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220329-M-AU949-0318 NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY, Bahrain (March 29, 2022) - U.S. Marines with Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team Central Command (FASTCENT) fire the M18 service pistol during a Combat Marksmanship Program shoot aboard Naval Support Activity Bahrain, March 29. FASTCENT provides expeditionary anti-terrorism and security forces to embassies, consulates, and other vital national assets throughout the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Victor A. Mancilla)
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Ex-boyfriend of Cassie Carli, missing Florida mom, arrested in Tennessee
PENSACOLA, Fla. (Gray News) - Authorities have arrested the ex-boyfriend of missing mother Cassie Carli in Tennessee over the weekend.
On Saturday, the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of Marcus Spanevelo.
Authorities said Spanevelo was arrested by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations and the Tennessee Highway Patrol in Lebanon, Tennessee.
According to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office, he is being held on charges that include tampering with evidence, giving false information concerning a missing persons investigation and destruction of evidence.
Officials said Spanevelo was arrested based on a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office major crimes warrant, which a judge signed.
Previously, Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson said Spanevelo was the last person to see Carli on March 27 before she went missing. Police said Carli was at a restaurant to meet Spanevelo, the father of their 4-year-old daughter, Saylor, to do a child exchange.
Spanevelo was then located in Birmingham, Alabama, on Wednesday with Saylor. Investigators interviewed him and said they planned to speak to him further. Saylor was taken into the custody of Alabama Protective Services, Johnson said.
Currently, the case remains an active investigation, and the sheriff’s office said it is cautious about the information released due to the sensitivity of the case.
The search efforts for Carli are ongoing, with the FBI assisting, and Saylor remains safe, according to police.
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220329-M-AU949-0316 NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY, Bahrain (March 29, 2022) – A U.S. Marine with Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team Central Command (FASTCENT) engages a target during a Combat Marksmanship Program shoot aboard Naval Support Activity Bahrain, March 29. FASTCENT provides expeditionary anti-terrorism and security forces to embassies, consulates, and other vital national assets throughout the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Victor A. Mancilla)
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NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN (March 30, 2022) Retail Services Specialist 3rd Class Katie Kultti secures a flight deck net with a pin on the flight deck of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG 80), March 30, 2022. Roosevelt, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is on its third patrol in the U.S. Sixth Fleet area of operations in support of regional allies and partners and U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Andrea Rumple/Released)
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Funds drying up for water department
City will enact water rate increases in 2024 to offset expense of updating aging infrastructure
ZANESVILLE — The Pioneer Hill Reservoir is a squat steel cover perched over a leaky tub that holds 2 million gallons of water in inky darkness, speckled by holes in the roof and walls.
Built in the 1890s, it needs to be replaced. But it is just one of two dozen projects the City of Zanesville's water department needs to fund, and funds have been scarce.
That puts the city in a precarious position, said the city's Public Service Director Scott Brown. Without a rate increase, the department runs out of money. Without more money coming in, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to get loans to pay for projects.
The department has outlined more than $26 million in projects it hopes to complete, including more than $10 million in water line replacement projects. "The system has been neglected for years," said Zanesville Mayor Don Mason.
"It costs more money to operate the system than we are bringing in," Brown said. "And we need to catch up on decades of deferred maintenance."
Mason said the system is paying for loans on costs formulated years ago, while the efficiencies of appliances and things like shower heads have increased, resulting in less consumption, and fewer dollars coming in.
To counter the problem, the city has raised water rates for the first time in almost 20 years.
Most residential customers will not see an increase until 2024. The last time the city raised the price of water per cubic foot was in 2005. The city's last price adjustment came in 2017, when it reduced the amount of water paid for by the minimum bill.
To formulate the rate increase, the city hired Verdantas LLC and Environmental Rate Consultants to conduct a study on the water department's revenue requirements to complete the various infrastructure projects the city needs to embark upon.
The rate increase was first considered in early 2020, but was put on hold because of the uncertainties of the looming COVID-19 pandemic. The study found that without a rate increase, the department will run out of money by the end of 2022. In addition, "if a water utility rate is not approved and implemented by the City of Zanesville, the City may not qualify for additional and required low-interest loans for capital projects," nor with the department be able to pay existing debt.
Rates vs expenses
Forty-four percent of the city's customers will not see an increase until 2024. Currently, the minimum bill for residential customers inside the city, which covers up to 200 cubic feet of water per month, is $11.70. In 2024, the minimum bill increases to $12.50, and in 2025 to $14.50.
Residential customers outside the city see similar increases, although the minimum bill starts at $17.55. In all, 65% of the city's customers will see a $5 increase. Most of the additional revenue generated by the rate increase will come from the city's largest customers.
To outline how serious the city's deferred maintenance has become, Brown points to the 170 water line breaks the city suffered last year. A similar sized system in an adjacent county suffered 30.
This year the cost to operate the city's water system will outstrip the system's income by more than $1 million, Brown said. This will eat up the carryover from last year, as well as contingency funds. The department's budget is $7,019,657 for 2022, its projected income from water billing and other fees is $5.8 million. A separate city fund, the water capital replacement fund, set up to pay for water projects, is budgeted for $231,777 this year. Much of the work the city hopes to do would be paid for by loans from the Ohio Water Development Authority. Those loans require debt payments.
Ken J. Heigel, executive director of the OWDA, said when the authority awards a loan, it looks at the revenue of the water system applying. "They would have to have rates in place to meet all the expenses of their system, including any existing debt, all their operation and maintenance expenses, and then the new debt. They have to have revenue coming into meet their expenses of the system." The authority has funded a project to replace a water line along Newark Road that is expected to begin this spring.
Prices continue to rise to do the work the city both needs to do and wants to do. Pipes and labor aren't getting any cheaper, Brown said. Last year the city bid out the replacement water tower for the Pioneer Hill Reservoir, but had to rebid the project when costs skyrocketed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, adding some $650,000 to the project's price tag. The project is now expected to cost about $2.4 million.
And while the consumer price index, an average of several costs borne by consumers has risen over the years, Brown said, the price of water in the city has remained the same. Over the years the city has not passed on cost increases to customers, Mason said, effectively robbing capital projects to pay expenses.
One of the largest projects on the city's radar is to replace every water meter on the system. A loan application for the $4 million project has been approved by city council, but funding has not yet been secured. The project would eventually save the city money by replacing the worn-out meters currently in service, and by reducing the cost to read the meters as they could be read from one central location. The city also needs to replace the filters at the water plant — a $500,000 project that should have been done several years ago, Brown said. Aging equipment at the city's well field needs to be replaced and maintained. Then there are the projects that occur every few years that are due, like rehabilitating the Fairview Road water tank. That project is scheduled for 2023 at a cost of $210,000.
Residents don't think about water infrastructure until they don't have water, Brown said, and that occurs with alarming frequency these days. The city's pipes are a patchwork of old and new, and often crews will find a break right next to a patch from an old one. To remedy that, Brown said the department has planned $2.6 million in water line replacements in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
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Roundup: Morgan's Smith dominates at Kaspar Invite
BYESVILLE — Morgan's stars were shining bright on Saturday.
None were more vibrant than Odessa Smith and her 4x100 relay team.
The 4x100, which placed in last year's Divsion II state meet, blew away the field with a :51.47 that was almost two second better than runner-up St. Clairsville. It consisted of Paige Gorrell, Odessa Smith, Emily Pinkerton and Josie Knierim.
It was the highlight on a day that saw Smith pile up 32 1/2 points as the Raiders place second of 18 teams at the annual Joe Kaspar Invitational. Dover, with 91 points, won the meet with the Raiders at 68.
Smith, an All-Ohioan last season, took the 100 hurdles in :15.52 — almost a second faster than runner-up Alyssa Feller, of Dover. She was even more dominant in the 300 hurdles, racing to a :48.36 that topped Feller (:50.83) by almost two seconds.
For good measure, she won the long jump in 16-7 3/4, more than a foot farther than second-place Emily Backus, of Rosecrans. Backus checked in at 15-4.
Knierim was second to West Holmes' Jasmine Giauque in the 100 and 200 in :13.18 and :27.59, respectively. Emily Pinkerton was fourth in the 800 (2:38.0).
Mykell Bowen won the shot put for West Muskingum in 112-9, just ahead of runner-up Arianna Terakedis, of Claymont, who was at 111-5.
In the boys meet, Philo's Jaxson Radcliffe was second in the long jump (20-2 3/4) and Caden Swingle sixth in the shot (40-9 1/2), West Muskingum's Ty Shawger was fifth in the 300 hurdles (:45.03) and Rashid Sesay sixth in the 200 (:24.0).
New Philadelphia won with 142 1/2 points and Dover was second with 76 1/2.
Frame shines at N-Y invite: Grace Frame won the shot and discus to pace Crooksville in the Small School meet at the Nelsonville-York Rocky Boots Invitational at Boston Stadium.
The senior Frame, a state qualifier in Division III in 2021, reached 37-2 in the shot and 111-7 in the discus. Crooksville was 10th of 12 teams with 36 1/2 points.
Sydney Hambel was second in the 800 (2:37.7) to lead New Lexington to a seventh place finish in the Big School girls meet with 36 points.
The 4x800 relay of Emma Abrams, Grace Baker, Jaylyn Shirkey and Hambel was third overall (11:24.6); Nora Duperow, Jocelyn Bowen, McKenna Pingle and Isabella Starlin were fourth in the 4x200 relay (1:56.5). Starlin was also fifth in the 200 (:28.77).
Gage Frash won the long jump in 19-3 1/2 and was third in the 100 (:11.88) to lead the Ceramics' boys, who were sixth with 51 1/2 points.
Blayze Hunter third in the 800 and ran a leg on the 4x400 relay that was fifth (4:01.9), while Andrew Willison was fifth in the 110 hurdles (:19.8) and also ran on the 4x400. Gabe Sandefur was fifth in the 300 hurdles (:48.67).
Softball
Crooksville 10, 11, Waterford 6, 0 (6 inn.): Gracie Peck clubbed a pair of homers in the opener and tossed a one-hitter with seven strikeouts in the nightcap to pace the host Ceramics (3-1) in a nonleague sweep in McLuney.
Crooksville trailed 6-0 after two innings in Game 1, but McKenna Headley came on in relief in the third and allowed four hits, one earned run and struck out nine the rest of the way.
The Ceramics trailed 6-5 when Peck's second homer gave them a 7-6 lead. Headley added a two-run single, part of a five-run sixth that put them ahead to stay. Headley also had a double.
Cheyenne Elliott hit a three-run homer and hit a go-ahead RBI single in the sixth for Waterford.
Grace Frame hit a three-run homer in the first inning and Jaelynn Nelson belted a walk-of grand slam of Game 2 to lead Crooksville's rout in Game 2.
Frame also had a double and single and Sonni Nelson two singles as the Ceramics had 12 hits. Peck walked two and struck out seven to get the win.
Sheridan 3, 8, Logan 1, 11: Cora Hall hit a two-run homer and pitched a complete game in the opener as the Generals managed a doubleheader split against the Division I Chieftains.
Hall struck out eight and walked three while allowing seven hits. Hall sent home Avery Mueller, who doubled, with a key insurance run in the third.
The Generals hit three homers in the nightcap — from Addison Grosse, Cate Conrad and Hall — but the Generals couldn't keep pace as Logan totaled 12 hits off pitcher Brooke Dixon.
Grosse added two singles and Avery Mueller a double for Sheridan.
Tri-Valley 16, 12, Tuscarawas Central Cath. 6, 1 (5 inn.): The visiing Scotties piled up 32 hits in a doubleheader sweep of the Saints in New Philadelphia.
Paiton Murphy cracked a two-run homer with a double and single and Raegan Smith added a solo shot in Game 1, when Tri-Valley (5-0) had 15 hits and scored seven times in the second inning to take the lead for good.
Falon Wolford smacked a pair of doubles and a single, Olivia Rapol doubled and singled and Jenna Ashcraft doubled home two runs for the Scotties; Jenna Ashcraft and Caity Journey also doubled.
Belle Baughman allowed two unearned runs with three strikeouts and no walks in four innings to get the win. Rapol pitched three innings in relief.
The hits continued for Tri-Valley in Game 2, when Wolford's triple, double and single accounted for three of the Scotties' 17 hits in a five-inning rout.
Journey doubled with two singles, Paiton Murphy had three RBIs with a triple and double and Smith singled twice with two RBIs; Kierra Joseph singled home two runs.
Paiton Murphy twirled four one-hit innings with seven strikeouts to get the win.
New Lexington 5, 14, Berne Union 14, 10: The Panthers managed a nonleague split at home against the Rockets thanks to an offensive outburst in Game 2.
After rolling in the opener, the Rockets took a 3-1 lead in the second inning in the nightcap, only to watch New Lex pile up nine runs in the second inning.
The Rockets pulled into a 10-all tie with a four-run sixth, but Addee Straits sent home Rylee Newlon with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the sixth to send New Lex ahead to stay.
Abby Wilson tripled twice, Phoenix Williamson tripled and singled and Kylie Fink and Jalynn Allen singled twice for New Lexington.
Baylee Mirgon drove in four runs with a homer and double and also scored five times in the opener for Berne Union, while Chloe Walton plated three runs with a double and two singles.
Lydia Stephens, who pitched a pair of complete games, drove in two runs for the Panthers; Jayden Allen and Addee Straits had doubles.
John Glenn 8, Richmond Edison 2: Hannah Bendle and Sydney Marshall combined for six hits and five RBIs as the unbeaten Muskies (5-0) in a nonleague win at home.
The game was part of a triangular that also included Indian Valley.
Bendle doubled home two runs in the fourth to push a two-run lead to 5-1, then scored one batter later after stealing third and getting home on Brynna Wolford's sacrifice fly.
Bendle, who also pitched a complete game to get the win, finished with a triple, three doubles and three runs scored. Marshall doubled home two runs and singled in another.
John Glenn 10, Indian Valley 0 (5 inn.): Sydney Marshall fired a one-hitter and the Muskies piled up 13 hits in a nonleague mercy of the Braves in New Concord.
Hannah Bendle had two doubles, a single and scored three times for the Muskies; Abby Buchtel and Alivia Boothe combined for five singles and four RBIs and Ryann Snider and Sarah Wayne had doubles.
John Glenn also drew six walks and didn't strike out.
Philo 13, West Holmes 3 (5 inn.): Allison Tom and Olivia Winland combined for six RBIs in the Electrics' nonleague mercy at the Philo Athletic Complex.
Tom, the cleanup hitter, drove in three runs with three singles and Winland tripled and singled with three RBIs. Megan Tom tripled and singled and Caitlin Rose singled and walked with two RBIs.
Philo (2-2) scored six times in the third and fourth innings to overcome a 3-0 deficit. Natalie May singled in the go-ahead run and Winland followed with a two-run double to make it 6-3. Allison Tom added a two-run single to make it 9-3 in the fourth.
Addie Shearer allowed one earned run in a complete game to get the win. She walked one and struck out two.
East Knox 21, Maysville 3 (5 inn.): Natalie Smith drove in seven runs with a pair of homers to lead the host Bulldogs in a nonleague mercy in Howard.
The Bulldogs scored 12 times in the second inning to take a 16-0 lead. Maddy Cotsamire allowed two earned runs in a complete game to get the win.
Haylee Cornett suffered the loss for Maysville, which committed five errors. Shyann Havens doubled and singled to account for half of the Panthers' hits.
Baseball
Sheridan 10, 11, Logan 1, 1: The Generals (3-2) reached a pair of solid pitching performances in a nonleague sweep of the Chieftains.
Jake Paxton and Caden Sheridan combined on a four-hitter in the opener, when Logan committed five errors and the Generals held an 11-4 edge in hits. Caden Sheridan drove in two runs with a double and Austin Clifton had two singles.
Game 2 saw Blaine Hannan twirl five two-hit innings with four strikeouts and tally three singles, while Jarrett Thorne clubbed a two-run homer as the Generals won in five innings.
Reid Packer singled, walked and scored three times for the Generals, while Collin Duffey tripled with an RBI.
Logan committed five more errors.
Granville 10, 18, Morgan 0, 8: The visiting Raiders (1-3) managed only one hit in the opener and let an 8-4 lead disappear in the nightcap in a pair of nonleague mercy losses.
Wade Pauley had three singles and Nate Silvus two singles with two RBIs in Game 2, as Morgan scored six times in the first inning but were outscored 18-2 the rest of the way. Granville benefitted from eight walks and four Raider errors in the game.
Owen McCoy's single in the sixth inning broke up a combined no-hit bit from three Blue Aces pitchers. Ezra Kurek had two doubles and a single with three RBIs to pace Granville's offense. The Blue Aces (2-0) scored five times in the fifth to break open a 3-0 game.
John Glenn 10, Toronto 4: The Muskies broke a 4-all tie with a five-run fifth inning to pull away for a nonleague win on the road.
All of the Muskies' runs in the fifth came with two outs. Colt Emerson was intentionally walked to load the bases with two outs after Gunner Fox walked and Aaron Johnson laced a one-out single.
Blade Barclay reached on an error to send Fox home with the go-ahead run, then Johnson scored on a passed ball before Noah Wellmeier walked to load the bases. Avery Parmer singled home two runs to make it 8-4.
Parmer also had an RBI double and Johnson finished with two singles. Barclay and Emerson, who scored three runs out of the lead-off hole, had doubles.
Bexlee Woodard and Aydan Thompson pitched four innings of three-hit, shutout relief.
West Muskingum 12, Claymont 2 (6 inn.): Cam Fowler fired a four-hitter with seven strikeouts to pace the Tornadoes' nonleague mercy in Falls Township.
Fowler needed only 73 pitches to navigate six innings. He allowed no extra-base hits and walked one.
Colton Smith drove in three runs with a double and single and also stole two bases out of the No. 9 hole for West; Silas Bailey and Nathan Davis combined for three hits and 4 RBIs. The Tornadoes led 7-0 lead after four innings.
One of Davis' hits was a double.
Zanesville 10, Sarahsville Shenandoah 8: The Blue Devils (1-2) scored 10 times in the final four innings in a game marred by 10 errors and nine walks at Jay Payton Field.
Preston Moorehead struck out eight in 5 1/3 innings to get the win. He allowed two hits — both singles — and one earned run. Slade Young picked up the save.
Freshmen Avery Mohler and Caleb Underwood combined for four singles, three RBIs and reached six times to pace the Zanesville offense; Trey Whiteman singled twice and drove in a pair.
Dierkis Vincent suffered the loss in relief of Wyatt Rogers, who pitched four innings.
Rosecrans 18, Liberty Christian 8 (5 inn.): The Bishops (2-0) scored 10 times in the bottom of the fifth inning to earn a nonleague mercy at Gant Municipal Stadium.
The Bishops piled up 13 hits — all singles — and took advantage of seven Liberty Christian errors. Brenden Bernath and Tommy Bernath combined for four hits and six RBIs, Drew Dollings three hits and Malakai Clark and Weston Hartman two hits and three RBIs.
Xander Daniels got the final two outs to get the save in relief of Mikey Burkhart, who pitched 4 1/3 innings.
Gnadenhutten Indian Valley 3, Tri-Valley 2: Gavin Henry knocked in the winning run with a one-out single in the bottom of the seventh inning to send the host Braves to a nonleague win.
Tri-Valley tied the game at 2 on Hansel Holmes' one-out single, which came after the Scotties loaded the bases with no outs and had a runner picked off third base. Kaelynn Drummonds drove in a run with a bases-loaded single to make it 2-1.
Landon Harney took the hard-luck loss, allowing six hits and one earned run in 6 1/3 innings. The Scotties, who trailed 2-0 after an inning, had three errors.
Drummonds had two singles and Ashton Sensibaugh and Jacob Kinder doubled for Tri-Valley.
New Lexington 6, 10, Pomeroy Meigs 3, 0: The Panthers earned a nonleague sweep of the Marauders.
No details were available.
Crooksville 6, Waterford 5: The Ceramics trailed 4-0 after an inning but rallied for a nonleague win against the Wildcats in McLuney.
No details were available.
Tennis
Zanesville 3, Logan 2: Lucas Watson and Jerimiah Penrose picked up singles wins for the Blue Devils in a road win against the Chieftains.
Watson topped Levi Keck (6-0, 6-0) and Penrose rolled past Owen Gadrim (6-0, 6-1), while Evan Dinan and Sam Lightle blanked Ashley Aldridge and Tommy Baron (6-0, 6-0) to seal the win in No. 1 doubles.
Sky Cooke and Max Mercer lost a hard-fought 0-6, 6-4, 6-7 decision to Zack Keck and Xavier Lawson in No. 2 doubles.
Zanesville forfeited No. 3 singles due to players taking the ACT.
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Following claims that Carl Woods has reportedly split from fiancé Katie Price, the former Love Island star shared a cryptic message with his 230K+ followers on Instagram. Carl, 32, and former glamour model Katie supposedly called off their wedding that was planned for later this year, the Mirror reports.
In February, Katie, 43, revealed all things Carl on ITV's Lorraine as she shared future wedding plans and that she was undergoing IVF to hopefully welcome her first child with her husband-to-be. However, recent reports suggest that the pair's relationship became rocky due to ongoing court cases.
