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When I needed a root canal, the healthcare plan we won through the union helped cover the cost. A union scholarship helped pay for my college education. When my mother needed full-time care, I almost had to step aside because I couldn't afford to be a caregiver full time. The union fought for us, and with the new raise...
Each time there was a hole in my support that needed to be filled, the union was there. My mother's experience was completely different. She didn't have a union. When she got hurt on the job, she lost everything. I saw how home ownership and retirement skipped a generation with my mother. Her parents owned a home and h...
SEIU 503 represents family to me because my union has always been there for me when I needed it most. Our union is made up of nurses, caregivers, social workers, janitors and all of those people whose jobs keep this world turning. We are passionate about what we do and who we serve.
With our collective power, we have drastically changed our own lives and the lives of the people we care for. That's the power of unity. That's the power of the union.
-- Jesse Burrows lives in Depoe Bay.
In brief: DSU receives award for its Concurrent Enrollement; guided tours begin at Pipe Spring National Monument; and Red Rock Dance Fest begins.
With the help of the Concurrent Enrollment Quantitative Literacy Math Incentive from the Utah System of Higher Education, Dixie State University is set to help more high school students take college-level math courses.
The $147,202 award will help Dixie State increase the number of Concurrent Enrollment math classes taught in Washington County high schools. The award will offer incentives to high schools and math teachers who use their production periods to teach Concurrent Enrollment math classes.
“In addition to helping high school students complete their college math requirements before graduation, this money also helps high schools reduce class sizes in their math classes,” Kevin Simmons, Dixie State’s director of Concurrent Enrollment, said.
Last year, the first year Dixie State received the award, the university received $79,876 and added 16 extra college-level math classes at area high schools. With the support of this year’s award, the university plans to facilitate the addition of another 27 classes. As a result, DSU awarded more money both years to hi...
Ensuring the education meets university standards, DSU deans and department chairs approve the Concurrent Enrollment program’s teachers, course material, syllabi and textbooks. The college-level classes have a higher level of difficulty and prepare high school students for college.
The Concurrent Enrollment program allows students to earn both high school and college credit for general education courses and saves students time and money. The state of Utah funds the program, leaving students to pay just $5 per credit. Plus, students who take Concurrent Enrollment classes from Dixie State can enrol...
For more information about Concurrent Enrollment at Dixie State University, visit concurrent.dixie.edu.
From June 7 to Aug. 30, weekly tours will be conducted in the Curatorial Storage Facility at Pipe Spring National Monument in Freedonia, Arizona.
The tours will occur every Thursday, starting at 10 a.m. Arizona time (11 a.m. Utah) and will last 45 minutes to an hour. The tours will highlight the park's museum collections and showcase material that is currently not on exhibit in the Visitor Center or Winsor Castle, including a John Wesley Powell survey note from ...
June 7,14, 21 and 28; July 5, 12, 19 and 26; Aug. 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30.
The park completed the Curatorial Storage Facility in 2010 and the facility is co-managed by the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians. Tours will begin outside of the facility, located 1/2 mile past the Visitor Center on the east side of the road adjacent to the park's Administration Building. Tour size is limited to 10 peopl...
Hosted by the St. George Dance Co., in partnership with Dixie State University College of the Arts, the Red Rock Dance Festival is three full days of moving, collaborating, dance making, and performing Thursday through Saturday at DSU. The festival’s mission is to bring together a community of choreographers, performer...
Featured resident performances by professional dance companies SALT Contemporary Dance from Salt Lake City and SAMPLEDANCE from Las Vegas will be held on Friday at the DSU Main Stage Theater. Performances are open to the public.
The "Salt & Sample Dance Performance" will be at 7:30 p.m. and costs $15.
Participants of the Festival will work intimately with the dance companies mentioned above as well as other esteemed guest dance artists on developing and exploring ideas in dance. Workshops offered include modern technique, ballet, repertory, improvisation, composition and partnering. Ages 16 through adult are welcome...
The Red Rock Dance Festival also provides a 3-day junior workshop for ages 9-15 and offers one full-ride scholarship to each dance school or studio in southern Utah.
In addition to the resident companies’ performances, the Choreography Showcase will be held on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the DSU Mainstage Theater. Tickets are $10. Choreographers are encouraged to submit their work and receive feedback from well-known professionals in the field. Choreographers are primarily from wester...
To register for dance workshops or purchase tickets, visit RedRockDanceFestival.com or call Summer Robertson at 435-773-1221.
