A New York Times business section news article on the boom in Miami reports that the city's mayor, Frances X. Suarez, "credited a combination of the federal cap on state tax deductions, Covid-19, and leftward-moving politics in New York and San Francisco for making the Miami moment happen."

We've been covering the flood of talent (including G.O.A.T. Tom Brady) to Florida for quite some time now here.

Is the report on Johnson & Johnson's vaccine good or disappointing?

The first day reaction was conflicting. Harvard Medical School professor and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande tweeted, "The JNJ vaccine results indicate we miraculously have at least 3 safe, highly effective vaccines. Headlines focus on the 66% overall efficacy. But the big deal is that the single-dose vax was 100% effective against severe disease after day 49, and 85% effective by day 28."

Criticism of the press is the topic of my most recent column. Please check out the full column at Newsmax ("Media Failure Emerges as Rare Area of Bipartisan Consensus"), Reason ("The Media Failed by Giving People What They Want"), and the New York Sun ("On One Big Issue, Yanks Unite: Press Has Failed.")

From a New York Times news article on President Trump's final financial disclosure form: "He also reported receiving 10 gifts, including an Ultimate Fighting Championship belt, golf gear, a leather bomber jacket and a computer from Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, worth $5,999."

Divisions within the Democratic Party are the topic of my most recent column. Please check out the full column at the Las Vegas Review-Journal ("Political divisions that will matter in 2021 are among Democrats"), the New York Sun ("Intra-Party Feud of the Democrats Is the Key Battle"), and Newsmax ("Divided Politics That Matter in 2021 Are Among Democrats.")

This chart shows Massachusetts State government at its worst:

What it shows is that the state has the capacity to deliver 15,000 or 17,000 doses of vaccine a day. That's not particularly impressive in a state with a population of nearly 7 million; at that rate it would take more than a year to get the whole state vaccinated, assuming there was enough vaccine available. What's even more dismaying is that on many days the doses delivered fall way below that number—and that the low-dose days map neatly onto weekends (look at January 9 and 10, for example) and holidays (look at January 1 and at the December 24 to 27 stretch). If Massachusetts were leading other states in terms of percent of population vaccinated or percent of delivered vaccine that has been administered, then it might make sense to rest on the weekends and holidays. But the Bay State hasn't exactly covered itself in glory in either of those categories.

A second impeachment of President Trump may turn on a language question: the meaning of the word "fight."

One lesson of the latest scandal in Illinois politics is that "clean" energy can be just as dirty as the coal and oil variety.

Michael Madigan, who has been speaker of the House in Illinois for nearly 40 years, was blocked from extending his term in the post. The Chicago Sun-Times reports: "Madigan has been battered by the ongoing federal investigation of the ComEd influence-buying scandal in Springfield. Madigan has been implicated but not charged in the investigation, and one of his close associates has been indicted. Madigan has denied any wrongdoing."

Our friends at the New York Sun and the Wall Street Journal have both published editorials (Sun, WSJ) urging President Trump to resign. I share the view that Trump's behavior in refusing to accept his election loss and in encouraging a mob that disrupted Congress has been seriously egregious to the point where it raises doubts about his fitness to hold the office, even for another couple of weeks. But it is worth considering, too, that there would be a downside to resigning.

Whose fault was it that the Senate's session was disrupted by a bunch of knuckleheads who believe President Trump's delusion that the election was stolen? President Obama's statement on "today's violence at the Capitol" said, "for two months now, a political party and its accompanying media ecosystem has too often been unwilling to tell their followers the truth—that this was not a particularly close election and that President-Elect Biden will be inaugurated on January 20." The Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, returning to the Senate floor after the disruption, denounced what he called "a demagogic president, the people who enable him, the captive media that parrots his lies."

Israel's world-leading pace at administering the coronavirus vaccine is the topic of my column this week. Please check out the full column at the Algemeiner ("Why Israel Is Winning the Covid-19 Vaccination Race"), Newsmax ("Why Is Israel Winning the COVID-19 Vaccination Race?"), and the New York Sun ("Why Does Israel Pace the Globe on Covid Vaccines?"). The column was also picked up by Mosaic and mentioned briefly on-air on the Fox News Channel.

The news that Rev. Raphael Warnock's now-ex-wife claimed he had tried to run her over with his car was vaguely familiar to me, but until I read this long New York Times article about him I had not realized the make of the car. From the Times account:

They argued in the driveway. Mr. Warnock later said he had wanted her to sign the divorce papers before he allowed the children to travel overseas. Soon, Ms. Warnock was calling the police to report that he had run over her foot.

Ms. Warnock, shaken but calm, tells the police that she had been leaning into the back seat on the passenger side, with the door open, fastening one of the children's seatbelts.

Both parties agree, the video shows, that Mr. Warnock got in the driver's seat and started to move the car with the passenger door still open. Mr. Warnock says he had first asked his wife to move away from the car, but she refused. He also says that when he began to drive, he believed she had moved.

The Senate races in Georgia—and particularly Democratic candidates' emphasis there on the healthcare issue—were the topic of a recent column of mine. Please check out the full column at the New Boston Post ("Democrats Hoping Health Care Will Help Win Georgia Contests for Senate Control"), Newsmax ("Will Healthcare Tip Ga. Race to Democrats?") and at the New York Sun ("Georgia Runoffs Emerge as Test of Healthcare Issue.")

Suspending the price mechanism for allocating Covid-19 vaccines means that a committee of government-appointed experts is deciding who gets it first. They are recommending that "media" and "law" workers get priority over the general population. My column on the topic is available at Reason ("The CDC's Rules Let Teachers, Lawyers, Media Jump to the Front of the COVID Vaccine Line") and Newsmax ("Is CDC Recommending Letting Some Cut in COVID Vaccine Line?")

Rep. Ted Lieu, Democrat of California, plans to introduce a bill seeking to revive the Depression era Federal Writers' Project, the Columbia Journalism Review reports.

Says CJR: "The timing and exact details of the bill have yet to be finalized, but Lieu's office says that a new project could be anchored within the Department of Labor or a cultural agency, and run as a grant program administered through existing community institutions, including news outlets. As with the original, the goal of a new project would be both economic and cultural, putting the next generation of talent to work capturing the stories of the pandemic—those of the elderly, for example—and this broader moment, while also serving as a national archive for the existing work of local newsrooms and nonprofits."