Other insiders say that Carl dumped Katie after discovering exchanged messages between Katie and her ex, Kris Boyson. Neither of the pair has publicly commented on the allegations.
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Taking to his Instagram stories on Saturday night, Carl shared a message about depression and said that it is a "powerful disease".
Reposting a status originally made by reality TV star James English, the moving post included the line: "Depression is a disease that can hit anyone at any moment." The quote - written by James, not Carl, reads in full: "Depression is sleeping through the day in a dark room. Depression is ignoring calls from family and friends. Depression is feeling lonely but not wanting company.
"Depression can even come with laughs and smiles. Depression is a disease that can hit anyone at any moment. And if you are battling depression at this moment and refuse to give up you my friend are one strong individual - you got this keep going." Car salesman Carl added no comment of his own to his re-share of the post on Saturday night.
Last week, the former reality TV star confused his Instagram followers with a cryptic post about loyalty - just hours after being pictured holding hands with Katie ahead of his court appearance. Carl shared a snap of himself and his beloved dog Sid after appearing at Colchester Magistrates’ Court earlier in the day on March 24, after being charged by police under Section 4 of the Public Order Act, following an arrest in August.
"Loyalty looks like this," the star captioned the post, causing many to comment asking if there was a deeper meaning behind his cute pet picture. Carl had arrived at at court earlier that day holding hands with fiancée Katie - ahead of pleading "not guilty" inside Colchester Magistrates’ Court.
The charge which was read out at court were that on August 22, Carl was said to have used "threatening and abusive" language towards another person, with the intention to "make them believe immediate violence would be used towards them". Prosecuting, Leigh Hart, said the allegations related to an incident "whereby the defendant got into an argument with his partner at his home address.
"The partner left his address and went to another property." She alleged Carl "followed his partner and attempted to force the door of that property whilst shouting outside in the street." The case was adjourned for trial, in June at Chelmsford Magistrates. Carl was placed on unconditional bail.
*If you are struggling with mental health, you can speak to a trained advisor from Mind mental health charity on 0300 123 3393 or email info@mind.org.uk
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BERLIN (AP) — The mayor of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, has expressed shock at what he called “cruel war crimes” committed by Russian soldiers in the town of Bucha northwest of the capital.
Referring to reports of executed civilians, Klitschko told German daily Bild on Sunday that “what happened in Bucha and other suburbs of Kyiv can only be described as genocide.”
An AP crew on Sunday saw the bodies of at least nine people who appear to have been executed. At least two of them had their hands tied behind their backs. They were all in civilian clothes and at least three were naked from the waist up. One appeared shot in the chest from close range.
Klitschko said Russian President Vladimir Putin was responsible for these “cruel war crimes," adding that civilians had been “shot with tied hands.”
He called on the the whole world and especially Germany to immediately end gas imports from Russia.
He said that “especially for Germany, there can only be one consequence: Not a penny should go to Russia anymore, that’s bloody money used to slaughter people. The gas and oil embargo must come immediately.”
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Residents of Ukraine’s besieged southeastern coast are awaiting possible evacuation as the country’s president says Russia’s obsession with capturing the key port city of Mariupol has created opportunities for his military.
In his nightly address, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia's fixation allowed his troops to make gains elsewhere. Still, Ukraine says it expects reclaimed areas to continue to endure missile and rocket strikes from afar and for new battles to break out as Russia amasses troops in Ukraine's east.
Two explosions were heard in Odesa on the Black Sea on Sunday. The Russian military said it used ships and aircraft-fired missiles to strike an oil processing plant and fuel depots that were supplying Ukrainian troops.
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Russian forces strike oil facility in key port city of Odessa
Black smoke filled Odessa's skies on Sunday, as Russian forces struck the strategic southern Ukrainian port city on the Black Sea.
Drivin the news: The strikes hit an oil refinery and fuel storage facilities during the bombardment, according to Ukrainian and Russian officials. Odessa Mayor Hennadii Trukhanov said during a televised address that civilian buildings were hit, but there were no immediately reports of casualties, per CNN.
Go deeper... Dashboard: Russian invasion of Ukraine
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Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital
Gonzalez — To Julian Gonzalez and Myekayla Crasper of Yakima, a son, Xavier Orion Gonzalez, 8 pounds, 6.1 ounces, at 5:41 a.m. on March 18, 2022. Grandparents are Brandon and Julia Couchman of Yakima, and Patricia Lopez and Ismael Gonzalez of Yakima.
Meyers — To Skyler Meyers and Hailey Rogers of Outlook, a son, Maverick Henry Meyers, 6 pounds, 9 ounces, at 8:22 p.m. on March 18, 2022. Grandparents are Christina and Darrel Rogers of Outlook, and Henry Meyers and Janet Bethel of Richland.
Lancaster — To Jeremiah and Regina Lancaster of Selah, a daughter, Aubrey Eleanor Lancaster, 9 pounds, 10 ounces, at 11:41 a.m. on March 18, 2022.
Garcia — To Richard and Angelina Garcia of Yakima, a daughter, Mia Kataleya Garcia, 8 pounds, 5 ounces, at 12:59 a.m. on March 18, 2022. Grandparents are Carmelita and Herman Gonzalez of Yakima, and Richard and Bobbi Garcia of Yakima.
Clark — To Andrew and Emily Clark of Yakima, a daughter, Oaklynn Samantha Clark, 5 pounds, 13.8 ounces, at 12:28 p.m. on March 20, 2022. Grandparents are Rick Anderson and Gina Martin of Chehalis, and Bob and Christina Clark of Wapato.
Smith — To RJ and Maelene Smith of Yakima, a son, Jax Charles Smith, 8 pounds, 11 ounces, at 7:27 p.m. on March 17, 2022. Grandparents are Ken White of Zillah, and Ida and Steve Dorais of Yakima.
Hernandez — To Rolando Hernandez and Lusero Lopez of Wapato, a son, Eli Policarpo Hernandez, 7 pounds, 7 ounces, at 3:42 p.m. on March 16, 2022.
Rahman — To Anisah Rahman and Reaz Uddin of Yakima, a daughter, Rifqa Rahman, 6 pounds, 3 ounces, at 3:58 p.m. on March 17, 2022.
Storment — To Seager Storment and Sydnee Thompson of Selah, a son, Kaseon Brooks Storment, 8 pounds, 3 ounces, at 8:50 p.m. on March 21, 2022. Grandparents are Aaron and Michell Thompson and Andre Green of Yakima, and Andrea and Dave Madeie and Sean Storment of Toppenish.
Bhudia — To Umesh Bhudia and Radhika Modi of Yakima, a son, Mahadev U. Bhudia, 8 pounds, at 11 p.m. on March 20, 2022.
Roque — To Angel Roque and Vanessa Lara of Yakima, a daughter, Maribelle Hazel Roque, 6 pounds, 13 ounces, at 1:21 a.m. on March 21, 2022.
Tajeda — To Aaron Teheda and Vanessa Cuevas of Yakima, a son, Milo Saint Tejeda, 7 pounds, 8 ounces, at 6:07 a.m. on March 19, 2022.
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Have you ever applied for a job and never heard anything back? It could be because of artificial intelligence (AI) and an Applicant Tracking System (ATS). Statistics indicate 99% of Fortune 500 companies filter resumes using AI and ATS. Yes, even companies in Yakima use these tools.
Developed during the Great Recession when employers were overwhelmed with job applicants, ATS uses algorithms to scan resumes according to key words, skills, college degrees, professional credentials, responsibilities and other factors.
Employers set up this screening criteria so they only receive resumes that are an exact match, saving time and removing supposedly unqualified people. Filters are used to eliminate candidates without certain education, certifications, specific experience or work authorizations.
Ironically, the technology created to make it easier to find skilled candidates is rejecting many qualified individuals! In fact, a report from the Harvard Business School “found that job candidates who had gaps in their work histories or who didn’t possess college degrees or certain credentials were often disqualified.” Applicants who “described their skills or experience on resumes using language that differed from the requirements posted in the job description” were viewed as poor fits by ATS.
There are steps a job seeker can take to beat the bots. The most important thing is to tailor your resume for the job you want.
- Include the exact words, phrases, job titles, skills, responsibilities, degrees, and/or professional credentials listed in the job description. Not sure what these are? Pull several job descriptions for the same kind of occupation. Highlight the words and phrases that appear in each. You will see the same terms over and over. These are key words. Use these; mirror the language the employer uses.
- Format accordingly. ATS cannot read headers, footers, text boxes, columns, images or colored ink. Skip the online and MS Word templates. Resume templates are often made up of text boxes. Start from a blank page and submit your resume as a Word doc. Use standard section headings like Education, Professional Experience, Technical Skills, etc.
- Apply only if you meet the qualifications. If it says seven years of experience and you have five, apply. If you are new to an industry or have no experience, don’t waste your time.
- Use simple formatting with a modern font and plenty of white space so it’s easy to read, and try to keep it to no more than two pages. According to LinkedIn, “Employers only spend about six seconds reading a resume.” (Six seconds!)
The use of artificial intelligence for employment decisions is receiving increased scrutiny from the federal government. The EEOC launched an initiative in 2021 to ensure than AI and algorithmic decision-making tools don’t create discriminatory barriers to jobs (SHRM). And more companies are changing their focus to look more holistically at job seekers and less at degrees and certifications. Until this becomes the norm, pay careful attention to your resume.
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The return of concerts after the COVID-19 pandemic has been refreshing, and Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever tour is no exception.
Her March 26, 2022, concert at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena was the first concert I’ve been to since everything was shut down, and it exceeded my expectations. The arena was almost completely full, and the crowd there was a pretty diverse age group.
The set list was arranged perfectly. It was a good mix of both her 2021 “Happier Than Ever” album and her earlier popular songs. Slower songs were mixed with faster-paced ones, making it a balanced concert. I enjoyed every second, even during the songs I didn’t know well.
Not only were the song choices and vocals amazing, but her performance was very entertaining to watch. The visuals on the screen matched well with each song, and added a lot to the performance.
The whole message of the concert was inspiring and comforting. Eilish made sure that every single person in the arena was having a fun time. She was constantly checking on the audience, handing out water and ensuring that everyone was doing OK. Throughout all of this, she spread awareness to the crowd about many different environmental issues, including global warming.
Her explanations of a few of her deeper songs also helped expand my understanding and appreciation of her music. I have listened to Eilish’s music for a few years, but I never felt like I appreciated the full extent of her songwriting until I saw her perform in person. It truly was an experience that I will never forget.
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I wasn’t sure what to expect when I walked into Climate Pledge Arena, the sporting and music venue at Seattle Center that opened in October after a major renovation. I’d heard a lot about the new arena, but I had only seen photos online. Now, I was about to experience it first-hand at an Imagine Dragons concert.
Climate Pledge Arena is a stadium dedicated to sustainability. The arena is net zero carbon, using no fossil fuels for things like the venue’s mechanical systems, heating and cooking. The stadium also boasts a solar array and buys carbon credits to offset the fossil fuels burned for things like transportation. It also collects rainwater to use for its hockey rink and plans to eliminate single-use plastics by 2024.
Walking through the front doors on March 7, Climate Pledge almost felt like an airport. After passing a towering facade of arches and windows, we joined a crush of a thousand others in one of many slow-moving lines. But, after putting our valuables in a tray, scanning our tickets and walking through a metal detector, we were inside.
The walls of the main level danced with videos of rivers and tropical rain forests, painted not as murals but rather with large floor-to-ceiling LED displays. The effect was mesmerizing. Farther down the concourse, the walls were replaced once again, giving way to plastic greenery. Little portholes had been cut through the greenery to reveal more LED signs that showed more videos of nature and also explained what Climate Pledge was.
The seating at Climate Pledge is different from other stadiums I had been to. The arena felt very tall versus the shallower incline of other stadiums. This made it easier to see over the person in front of you.
That night, MØ opened for Imagine Dragons. She played songs like “Blur,” “Lean On” and “Final Song.”
During the main show, Imagine Dragons played hits such as “Believer,” “Thunder,” “Whatever It Takes,” “Demons” and “Radioactive.” The group also played songs from its new album, “Mercury — Act 1,” such as “My Life,” “Wrecked,” “Lonely” and “One Day.” It also covered “Three Little Birds” by Bob Marley and the Wailers.
What made this concert so special was how much energy both bands brought to the stage. Karen Marie Aagaard Ørsted Andersen, the lead singer for MØ, was dancing and jumping across the stage during her entire performance.
Normally, that kind of energy is hard to beat. Still, Dan Reynolds, the lead singer for Imagine Dragons, found a way. He could often be seen genuinely smiling and giving crowd members high-fives. He was clearly enjoying himself, which made the performance even more enjoyable for everyone watching.
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Christchurch: Australian wicketkeeper-batter Alyssa Healy was named 'Player of the Tournament' by the ICC following her team's 71-run over England in the Women's World Cup final here on Sunday.
Healy, who smashed 170 in the final against England, added her name to the prestigious roll-call of previous winners, joining former Australia captain Karen Rolton (2005) and international stars (England's Claire Taylor in 2009, New Zealand's Suzie Bates in 2013 and England's Tammy Beaumont in 2017) as contemporaries who have also won the coveted award.
Healy also emualted her husband Mitchell Starc as the left-arm pacer was named player of the tournament when Australia triumphed in the 2015 ICC World Cup.
Healy (509) scored more runs than any other player in New Zealand, with her centuries in the semifinal and final of the tournament helping Australia take home a record-extending seventh World Cup title.
The 32-year-old averaged 56.55 with the bat and also contributed eight dismissals (four catches and four stumpings) as keeper.
The six-person panel that judged Healy included commentators Lisa Sthalekar, Nasser Hussain and Natalie Germanos.
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One person was killed and at least 10 others were injured when gunfire rang out during a trail ride and concert event in Texas early Sunday morning, according to FOX4.
The shooting occurred on the 5050 block of Cleveland Road in Dallas — forcing attendees to run for their lives. Police have yet to identify the victim of the horrifying incident.
Injured victims were being transported to multiple hospitals, according to FOX4.
No arrests have been made. The Dallas Police Department is investigating the shooting.
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Mall of Monroe fills anchor store spots with new tenants
The company that owns the Mall of Monroe will soon achieve a longstanding goal: the largest spaces at the shopping center on North Monroe Street will once again be occupied.
For the first time in more than a decade, anchor stores that have stood vacant will become homes to new enterprises.
It’s a significant accomplishment, said Joe Bell, director of corporate communication at Cafaro, the company that owns the mall. He credits the milestone to the work of Cafaro’s leasing agents. The new tenants are representative of a wide array of businesses and reflect the new, mixed-used community center vision for the property, Bell added.
“The process of attracting new anchor tenants has always been challenging — it’s not unusual for negotiations to take years to complete,” Bell said. “Fortunately, our leasing executives have developed great relationships within the retail industry; they are also very resourceful in envisioning new uses for space that might be popular in the community.
“We are building a mixed-use business community that reflects the economic diversity of the local Monroe/Frenchtown economy.”
Cubesmart, a Florida-based real estate company, has acquired a more than 78,000-square foot space in what was formerly a Sears store.
The venture will repurpose the space into a facility boasting climate-controlled storage units. The company is investing $4 million into its new space, with an anticipated opening later this year.
Ragnarok Supply Company and Ragnarok Motorworks will move into the former Pat Catan’s craft store. The companies will provide outdoor supplies and opportunities to customize vehicles for specialized, off-road use.
Local entrepreneur Jacob James took control of the 51,100-square foot space. James also operates his other company, Leviathan, from the mall. It specializes in making props for film, television and stage productions.
Next month, Domka Outdoors will move into the 56,800-square foot space formerly occupied by Carson’s. Owners David Domka and Erin Aubrecht are relocating their business at the former Horizon Outlet Center in Monroe Charter Township to the new space.
The business specializes in equipment and apparel for outdoor activities such as fishing and archery. The business will install an archery range at its space.
The largest space — the former Target space that is approximately 97,000 square feet — has been bought by Quality Auto Parts, an automative part distribution company based in Detroit.
Bell said that particular development was possible through Target selling the space. Though attached to the mall, the national retailer owned the building, meaning Cafaro could not lease the space out. The company recently sold the parcel.
“Other than operating our adjacent properties together pursuant to an agreement, we have no influence on the former Target parcel,” Bell added.
Cafaro has been spearheading a campaign to revitalize the property. Company officials have long said they see potential in curating a center that provides businesses not traditionally found in a mall.
“It’s really a multi-faceted approach,” Bell said. “The best way to describe it is to reflect on what needs exist in the community, identify entrepreneurs who can fulfill those needs and demonstrate to them how they will find success at the mall.”
Like large, multi-retails spaces across the country, the Mall of Monroe began seeing a steady exodus of stores during the last several years.
In the wake of a cyber attack that compromised sensitive financial data, Target closed several stores nationally in 2015. The Monroe location, which was one of the most popular attractions at the mall, was selected.
In the ensuing years, smaller stores and larger anchor stores followed suit, including locations such as FYE; American Eagle; Aeropostale; Books-A-Million; Gamestop; DEBS; Claire’s; President Tuxedo and others.
High profile exits such as Carson’s and Pat Catan’s left large spaces vacant, and several stretches of storefronts in the mall unoccupied.
Shifting consumer trends have caused havoc among retailers and it has become increasingly common for large retail spaces to sit vacant for stretches of time, Bell said.
High-profile bankruptcies by former traditional mall tenants such as Sears, JCPenney and Elder-Beerman have had an impact. It’s also highlighted how difficult it is to find companies in need of such spaces, Bell added.
The addition of new anchor tenants will help drive more traffic to the mall, he said.
“With the struggles of traditional department stores and the rise of discounters and on-line shopping, surviving traditional department stores are concentrating on populous major metropolitan areas,” Bell said. “We are identifying successful local businesses who wish to place their operations in a larger, professionally managed environment not readily available in the Monroe market.”
The ongoing pandemic also has had an impact. Like most shopping centers, the Mall of Monroe was closed for months as a result of statewide regulations and mandates handed down as the state managed its response to the coronavirus.
Businesses deemed unessential were shuttered and unable to operate. And after they were able to reopen after months of closure, an ongoing labor shortage persisted.
“The problem was not the disease itself, but the draconian shutdowns and mandates that came from politicians,” Bell said. “In retrospect, did shutting down all those businesses do anything to stop the virus from spreading? Of course not.
“Retailers have been having a hard time finding the staffing they need. The labor shortage was created by a combination of factors.”
Some legacy businesses have maintained their space. Phoenix Theatres operates several screens and its Encore giant screen at the mall. Businesses such as Spencer’s, Planet Fitness, the Shoe Dept. and Bath and Body Works also remain in the shopping center.
A slew of new enterprises have also moved in. Monroe City Church opened earlier this year, and hosts several hundred worshippers weekly in the former Carson’s Home Store.
Flashback Antiques, and Gifts and Custom Designs by Amu and Ani, which opened during the pandemic, have recently upgraded to larger spaces. Color, which has long been at the mall, expanded into two storefronts.
The Monroe Community Players have crafted a theater space for productions and is headquartered in the mall. Ulekstore’s Pinball Arcade and Pillar Performance are also recent tenants.
Additional ventures are on the way, Bell said.
Katalina’s Kitchen will soon open, marking the return of a dining option at the vacant food court. The last remaining eatery, Mrs. Fields, closed earlier this year.
Wonderland Comics also will open this year, taking the space formerly occupied by Flashback before it moved to a new space.
Bell said Cafaro plans to continue attracting new enterprises, leaning heavily into the versatility of its spaces.
The mall has room to accommodate more retail, entertainment, service and office spaces, he said, adding that the property also has 68 vacant acres that can also be developed for additional uses.
Tim Matune, senior vice president of asset development at Cafaro, has worked in the industry for 38 years. He said the Monroe County market is stable.
“The redevelopment of The Mall is a recognition of the need to adapt to changing circumstances,” Matune said. “We will once again be a place of assembly for the (community), but with different offerings.”
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CommUNITY
I was blessed this past week to celebrate what is good about the world--twice.
I attended two special events that really demonstrated for me what commUNITY is about. I was reminded how fortunate I am to be a part of larger groups that make a positive difference in the commUNITY.
The first event was the 160th Anniversary of Zion Lutheran Church of Summerfield, my family’s home church for about 150 of those 160 years. This rural, mostly German influenced church has been located on Kruse Road in southwest Ida Township (Petersburg address!) since 1862! My family has been a part of this faith community for now 7 generations, and I finished my childhood years living near the church, (next door to my Dad’s parents). I was part of the committee that helped to organize activities for our 150th anniversary in 2012 and again for this special 160th celebration. Congregation members shared family photos and memorabilia on a timeline erected in the back of the sanctuary. It was amazing to visualize all those years. We replayed videos we made 10 years ago featuring many of our faith family who are no longer with us. I couldn’t help but wonder all the ways my faith community demonstrated their help and support of each other and their surrounding community for 160 years! We conduct fundraisers for Relay for Life, adopt families for Christmas, help collect and distribute food, make quilts for worldwide distribution, collect sheets and blankets for a local bed program to name a few. This past year one of our own was severely affected by COVID-19, and our community designated our Lenten and Christmas offerings and craft show proceeds to help with the family’s extra expenses. Miraculously, our friend is now almost fully recovered after intensive physical, occupational and speech therapy. Although our membership has dwindled in recent years, I still marvel at all the ways our little enclave continues to help others around us. I listened to a special message from our Bishop thanking us for 160 faithful years through a civil war, two world wars and now two pandemics. Indeed, we have been through a lot, but we did it to together, as a commUNITY.