Attleboro District Court unsealed more documents today in the murder case against Aaron Hernandez. The most striking: a series of images from Hernandez's home surveillance system on the night of the murder, showing what prosecutors believe to be the gun that killed Odin Lloyd, a gun that has not yet been found.
Another 104 pages were released today—again at $1 per page for photocopies—and a number of reporters are going through the records as we speak. (We recommend Fox 25's Ted Daniel, the Globe's Brian Ballou, and the Courant's Jenny Wilson.) These records contain a mix of information we already knew, heavily redacted docum...
Keep in mind that these are cellphone camera shots of photocopies of screengrabs—prosecutors have access to much higher quality images.
These pictures are important, because Odin Lloyd was shot five times (including through the heart, as today's release reveals) with a .45 caliber weapon. That weapon has not been recovered. Police did find a magazine for a .45 caliber Glock pistol that is registered to Hernandez—and they believe that Glock is seen in t...
Today's documents also reveal that Aaron Hernandez told police he did not have a contact number for Ernest Wallace, one of the other men who was allegedly involved in Lloyd's murder. Wallace's number was later found in Hernandez's phone.
Hernandez is due back in court for a probable cause hearing on Aug. 22.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices jumped on Wednesday, hitting their highest in more than three years on Wednesday after Saudi Arabia said it intercepted missiles over Riyadh and U.S. President Donald Trump warned Russia of imminent military action in Syria.
Both U.S. crude and global benchmark Brent traded at the highest levels since 2014 as geopolitical concerns overshadowed a surprise build in U.S. crude inventories.
“A bearish inventory report was quickly negated on word of intercepted rockets over Riyadh, which just adds to the recent spike in geopolitical tensions,” said Anthony Headrick, energy market analyst and commodities futures broker at CHS Hedging LLC.
Prices began to rally as Trump threatened to fire missiles at Syria. Washington and its allies have been considering air strikes following a suspected poison gas attack last weekend.
Oil climbed further as broadcaster Al Arabiya said Saudi Arabia’s air defense forces intercepted a missile over the capital Riyadh.
Brent LCOc1 rose $1.02 on the day to settle at $72.06 a barrel, having touched a session high of $73.09. U.S. crude futures CLc1 rose $1.31 to settle at $66.82 a barrel, a 2 percent gain, having traded as high as $67.45.
Some major airlines were re-routing flights after Europe’s air traffic control agency urged caution for aircraft flying in the eastern Mediterranean due to possible air strikes on Syria.
Trump has criticized Moscow for standing by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and ‘smart!’,” he wrote in a post on Twitter.
Syria is not a significant oil producer, but any sign of conflict in the region triggers concern about crude flows across the wider Middle East. Reports of missiles in Riyadh exacerbated those worries, on top of existing concerns the United States could renew sanctions against Iran.
Saudi Arabia Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said his country would not let another supply glut surface, implying that the de-facto leader of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) would continue to withhold supply.
Not all oil market indicators suggest the price will continue to rally strongly, analysts said.
U.S. crude inventories rose by 3.3 million barrels in the week to April 6, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The big build was a surprise after analysts had forecast a decrease of 189,000 barrels.
Despite oil’s price spike after the rocket over Riyadh, the market remains focused on fundamentals, said Abhishek Kumar, senior energy analyst at Interfax Energy’s Global Gas Analytics in London.
“Market participants will closely watch oil-production profile in the U.S., which is also expected to have a material impact on the outcome of the upcoming OPEC meeting in June,” he said.
Two months ago, representatives of banks and other mortgage servicers participating in the administration’s mortgage modification program visited the Treasury Department and made a commitment: they would drastically reduce the number of homeowners stuck in trial modifications by the end of June.
That hasn’t happened. New data released today shows that about 166,000 homeowners have waited six or more months in plans that only temporarily reduce payments. That’s about one-third of the current trials, but the trial period is supposed to last only three months.
For those homeowners who finally do get an answer, it’s usually a denial. The number of homeowners being dropped from the program has continued to rise. While about 398,000 homeowners have received a final modification through the program, far more, 521,000, have been dropped.
JPMorgan Chase continues to have the biggest backlog, with about 46,000 homeowners in limbo. Chase’s problem is not new – ProPublica reported back in February that Chase had the worst backlog. The prolonged trials hurt homeowners by damaging their credit, increasing the balance of their mortgage, and preventing them fr...
Back in February, Treasury made the same vague reference to possible penalties. Despite frequent threats, Treasury has yet to actually penalize a servicer. The Government Accountability Office reported last month (PDF) that Treasury had not even established standards for how it might penalize servicers who break the pr...
