO of Diakonie Hessen, Frankfurt (57);

    Matthias Schönberger

    , managing director of the restaurant chain MoschMosch, Frankfurt (49);

    André Kavai

    , managing director of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund, Hofheim (44).