This past week I also witnessed a great commUNITY gathering for Monroe County’s 20th Everyday Heroes Celebration. Twenty years ago, our team at the Monroe County Red Cross created this event to celebrate our local heroes in several categories (fire, police, medical responder, youth Good Samaritan, etc.). We wanted to honor individuals and groups in the community who save lives or make a difference in the lives of others, thus celebrating the greater commUNITY. In 2015, we handed the event off to the United Way, and it is still going strong in Monroe 20 years later! Celebrating heroes in our commUNITY reminds us of the good that is still in the world. Coming together to honor those heroes is a great way to honor that spirit of commUNITY.
These events remind me what an honor it is to serve at the United Way, where we constantly survey the needs of the commUNITY and work with commUNITY partners to strive for a greater commUNITY good.
The United Way funds 25 local Monroe County agency programs and serves as a donor designation vehicle for additional agencies. All funds raised in Monroe County stay in Monroe County. We also sponsor countywide 2-1-1 services, and coordinate Project Ramp, 4 annual Health Check events, the (Federal) Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP), and volunteer referral services. For more information about the GIVING AND LIVING UNITED, please contact us! Call us at 734-242-1331, mail a contribution or visit us at 216 N. Monroe St., Monroe, MI 48162. Email at lpipis@unitedwayMLC.org OR visit our website at www.unitedwaymlc.org. Thank you for your consideration of GIVING to the United Way of Monroe/Lenawee Counties.
Laura Schultz Pipis is the Associate Director of the United Way of Monroe/Lenawee Counties.
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First Merchants merging with Level One
First Merchants Bank, based in Muncie, Ind., is merging with the Michigan-based Level One Bank.
First Merchants has several bank branches in Monroe County.
Level One will become part of First Merchants Bank.
Following regulatory approvals last month, the companies consummated their legal closing through a cash/stock transaction effective Friday.
“Together, First Merchants and Level One will maintain the essential heart of a community bank while offering more robust services in a way that makes them preferred for how they operate,” First Merchants said.
Headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan, Level One operates 17 banking center locations in the Michigan area, all of which will remain part of the First Merchants franchise.
“Since its founding in 2007, Level One Bank grew into one of the largest community banks in the state with total assets of $2.52 billion, total loans of $1.65 billion and total deposits of $2.04 billion as of December 31, 2021,” First Merchants said.
“Like First Merchants, Level One achieved a solid reputation for a deep-rooted commitment to community banking, and we are excited they have chosen to become the newest member of the First Merchants family,” Mark Hardwick, First Merchants CEO, said. “The LEVL franchise helps us to contiguously extend our presence in Michigan, leveraging the vision of First Merchants to enhance the financial wellness of the diverse communities we serve.”
“Our merger into First Merchants provides tremendous benefits to customers, shareholders and communities as we look forward to continuing the exceptional customer service, local responsiveness and strong community engagement that has defined Level One since its founding in 2007,” Patrick J. Fehring, Level One CEO,said. “First Merchants is the perfect partner to continue our legacy of service excellence.”
First Merchants will have assets of approximately $18 billion and will remain the second largest financial holding company headquartered in Indiana. The combined company, doing business as First Merchants Bank, will complete its integration during the third quarter of 2022.
The company will have 126 banking offices across Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Illinois.
For more information on the merger, a welcome letter from First Merchants CEO Mark Hardwick and detailed FAQs about the transition, visit https://www.firstmerchants.com/level-one-bank.
On the Net: www.firstmerchants.com
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Jefferson teacher speaks at MACUL Conference
A local educator recently made her 10th consecutive presentation at the Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) Conference.
Jefferson High School special education teacher Karen Chichester presented three sessions at the conference held last month in Grand Rapids. Together with her presenting partner, Owosso Elementary teacher Mary Hankins, Chichester covered the use of Kami for Collaborative Learning, and using Google Workspace and Universal Design for Learning to Enable Learning for All Students. The duo's final session was a fast-paced technology slam.
Chichester says that she loves sharing her knowledge and experiences with other teachers. She has been instrumental in training Jefferson teachers to use technology, and credits her love for learning new technology and sharing it with fellow teachers for keeping her in teaching. She is a member of the National Education Association’s webinar team, which is led by Ellen Brooks, a Monroe Public Schools elementary teacher, and Christopher Thomas, an Ann Arbor Middle School teacher.
Chichester is a Google for Education Certified Trainer, a Kami Hero, a Per Deck Inspearational Educator, and a past recipient of the Monroe County Digital Leader Award. This is her 36th year at Jefferson and her 42nd as a Michigan educator.
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Local students compete at State MATHCOUNTS competition
Several local students competed in the State MATHCOUNTS competition held March 12 at Saginaw Valley State University.
Students from Mason Middle School and Bedford Junior High, along with Martha Spencer from HIS Homeschool in Monroe, participated in the competition. Mason, which is coached by teachers Carson Manthey and Tara Stubleski, punched its ticket to the state competition by winning the Southeastern Chapter contest held in February. Mason's Joanne Cai took first as an individual in that competition, while Spencer from HIS Homeschool took second.
Bedford was the winner of an additional virtual competition that was held later in February.
While no local individuals placed in the top ten, Patrick Lewis, MATHCOUNTS Southeastern Chapter Coordinator, said that everyone had fun.
The MATHCOUNTS Foundation is a nationwide program that was founded in 1983 to promote excellence in mathematics. The program also extends beyond simply the competition series by supplementing regular classroom exercises with challenging real-world engineering-type problems.
More than 5,000 schools typically participate nationwide in the competition series, with another 2,500 club schools also benefiting from program materials. The MATHCOUNTS program title sponsors are Raytheon Technologies and the U.S. Department of Defense, and is also sponsored nationally by the National Society of Professional Engineers, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, CNA Foundation, Northrop Grumman Foundation, Texas Instruments, the 3M Foundation, and the Art of Problem Solving. Further information is available at www.mathcounts.org.
The competition consists of four rounds, three written and one oral. In the Sprint Round, students have 40 minutes to answer 30 questions without the aid of calculators. Target Round problems are multi-step, and students have 6 minutes to answer each of 4 pairs. In the Team Round, students have 20 minutes to answer 10 questions, and must work as a team to reach mutually agreeable solutions.
The Countdown Round is a fast-paced oral round, in which the top ten individuals based on the written portions square off for place standing and advancement to the State competition. Students are read a question, which they have 60 seconds to answer. They must answer three questions correctly to advance to the next round.
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Monroe County History: Detroit Stoker has long, successful history
Detroit Stoker has been operating in Monroe since 1922 – having purchased the former Van Blerck Motor Company Plant on East First Street and relocating operations (which began in 1898) from Detroit.
During its successful 124-year history (and 100 years in Monroe), Detroit Stoker has developed many innovations related to furnace operations in both traditional energy generation (using fossil fuels) and bio-energy generation (using waste products and other natural fuel sources).
An interesting product developed by Detroit Stoker in its early Monroe days is the patented stoker wind box. According to Patent No. 1,770,061 entitled “Stoker Construction” assigned to Detroit Stoker’s Royce L. Beers (originally filed on October 13, 1924 and approved on July 8, 1930), the design offers an unique way for air to circulate in the stoker mechanism and contribute to efficient furnace operations.
The patent summary reads: “It is an object of my invention to provide a novel wind box construction for the side walls of a furnace preferably of the aforesaid type… A further invention resides in the provision of a plurality of removable wind box tuyere blocks [a tuyere is a tube, nozzle or pipe through which air is blown into the furnace] and the means of assembling these blocks within the reinforced, recessed side walls of the furnace.”
The beauty of the Detroit Stoker’s Stoker Construction patent is that the design could be applied to a variety of furnace applications. The patent narrative continues: “I do not limit myself to a wind box construction in connection with any particular type of furnace as such construction is equally well adapted wherever found desirable in connection with various types of furnaces.”
The improvement in Detroit Stoker’s wind box design came on the heels of the first installation of the multiple retort stoker in 1919 (which, in the case of coal-burning, improves the distribution of coal from the hopper on the furnace grates for burning by allowing the coal to enter from multiple points, according to the article “Factors Influencing the Performance of Single Retort Underfeed Stokers”, published by the 911 Metallurgist Company in 2020).
Later, in 1938, the RotoGrate stoker was developed, allowing the ash from burning to be continually discharged and to effectively burn biomass, waste fuel, low-ash-producing poultry litter as well as high-ash-producing coal. The expansion of burning biomass and waste fuels prompted Detroit Stoker to further enhance the RotoGrate concept to develop the reciprocating stoker in 1959. The advantage of the reciprocating stoker is its ability to allow biomass fuels with a high proportion of incombustibles to be combusted in an efficient manner with the added benefit of automatic de-ashing at the end of the burning process.
Other Detroit Stoker products were developed to handle various byproducts of the power generation process. The rotary seal feeder was developed in 1967 to handle the distribution of char and ash following the combustion process. Subsequently, Detroit Stoker’s RotoStoker VCG was introduced in 1972 followed by Hydrogate Stoker in 1982 and UltraFlow Mixer in 1985. These products allow multiple fuel types to burn efficiently and promote efficient waste removal.
Recent Detroit Stoker accomplishments include the CNX LoNOx Burner and the Bagasse Triple Drum Feeder in 2018 and 2019, respectively. The CNX LoNOx Burner reduces NOx emissions for natural gas, propane, No. 2 / No. 6 oil combustion, and the Bagasse Triple Drum Feeder allows bagasse – the waste from sugarcane processing, olive pressing, etc. and a primary fuel source – to be fed uniformly into the stoker/feeder system. The company’s proactive contributions to the use of biofuels and alternative fuel sources (both in power generation and waste management) are noteworthy.
Tom Adamich is President – Visiting Librarian Service, a firm he has operated since 1993. He also is Project Archivist for the Greening Nursery Company and Family Archives.
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Get out the grill
Are you ready for spring and summer?
I know I am.
I can't wait for the sweet smells of the barbecue, sun-filled days, kids playing outside, and enjoyable, relaxing time with family and friends, creating flavorful outdoor meals and memories.
This week and next week are good times to talk about the grill and some outdoor living recipes.
I believe there is necessary equipment when we talk about the grill. Here are some of the key components:
- A pair of long-handled tongs
- A digital thermometer to make sure the internal temperature of the food is cooked properly.
- Heavy-duty mitts long to protect your hands and forearms as you baste and turn hot food on the hot grill.
- Long-handled lighter to reach lighting source.
- Trays and baking sheet, for carrying food and supplies.
- A basting brush for sauces
- Heavy-duty aluminum foil for cleaning the grill –use a long tong and go over the grates. Or purchase a handled grill cleaner.
Let’s not forget seasoning and different marinades that you may want to include. Keep in mind if your versatile on the grill experiment and try different unique cooking styles that are easily found on the internet or in the many cookbooks available.
Here are a few recipe options you may want to use at your grilling stations. I find them to be a home run during the spring and summer.
I love to grill and find it enjoyable and flavorful. Since the spring and summer seasons go by so quickly, having the time to leave the indoor kitchen helps me to appreciate the great outdoors, the peace of the seasons, and family.
Guy Fieri Said this:
"People get a little bolder and more wild in summer. You've got things going on kabobs, things cooking on the bone. There's something about standing over a grill or outside with the family that inspires us."
As always, I could not agree more. See you next Sunday for more grilling tips and tricks.
Jacqueline Iannazzo-Corser is a contributing writer to The Monroe News, writing about food and recipes. She is a chef, co-owner of Public House and an adjunct professor of culinary arts at Monroe County Community College. She can be reached at jcorser@monroeccc.edu.
Portabella Mushroom Burgers
Serves 4
Ingredients:
- 4 large Portobello mushrooms
- 2 tbsp. Organic Miso (found in the refrigerated section of your favorite grocery)
- 2 tbsp. toasted sesame oil
- 2 tbsp. Mild Sriracha Sauce
- Salt & Pepper to taste
- Guacamole slices or scooped
- Any type of Bun desired
Portobello Slaw Topping for Mushroom:
- 3 cups of matchstick carrots
- 2 scallion
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 4 teaspoons Rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon toasted sesame seeds
- Cut, Mix and Refrigerate all ingredients.
Directions:
- Preheat grill.
- Mix the miso, sriracha, sesame oil, salt and pepper (pinch) together in a small bowl to make a paste.
- Brush liberally onto both sides of the Portobello mushrooms.
- Grill the Portobello’s, top sides down first, for approximately 5 minutes, until juicy and tender. Flip and grill the other side.
- Grill bun wrapped in foil or directly on grates.
- Assemble the burgers.
Note: You can also serve this dish will a Lettuce wrap of your choice, I enjoy a Bib lettuce. Adjust ingredients for more guests, and change any that may work better for your guests.
Grilled Romaine Entrée
Serves 4
Ingredients:
- 2 bunches of romaine hearts
- Olive Oil Spray
- 1 ear of corn or fresh to frozen
- ½ pound of fresh or canned fava beans, or fresh to frozen
- ½ pound shrimp (medium to large) cleaned
- 1 avocado sliced or diced
- 1-pint cherry tomatoes, cut in half.
- Parley (fresh or dried)
- Salt & Pepper to taste
- Fresh Lemon or bottled (purchase 2 to 4 oz.). I like the Realemon in lemon squeeze bottle.
Yogurt Dill Dressing:
- ½ cup plain yogurt
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 Clove garlic minced
- 2 tablespoons chopped dill or bottle.
Directions:
- Preheat grill to med.
- Mix all ingredients for the Dill dressing –set aside.
- Spray romaine with olive oil, and season with salt & pepper to taste.
- Grill each side of romaine lightly until you see grill marks.
- Place on a large cutting board or serving platter.
- Place fava beans in pan cook for 3 to 4 minutes then add corn cook for 3 more minutes & last add the shrimp. Cook on low for an additional 6 to 7 minutes. Use a pan lid or not.
- When contents are soft & heated carefully place on the romaine, placing the shrimp on top for aesthetics.
- Ribbon or spoon (lightly) the Dill dressing and top with avocado and herbs.
Note: Be gentle with the shrimp and do not overcook, you’re basically heating them, they will turn rubbery.
Simple Lentil Burgers
Serves 4
Ingredients:
- ½ cups dried, canned or fresh to frozen red lentils
- 1 garlic cloves minced
- ⅓ cup grated carrots
- 1/3 cup of diced onion
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- ¼ cup chopped fresh or bottled cilantro
- Cooking oil (I like Olive oil)
- Salt & Pepper to Taste
- Hamburger bun or wrap (optional)
- Seasoned Bread Crumbs (on hand)
Directions:
- If using fresh lentils soak in enough water to cover them, about 2 inches for approximately two hours, then Rinse and drain.
- Place ingredients into a food processor. Lentils, garlic, shallot, carrot, tomato paste, cilantro, salt, and black pepper. Pulse until the ingredients are well combined and the mixture holds together, being able to scrape the sides.
- Shape the mixture into ½ inch patties
- Oil a grill pan for the outdoor grill
- Cook the patties on each side until golden and crispy
- Place on a paper towel drain excess oil.
- Place on a bun or wrap if desired.
Note: If you feel your mixture is not stiff enough add seasoned bread crumbs for binding.
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Russian people, like Aunt Vala, are not to blame for travesties
While I fondly recall my adopted grandparents who were from Ukraine, I have just as much adoration and respect for a late aunt who was from Russia.
My Aunt Vala lived in Chicago and throughout my life she and my Uncle Pete would routinely visit my family here in Michigan. I always looked forward to their visit, and not just because they would bring me the best gifts. My Uncle Pete was my mom’s first cousin and they both were from a small town in eastern Poland.
But Aunt Vala was from Russia. She stood about 4-foot-8 and wore her hair big and tall. She may have been tiny in stature, but she was one tough Russian who survived the war in Europe. And when I was a child my mom always appreciated when Aunt Vala stayed over because she always frightened me into submission.
I can’t explain it, but she would strike fear into me simply with a dish towel. It must have been a repressed memory from when I was a toddler because all she had to do was twist that towel into knots and say “tak, tak, tak,” which meant she was doing it “like this, like this, like this.”
To this day, I don’t understand how a soft dish towel could have such a terrifying effect on me, but if I was misbehaving, all Aunt Vala had to do was twist that thing over and over and give me that look on her face that would scare Putin.
But she truly cared for me and affectionately call me her kitten in Russian. And as I grew older, I became even closer to her. In fact, I loved her borscht. She didn’t use beets, which is probably why I enjoyed it. It’s her basic recipe that I use to this day when I make cabbage and oxtail soup.
She rarely spoke about her years in the old country, but the stories about what she endured in Europe during World War II that circulated in the family were horrifying. And if they were true, she never showed it. In fact, as time went on, I have become more and more astonished at what my family endured not only during the horrors of war, but also by having to leave their lives behind to come to America. The stunning sacrifices they made led to the comfortable lifestyles enjoyed by me and my sisters and our families. Scores of us simply would not exist without that generation of immigrants.
So when I see these Ukrainians, these old women with creased and worried faces wearing babushkas as they struggle among the ruins and are forced to leave their homes as refugees, I see the same people I loved and grew up with.
But I realize the Russian people are not to blame. Like always with Russia, it’s the government. Today it’s Putin spreading disaster and sorrow. Decades ago, it was the Bolsheviks, the communists, during the revolution who made my dad into a guerrilla fighter and sent my grandparents and others to Siberia.
And, as always these days, I wish my relatives were around so I could ask them questions about their pasts. Some might reveal their hardships, others not so much. My Aunt Vala was one of those who would prefer to keep those memories repressed.
I know because I tried. I was working as a reporter at the time of her death and I often asked questions about the old days. But she preferred to talk about other things. Like how she would scare the bejesus out of me using an old dish towel. She smiled at those memories.
Ray Kisonas is the regional editor of The Monroe News and The Daily Telegram in Adrian. He can be reached at rayk@monroenews.com.
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As for this upcoming work week, there are still several days expected to be cooler-than-average. Below is the forecast high temperatures in West Michigan for the upcoming week between April 4 to April 10. While a few days will reach the middle 50s, many days will be spent on the cooler end.
The average high temperature between April 10 to April 16 in West Michigan ranges between 55 to 58 degrees. The following outlook suggests that temperatures in West Michigan will be warmer than 55 to 58 degrees within that time frame. Start planning your outdoor activities!
Stay tuned with the FOX 17 Weather Team for updates on the upcoming forecast!
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The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol is racing against a political clock to get to the bottom of what happened that day, and in the lead-up to the attack.
While two Republicans sit on the nine-member panel, it's a committee created by a Democratic-controlled House that GOP leadership has tried to discredit. One of those Republican panelists, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, is facing a primary challenger backed by former President Donald Trump. The other, Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, is not running for reelection. And the January 6 committee itself is likely to be disbanded if Republicans win back the House in November.
So how likely are Republicans to win this fall? Historically, very likely. The party in the White House traditionally loses seats in the first midterm election of a new president's term. In fact, the president's party has lost an average of 30 House seats in midterm elections over the last 100 years, according to Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales. Republicans only need a net gain of five seats to win the chamber this year.
A reminder: A net gain of five seats is not the same thing as winning five seats. A party needs at least 218 seats to win control of the House. While Republicans are trying to flip seats this year, so are the Democrats -- so any GOP wins will have to be offset by any losses they incur.
That said, losses are not a huge concern for Republicans right now. Given the historical trends working in their favor and the fact that President Joe Biden's approval rating is 40% in the latest CNN average of national polls, the national environment seems to be working in their favor. And the uptick in retirement announcements by several longtime Democratic incumbents in recent months is a telling sign they weren't looking forward to serving in the minority.
But it's not all bad news for Democrats. The House map is not as favorable to Republicans as the majority party feared it could have been. The once-a-decade redistricting process is nearly complete (except for a handful of states), which has resulted in new congressional lines that Democrats think give them a shot at holding their majority.
Overall, the biggest takeaway from redistricting is that the number of competitive House seats has shrunk, which means that in most states, primaries -- rather than general election contests -- will be the main event.
Several states are hosting member-on-member primaries, in which two incumbents are running in the same district, either because their state lost a seat in redistricting or they were drawn into the same seat for partisan reasons. While those races can provide plenty of intraparty drama -- and in some cases, a test of Trump's enduring influence over the GOP -- they're mostly not expected to have any effect on the general election. In West Virginia, for example, two Republican incumbents -- one who objected to certifying the 2020 presidential election and one who did not -- are facing off in a heavily Republican district. Regardless of who wins the May primary, the seat is highly unlikely to fall into Democratic hands in November.