The GAO also reported that the servicers frequently make errors calculating homeowners’ income: it interviewed 10 servicers and found that at least half had discovered through internal reviews that their employees had miscalculated the income on at least 20 percent of the sampled modifications. As we’ve been reporting ...
With relatively few homeowners having received permanent modifications through the government’s program, administration officials have been stressing in recent months that many homeowners will still eventually receive a private offer of a modification from their servicer.
But those offers will not necessarily comply with the program’s guidelines, which require that the payments be set at a certain low rate: 31 percent of the homeowner’s monthly gross income. Modifications outside the program have been outpacing modifications under the government plan by about two to one in recent months...
Alys Cohen of the National Consumer Law Center said she thought servicer errors meant that homeowners were being wrongly steered into servicers’ modification plans when they qualified for the government program. “We don’t believe it’s because more people qualify for the proprietary modifications than \,” she said.
For homeowners who do receive a permanent modification under the government program, early results indicate the lower payment level may be sustainable. Treasury released data showing that only about 6 percent of borrowers who had been in a modification for six months or longer were more than two payments behind. The av...
Like so many Americans, perhaps you've been thinking you really have to replace your old car this year.
Well, looks like June might be a good time to get that high-MPG vehicle as a (lightly) used car.
According to the NADA Used Car Guide, as gas prices have come down recently, so have the prices of fuel-efficient used cars--which had risen more than 10 percent from January through May.
The guide, issued monthly by the National Automobile Dealers Association, projects prices for used cars based on actual sales, market trends, gas prices, new-car sales, and a host of other factors.
Prices of compact and mid-size vehicles are expected to fall as much as 5 percent next month, NADA said. And it expects further drops through the summer, assuming gas prices stay at roughly their current level.
Some of the best news has to do with the Toyota Prius hybrid.
The price of a one-year-old 2011 Toyota Prius liftback is expected to drop fully $900 next month alone--though that drop only makes up for about 40 percent of its $2,350 gain since January.
Causes include fuel economy fading in car buyers' minds, a slight move from sedans back toward light trucks, and Toyota dealers with full stocks of the new and expanded 2012 Prius family at last, following last year's earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
The NADA Guide projections were reported by The Detroit News and numerous other outlets.
The NADA Guide also projected prices prices for used Nissan Leaf and used Chevrolet Volt electric cars for the first time, saying that the cars would retain 90 percent of more of their post-incentive cost after one year.
Captain Pike beams aboard the Discovery in the show’s sophomore season.
The rapidly approaching second season of Discovery will re-introduce us to the U.S.S. Enterprise, before Jim Kirk ever sat in its Captain’s chair and boldly took it on its five year mission. But later this year, a new novel will show us what the ship was actually up to at the height of the Klingon War that broke out in...
Star Trek and Star Wars novelist John Jackson Miller confirmed on Twitter late last night that he will write The Enterprise War, the next Discovery novel set for release on July 30. As the name suggests, the novel will follow the crew of the starship Enterprise—featuring Captain Pike, Spock, and Number One, as they app...
It would be fascinating to see how the nightmare of the war took its toll on Spock, Pike, and the crew—especially as Anson Mount, who plays Pike in Discovery’s second season, has noted that the idealistic Captain’s firm belief in the ideals of Starfleet makes him an interesting foil to the jaded, war-damaged assholery ...
Hearing of the outbreak of hostilities between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, Captain Christopher Pike attempts to bring the U.S.S. Enterprise home to join in the fight. But in the hellish nebula known as the Pergamum, the stalwart commander instead finds an epic battle of his own, pitting anc...
Lost and out of contact with Earth for an entire year, Pike and his trusted first officer, Number One, struggle to find and reunite the ship’s crew—all while Science Officer Spock confronts a mystery that puts even his exceptional skills to the test…with more than their own survival possibly riding on the outcome….
Interstellar war’s like a bus, apparently. You spend ages waiting for one, and then two come along at once!
It’s understandable to keep the Enterprise out of the moral murkiness of Discovery’s first season—you get to avoid any of that grime staining the squeaky-clean embodiment of Trek’s pioneering, idealistic spirit. But it’s still a bit of a bummer to not have a man like Pike really be challenged by the moral dilemma of th...
CHICAGO—Chicago may soon be the first major city to prohibit electronic cigarettes in public. According to city officials, the law will protect young people from nicotine addiction.
E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that look much like their combustible cousins. However, they release nicotine vapor instead of tobacco smoke. All of the major tobacco companies have a brand in the marketplace. Sales for e-cigarettes are projected to reach nearly $1.8 billion by the end of the year.