Some states hold open primaries -- in which candidates from all parties run on the same primary ballot with the top two or four candidates advancing to the general election. One of those states is Alaska, where former governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is running in a special election for the state's at-large seat left vacant by the death last month of Republican Rep. Don Young. Barring any primary surprises, Republicans are expected to hold this seat.
Just 61 House races (out of 435) are currently rated as competitive by Inside Elections. Of those, only 16 are rated as Toss-up races -- seven seats held by Republicans, eight held by Democrats and one new seat in Colorado.
A smaller landscape of competitive races means Republicans will be reaching deeper into Democratic territory to look for pickup opportunities. On Wednesday, for example, the National Republican Congressional Committee, the campaign arm of the House GOP, expanded its list of targets to 72 Democratic-held or newly created seats, including districts that now-President Joe Biden carried by double digits in 2020. Of course, these target lists evolve over time and don't necessarily reflect where money ends up getting spent.
On the same day as the NRCC announcement, House Majority PAC -- the leading Democratic super PAC focused on House races -- publicized TV and digital advertising reservations of more than $100 million across 50 media markets. That's nearly double the amount the group made in initial reservations in 2020.
Republican opportunities
A top focus for Republicans is sure to be the Democratic-held seats that Trump won in 2020. That includes districts represented by Reps. Jared Golden of Maine, Cindy Axne of Iowa and Matt Cartwright of Pennsylvania, all of whom are in for tough races this fall.
But the majority of the NRCC's targets are seats that Biden won. That goes to show just how few "crossover" districts -- those that voted one way for president but backed a US House representative of a different party -- are left for Republicans to try to flip.
Increasingly nationalized and partisan elections have done away with the likes of former Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson, a Democrat whose district voted for Trump by the biggest margin -- 30 points -- in 2016. But after narrowly holding on to his sprawling, rural district in 2018, the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee went down in 2020.
Republicans were encouraged by their gains with Hispanic voters in 2020 and hope that trend continues this year, especially in places such as Texas' Rio Grande Valley, where several House seats are in play.
They're also hoping they may be able to make a play for some of the traditionally GOP-leaning suburban districts that moved away from them during the Trump era.
Democratic retirements have also set up a few enticing pickup opportunities for Republicans. Retiring Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos, the former chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has often touted her success in a Trump-voting district. Pennsylvania Rep. Conor Lamb, who is running for Senate, talks up his record of winning in Trump country. But both are leaving behind seats that will see competitive races, according to Inside Elections.
Democrats on defense
Democrats hoping to maintain their House majority need to defend the seats they have, while also looking to pick up a few more to help offset the inevitable losses they're likely to incur in a midterm year with their party holding full control of Washington (the White House, Senate and House).
House Democrats' top defensive holds are incumbents the DCCC calls "Frontline" members. Many of these incumbents have had tough races before, and some of their districts became more favorable in redistricting, although perhaps not enough to ensure a comfortable reelection in a difficult national environment.
Golden, a two-term incumbent from Maine, for example, has a history of overperforming the top of the ticket. His district's White working-class voters twice backed Trump, while Golden won reelection in 2020 by 6 points. But even if he's bucked the national Democratic Party on certain major votes in Washington, he's still in for a tough race, potentially facing off against a better-funded and more organized opponent than he did two years ago. Former GOP Rep. Bruce Poliquin, whom Golden unseated in 2018 under Maine's ranked-choice voting system, is running again. Inside Elections rates the race a Toss-up.
Many of the DCCC's Frontliners who won in 2018 -- when Democrats flipped the House during Trump's presidency -- are used to raising huge sums of money. They set new quarterly records for hauls in the millions that put even some Senate candidates to shame. But not all Democrats who potentially face competitive races this year after redistricting are accustomed to that level of campaigning. Two longtime incumbents, Reps. Sanford Bishop of Georgia and Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, haven't faced competitive elections in years.
Democrats believe they can remain competitive in the suburbs, which soured on Republicans under Trump. Still, Trump is not in office or on the ballot, which will be a test of whether Democrats can sustain base voter enthusiasm without him.
Democrats are also eyeing pickup opportunities, especially in GOP-held seats that Biden won. That includes a handful of districts in California and New York, although there's new uncertainty over the district lines in the Empire State after a judge blocked the Democratic-drawn map on Thursday.
And even if Trump isn't on the ballot this year, he's proving he still wants to be a force in GOP politics. For Democrats, that's good news if he helps drive GOP candidates to the right in getting through primaries for competitive seats. In Michigan, for example, he's backing a primary challenger to freshman Rep. Peter Meijer, who voted to impeach Trump, in a district that could be harder for Republicans to hold without the incumbent.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Patchy fog will diminish a little while after sunrise, leaving most of Sunday mainly bright, sunny, and mild, with temperatures rising through the 60s and 70s in the late-morning. A couple of clouds are possible in the afternoon, but no major source of cloudiness is forecast today as highs top out around 80° and the humidity values stay low. Later tonight, temps will fall back to chilly-for-April levels around 50° with clear sky and limited fog chances. Moisture surges back late Monday, setting up a pattern of unsettled and occasionally stormy conditions Tuesday and Wednesday with a system that will bring heavy rain and severe thunderstorm risks to the region. A potent cold front will sweep storms aside by late Thursday but also trigger a late-season cold-air blast with temps falling 10 to 15 degrees below average.
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Madson: Predicting how and when 49ers offseason QB conundrum ends
“Lance will get all the OTA reps under center. That’ll give the 49ers coaching staff a chance to evaluate the second-year signal caller. If he struggles and looks like he needs more non-game work, then San Francisco perhaps keeps Garoppolo through camp and has them battle it out to see who gives them the better chance to win in 2022.”
“Of the 32 free agents who last played in San Francisco, 14 re-signed and 11 signed with new clubs. The third group is the sprinkling of seven 49ers free agents who remain without a team.”
“That said, there are plenty of quality offensive players to be had on day two of the draft, and there are even more supplementary hidden-gem talents who’ll be available on day three.”
“Pitre is as versatile as they come in the secondary, having played both safety spots and at cornerback, both on the boundary and inside. A year ago, the 5-foot-11 and 198-pound Pitre recorded an impressive two interceptions, seven pass breakups and 3.5 sacks, showing the ability to produce in pass defense while also rushing on blitz packages, too.”
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Winner of this year's Strictly Come Dancing Rose Ayling-Ellis was left gushing as the Duchess of Cornwall revealed the Queen's TV habits earlier this week. On Thursday (March 31), the Prince of Wales and Camilla visited the set of iconic BBC soap, EastEnders.
The Folkestone and Hythe-born actress was joined alongside her on-screen co-stars, including Danny Dyer and Steve McFadden. Rose, 27, chatted with Camilla on the iconic set as it was revealed that the Queen, 95, is a big fan of Strictly, OK! reports.
Meeting Rose for the first time, the Duchess referred to her as, "Ah Rose, the Strictly star." The 74-year-old continued to address other stars and even revealed that she was a true fan herself as she said: “We were all voting for Rose.”
Read More: Rose Ayling-Ellis inspires huge change for Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour
She continued: “I don’t know how you did all this and the dancing.” Danny jumped in cheekily saying: “Well they gave her three months off this to be fair!” Which was met with a laugh from the duchess and cast.
Rose added: “It allowed me to really focus on the dancing which was great.” Rose then asked Camilla: “Does the Queen watch Strictly Come Dancing?”
To which Camilla replied: “I think she does.” Rose, clearly chuffed with the news, replied: “Oh fab!”
With Camilla adding: “I’m sure she watched you.” Rose took to her Instagram following the meeting and shared videos of the EastEnders set done out for the jubilee celebrations.
She wrote: “They were so lovely! It was a privilege to give flowers to Camilla.” The Duchess also enjoyed a conversation with long-running cast member Gillian Taylforth (Kathy Beale) as they reminisced about her starring in the show since the very first episode.
Charles and Camilla’s visit began as they were introduced to some of the biggest stars in soapland who were shooting the special scenes. Their Royal Highnesses also mingled with the likes Steve McFadden (Phil Mitchell), Kellie Bright (Linda Carter), Natalie Cassidy (Sonia Fowler), Rudolph Walker (Patrick Trueman), Perry Fenwick (Billy Mitchell) and Tameka Empson (Kim Fox).
And it sounds like Charles and Camilla are very much fans of the show, with Charles chatting away with Perry and his former on-screen wife Emma Barton (Honey Mitchell) about how they are no longer together. To mark the end of their historic visit, the Royals were then gifted a signed Albert Square sign, as they were bid goodbye by the cast by a giant cheer.
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The search for a plane that went missing over the English Channel yesterday (April 2) has resumed, the Coastguard has confirmed. It comes after a full-scale joint search and rescue response was launched by emergency services from the UK and France.
The plane - believed to be a small two-person Piper PA-28 - had departed from Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield, near Stratford-upon-Avon on Saturday morning (April 2). According to the Mirror it was headed to France but was lost on radar a little more than an hour after takeoff.
The joint response efforts to find the missing plane began as the French Coastguard joined HM Coastguard to search an area off the Sussex and Kent coast throughout the afternoon and evening. This was focussed on the light aircraft’s last known position 25 miles from Dungeness.
Read more: Operation Brock: Trucker stuck in Dover for more than 32 hours says drivers are now illegal
A spokesperson for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency announced this morning the efforts to find the plane has resumed today. They said: “A Coastguard helicopter, as well as the Dungeness and Hastings RNLI lifeboat joined French search and rescue resources in the search, which went on into the night, mid-channel off Hastings and Dungeness.
“This morning a HM Coastguard fixed-wing aircraft will join French search and rescue resources in resuming the search.” Flight radars currently show two aircraft flying in grid patterns and circling above the Channel off Dungeness.
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* WHAT...East winds 20 to 25 knots, and seas up to 12 feet.
* WHERE...Big Island Windward Waters, Maui County Leeward
Waters, Kauai Leeward Waters, Kauai Channel, Kauai Northwest
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HONOLULU (KITV)- Prices all over the country are on the rise lately. Now a popular item here on the islands is seeing the same problem. Surfers right now are riding out a wave of surfboard inflation. "A board that was $350- $450 dollars is now seeing a base at $500- $600," said Used Surfboards Hawaii owner Alex Utal.
Utal says one of the catalysts for the recent change is the rise in the price of oil. Petroleum price increases are soaking the surfboard industry in higher costs. "Everything with a surfboard starts with petroleum or oil based product. The polyurethane foam at the core of the board is petroleum based. The resin coating the board is petroleum based. Even the sandpaper used to sand the board is composed of petroleum in some way," said Utal.
Retailers in Honolulu say foam blanks that make the boards, are up 15%-20% in price. The cost of resin, used to coat surfboards is even higher. "A 50 gallon of resin, I think is almost double or 40% higher in price," said Utal. On top of an increase in shipping fees, this is creating a tsunami of costs. In some cases this is wiping out profit margins for board retailers. "It's hit us, it's hit us hard. I've seen prices in the industry creep up. I think prices are the highest prices I've seen for a surfboard," said Utal.
Utal says the other issue causing inflation in the surfing industry is a limit on the amount of boards available. The COVID pandemic which was bad for restaurants, created a flood of new surfers. "You're distanced from somebody. It's an individual sport. So folks that were normally playing tennis, canoe club, and high school athletes that were on the baseball team, they got into surfing," said Utal.
Even used board sales are affected. "People are trying to sell their old boards a lot more than they would have in the past," said surfer Kari Goodbar. "They know that in their mind that they may price it $100 more, because someone is going to say they will pay that," said Utal.
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220402-N-CY569-1035 ADRIATIC SEA (April 2, 2022) Aviation Structural Mechanic Airman Janikka Gayoso, from Los Angeles, removes a bolt for a rescue hook of an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter in the hangar bay of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), April 2, 2022. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Sixth Fleet area of operations in support of U.S., allied and partner interests in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Anthony Robledo)
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SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) — Police in Sacramento says multiple victims have been reported after a shooting in downtown Sacramento.
The Sacramento Police Department says the shooting happened early Sunday morning.
According to CNN, the shooting occurred in the area of 10th and J Streets.
The conditions of the victims were not immediately known.
Video posted on Twitter showed people running through the street as the sound of rapid gunfire could be heard in the background.
Video showed multiple ambulances had been sent to the scene.
Police provided few details about the circumstances surrounding the shooting but said in a tweet that a "large police presence will remain and the scene remains active."
Phone messages seeking comment were left with the Sacramento police.
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David Soto sat at the head of the table in the basement of a church in east Yakima, his fingers fanning the gold-edged pages of the leather-bound book open in front of him.
“It’s where you’re at today, compared to where you were at yesterday,” Soto said after his Bible study group read a verse from the Gospel of Mark. “Rise up out of your old life.”
Soto, 46, has risen out of his old life. An ex-gang member, he was in and out of jail for the first half of his life, partying, using drugs and organizing robberies and drive-by shootings. It took accepting God to bring about the change, he said.
Now, in addition to leading Bible study groups, Soto volunteers with In This Together to build positive relationships with young people in the Yakima County Juvenile Justice Center.
Young people and their families are the focus of a number of gang prevention and intervention programs in Yakima. The programs, some of which are led by In This Together, the Love Project Yakima, schools and city partners, include mentorship, educational courses and activities for Yakima children who are at risk of joining or already in gangs.
Stefanie King, a Yakima resident and childhood friend of Soto’s, attends the Bible study with him. The two lived in the same neighborhood while growing up. They would fight sometimes, and Soto was always in trouble, King said.
They reconnected after years, and King has since joined the group that meets Mondays at Bethel Church of the Nazarene in east Yakima.
“It was amazing that he changed,” she said.
Start in gangs
In the early 1990s, around the age of 15, Soto and his friends started a street gang in Yakima that would branch off to later become Norteño.
“It was a bunch of misfits in town, right?” Soto said. “Nobody wanted anything to do with us.”
In the years leading up to starting the gang, Soto was kicked out of Franklin Middle School for fighting. He spent about a week in the sixth grade at Washington Middle School before dropping out. He had been in and out of the juvenile detention center, and he had a son. Soto was also being aggressive toward his mother, who was trying to control his wild behavior, he said.
Soto and his group of friends had been excluded from other street gangs active at that time and wanted some share of the power, Soto said. So, they created their own.
The group partied and countered the other gangs with robberies and drive-by shootings, Soto said. The draw for him was community and control.
“It was more of wanting to become a part of something more than yourself,” Soto said. “In numbers, you feel like you’re powerful.”
Revolving door
Over the next decade of his life, Soto was in and out of jail and prison. He said he’s been at almost every prison in Washington.
“Every time I came out of prison, you know, it’d be one big party,” Soto said. “I’d do something dumb and I’d end up back (in jail). I didn’t last long in the streets.”
As the years went on, Soto said he didn’t know how to do anything besides go to jail.
“Pretty soon, you adapt so much to the jail, that you don’t even know how to function in society,” Soto said.
When he would get out, Soto would fall back to the same friends and lifestyle.
“We go somewhere where we’re comfortable, right?” Soto said. “Nobody in this world wants to be uncomfortable, so you go to the people that you know. You go to the lifestyle that you already know.”
But it eventually got to the point where he was so deep into partying and drugs that his life came to a halt and it felt like there was no more forward movement, Soto said.
Turning point
Soto’s mother gave him a Bible when he was young. He carried it around all those years, opening it and reading it sometimes, but not fully accepting God.
That changed in the years after 1996, when Soto was shot in the head during a robbery. He picked up the gun he was shot with and shot the person back, he said, hitting his buttocks.
The person Soto was with during the robbery turned witness for the state in the case against Soto, and Soto was eventually offered a plea bargain for 20 years.
Soto decided to go to church and talk to God. He asked for seven years. The next day, his lawyer came to him with a new offer: 84 months, or seven years.
When he was released, Soto ran into the person who had turned witness against him.
“I was faced with a decision,” Soto said. “Inside my heart, I felt this conviction. It was either destroy him, or forgive him.”
He decided to forgive him.
Later, Soto’s mother would tell him that he needed to change. She said only God could change him.
“I got on my knees on her living room floor and accepted Jesus as my savior,” Soto said. “Everything started changing after that.”
Choosing a new path
The final time Soto went to jail, he made a choice.
“The guards asked me, ‘Do you want to go into the tank with your homeboys?’” Soto said. “I said ‘No, I’m going to change my life for God.’”
He was taken to the opposite tank, a room that held about 20 people who were part of the rival gang, and a fight broke out. One of the men hit the panic button, and the guards came in to remove Soto.
He was taken to a cell with one other person, who was also from a rival gang. Soto entered the cell and asked him if he remembered who he was. He did, Soto said.
“I asked him if he still wanted to kill me,” Soto said. “He said ‘No man, I don’t do that no more. I do this.’ And he held up a Bible.”
Gangs and young people
Soto said his past influence on kids is a driving force for his volunteer work with In this Together.
“I was actually, in the past, a big influence on young people and steering them the wrong way,” Soto said. “I look back at what would happen to them in the future, and I’m sitting there going, ‘Man,’ you know, ‘What was I doing?’”
Many of the kids he recruited or influenced ended up in jail or dead, he said.
Gang members are still influencing and manipulating young people, Soto said, encouraging them to participate in gangs and commit acts of violence.
“A young kid wants to prove himself, so he goes over and does it,” Soto said. “In prison, they call gang members — the little young ones — they call them missiles. What do you do with a missile? You aim it, point it at its target and then you push the button.”
Kids in Yakima, much like Soto when he was young, look to street gangs for community and validation, Soto said.
“It breaks my heart, man, to see youngsters out there doing that stuff,” Soto said. “That was me back in the day.”
Intervention and prevention
Young people and their families are the focus of a number of gang prevention and intervention programs in Yakima.
In This Together and the Love Project Yakima partner to support young people who are incarcerated. Soto and other volunteers from the groups make monthly visits to the Yakima County Juvenile Justice Center to build relationships with the kids, get to know them and learn about their interests and skills.
“We just go in and ask them questions about what they like and what they would like to do when they get out,” Soto said.
The group typically cooks a meal for the kids to have during the visit, Soto said, and one volunteer, a barber, gives the kids haircuts. The volunteers also share testimonials about their own history and how they changed their lives.
“We’re all a bunch of people that want to make a difference in the community. We’ve been there, we’ve done that,” Soto said. “We want the youth to succeed, and we try to direct them in the right way.”
Love Project Yakima founder Chevy Cortez said his organization came out of a place of love and support during a period of serious violence in 2017. Young people are the center of many programs run by the organization.
“I think it’s very important that we’re influencing these kids in a positive way because the streets and everything else around them is already an influence,” Cortez said. “And if these kids have nothing to look forward to, they’re going to go to what they know, which is gangs, drugs and all that other stuff.”
Love Project Yakima offers other programs, including Sunday afternoon basketball for at-risk youth or kids involved in gangs. It’s at Eisenhower High School from 2 to 4 p.m.
“We provide food, mentorship, and then we play basketball and pretty much just talk to them and kind of share our life stories,” Cortez said. “We created an atmosphere where these kids can come and just be kids for two hours.”
Programs in schools
Love Project Yakima also works with individual students and school groups in the Yakima School District, Cortez said. He said volunteers meet with kids who are struggling in school or who are involved in gangs.
“I’m an ex-gang member myself, so I come from that life with poverty, gang violence and stuff like that,” Cortez said. “I just share my stories with them, and then that kind of breaks the ice for them to open up.”
The city of Yakima, Yakima School District and ESD 105 also partnered to create a prevention program in schools called the Yakima Leadership Program, City Attorney Sara Watkins said. Each of the four Yakima middle schools — Franklin, Lewis and Clark, Washington and Wilson — have an education advocate to run the curriculum-based program for sixth-graders.
The leadership program is part of the Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce, or GRIT, a network of partners in Yakima that secures funds and coordinates programs for young people, families and other community members.
The school program was piloted in 2018 and is funded with a three-year grant obtained in 2019. Currently, sixth-graders who attend Yakima Online can’t participate in the program.
“The future of the program would likely include Yakima Online, but it wasn’t contemplated at the time we did the grant,” Watkins said.
Watkins said the curriculum includes relationship building, social media awareness, bullying, harassment, conflict resolution, communication skills, substance use prevention and gang prevention. There’s also family involvement and community involvement, she said.
“The education advocates are in the schools working with their students and trying to get them to understand how to make a decision, how to set goals, thinking about their future, creating a sense of resiliency and hope, and giving them information that allows them to make the decision to not join gangs and to not abuse substances,” Watkins said.
Education advocates also work to get students involved in after school activities they’re interested in, she said.
Students are often recommended for the program by teachers and counselors, and parents or guardians have to agree to let them participate. It takes place during the school day.
Walking away
Soto’s job shortly after getting out of jail the final time was working as an undercover security guard for Fiesta Foods. Many of the people he caught shoplifting were people he knew through gang involvement. Some of them would wait outside his work, trying to intimidate him or telling people entering the store that he was a snitch.
But since he took steps to change his life, Soto said he wasn’t afraid of retaliation or violence against him.
“If I could risk my life doing wrong in the past, why wouldn’t I be willing to risk my life doing something good?” Soto said.
For Soto, it took accepting God to bring changes in his life. Then he changed the way he dressed, how he worked, who he spent time with.
“If you’re not willing to change everything, you’re not going to change at all,” Soto said. “To be honest with you, it took for me to just walk away.”
He now spends his time volunteering with young people to show that change is an option.
He also advocates for community resources that would help people make those changes. He said there needs to be more support for people coming out of jail, including housing and community activities to help with the culture shock. A community center would also be a big asset for young people who are at risk of getting involved in gangs.
“We need things to captivate (young peoples’) minds,” Soto said. “To try to draw them in, build relationships with them, let them know that we’re there for them.”
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SATURDAY
Women of the Moose Spring Bazaar: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Moose Lodge, 409 S. 3rd St.
UW Music hosts “Double Reed Day”: 10 a.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts. A unique opportunity to discover more about double-reed musical instruments culminating with a 3 p.m. concert. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. followed by master classes.
UW planetarium presents “Back to the Moon for Good”: 2 p.m., UW Planetarium. What we’ve learned from our first era of space exploration.
Annual Ark Regional Services Casino Night: 5:30 p.m., UW Conference Center at the Hilton Garden Inn, 2221 Grand Ave. Tickets $60 each, available at facebook.com/arkregionalservices and arkregionalservices.org.
UW planetarium presents “Liquid Sky Indie”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. Enjoy a custom playlist of music from artists such as Tame Impala, STRFKR, MGMT and M83 as the 4K resolution sky melts and becomes a canvas of color, patterns and movement.
UW presents full-staged ballet: 7:30 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts. Call 307-766-6666 or visit uwyo.edu/finearts for tickets.
SUNDAY
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m., UW Fieldhouse. Hear from health care professionals and get your steps in.
UW presents full-staged ballet: 2 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts. Call 307-766-6666 or visit uwyo.edu/finearts for tickets.
MONDAY
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
TUESDAY
UW planetarium presents “Wyoming Skies”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. What’s up in the sky around Wyoming?
WEDNESDAY
Assistance for military veterans: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Laramie office of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 3817 Beech St. No. 100.
Laramie Tai Chi and tea: Meets at 1:30 p.m. at the north end of the stadium in Laramie Plainsman Park, North 15th and Reynolds. For more information, visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson Medical Group women’s health prenatal education: 5:30 p.m., Ivinson Memorial Hospital in the Summit Conference Room. Learn more or register at ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
THURSDAY
Laramie Building Authority meets: 10 a.m., via Zoom.
Stitching the Past Together creative aging class: 6:30-8 p.m., Albany County Public Library large meeting room. Students will learn memory-based storytelling through beading techniques in this free course. Register at acplwy.org or at the circulation desk.
Lenten Taize worship services: 7 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 Canby St. Every Thursday through Easter.
UW Jazz Studies program presents the Art Lande trio Flex: 7:30 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts. This is a free performance.
FRIDAY
UW planetarium presents “Aurorae, Dancing Lights”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. For millennia our ancestors looked in awe at the “dawn in the north,” or Arora Borealis. What causes this display? Where does it happen? Do other planets have aurorae?
Good in All of Us fundraiser for Laramie Interfaith: 7-9 p.m., Eppson Center for Seniors, 1560 N. 3rd St. Will include a silent auction, mini-games and a trivia contest. Trivia teams of up to five members register for $100 a team at https://bit.ly/3KILsjb.
SATURDAY
Albany County 4-H Spring Bazaar: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Albany County Fairgrounds.
Free cancer screenings: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Ivinson Medical Group. Email questions@ivinsonhospital.org for more information.
Bike Olympics sponsored by Laramie BikeNet: 1-5:50 p.m., Lincoln Community Center, 356 W. Grand Ave. Free entry, but BikeNet membership recommended. Visit Laramiebikenet.org for more information.
UW Cello Festival concert: 5 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts. A free performance by participants of the 2022 UW Cello Festival.
UW planetarium presents “Max Goes to the Moon”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. Max the dog and a young girl named Tori take the first trip to the moon since the Apollo era.
An evening of Schubert with Kenneth Slowik (and friends): 7:30 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets $10 general admission available at uwyo.edu/finearts.
April 11
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
April 13
Laramie Tai Chi and tea: Meets at 1:30 p.m. at the north end of the stadium in Laramie Plainsman Park, North 15th and Reynolds. For more information, visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson Medical Group women’s health prenatal education: 5:30 p.m., Ivinson Memorial Hospital in the Summit Conference Room. Learn more or register at ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
April 14
Second Story Book Group discusses “Billionaire Wilderness” by Justin Farrell: 6:30-8 p.m., via Zoom. Call 786-877-3912 or email taninel@bellsouth.net for information.
Stitching the Past Together creative aging class: 6:30-8 p.m., Albany County Public Library large meeting room. Students will learn memory-based storytelling through beading techniques in this free course. Register at acplwy.org or at the circulation desk.
Lenten Taize worship services: 7 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 Canby St. Every Thursday through Easter.
April 15
UW planetarium presents “Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. Are we alone in the universe?
Laramie Tai Chi and tea: Meets at 1:30 p.m. at the north end of the stadium in Laramie Plainsman Park, North 15th and Reynolds. For more information, visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
April 16
Kiwanis Club of Laramie Easter Egg Hunt: 10 a.m., Kiwanis Park in West Laramie.
Ester Extravaganza: 2-4 p.m., Trinity Baptist Church, 1270 N. 9th St.
UW planetarium presents “Distant Worlds — Alien Life?”: 2 p.m., UW Planetarium. For millennia our ancestors watched the stars and questioned the origin and nature of what they saw. Yet, Earth is the only planet we know for sure to be inhabited.
UW planetarium presents “Liquid Sky, Pop”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. Enjoy a custom playlist from today’s top artists.
April 18
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m., UW Fieldhouse. Hear from health care professionals and get your steps in.
April 18
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
April 19
UW planetarium presents “Wyoming Skies”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. What’s up in the sky around Wyoming?
Stitching the Past Together creative aging class: 6:30-8 p.m., Albany County Public Library large meeting room. Students will learn memory-based storytelling through beading techniques in this free course. Register at acplwy.org or at the circulation desk.
April 20
Laramie Tai Chi and tea: Meets at 1:30 p.m. at the north end of the stadium in Laramie Plainsman Park, North 15th and Reynolds. For more information, visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Award-Winning Author Jesmyn Ward speaks: 5 p.m., UW College of Arts and Sciences auditorium.
Ivinson Medical Group women’s health prenatal education: 5:30 p.m., Ivinson Memorial Hospital in the Summit Conference Room. Learn more or register at ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
April 22
UW planetarium presents “Earth Day”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. Observe our beautiful planet from the ground, sky and space as we learn about glaciers, atmospheric science, meteorology, extreme weather events and climate history.
Violin virtuoso Augustin Hadelich with UW Chamber Orchestra: 730 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets available at uwyo.edu/finearts.
April 23
UW planetarium presents “From Earth to the Universe”: 2 p.m., UW Planetarium. The night sky, both beautiful and mysterious, has been the subject of campfire stories, ancient myths and awe for as long as there have been people.
April 25
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Wyoming’s energy economy panel discussion: 6 p.m., online at uweconomists.eventbrite.com. Features four University of Wyoming economists.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
America Sewing Guild Laramie Chapter meets: 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 1215 E. Gibbon St.
April 27
Laramie Tai Chi and tea: Meets at 1:30 p.m. at the north end of the stadium in Laramie Plainsman Park, North 15th and Reynolds. For more information, visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
April 28
Stitching the Past Together creative aging class: 6:30-8 p.m., Albany County Public Library large meeting room. Students will learn memory-based storytelling through beading techniques in this free course. Register at acplwy.org or at the circulation desk.
April 29
UW planetarium presents “Mars”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. The red planet is host to many questions; did it used to be like Earth? Did it once harbor life? Could it still support life?
April 30
UW planetarium presents “Mexica Archaeoastronomy”: 2 p.m., UW Planetarium. Illustrates the important role played by astronomical observation for the evolution of pre-Hispanic cultures in central Mexico.
UW planetarium presents “Liquid Sky, Electronica”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. Enjoy a custom playlist of music from today’s top artists.
May 2
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
May 5
Stitching the Past Together creative aging class: 6:30-8 p.m., Albany County Public Library large meeting room. Students will learn memory-based storytelling through beading techniques in this free course. Register at acplwy.org or at the circulation desk.
May 9
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
May 12
Stitching the Past Together creative aging class: 6:30-8 p.m., Albany County Public Library large meeting room. Students will learn memory-based storytelling through beading techniques in this free course. Register at acplwy.org or at the circulation desk.
May 14
University of Wyoming graduation ceremony: 8:30 a.m., UW Arena-Auditorium, undergraduate ceremony for the colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Engineering and Applied Science and School of Energy Resources.
University of Wyoming graduation ceremony: 10 a.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts, for the College of Law.
University of Wyoming graduation ceremony: 12:15 p.m., UW Arena-Auditorium, for master’s and doctoral students from colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Business, Education, Engineering and Applied Science, Health Sciences and Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources.
University of Wyoming graduation ceremony: 3:30 p.m., UW Arena-Auditorium, for undergraduate ceremony for colleges of Arts and Sciences, Education, Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources and Office of Academic Affairs.
May 16
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
May 19
Stitching the Past Together creative aging class: 6:30-8 p.m., Albany County Public Library large meeting room. Students will learn memory-based storytelling through beading techniques in this free course. Register at acplwy.org or at the circulation desk.
May 23
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
America Sewing Guild Laramie Chapter meets: 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 1215 E. Gibbon St.
May 26
Stitching the Past Together creative aging class: 6:30-8 p.m., Albany County Public Library large meeting room. Students will learn memory-based storytelling through beading techniques in this free course. Register at acplwy.org or at the circulation desk.
May 30
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
Have an event for What’s Happening? Send it to Managing Editor Greg Johnson at gjohnson@laramieboomerang.com.
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Jazz trio to perform free concert Thursday
The University of Wyoming presents a free concert sponsored by the Jazz Studies program on Thursday.
Beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts, Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Art Lande and his trio, Flex, will perform. Dru Heller on drums and Gonzalo Teppa on bass round out the group.
Easter egg hunt set for April 16
The Laramie Kiwanis Club will host its 12th annual Easter Egg Hunt on April 16 at Kiwanis Park in West Laramie.
Beginning at 10 a.m., children in three age groups will be let loose on the park to find some Easter goodies.
The club advises kids to bring their own baskets and encourages families to come early for games, prizes, face painting and to see some firetrucks.
UW panel to discuss state’s energy economy
A panel of University of Wyoming economists will be featured in an online discussion on the state’s energy economy.
Sponsored by Wyoming Citizens’ Climate Lobby, the panel will include Robert Godby, Christelle Khalaf, Charles Mason and Jason Shorgren, all specialists in the Cowboy State’s energy economy. They’ll examine strategies for the state’s energy future to continue and thrive.
All are invited to join the free discussion at 6 p.m. April 25 at uweconomists.eventbrite.com. For more information and updates from Wyoming Citizens’ Climate Lobby, visit facebook.com/wyomingccl.
UW opens tax clinic for low-income residents
With tax season in full swing, the University of Wyoming has opened a new clinic dedicated to consulting and representing low-income taxpayers at the College of Business’ Department of Accounting and Finance.
The Low Income Taxpayer Clinic was created as part of a federal grand program administered by the IRS.
The clinic will serve residents with incomes at or below 250% of the federal poverty guideline and seek to resolve tax problems with the IRS, such as audits, appeals and collection disputes.
This will work alongside the longstanding Albany County Volunteer Tax Assistance program, which is a partnership between UW and United Way.
For more information, email litc@uwyo.edu or call 307-766-6114. Appointments are available in-person and virtually.
Local tax aid program seeks volunteers
The Laramie District of AARP Foundation Tax-Aide needs volunteers to help seniors next tax season.
You will receive training and support, along with getting a great feeling from helping people. Tax preparers work directly with taxpayers filling out returns and helping them find deductions and credits they’ve earned.
For more information, email Laramie.taxaide@gmail.com.
Local students exposed to career opportunities
The Soroptimist of Laramie club recently hosted a traces career fair that connected with 200 Albany County high school students.
In cooperation with Albany County School District 1, the fair was part of the Dream It, Be It program of Soroptimist International of the Americas. It aims to help students grades nine through 12.
Overall, 34 local businesses participated and helped with the event while opening doors for students to a variety of potential career opportunities.
For information on being involved with next year’s event, visit soroptimistoflaramie.org.
Data shows some recovery from pandemic’s effects
Statewide, some economic indicators are showing a somewhat broad-based recovery from the pandemic’s worst effects on businesses and other aspects of life.
But it has not been a complete recovery.
Statistics released March 22 by the state of Wyoming’s Economic Analysis Division paint a seemingly complex picture. On some measures, recovery is clearly underway.
Overall, all four parts of the Wyoming Economic Health Index improved in January, compared to the same month in 2021, according to the March 2022 issue of the Wyoming Economic Indicators report, which was recently sent in an email by the agency. The document can also be found online via the Economic Analysis Division.
The rosy economic news, per the document, is that for this statewide WEHI economic health measure, “in each of the past six months (August 2021 to January 2022), the WEHI reported year-over-year increases, with the largest increase occurring in August (+3.9%).”
January saw a WEHI value of 104.8, the report showed. “This value was higher than the January 2021 value of 101.6 and the January 2020 value of 104.3.”
There was some, but not complete, good news for workers.
“The unemployment rate for Wyoming in January was 3.8%, lower than the December 2021 unemployment rate of 4.0% and the January 2021 unemployment rate of 5.1%,” according to the economic agency. “The fact that the unemployment rate has returned to pre-COVID levels, but total nonfarm employment has not, signifies that the overall labor force is smaller than it was before the pandemic.”
Digging into the numbers further, total nonfarm payroll jobs in January 2022 were 283,000, the report said. That is “higher than the December 2021 number by 400 and higher than the January 2021 number by 9,300.”
Bottom line, the Economic Analysis Division reported, is that by this January, Wyoming had “recovered about 72% of the 26,000 jobs lost during the worst parts of the pandemic.”
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Many people understand science as something tangible that can been seen, touched and felt. One local artist is working to show how it also can be beautiful.
“People think art is just this made-up world,” said René Williams, artist and founder of the nonprofit Science Loves Art. “It is so scientific the way our eyes see color, the way colors are mixed, the way we use pigments. (Art and science) do go hand-in-hand all the time.”
Her new exhibition at the Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center at the University of Wyoming seeks to bridge what Williams sees as a cultural gap between the disciplines.
Titled “Art From Earth,” the exhibit and gallery fulfill the outreach goals of a greater microbe research program happening at UW and community colleges throughout the state. In 2018, the university received a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the organisms, which are invisible to the naked eye.
“(Microbes are the) most numerically abundant, diverse organisms on Earth, and are also functionally important,” said Cynthia Weinig, a scientist on the project.
The five-year research program is focused on studying the diversity and function of these organisms across the Wyoming landscape. The findings could have important implications for agriculture and environmental preservation.
Some of the research found that there could be communication between the organisms and their plant neighbors that impacts plants similarly to how bacteria in a human gut can influence disease and mental health in people.
“There can be complex feedback cycles between microbes and the plants that they live on and in,” Weinig said. “These microbes can alter important aspects of the chemistry within plants. This alters how well they grow and how productive they are.”
Specialists from the areas of botany, geology, chemistry, ecosystem management and molecular biology are working on the project, which Weinig dubbed “a model of interdisciplinary and collaborative research.”
Williams distills this highly technical research into something more understandable for the general public by representing microbes in visual and physical formats.
The exhibit includes artwork by Sarah Conrad, a scientist on the project who specializes in glacoiology. Her work contains images of sagebrush and spruce on paper Williams made from the plants. Conrad is one of multiple scientists who contributed work or materials to the gallery.
“I’m not the only person that’s inspired by nature, by the textures of leaves, the details of flowers, the way the clouds move,” Williams said.
Her own pieces are made from the same soil and materials scientists used for their research. On display are 16 paintings of circles made from soil. These and other paintings on display are meant to mimic the constant movement and nature of microbes living in soil.
Dorodango balls also are on display. Giving the appearance of a shiny, marbled sphere about the size of a lacrosse ball, the sculptures are made using a Japanese practice of mixing soil and water and forming it into a round shape over and over.
The sculptures are just one of the art forms Williams uses to teach people about the ability to create something artistic using a scientific process.
A central project of Science Loves Art is to create and send art kits to rural Wyoming residents who may not have immediate access to art in their communities. Like the practice of creating dorodango balls, the kits emphasize the experience of making art rather than the end result.
Whether it is because of color theory or liquid dynamics, each kit functions because of science, and they allow even the least confident artists to walk away with something they made with their own hands.
“They all leave with something beautiful because of the way that the technique works — it’s because of science,” Williams said.
These types of community connections are exactly what Williams hopes to foster with her current exhibit, which is on display through May 27.
“They really like this outreach portion of these science grants because they’re connecting to the community of all ages,” Williams said.
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There are times of great tragedy in our lives, times when we ask ourselves, “What do I know for certain?” Our anxious minds work overtime trying both to figure out what and a way.
These times are hard on us and on our relationships with others.
These times are described by Barbara Brown Taylor as “getting lost.” In “An Altar in the World,” she remembers some of her uncertainties.
“In my life, I have lost my way more times than I can count,” she writes. “I have set out to be married and ended up divorced. I set out to live in New England, but ended up in Georgia. I have set out to be healthy and ended up sick.”
I would add to Barbara’s list something worse. A friend said her cancer treatments were terrifying. “When I was on chemo, I couldn’t remember who I was.”
In uncertain times, it is easy to feel not only helplessness, but also loneliness. We feel abandoned even by God.
It is because of this that we have taken a week and called it “holy,” not because we have the answer, but because God found us even in the weakness of our human pain.
For Jews, the holiness comes in observing Passover, that time when the cruel power of pharaoh was overcome by the power of God. Every year, Jewish families gather to remember pharaoh’s hardness of heart and God’s saving hand, helping an enslaved people to pass over to life anew.
And it is important to note that the Passover service is told in the present tense. The God who saved helpless souls from the tyrant is the same God of this day.
For Christians, holiness comes in honoring the cross. It was the power of the executioner did not hold the final sway. Christians venerate not just the suffering, but the willingness to trust a power beyond it “… into Thy hands I commend my spirit.” It is important to note as well that the heart of holy week is remembered in the present tense: “This is my body broken for you.”
Holy week is not only a time to remember our weakness, but the God who saves us beyond our pain. As Pat Livingston wrote on Holy Thursday: “Nothing exists apart from God. … There is no corner of creation, no event, no circumstance where God is not. … In my own most penetrating darkness, my husband and daughter senselessly killed, still there was light. Whether or not I saw it, whether or not I believed … light penetrated my life. God is found in the depths of both the light and the dark.
“What do I know for certain? I know that everything unfolds in its time. I know that within all adversity is a force of love that prevails. I am safe, even in the dark.”
Perhaps this week especially we can remember to say:
O God, beyond all knowing, be with us
in our answers and our questions,
in the fears and in our failings,
in our prayers …
and in our wanting to pray.
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Twice a year, we go through the same ritual: Grab a ladder, step stool or sturdy chair, schlep from room to room, take the clock down from the wall, and move the minute hand clockwise or counterclockwise a full rotation.
But why? At one point, the switch from standard time to daylight saving time each spring (and the reverse in the fall) made sense. In 1918, about a year after the United States entered World War I, the goal was to save fuel by extending the amount of daylight during waking hours.
According to Michael Downing, author of “Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time,” various locations implemented the “spring forward” change through the years for a variety of reasons. Nationally, it was used again starting in 1942 and throughout WWII for the same reason it was initially implemented.
Downing also says it’s a common misconception that farmers supported the spring time change. A few years ago, he told Time magazine, “In fact, daylight saving time meant they had less time in the morning to get their milk and harvested crops to market. Some warned it was ‘taking us off God’s time.’” Soon after WWI, Congress yielded to the powerful farm lobby, and standard time returned.
It wasn’t until 1966 that Congress passed, and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed, the Uniform Time Act. For the past 56 years, most Americans – except those in Hawaii, most of Arizona and many U.S. territories – have gone through the trouble of adjusting their clocks twice a year.
It started out as six months in each time period. Outside of a short-lived experiment with year-round DST during the oil embargo of 1973-74, the amount of daylight saving time grew to seven months in 1986 and eight months in 2005.
These changes can be more than a minor nuisance. Studies have shown the switch to daylight saving time leads to “an uptick in heart problems, mood disorders and motor vehicle collisions. Furthermore, DST can cause sleep problems if circadian rhythms are not aligned with natural cycles of light and darkness. Some people also experience insomnia symptoms due to spring time changes,” according to the National Sleep Foundation.