NJoy, Vuse, MarkTen, and other e-cigarette brands are smoke-free, granting nicotine consumers a socially acceptable alternative to tobacco products. However, New Jersey, North Dakota, and Utah have recently decided that e-cigarettes should also be banned from indoor public spaces.
Officials in Chicago and New York are hoping to enact a similar ban—restricting e-cigarette use to private homes, vehicles, and hotel rooms designated for smoking. The goal is to prevent children from getting the impression that smoking is socially acceptable.
“This is part of our overall strategy to address the impact of tobacco on youth. We’ve seen a decrease in youth smoking, then a plateau. We really need to break that plateau,” Chicago City Health Commissioner Dr. Bechara Choucair told the Chicago Sun-Times.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), e-cigarette consumers can’t be sure whether the devices are safe, or how much nicotine or other potentially harmful chemicals are being inhaled. However, since e-cigarettes do not contain tobacco, they are currently not subject to federal regulation.
FDA is in the process of extending its authority on tobacco products to include e-cigarettes, but city and state officials want to close the regulation gap now. Under the proposal in Chicago, e-cigarette retailers would require a license, devices would stay behind the counter, and sales to minors would be prohibited.
E-cigarette makers defend their product as a less harmful alternative to tobacco. Craig Weiss, president and chief executive of NJoy argued that restricting e-cigarettes to private spaces might actually harm public health.
“I think you have to ask yourself, if you make it just as inconvenient to use an electronic cigarette as a tobacco cigarette, people are just going to keep smoking their Marlboros. That does not benefit the public,” Weiss told the New York Times.
The Chicago City Council will vote on the proposal some time in December. If passed, the new ordinance will go into effect January 2014.
Not that my opinion matters, but I have always felt that Henry Cavill is perfect for Superman, especially with the right material.
I have to disagree with Dan Jurgens that his opinion doesn't matter, as he's one of the most influential Superman writers of the modern era, particularly for the famous "Death of Superman" storyline, which was partially adapted in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. If anyone is qualified to speak on Superman, it's him...
Seven years after Superman Returns failed to relaunch the Kryptonian's film series, Man of Steel rebooted the character through a darker lens, drawing polarizing reactions from critics and fans. Rather than given Henry Cavill's Superman another standalone sequel, Warner Bros instead decided to pair him with a certain C...
As for why Henry Cavill may be retiring as Superman, supposedly it stemmed from him not being able to cameo in Shazam! due to scheduling issues, and from there the door shut for good on the actor reprising the hero again. Hours after the news broke, Cavill posted a bizarre video in response to the Superman rumors, neit...
With or without Henry Cavill as Superman, the DCEU is continuing on December 21 with the release of Aquaman, and don't forget to look through our DC movies guide to find out what other movies are on the way/in development for the superhero franchise.
A fourth suspect escaped before police arrived.
Police nabbed three suspects during a home invasion robbery in the Elmwood section of West Philadelphia this evening.
Four gunmen burst into a family home on the 6700 block of Grovers Avenue around 4:30 p.m. and took an undetermined amount of money from wallets and purses belonging to its occupants, police said.
Officers responding to the scene arrested one of the gunmen as he fled out the front door and two others after they jumped from a second story window. Three guns were recovered from the suspects.
A fourth suspect was able to escape before police arrived. He is described as a 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-8 black male with short hair and a dark complexion. No injuries were reported.
River Hill goalie Jules Grasso leaps in the air to make the save during the game against Atholton on Tuesday, Oct. 4 at Atholton High School. The Hawks went on to hand the Raiders their first county loss of the year, 2-1.
Mt. Hebron's Elayna Williams hits a shot towards Centennial's Emily Przyblya in their first game. Mt. Hebron defeats Centennial three games to two in their match in Ellicott City Tuesday evening.
A collection of the Howard County Times' sports staff's favorite photos from the month of October.
ANKARA - Polls are looking good for the opposition in this Sunday’s local elections in Turkey, with surveys of voters’ intentions saying the opposition will win in Izmir and Ankara and possibly take control of Istanbul, the biggest prize of all.
If that happens, the opposition will have humiliated President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the politician who has dominated politics for the past 17 years and turned Turkey away from EU-standards of human rights to a system of presidential rule more powerful than any of his European peers.
The president’s critics have to concede one thing: the 65-year-old Erdogan has been campaigning like a man in his forties.
He has addressed two or three rallies a day in different towns for the past five weeks. He wears a black suit and tie, sometimes a black winter coat on top, and changes the football-club scarf around his neck as rapidly as he changes location.

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