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine backed that up with a position statement in 2020 that said the country should adopt year-round standard time. According to a recent article in the Washington Post, that position was supported by more than a dozen other groups, including the National Safety Council and the National Parent Teacher Association, which fear for the safety of schoolchildren as they travel to school in the dark.
Others, though, argue that the extra evening sunlight created by making DST permanent reduces robberies; benefits the economy; reduces childhood obesity and increases overall physical fitness, and reduces energy consumption (although the savings has been estimated at 0.5% since 2008).
Which side is right? That’s not really for us to say, although the arguments seem more compelling for maintaining standard time year-round. (That’s especially true for northern states, and states on the western edges of time zones, which would face longer stretches of morning darkness.)
Regardless of whether changing our clocks is more of an annoyance or really is impacting our physical health, most of us agree it’s time to end the practice. According to a November Economist/YouGov poll, 63% of people surveyed wanted to eliminate the practice of gaining or losing an hour; 48% said they wanted permanent daylight saving time, 29% said they wanted permanent standard time and 21% had no preference.
As of this month, 28 states have considered more than 350 pieces of legislation to stop manipulating time. In the past seven years, 18 have passed bills – including Wyoming, where the Legislature voted in 2020 to make DST permanent. Gov. Mark Gordon signed it into law. The only problem: The Energy Policy Act of 2005 allows states to opt out of DST, but doesn’t allow them to adopt year-round daylight saving time.
That may be about to change, though. Just two days after the latest time change, the U.S. Senate adopted the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021, a bill offered by Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio. Maybe they were sleep deprived, but it took most the country by surprise when all 100 senators so quickly voted unanimously to make the change.
Now, the question is in the hands of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Several have said they support following the Senate’s lead, including Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., according to a spokesperson. But with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other more pressing issues at the moment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., made no promises and gave no timeline for when the House might take up the issue.
When – or if – it does, we encourage representatives to take whatever amount of time is needed to hear from experts and reach a decision that puts safety first. And if federal lawmakers are ready to support DST, what about those states that prefer standard time? Will they be forced to go along? That needs to be considered, too.
How will all of this turn out? Time will tell. But the one thing most of us seem to agree on is it’s time to end the unnecessary trips up and down the ladder.
Wyoming Tribune Eagle
March 27
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The end of the legislative session marks the beginning of election season, and we are already beginning to see the signs of the coming campaigns. The first political advertisements are beginning to emerge online. Aspiring candidates and incumbents are starting to make noise as they evaluate whether to run or run again.
As we enter into this season, we all should take a moment to reflect on what we need and require of our public officials.
Our public officials matter more than just how they vote. They also reflect the values of the community. How they interact with others, the issues they make priorities, what they do in their personal lives and their ethics: all of these are important in showing what we, as a community, consider acceptable and important.
In casting our votes for particular candidates, we are making a statement about how we want to order our society and write our laws. However, we are also making a statement about the type of person we value and the conduct that we want to see in others. These next months are the time for us to think seriously about what statements we are making.
There are two main criteria that Wyoming voters should focus on this election cycle. The first of those criteria is competency. Many of our officials run for office because they believe they can do something meaningful through government service. They want to offer themselves up to wrestle with the tough decisions and make Wyoming a better place for the future. Unfortunately, some run for other reasons. These other officials want to use their position to make a statement about a pet issue or use their influence to drag down those that disagree with them.
In almost all cases, those who run for the wrong reasons also lack the competency to seriously address the issues facing the state. We need leaders who can understand complex issues, weigh competing interests and ideas and make hard decisions. Those skills rarely accompany people who are excessively focused on a pet issue.
We, as voters, need to understand that we elect people for their judgment, not solely as a mouthpiece. Our elected officials need to be able to take in information, weigh it and make an informed decision. They must be willing to change their mind based on new information. Perhaps most importantly, they must be capable of actually performing the job they were elected to do. We may agree with their political stances, but if they cannot perform their duties, they should not be in office. It is up to us to hold them accountable for doing the whole job they were elected to do.
The second main criteria that Wyoming voters should focus on is civility. The most recent legislative session provided a sobering picture of the current state of civility in Wyoming politics. We saw elected officials being expelled from meetings for refusing to follow rule; another losing his committee seats as a result of a long pattern of poor behavior; allegations of physical threats and assaults (some substantiated, others proven false); online squabbling and personal attacks, and, even beyond what was seen in public, an all-around environment that we, in Wyoming, should be ashamed of.
It used to go without saying, but we apparently must say it explicitly now: We, as voters, have to seriously consider whether those we put in office are worth our trust and votes. If they engage in bullying behavior, physically assault or threaten to assault others, or otherwise show us that their actions do not fit our values, they are not worthy of our trust. They are not worthy of public office.
Character matters. It is up to us – the voters – to vote them out of office. There is no excuse for treating others with a lack of civility and respect. We can disagree, even on big issues, and still treat each other with a basic level of courtesy.
The most difficult part of our job as voters is matching our ideas with our actions. We can tell ourselves that we value civility and competency, but we must also be willing to cast our votes based on those ideas. When we see that our public officials are unable to do their jobs well – even if we personally like them – we must vote them out. When we see that our public officials lack the quality of character to treat others well or to behave ethically – even when we agree with their political stances – we must vote them out.
Failing to match our votes with our values sends a clear message that our values do not really matter. We must hold our public officials accountable, and that starts with holding ourselves accountable.
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What is a woman? The answer to this question seems to be eluding everyone, including Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.
According to Merriam-Webster, a woman is “an adult human female”; Webster’s definition is “an adult female person, as distinguished from a man”; Wikipedia’s definition is “an adult human female capable of pregnancy from puberty to menopause”.
Basic biology teaches that two "X" chromosomes, “XX”, with the reproductive anatomy of a vulva, vagina, cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, ovum and mammary glands in the breast tissues, is a human female. An “XY” gene combination; 46, XY chromosome count, which produces a penis, testicles, vas deferens, seminal vesicles and a prostate gland, is a male. All 46 chromosomes in their pairs are called a karyotype. A female karyotype is written as 46, XX. The male karyotype is written as 46, XY, as males have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome.
According to genetic researchers (Professor Shmuel Pietrokovski and Dr. Moran Gershoni of the Weizmann Molecular Genetic Department), there are 6,500 different genes between men and women. Therefore, using the above references and the phrase "Follow the Science," the above definitions of “woman” and “man” distinguish the two and are scientific facts, not social constructs.
Thus, a conundrum: If women cannot define the term woman, then how do women know that they are women? In order to know that you are a woman, you have to know what a woman is and if the definition applies to you. If you cannot define the term woman, then perhaps you're not a woman or perhaps the "beings,” "women," do not even exist. The same would also apply to the concept of "what is a man?"
So, what is a woman? What is a man? What is a human? Who will decide the definitions? Will the definitions be the truth? Will the definitions be accepted by everyone?
As women are approximately 50% of the population, shouldn’t we have more respect for women and have a definition at least in line with the above dictionary definitions?
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The sponsors got the name right – just not the way they intended.
House Bill 31, “Wyoming’s Tomorrow scholarship program,” is designed to support nontraditional students over age 24 who have decided they want to get more education. That’s a great idea, since not everyone is ready for college at age 18, or knows exactly what they want to do with the rest of their lives at that point. Others are forced to change by economic impacts on industry.
But lawmakers failed to fully fund the program. A more accurate title would have been “Wyoming’s (someday ... maybe ... if we turn loose of some savings ... and oil prices stay high ... who knows?) limited-access scholarship program.”
As approved by both chambers and signed into law by Gov. Mark Gordon, “tomorrow” is at least a year and a half away, possibly much more.
Similar to the state’s Hathaway Scholarship for students heading to an in-state community college or the University of Wyoming right out of high school, “Wyoming’s Tomorrow” will help students cover “unmet financial need.” That means whatever isn’t funded by themselves or their family based on their ability to pay, as well as other grants and scholarships.
There are other requirements, including:
The student must have lived in Wyoming at least a year immediately before applying and at least three years at any time prior to the application;
The student must have completed and filed a Free Application for Federal Student Aid and has unmet need;
The student must agree to register with the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services for applicable training assistance.
Students aren’t eligible if they are currently receiving a Hathaway scholarship; aren’t a U.S. citizen or eligible non-citizen; owe money to a federal or state financial aid program or are currently incarcerated.
Each student who meets these qualifications can receive up to $150 per semester hour or up to $1,800 per academic term, if they’re enrolled for 12 or more semester hours. They are eligible for up to four full-time academic terms, for a maximum of $7,200 from this program.
That’s not a lot of money in the overall scheme of things, and no one really knows how many residents might choose to take advantage of such an offer. But, in the unlikely case the answer was “a lot,” the bill’s authors included several stopgap measures to limit when money could be handed out.
The main limitation is the hurdle legislators failed to get over during the recent session. Before any scholarships can be handed out, the market value of the Wyoming’s Tomorrow endowment fund must exceed $50 million. Once that level is reached, revenue generated from the endowment will be transferred by the state treasurer to the Wyoming’s Tomorrow scholarship expenditure account, and that money can only be disbursed as long as it is enough to cover the full commitment to each eligible student. If demand exceeds the funds available, students would receive scholarships on a first-come, first-served basis. (There are many other safeguards in the legislation.)
With those stipulations in place, there’s no way this program could accidentally drain the state’s bank accounts, even if all 212,000 adults in the state with no training past high school qualified.
Where lawmakers failed their constituents most is by only contributing $10 million in seed money to the endowment this session – and that won’t be transferred from the state’s “rainy-day fund” until July 1, 2023.
Are they serious? What’s the point of creating a program designed to help give the state’s sagging workforce a boost and then failing to properly fund it?
Even factoring in the amount of time it might take the Wyoming Community College Commission, working with UW, to create the rules, procedures and paperwork for the program, this delay is inexcusable. As of last week, there was $1.56 billion sitting in the Legislative Stabilization Reserve Account, and another $72 million in unallocated federal American Rescue Plan Act funds.
As with most things the Legislature does, there were some lawmakers who wanted to see the program fully funded as quickly as possible. Chief among them was Sen. Drew Perkins, R-Casper, who tried multiple times to amend HB 31 to include the full $50 million, or at least $25 million. All attempts failed.
Some will say it’s worth celebrating the simple fact that the Legislature voted to create the program. A similar effort failed in the 2021 general session, and there were times this year when it seemed HB 31 would suffer the same fate. In fact, even though the House of Representatives voted 46-13, with one excused, to send the bill to the Senate, it only passed the upper chamber by a 16-14 vote.
It’s also true that not fully funding it with government funds means industries in Wyoming that need workers have a chance to put some skin in the game by making contributions to the endowment fund. Some business leaders have already said they plan to do so. A dollar-for-dollar match by the state likely would go a long way toward encouraging others, but that wasn’t considered.
It’s disingenuous for our elected leaders to complain about a lack of qualified workers preventing new industries from moving into the state, then drag their feet on an effort like this. What are they waiting for?
With a bit more compassion and courage, tomorrow could have been right around the corner. Instead, it seems like a long way off.
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Brown ranked second on the Indians with 11.8 points per outing, while his 4.7 rebounds per game were also second on the team. The 6-foot-4 guard also shot at a 55% clip on the season while snaring 1.1 steals to earn second team all-state honors.
Ryan Fornstrom
Pine Bluffs
Position: Guard
Class: Junior
Fornstrom was an integral part of the Hornets’ Class 2A state title team, ranking second in the state with 5.9 assists and ninth in the state with 14.9 points per game. The 5-foot-11 point guard also ranked second on the Hornets averaging 2.5 steals and 5.9 rebounds.
Drew Jackson
Cheyenne East
Position: Guard
Class: Sophomore
Jackson paced the Thunderbirds in scoring with 14.7 points per outing, which also ranked sixth in Class 4A. His 2.2 steals per game were sixth in the state, while his 3.8 rebounds and 1.8 assists helped guide East to a runner-up finish at the state tournament. The 6-foot guard was a first team all-state selection.
Kysar Jolley
Cheyenne East
Position: Forward
Class: Junior
Jolley posted two double-doubles in the Class 4A state tournament, which helped him finish the season averaging 9.1 points and 9.2 rebounds per contest – which ranked third in the state. The 6-foot-5 forward also posted 1.0 blocks per outing, which was also tied for the fourth in the state. Jolley was a second team all-state selection.
Jackson Kirkbride
Burns
Position: Wing
Class: Senior
The 6-foot-4 Kirkbride earned Class 3A all-state honors after leading the Broncs and ranking ninth in the state in scoring with 14.1 points per contest. His 5.9 rebounds and 2.3 steals per game also led Burns, while his 3-point percentage and blocks ranked in the top 10 in the state.
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CHEYENNE – It wasn’t until the final pitch of the game that Cheyenne Central took its first lead over Laramie on Saturday morning.
Tied 6-6 with the bases loaded and Lauren Lucas facing a 3-1 count, Lucas drew a walk to score Izzy Kelly. This gave the fourth-ranked Indians a 7-6 win over second-ranked Laramie in the conference game of the twin bill.
After making it a one-run game three times and tying it in the bottom of the fifth, Central could never push a run across to pull ahead.
“We’ve had a couple of good comebacks and it just shows that we can keep up that intensity and level of play that we know we have even when we’re down,” Central senior Taylor Gebhart said. “It was a lot of nerves (going into the bottom of the seventh), but I just went in with that mentality of, ‘We can come back and we just have to score two runs.’”
A couple of miscues from the Laramie defense helped Central get in position to score the game-winner. Maddie Birt reached first base on an error and after stealing second, advanced to third on another error. She was sent home on a Kelly single to left field. Gebhart singled and Brogan Allen was intentionally walked to load the bases.
“That’s just how the game goes sometimes. Good game between two good teams,” Laramie coach Luke Andrews said. “Every time we got a little bit of momentum, it seemed like they came back and took some, too.”
The game was tied 5-5 entering the final frame. But Laramie senior Janey Adair sent a leadoff triple to right field and scored on a Paysen Witte single up the left field gap two pitches later. The Lady Plainsmen put another runner on base and had runners at second and third before Central pitcher Katie Hinz got her defense off the field.
“For them to come out, stay motivated and keep up that intensity and not give up is huge for us,” Central coach Carrie Barker said. “(Hinz) came out ready to throw and ready to take on such a big game for us. She’s just a sophomore, so for her to hold that on her shoulders and to perform like she did – she pitched lights out today.”
Laramie took a 2-1 lead after the first frame and ended the inning with a 4-6-3 double play. Hinz and Adair got the next 12 batters out in order, combining for 10 strikeouts over the next two innings.
The Plainsmen doubled their lead in the fourth by taking advantage of a pair of Central errors, including a passed ball that Bella Pacheco scored on. Like they did all game, though, the Indians responded, this time with two runs of their own.
“I thought our base running was about flawless. We could have been more aggressive in a couple of situations,” Andrews said. “Offensively, we did almost good enough to win the game. We talk about getting to eight runs every game, and this is the first time we didn’t get there.”
Gebhart was 2 for 2 with an RBI and two runs and Macy McKinney was 1 for 3 with two RBI for Laramie. Hinz pitched six innings, allowed four runs on 10 hits and fanned 14 batters. Taryn Potts relieved Hinz in the seventh, allowing zero hits and striking out one. Adair pitched 6 innings, allowing five runs on eight hits and striking out 10.
Central (6-4, 2-2 East Conference) hopes to build on the win as the season starts to get into the thick of conference play. Laramie (6-2, 2-1) suffered its first loss of the season before losing the backend of the doubleheader.
“It’s exactly what we needed to go into this next week and to start rolling,” Barker said. “We just needed to start playing more as a team and that came out. I’m proud of how the girls came out and brought some energy today.”
Central 10 Laramie 8
CHEYENNE – Central used a six-run third inning to build a lead Laramie couldn’t overcome in the backend of Saturday’s doubleheader.
The Indians had six hits in the third including a two-run home run from Allen. Laramie hit a pair of home runs in the top of the fourth, but its comeback fell short.
Gebhart had two of Central’s four home runs in the game and Kelly had the other. Laramie had three home runs – one each from Adair, Witte and Ruby Dorrell.
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There was a drastic turnover on Cheyenne Central’s roster following its state championship run during the 2020-21 season.
The Indians lost three starters and seven seniors. Not to mention, 73% of their scoring production and a ton of experience.
And for Central senior Nathanial Talich, that meant more weight on his shoulders. Talich didn’t buckle, and entered his senior campaign with a newfound sense of leadership, eager to build on a state tournament performance that established himself as one of the premier players in the state. He averaged 17 points, four rebounds and 1.3 assists through three games while shooting 15 of 19 from the field.
Talich admitted the attention his teammates drew in the past allowed him to put up the numbers he did. Unlike the previous three seasons, though, those players he leaned on at times were no longer on the court with him to start the season.
“All of a sudden, all of those guys were gone at once and the guy that was left that had been through those battles was Nate,” Central coach Tagg Lain said. “We leaned on his experience, his leadership. He was very willing to work and be open in discussion on how things we’re going or how they should go.”
The 6-foot-4 guard embraced that next step in his prep career, becoming even more of a cornerstone on a team that was suddenly filled with some inexperience. With the change in the roster came new chemistry that needed to be built. Yet the hurdles the Indians had to overcome didn’t take away from the game.
“Every day was a challenge trying to get new guys where they fit and trying to find a good rotation,” Talich said. “But, what stood out to me the most was just having those guys around. There was never a time I wasn’t having fun.”
Doing nothing more than just playing his game led Talich to his third consecutive season earning first team all-state honors. He paced Class 4A in scoring with 23.3 points per game and was fourth in assists (3.9), fifth in rebounding (8.5) and third in steals (2.6).
Along the way, he set a handful of Central single-season and career records including most points scored in a single season (560), most points scored in a game (52) and most field goals made in a season (210). He became the program leader in points scored with 1,460, field goals made (516), assists (273) and steals (187).
Those accomplishments also led to Talich being named the inaugural WyoSports’ Laramie County boys basketball player of the year.
“He’s a special guy and he’s been a huge part of our success for four years. As many of the great things he brings, his greatest strength is his versatility,” Lain said. “He can guard anybody. He can guard guys off the dribble, shooters, and the post. And he can play any position 1 through 5 at the high school level.”
Talich accepted a preferred walk-on offer from the the University of Wyoming on March 23. The versatility he has been able to develop during his time at Central, and especially during his senior year, will benefit him on his journey to the next level.
He credited the time he spent on the varsity squad as a freshman to help prepare him mentally so those developments in the other parts of his craft would come. He also emphasized the importance of learning from former Central point guard Ryan Stampfli, and how it helped him transition from a shooting guard to a point guard.
“My freshman year (Lain) gave me an opportunity to get in the game and that really helped me understand what the next level is like,” Talich said. “And then I understood what the varsity level is. Without him giving me that chance, I wouldn’t have been able to do what I did (in my career). ”
Although the Indians missed out on the 4A state tournament this season, Lain said that Talich kept Central “at the top of the food chain in 4A.” Central finished the season 14-10 and had the second seed at the Class 4A East regional tournament before falling to Sheridan in a state tournament play-in game.
Talich stuffed the stat sheet to help keep Central afloat. Interestingly enough, he recently found a new love that involves stuffing and mounting wild game – taxidermy.
During his spare time, Talich works for a taxidermist. He said he’s learned a lot in his short time and has even completed work on his own game – most recently a European mount of an elk he shot over the winter.
It may not spark the same love that basketball does, but it doesn’t fall far behind.
“I love hunting and I love being outdoors,” Talich said. “And taxidermy drew me closer to that. I could never be away from the outdoors, and seeing new animals and being around them helps with that. I’ve been able to develop an inside catalog of what different animals looks like and where they live. That’s what’s exciting about it.”
Living in Laramie will still provide Talich the opportunity to continue to hunt and be outdoors. And he still has the opportunity to play basketball. Missing the staff at Central, the support of the student section, and wearing the red and black are what he said he’ll miss most, but hoops and the outdoors are still two things Talich can be a part of.
The No. 1 thing he’ll miss most, though? Playing in front of the crowds at Storey Gym.
“That Central-East rivalry game, that’s what I’m going to miss the most,” he said.
Talich will be able to be a part of new rivalries in the Mountain West Conference. It’s just one of the many things he’ll need to adapt to while he works toward earning time on the court.
“He’ll have some adjustments he needs to make, but the diversity in his game and how hard he works, he’ll be a contributor by the time it’s all said and done,” Lain said. “When he has a chip on his shoulder, he’s that much better.”
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LARAMIE — Laramie High sophomore Karson Busch scored a game-winning goal with 1 minute, 30 seconds left to lift the Plainsmen to a 3-2 road win against Thunder Basin Friday night in Gillette.
The goal was helped set up when senior Landon Whisenant blocked an attempt by Thunder Basin to clear the ball, and Busch ran toward it for the score on a shot toward the far post.
The Class 4A third-ranked Plainsmen improved to 5-1 overall and 3-1 in the East Conference. The Bolts (2-3 overall, 2-2 East) rebounded on Saturday to beat Cheyenne South 3-2.
Whisenant opened the scoring with a goal in the 10th minute after an assist on a diagonal pass to the right side of the field from senior Christian Smith. Whisenant beat his defender to create space for a low, hard shot past Thunder Basin goalkeeper Carl Gray.
Laramie increased its lead in the 24th minute on a wild penalty kick according to an email from LHS coach Anne Moore. Freshman Paulo Mellizo was fouled in the box for the penalty kick chance. Senior Cameron Hoberg’s shot was initially saved by Gray, but the rebound went directly to freshman Sammy Heaney, who slotted the ball back to Hoberg for the finish.
The Bolts made it a one-goal game in the 34th minute when Caleb Howell capitalized after a Laramie defensive miscue for a 2-1 Plainsmen lead before the halftime break.
Moore said the second half was end-to-end play from both teams, and Howell notched the 2-2 equalizer with 20 minutes left in the match. Howell shot the ball just outside the 18-yard box past Laramie keeper Sage Ahern.
The Plainsmen outshot the Bolts 18-9 in the match.
Laramie is next scheduled to play at Cheyenne South at 6 p.m. Thursday after that contest was rescheduled twice. The Lady Plainsmen will also host Cheyenne South at the same time at Deti Stadium.
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Young refugees have tried skateboarding for the first time ever at the brand new multi-storey skatepark in Folkestone ahead of its official opening. The group supported by Kent Refugee Action Network was invited to try it out earlier this week.
Folkestone 51 (F51), which is set to open on April 4, features the world’s first suspended concrete bowls, the tallest climbing wall in the south east and three dedicated skatepark floors.
None of the young people - from countries including Syria, Afghanistan and Iran - had ever tried skateboarding. After being kitted out in full protective gear, they were given some basic training by the venue’s coaches who put them through their paces, showing them how to stand on the band, do simple board flips, and get started on the ramps.
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Bridget Chapman from KRAN said: "It was fantastic to see these young people being given the opportunity to try this incredible facility out before it even opens. We were all impressed by the facilities on offer.
"Opening access to sport is so important for developing confidence and we hope to have the opportunity to bring more young people to visit in the future. A huge thanks to the amazing team of marshals for their infectious enthusiasm and warm welcome."
The group spent two hours practising their moves and watching demonstrations by the marshals, before touring the venues.
Asked what they thought about the skateboarding experience, Alan from Iran said: “It was the best! I had a great time!” while Osama from Syria said: “I enjoyed this very much. It makes me happy to try new things. I would like to come back soon."
F51’s three skatepark floors offer a variety of challenges to a wide range of skaters and riders. The bowl floor, located on the first level, features the two suspended concrete bowls. The two upper floors, the street and flow floor, have been made from timber and are designed for both beginners and experienced skaters to practise street and transition skating.
Hannah Prizeman from F51 said: "We had an incredible time welcoming Kent Refugee Action Network to our new venue. Joining us for an introduction to skateboarding, our team was blown away by the group's enthusiasm and determination.
"Falling is a natural part of skateboarding, for even the most experienced of skaters. The young people at KRAN picked themselves up time and time again, jumping straight back on the board with smiles on their faces. We’re very proud of our marshal team who feel so passionately about skateboarding and are committed to broadening access.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven months before he faces a critical test from voters in the midterm elections, President Joe Biden is turning his focus to kitchen-table issues as he struggles to get credit for a recovering economy.
Since Biden took office last year, job growth has been vigorous and steady — as he told the country Friday after the March jobs report showed the addition of 431,000 jobs and the unemployment rate falling to a low 3.6%. But those same remarks were also tempered by his recognition that food and gas prices are too high and inflation is at its worst level in a generation.
For Biden, convincing Americans of the progress made in the economic recovery only serves as a salient reminder of how much further the country has to go.
“Our economy has gone from being on the mend, to being on the move,” Biden said, even as he acknowledged Americans are not ready for a victory lap. “I know that this job is not finished: We need to do more to get prices under control.”
At times, Biden’s bifurcated messaging — like the state of the economy itself — can seem like a jumble of contradictions. It leaves voters to piece together their own opinions — potentially to the president’s political peril.
Record wage gains of 5.6% over the past year, for example, run up against consumer prices that have risen at 7.9% annually. Biden’s announcement this past week of plans to release a million barrels of oil daily from the U.S. strategic reserve over the next six months was a recognition of the harm that inflation can have not just on the economy but his own policy ambitions.
The economic discontent is reflected in Biden’s standing in public opinion polls.
Roughly 7 in 10 people in the United States describe the economy as being in poor shape, while nearly two-thirds disapprove of Biden’s economic leadership, according to a March poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Administration officials and Biden allies happily point to the job creation data as a sign of accomplishment but they are also perturbed by the lingering economic malaise that threatens him with a historically inhospitable environment for a president’s party in a midterm year.
They have advised Biden to spotlight his work to bring down gas prices and forthcoming efforts to try to curtail an increase in food prices from the war raging in the world’s breadbasket of Ukraine.
It is not just the family budget he is targeting. Biden’s latest message to voters is that he can bring the nation’s finances under control too.
His annual budget request highlighted a $1 trillion decrease in the deficit over 10 years, an effort to claim the mantle of fiscal steward even as the reduction was driven by the expiration of COVID-19 relief programs that are no longer necessary and a new plan for a minimum tax on the nation’s billionaires.
“Responsible fiscal accountability is always a priority with voters,” said Democratic pollster John Anzalone, who advised Biden’s 2020 campaign. “I think people want fiscal accountability. And I don’t think that’s changed over the years.”
Biden aides also hope he can spend more time focusing on other ways that government is working to make concrete changes in peoples’ lives, with infrastructure investments and the improving economy.
Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., said Wednesday after meeting with Biden that his messaging over the past month has clearly targeted moderate voters.
“ The State of the Union was spot on in terms of what constituents in our districts, purple districts, are talking about right now,” she said outside the White House. She noted Biden’s pivot to addressing mental health issues after the pandemic, while also emphasizing that the president plans to run on infrastructure and job creation.
Voters have interpreted the pandemic, the recession, the burst of government spending, the swift recovery and the inflation that followed with a sense of pessimism.
The University of Michigan’s survey of consumer sentiment included a partisan breakdown of numbers that shows growing anxiety among the Democrats whom Biden needs to turn out in 2022. Democrats’ expectations for the economy have been dropping since July, while independents’ expectations for the economy are at the lowest level since 2008 when the country was mired in the Great Recession.
Oil and gasoline prices have been a driver of this skepticism. Crude oil prices started the year at roughly $76 a barrel, spiked to about $124 on March 8 after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and appeared to settle just below $100 on Friday after Biden had announced the release from the reserves.
Desmond Lachman, a senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, called the market reaction to Biden’s release of petroleum “muted” and noted that “in the short term we are subject to the whims of outside developments like the Russian invasion.”
University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers, whose work is separate from the sentiment survey, noted there is evidence that the public’s perception of inflation may be worse than actual inflation. That’s because gasoline, food and other items where prices are openly displayed are key drivers of higher prices, possibly giving inflation an outsize psychological impact.
Wolfers has done academic work on the impact oil prices have on gubernatorial elections, but he noted that historical comparisons might not work after the financial and cultural impact of a pandemic that has scrambled expectations.
“Were I Biden, I’d be using some version of a ‘better off than you were four years ago,’” Wolfers said. He said voters need to remember June 2020, when the world was gripped by the pandemic, the government was providing misleading information about the pandemic, the economy was terrible and “you also didn’t know whether you were going to die.”
“How do you feel now? That would be the argument,” he said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Estelle Harris, who hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza’s short-fused mother on “Seinfeld” and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the “Toy Story” franchise, has died. She was 93.
As middle-class matron Estelle Costanza, Harris put a memorable stamp on her recurring role in the smash 1990s sitcom. With her high-pitched voice and humorously overbearing attitude, she was an archetype of maternal indignation.
Trading insults and absurdities with her on-screen husband, played by Jerry Stiller, Harris helped create a parental pair that would leave even a psychiatrist helpless to do anything but hope they’d move to Florida — as their son, played by Jason Alexander, fruitlessly encouraged them to do.
Harris’ agent Michael Eisenstadt confirmed the actor’s death in Palm Desert, California, on Saturday evening.
Viewers of all backgrounds would tell her she was just like their own mothers, Harris often said.
“She is the mother that everybody loves, even though she’s a pain in the neck,” she told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1998.
The career-defining role came after decades on stage and screen. Born April 22, 1928, in New York City, Harris grew up in the city and later in the Pittsburgh suburb of Tarentum, Pennsylvania, where her father owned a candy store. She started tapping her comedic talents in high school productions where she realized she “could make the audience get hysterical,” as she told People magazine in 1995.
After the nine-season run of “Seinfeld” ended in 1998, Harris continued to appear on stage and screen. She voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the 1999 animated blockbuster “Toy Story 2” and played the recurring character Muriel in the popular Disney Channel sitcom “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody,” among other roles.
She had stopped pursuing show business when she married in the early 1950s but resumed acting in amateur groups, dinner theater and commercials as her three children grew (“I had to get out of diapers and bottles and blah-blah baby talk,” she told People). Eventually, she began appearing in guest roles on TV shows including the legal comedy “Night Court,” and in films including director Sergio Leone’s 1984 gangland epic “Once Upon a Time in America.”
Her “Seinfeld” debut came in one of the show’s most celebrated episodes: the Emmy Award-winning 1992 “The Contest,” in which the four central characters challenge each other to refrain from doing what is artfully described only as “that.”
Harris would go on to appear in dozens more episodes of the “show about nothing.” She seethed over snubbed paella, screeched about George’s hanky-panky in the parental bed and laid out the spread for screen husband Frank’s idiosyncratic holiday, Festivus.
“Estelle is a born performer,” Stiller told The Record of Bergen County, N.J., in 1998. “I just go with what I got, and she goes back at me the same way.”
Still, Harris saw a sympathetic undertone to her character, often saying Estelle fumed out frustration at her bumbling mate and scheming slacker of a son.
Viewers, she told an interviewer in 1998, “just look at her as being funny, cute and a loudmouth. But it’s not how I play her. I play her with misery underneath.”
She is survived by her three children, three grandsons, and a great grandson.
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UPDATE (4/3, 8:34 a.m.) — Police in California say six people are dead and at least nine others have been injured after a shooting in downtown Sacramento.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) — Police in Sacramento say multiple victims have been reported after a shooting in the city’s downtown.
The Sacramento Police Department says the shooting happened early Sunday morning. The conditions of the victims were not immediately known.
Video posted on Twitter showed people running through the street as the sound of rapid gunfire could be heard in the background. Video showed multiple ambulances had been sent to the scene.
Police provided few details about the circumstances surrounding the shooting but said in a tweet that a “large police presence will remain and the scene remains active.”
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Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.
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Starbucks founder and two-time CEO Howard Schultz is coming back to the company as interim leader. His return coincides with a widespread union drive by the chain's employees.
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Jean White's mother has dementia and moved into a memory care facility near Tampa, Fla., just as coronavirus lockdowns began in the spring of 2020. For months, the family wasn't allowed to go inside to visit.
They tried video chats and visits from outside her bedroom window, but White said that just upset her mom, who is 87.
White's mother couldn't grasp why she could hear familiar voices but not be with her loved ones in person.
When the family was allowed in to see her, disruptions continued. White said the facility kept shutting down anytime a resident or staff member had the virus.
All the while, her mom's memory was deteriorating.
"You know it's going to happen, but still, when it does. And when you haven't — when you miss time that you thought you had," White said, speaking haltingly and with emotion as she talked about her mother's decline.
Restrictions on visitation have relaxed in recent months, White said, but she questions whether protecting her mom from COVID-19 was worth the lengthy separation.
"What anxiety, loneliness and confusion she must have had – I think I would have rather her seen her family," she said.
On March 11, the Florida Legislature passed a bill that will make it easier for people like White to see their loved ones in health facilities. Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign it in the coming weeks. At least eight states have already passed similar laws, and several others have bills under consideration.
Some laws, like those passed last year in New York and Texas, are specific to long-term care facilities. They allow residents to designate essential caregivers, also known as compassionate caregivers, who are allowed to visit regardless of whether there is a health crisis. Texans also added protections in their constitution.
Other states including Arkansas, North Carolina and Oklahoma passed similar "No Patient Left Alone" acts that also guarantee visitor access to patients in hospitals.
Hospitals and long-term care facilities set pandemic restrictions on visitors to protect patients and staffers from infection. But supporters of these news laws say they want to ease the restrictions because the rules may have harmed patients.
An Associated Press investigation found that for every two residents in long-term care who died from COVID-19, another resident died prematurely of other causes. The report, published in late 2020, attributed some of those deaths to neglect. Other deaths, listed on death certificates as "failure to thrive," were tied to despair.
Even in regions of the U.S. with low rates of COVID, risk of death for nursing home residents with dementia was 14% higher in 2020, compared to 2019, according to a study published in February in JAMA Neurology.
The researchers pointed to factors besides COVID infection that may have contributed to the increased mortality, such as less access to in-person medical care and community support services, and "the negative effects of social isolation and loneliness."
She took a kitchen job so she could see her husband
When long-term care facilities and hospitals began closing their doors to family visitors, patient advocate Mary Daniel, from Jacksonville, Fla., was worried about what might happen to her husband, Steve, who has Alzheimer's.
"I promised him when he was diagnosed that I would be by his side every step of the way, and for 114 days I was not able to do that," Daniel said.
To get back inside, Daniel took a dishwashing job at her husband's assisted living facility so she could see him.
Daniel would work in the kitchen two nights a week, then after her shift go to his room. She'd help him change into his pajamas and lay beside him watching TV until he fell asleep.
"That is really why I'm there, to be his wife, to hold his hand, so he feels that love," said Daniel.
Daniel has been fighting for visitor rights at the state and federal levels ever since. She's a leader of Caregivers for Compromise, a coalition with thousands of members. She also served on a state task force that informed Florida's decision to order long-term care facilities to reopen to families in the fall of 2020.
"We understand that COVID kills, but we want to be sure everyone understands isolation kills too," Daniel said.
While the visitation laws open the doors, they also include provisions to protect patients and staff by directing facilities to establish infection-control measures that families must follow to enter. That could mean mask requirements or health screenings. In Florida, protocols for visitors cannot be more stringent than they are for staff, and vaccination status cannot be a factor.
Also in Florida, facilities will be able to ban visitors who don't follow the rules. That's fine with advocates like Daniel.
"I mean we're not here beating down the door saying, 'You can never kick us out and I'm going to be here as long as I want to,'" she said. "We want to protect their health, we want to be sure that everything is safe."
DeSantis, who appointed Daniel to the 2020 task force, was a vocal supporter of expanding visitor access.
"COVID cannot be used as an excuse to deny patients basic rights, and one of the rights of being a patient, I think, is having your loved ones present," DeSantis said at a news conference in February.
Balancing the joy of visits with the risks of infection
In November, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services directed nursing homes to open their doors to visitors even amid COVID-19 outbreaks, so long as they screen visitors to see if they have tested positive or have symptoms of COVID-19.
Hospitals and assisted living facilities are not regulated in the same way as nursing homes. Some health care industry leaders fear the new laws for hospitals and assisted living won't provide operators the flexibility they need to respond to crises.
Veronica Catoe, CEO of the Florida Assisted Living Association, says she represents facilities with varying capabilities to accommodate visitation. Some are large with private rooms and multiple common areas; others are single-family homes that just have a handful of residents.
"These operators are trying to protect not only the loved one that wants a visit, but also the loved one that doesn't want these outsiders coming in. They both have resident rights," Catoe said.
Florida's legislation outlines various scenarios during which visitation must be allowed at all times. Those include if a patient is dying, struggling to transition to their new environment, or experiencing emotional distress, among other factors.
Catoe said those situations aren't always easy to define.
"Is it the facility that makes that decision, is it the family that makes that decision, or is it the resident?" she asked. "And when they're in conflict, who gets the deciding factor?"
Relatives wanted more time with a dying loved one
Mary Mayhew, president of the Florida Hospital Association, said the decision is also difficult for medical centers.
"They are extremely reluctant to place restrictions on [visitor] access, and it has largely been done during this extremely unusual time period when we have had a virus — continue to have a virus — that we are often learning something new about every day," Mayhew said.
She added that people go to hospitals because they're already sick or injured, which makes them vulnerable to infection.
"There is significant risk of any of those patients getting exposed to, in this case COVID, might be brought in by a visitor," Mayhew said.
Families are vital to patient care, she said, and stressed that even during COVID surges and lockdown, hospitals have tried to get relatives in to visit, especially when patients were dying.
Kevin Rzeszut says his family needed more.
"By the time we saw him, I mean, he was gone. There was no consciousness left; he was on so many medications," Rzeszut said. His father died at 75 from a bacterial infection in August of 2021, when Tampa hospitals were overwhelmed with patients sick with the delta variant.
Rzeszut said he couldn't visit his dad for nearly two weeks. When doctors told the family to come say their goodbyes, Rzeszut's 11-year-old son went along.
"I think the worst part for me was that my son got to see him, you know, just hooked up to a bunch of machines and totally out of it, like that was it, you know?" said Rzeszut, his voice breaking with emotion.
He said the staff did the best they could.
"The nurses and doctors, they can look at notes all day long, but they don't know him, they haven't spent 53 years with the man" the way his mother had, Rzeszut said. "She'd be more attuned to minor improvements or degradations. Maybe that's a pipe dream, but it feels real."
Rzeszut said he supports measures to give families more access to their loved ones, so long as enforcing them doesn't add more workload to an "already overburdened" health care system.
What he really wishes, he said, is that more people would take COVID seriously so people didn't need a law to visit their loved ones.
This story comes from NPR's health reporting partnership with WUSF and KHN (Kaiser Health News).
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Golf range on Bernards Veterans Administration campus will be an Inspiration to all
BERNARDS - Even if you're a neophyte or a duffer struggling to break 100, it takes just one good shot for golf to be an inspiration to better yourself.
That's one of the reasons behind the Inspiration Golf Range and Activity Center that has opened on the Lyons Campus of the Veterans Administration New Jersey Health Care System.
The multi-purpose facility, open to the public, will be the home for the New Jersey Golf Foundation's programs to promote golf as a lifetime activity for all people.
The programming is highlighted by PGA HOPE (Helping Our Patriots Everywhere), a rehabilitative golf program for military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, among other challenges.
The goal of PGA HOPE is to introduce golf to veterans with disabilities to enhance their physical, mental, social, and emotional well-being.
What are the odds?: Three generations make aces at Somerset County golf course
It is the only adaptive golf program that has a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Veterans Affairs, which allows recreational therapists to refer veterans to the PGA HOPE program free of charge.
To complement that program, the Inspiration Golf Range will host youth programs and serve as a training site for Special Olympics New Jersey golf athletes along with their partners who will have access to the facility to prepare for state, regional, national and international competitions.
“As golf surges in popularity, the Inspiration Golf Range & Activity Center offers a venue to extend our programming for youth, military veterans and individuals with special needs,” said Mike Attara, president of the New Jersey Golf Foundation. “This is an opportunity to further support America’s Heroes, while also providing a premier practice facility for the surrounding community, as it is open to the public.”
PGA professional Andy Brock has been named director of Instruction at the facility, where lessons and development programs will be available to the public.
A PGA member for nearly 25 years, Brock has been a longtime advocate of the New Jersey Golf Foundation, having served as president in 2010-11 and a member of the foundation's board for several years. He also served as president of the NJPA Section in 2012-14.
Prior to his new role, Brock was head PGA professional at Metuchen Golf & Country Club for 20 years and was most recently the director of instruction at the Golf Range at Branchburg.
The facility, which features 22 practice stations, will be open to the public seven days a week through Nov. 15. Hours will be 9 a.m. to dark with range balls sold up 30 minutes before dark. The range will open at 10 a.m. on Wednesdays for maintenance.
The founding partners of the range include RWJBarnabas Health; Horizon BCBSNJ; Jersey Mike’s Subs and Premium Cos.
The Lyons VA campus also includes the Coakley-Russo Memorial Golf Course owned and operated by Bernards Township, which opened for the season on Friday.
The course was designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. as a par 35, nine-hole course which plays from 2,700 to 3,300 yards.
The course was dedicated to the memory of all New Jersey golfers who gave their lives in World War II and is named in honor of two New Jersey professional golfers, Lt. Francis X. Coakley and Sgt. Nick Russo, both killed while serving their country.
In July 1996, Bernards Township assumed the operation of the course in partnership with the VA Medical Center. Managed and maintained by the Department of Parks & Recreation, membership categories are available for VA affiliates, Bernards Township residents and non-residents. Membership includes unlimited play with no additional greens fees.
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Bank stocks took a hit during the pandemic because of low-interest rates. However, things are looking up for financial institutions as the Fed looks to reign in inflation through interest rate hikes. JPMorgan Chase (JPM) predicts higher net interest income, but investors don’t seem to be biting. That is a shame because the company is one of the most successful investment banks in the world.
JPMorgan Chase and Co. is a multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York. It is the largest bank in the U.S., with over $3 trillion in assets.
JP Morgan is a top-tier play in banking, with its strong balance sheets and diverse assets. However, the stock has not reflected this performance over the last few months.
Part of it has to do with the muted outlook for the year. JPMorgan Chase is looking at a roughly 8% increase in expenses this year, with technology investments one of its main priorities. The other issue is the macroeconomic environment. There are worries that the Russian wa on Ukraine could eventually lead to a global economic slowdown. Much of this has to do with growing oil prices. Therefore, investors are focusing largely on dividend stocks and retirement plans.
That, however, doesn’t necessarily not mean you stay away from JPMorgan.
Why is JPMorgan’s Stock Down?
Much like other bank stocks, JPMorgan did not have a great time during the pandemic due to near-zero interest rates. However, JPM could navigate these trying times by adjusting its strategies and concentrating on new areas.
The bank’s CIB division had outstanding recent years in capital markets and investment banking. In 2021, the banking giant experienced impressive growth within this business segment.
However, growth for this segment is expected to normalize this year. In addition, when reporting fourth-quarter earnings, JPMorgan said it expects expenses to increase to approximately $77 billion this year from $71 billion in 2021. As expenses increase, so do executives’ difficulties when reaching their financial targets. However, CEO Jamie Dimon believes the company can still achieve their return on tangible equity goal of 17% by relying on other aspects of its business.
It’s also worth noting that JPMorgan has one of the largest tech budgets in banking. This approach is expected to provide room for expansion, with the fintech sector growing rapidly.
However, investors are not yet convinced. Hence, the company finds itself in the position it’s in now.
Unusual Strategy Paying Dividends
In today’s day and age, everything is about disruption. With the emergence of fintech, it is expected that there will be a lot of disruption in the financial industry. This will require more and more people to enter the field of finance.
To compete with fintech companies, traditional financial institutions need to up their game in terms of technology and creativity.
However, JPMorgan has decided to go against the grain. When most banks are shuttering their physical brick-and-mortar sites, the company has doubled down on its retail expansion. JPMorgan announced a $20 billion investment in 2018 that would add branches to new markets over the next five years. The company is making significant progress toward its goal of launching 400 units in new markets and other avenues of growth.
JPMorgan’s second-quarter earnings call revealed that its branch plan is proceeding very well and has brought in almost $7 billion in deposits and investments.
JPMorgan wanted to expand the number of branches and gain a foothold in markets where it could do well. This decision was not based on square footage but more on physical client-facing locations to provide better service. So far, the results have been promising for JPMorgan Chase.
JPMorgan is a Quality Dividend Performer
Dividend stocks are not only attractive for investors because they provide consistent income, but it is also important to know what factors could influence the share price and which ones are likely to increase or decrease in value.
JPM has proven to be a reliable source of dividend income for investors. With a roughly 25% dividend payout, you’ll always know your money’s worth. With a strong balance sheet, good growth rate, and a conservative payout, this is one of the best dividend stocks in the financial space.
Wall Street’s Take
Wall Street analysts surveyed in the last three months have predicted lofty values for JPMorgan Chase. JPM has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on nine Buys, eight Holds, and one Sell.
The average price target for JPM stock is $175.83, which implies a 29.95% upside.
The Bottom Line
The stock is fairly priced with moderate growth and a steady dividend that resists market-wide losses.
The company has a diverse portfolio with multiple revenue streams. This helps the company stay resilient to macroeconomic changes and better prepare for times when the economy is attempting a rebound.
Plus, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan, has also been tremendously effective with shareholders. He is one of the most iconic CEOs in recent memory and has done a good job representing the firm .
If you are looking for a safe investment amongst all the volatility, it’s better to go with JPMorgan.
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MPLX LP (MPLX) is one of the largest diversified master limited partnerships in the midstream energy infrastructure industry. The partnership primarily operates logistics assets and provides fuels distribution services.
MPLX’s assets comprise a network of crude oil and refined product pipelines, an in-land marine business and marine terminals, storage caverns, refinery tanks, as well as natural gas and NGL processing and fractionation facilities.
Units of MPLX have undergone a wild ride over the past few years. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, MPLX’s units lost more than 2/3 of their value amid investors selling off energy securities in bulk. Since then, the energy sector has recovered significantly, while the ongoing war in Ukraine has also substantially favored companies in the space, including those specializing in the logistics field, such as MPLX. Consequently, MPLX units have now climbed even higher from their pre-pandemic levels.
Despite the stock’s turbulent passage, MPLX’s performance has remained robust during this period, while the partnership has continuously rewarded unitholders with lofty levels of capital returns. While MPLX’s valuation has expanded lately amid investors flocking toward securities in the energy sector, I believe that MPLX remains reasonably priced.
For this reason, I am bullish on MPLX.
Recent Performance
MPLX’s latest results continued to demonstrate the ongoing tailwinds in the energy sector, including the growing demand for oil and gas distribution. Specifically, performance was driven primarily by an 18% increase in volumes in its logistics & storage segment and elevated volumes in the gathering & processing division. Accordingly, the company recorded revenues of $2.73 billion, a 21.3% increase year-over-year.
Besides benefiting from increased revenues, management also topped its initial cost reduction goals, easing the partnership’s annual operating expenses by approximately $400 million relative to its 2019 levels. Consequently, MPLX’s profitability metrics have been notably enhanced.
Adjusted EBITDA came in at $1.4 billion, 6.6% higher year-over-year, while distributable cash flows per unit rose 7% to approximately $1.15. Amid robust profitability, the company continued making progress in its deleveraging efforts. Long-term debt declined to $18.0 billion compared to $19.4 billion in the prior-year period. Finally, the partnership ended the quarter with a healthy consolidated debt to an adjusted EBITDA ratio of 3.7x, which continued to improve from 3.9X and 4.1X in 2020 and 2019, respectively.
Distributions & Valuation
Since MPLX’s spin-off from Marathon Petroleum (MPC) in 2012, the partnership has raised its disruptions annually with no exceptions. In fact, distributions have often grown intra-year more than once between various quarters. Its 9-year distribution per unit CAGR currently stands at 13.1%. The latest distribution hike pushed the payout to a quarterly rate of $0.705, suggesting an increase of 2.5% compared to the previous quarter.
A notable difference distinguishing MPLX from the rest of its industry peers is that the partnership enjoys high-quality fee-based cash flows which are backed by minimum volume commitments. This leads to strong revenue generation that doesn’t fluctuate widely during downturns in the energy sector.
Consequently, MPLX was able to sustain healthy distribution coverage even during the pandemic while still growing its distributions per unit. In Q4 of fiscal 2020, distribution coverage was still hovering at a healthy 1.58X despite the challenges at the time. Distribution coverage has now improved further to 1.64X, suggesting that the company should have enough room to continue growing DPS, at least conservatively.
With MPLX once again proving its resilient qualities and the energy sector becoming increasingly attractive lately, investors have started to flock back to the stock, expanding its valuation multiple. Specifically, MPLX units are currently trading at a forward EV/EBITDA of 9.8X. The multiple is notably richer than the forward EV/EBITDA levels between 6X and 8X over the past couple of years. However, I wouldn’t call units overvalued as this multiple is still quite close to the stock’s historical average – let alone being reasonable from a general point of view.
Unit Buybacks
With MPLX’s units trading at a significant discount in the midst of the pandemic, management started to aggressively buy back units. Last year they repurchased a record $630 million worth of units. Besides buybacks themselves having an accretive effect on MPLX’s per-unit metrics, the timing of management’s buybacks was quite remarkable.
With the bulk of unit repurchases occurring when the stock’s yield was hovering in the double-digits, MPLX will now be saving a significant amount of cash that would be used in future distributions for these units.
Further, unit repurchases provide another layer of safety when it comes to distributions, as the partnership would most likely suspend buybacks before messing with payouts.
Wall Street’s Take
Turning to Wall Street, MPLX Stock has a Strong Buy consensus rating based on nine Buys and two Holds assigned in the past three months.
At $36.55, the average MPLX price target implies 9.37% upside potential.
Conclusion
MPLX is one of the most well-managed partnerships amongst its master limited partnership peers. This was demonstrated during the pandemic when MPLX managed to produce resilient cash flows, grow its per-unit distributions, and even take advantage of the opportunity to repurchase its units cheaply, further driving unitholder value.
While the ongoing tailwinds in the energy sector have resulted in the stock’s valuation multiple somewhat expanding, I still believe that MPLX is fairly valued at its current price levels. With its 8.44% yield, active buybacks, and ongoing growth in gathering and processing volumes, MPLX’s investment remains quite attractive, in my view.
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U.S. stocks rallied fractionally on Friday, starting off the month of April and the second quarter on a positive note.
With the positive session, the S&P 500 ended last week fractionally higher. Real Estate and Utilities led the gainers, while the Financial sector lagged.
Elsewhere, U.S. treasury markets flashed a bearish sign. The yield of the 10-year note fell below that of the 2-year, which has historically been an omen of a potential economic recession.
To that end, the economic data were mixed last week. For one, it was reported on Tuesday that U.S. consumer confidence increased in March. On the other hand, Friday’s data from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) showed a decline in manufacturing activity.
Friday’s jobs report was also a mixed bag. The U.S. economy added a solid 431,000 non-farm payrolls in March, but fell short of expectations. At the same time, the headline unemployment rate declined to 3.6%.
The Week Ahead
There are no major earnings announcements on the calendar this coming week. However, a new quarter means that reporting season is right around the corner.
According to Refinitiv, aggregate S&P 500 profit is expected to increase 6.4% in the first quarter. Backing out the Energy sector, which benefited from higher commodity prices, earnings are actually expected to have declined from the previous year.
On the economic front, ISM is expected to post its March report for the Services sector on Tuesday. This will be followed by the minutes of the latest FOMC meeting a day later.
Following the snap-back recovery in stocks over the past several quarters from Pandemic lows, we believe that investment gains will be harder to come by in 2022, given a slowing growth outlook and the prospect of higher interest rates. As a result, deciding what and when to buy can be challenging for any investor. However, the fact remains that attractive investments are out there, if you’re willing to dig a little deeper.
One such Financial Technology name is worth a closer look and is our Stock of the Week.
Stock of the Week: Paypal (PYPL)
The company is a leader in the digital payments market. The stock gained more than 2% last week. We believe this outperformance can continue in the first half of 2022. Here’s why:
On Wednesday, Goldman Sachs started coverage of Paypal with a Buy rating, citing a continued shift toward digital payment activity.
Goldman analyst Michael Ng is in good company, as there are nearly 40 active analysts tracked by TipRanks. The average price target of $180.63, represents 54.8% upside potential.
Although the company missed earnings expectations last quarter, underlying growth trends remain strong. Free cash flow increased 38% and management is targeting 20% annual revenue growth.
At current levels the stock offers investors growth at a reasonable price, valued at 24.5x expected earnings over the next four quarters. This is below the industry average and broader market valuations, as well as being on par with Paypal’s long-term growth rate.
In the meantime, the stock carries a Smart Score of 9/10 on TipRanks. This proprietary score utilizes Big Data to rank stocks based on 8 key factors that have historically been a precursor of future outperformance.
On top of the positive aspects mentioned already, the Smart Score indicates that shares have seen insider buying, in addition to improving sentiment from financial bloggers.
FYI: This is just 1 of the 20+ stocks selected for the Smart Investor portfolio. That’s where we share more detailed insights on our weekly stock picks.
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Toni Morrison once called the practice of banning books a "purist and yet elementary kind of censorship designed to appease adults rather than educate children."
Morrison was objecting to a proposed ban "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, shortly before she died in 2019. It's probably safe to assume she also would offer harsh words over the removal of her own novel, "The Bluest Eye," and a number of others from school libraries in Wentzville, Missouri.
That particular book ban, enacted in January, is now at the center of a lawsuit brought against the Wentzville School District by the ACLU of Missouri. Leading the charge is a group of high school students who argue they have the right to read those books — and that the school unconstitutionally targeted works by "racial or sexual minorities."
Efforts to stop students from reading certain books have escalated quickly in the name of "parents' rights," and despite national attention, the anti-reading movement shows no signs of slowing down. Just this past week in Missouri, Attorney General Eric Schmitt created an online platform to make it easier for parents to report to the state what they consider objectionable books and lessons.
Finding lists of challenged books is easy. But what about a list of books so good, so crucial to understanding the world and the diverse people and stories within it, that not reading them would be the real travesty?
Books so powerfully relatable that being unable to access them constitutes the real threat to students' wellbeing?
After all, once you immerse yourself in someone else's perspective, your world view doesn't shrink back to its previous size. And I consider that a good thing.
I reached out to some of the smartest Kansas Citians I know to help compile such a list for today's youth.
These are the books they recommended. It's far from a complete guide for self-education, but it's a pretty great place to start.
Sonia Warshawski: Holocaust survivor
At her longtime tailor shop in Metcalf South Mall, Sonia Warshawski got the nickname Big Sonia — for the size of her personality, and not her physical stature. Warshawski is a Holocaust survivor, and the subject of a documentary, "Big Sonia," made by her granddaughter.
In 1942, when Warshawski was 17, she was sent to a Polish ghetto and then later taken by train to a concentration camp. There, she saw her mother enter a gas chamber and never emerge.
When the Holocaust survival memoir "Maus," by Art Spiegelman, was banned in Tennessee schools, people expressed outrage. Educational settings seemed to be showing a preference for the sanitized Holocaust narratives of bystanders, rejecting outright the stories of those who experienced concentration camps first-hand.
Warshawski tells her own story at middle schools, prisons and film festivals. In fact, she gets so many requests for reading recommendations that her list was ready to go before I asked. Here are a few:
- "The Last Jew of Treblinka" by Chil Rajchman
- "Neighbors" by Jan T. Gross
- "The Girl in the Green Sweater" by Krystyna Chiger
- "Night" by Elie Wiesel
- "Life in a Jar" by Jack Mayer
- "The Nazis Next Door" by Eric Lichtblau
Vladimir Sainte: author, therapist, and social worker
Growing up in Queens, New York, Vladimir Sainte was a handful by his own admission. Unsure what to do with him, Sainte's Haitian-born parents sent him to live with an uncle in Kansas City. Now, he works at University Health (formerly Truman Medical Center), helping young people struggling with anxiety and behavior issues — like he once did.
One of his go-to methods is bibliotherapy — the use of literature to help a person externalize their own dilemmas, and hopefully see themselves differently. But Sainte started encountering clinical situations requiring books he couldn't find.
He told me about one child with brown skin who wanted to change that aspect of himself so desperately that he'd begun trying to remove it — using sandpaper. That kid's struggle to feel comfortable in his own skin prompted Sainte to start writing books himself.
"When I think of books that I would urgently want to get in the hands of young people in our community, I immediately think about books focusing on mental health and race," Sainte says.
Sainte recommends:
- "The Teen Girl’s Anxiety Survival Guide: Ten Ways to Conquer Anxiety and Feel Your Best" by Lucie Hemmen
- "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
- "You Are Your Best Thing" by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown
- "Little and Lion" by Brandy Colbert
- "The Only Black Girls in Town" by Brandy Colbert
Debbie Pettid: irreverent children's book purveyor
Known for her 30-year tenure as owner and operator of the Reading Reptile — a playfully iconoclastic children's bookstore first located in Westport, then in Brookside — Debbie Pettid is now building exhibits for The Rabbit hOle, her soon-to-be children's literature museum.
One of her recommendations — "Hole In My Life" by Jack Gantos — is a memoir about smuggling drugs and getting caught. Pettid acknowledges that this is an unconventional background for a children's book author. But she thinks it's important for young people to see someone make a mistake, be accountable for it, and then grow.
"One event should not define your entire life," she says.
Pettid recommends:
- "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian," by Sherman Alexie
- "Speak," by Laurie Halse Anderson
- "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- "The First Part Last" by Angela Johnson
- "After Tupac and D Foster" by Jacqueline Woodson
- "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
- "Weetzie Bat" by Francesca Lia Block
- "Stitches," by David Small
Dorothy and James McField: former owners of The Hub bookstore
More than 45 years ago, a bookstore called The Hub was the place to go in Kansas City if you wanted to get your hands on Black literature and history — the kind not available in white-owned bookstores, and not yet taught in schools.
Owners Dorothy and James McField — a married couple — told KCUR that the idea for The Hub came from a casual conversation among friends brainstorming about what their Kansas City, Kansas, community needed. The McFields suggested a bookstore.
“And they all laughed at us,” James then recalled. "‘Where you going to put it?’ they wondered. '5th and Quindaro!' And they laughed louder.”
The couple sent along reading recommendations for young people seeking to inform themselves today, but they had trouble narrowing down their list. "It's really hard to choose," Dorothy wrote.
- "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein
- "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander
- "Between the World and Me," by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- "Born a Crime," by Trevor Noah
Natasha Ria El-Scari: poet, educator, and gallerist
Natasha Ria El-Scari doesn't shy away from taboo; she once wrote a manifesto on the importance of mothers talking to sons about sex.
So maybe it's not surprising that all of the books El-Scari recommends have been banned or challenged at some point. But that's not why she wants young people to read them.
El-Scari decribes "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker as "a triumph of the human spirit" and a portrayal of "what unconditional love looks like." She calls "If Beale Street Could Talk" by James Baldwin "probably one of the most beautiful and frustrating books ever."
El-Scari recommends:
- "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
- "If Beale Street Could Talk" by James Baldwin
- "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
- "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
Suzanne Hogan: podcaster, bike mechanic, and bassist
You probably know Suzanne Hogan as the producer and host of A People's History of Kansas City from KCUR Studios. But she's got a lot of other claims to fame in town, too. Hogan was an original founder of the 816 Bike Collective, and she's a touring musician with a punk band.
Knowing that Hogan is building a personal library of Kansas City history books, I asked if there was anything in her treasure trove that should be required reading in local high schools. She thought of one book immediately: "Racism in Kansas City: A Short History" by G. S. Griffin.
"I've read a lot of history books about Kansas City, and they're not all — how do I say this a nice way — easy to digest? They can be pretty hard to sift through," Hogan says.
But she says Griffin's book is an exception, adding that racism is an important part of our city's history, one she doesn't think students get enough of a chance to explore.
Hogan's other recommendation is a novel that made an impression on her, back when she was in high school
- "Racism in Kansas City: A Short History" by G.S. Griffin
- "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Izzy Wasserstein: science fiction writer
"We are living in science fictional times," wrote Izzy Wasserstein in a 2020 op-ed in the Kansas Reflector.
The Kansas-based writer argued that science fiction can't really help us predict the future, but it can help guide us through the surreally bizarre challenges of the present: climate change, a global pandemic, political upheaval.
"Science fiction is the literature of the human species encountering change," Wasserstein wrote. "It doesn’t tell us what tomorrow holds, but it helps us see how we might survive and even thrive in these dangerous times."
In 2022, Wasserstein draws our attention to a handful of particularly helpful titles, including "The Four Profound Weaves," by R.M Lemberg. One cover blurb calls this book "the anti-authoritarian, queer-mystical fairy tale we need right now."
- "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K Le Guinn
- "The Four Profound Weaves" by R.M. Lemberg
- "Dawn" by Octavia Butler
Adib Khorram: author of YA fiction
Adib Khorram has just published a book he expects will get challenged if not banned. His other books already have. And plus? "It's very gay," he explains nonchalantly.
Khorram himself grew up queer and Iranian in the Midwest in the 1980s and 1990s. And he would have loved to see himself in the books he read in school — but he never did.
Khorram is part of a larger movement in YA fiction to correct that, for kids of many backgrounds and identities. He also keeps up with the genre's newest authors and books. For a recommended reading list, Khorram tells me about "Strange Grace," by Tessa Gratton, another local author.
"It takes place in a kind of small fantastical town where nothing bad ever happens, except every seven years they literally sacrifice one of their children to a forest. It's really a story about how young people are often responsible for fixing the mistakes of their elders," Khorram says. "And if that's not a perfect metaphor for what's going on now."
Khorram also recommends "Proxy" by Alex London as a reflection on the digital landscape, as well as what Khorram calls "death-stage capitalism."
- "Strange Grace" by Tessa Gratton
- "Proxy" by Alex London
- "How To Be Remy Cameron" by Julian Winters
- "Dear Justyce" by Nic Stone
This is, of course, a list that could go on indefinitely. All the books people deserve to be able to read would require a whole library — and that's the point.
But I know this list will keep me reading for quite a while.
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Real Humans By Gina Kaufmann is written and hosted by Gina Kaufmann. The podcast is produced by Gina Kaufmann and Mackenzie Martin. It’s based on a column edited by Gabe Rosenberg.
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With the Sunshine Double wrapped up, the Hologic WTA Tour moves to green clay with the Credit One Charleston Open at 500 level this week.
Four Top 10 players feature in the draw, and comprise the top four seeds: Aryna Sabalenka, Paula Badosa, Karolina Pliskova and Ons Jabeur. Three former winners are also present: defending champion Veronika Kudermetova, 2019 titlist Madison Keys and 2016 winner Sloane Stephens. Other names of note include US Open finalist Leylah Fernandez and former World No.2 Petra Kvitova.
Charleston 2022: Scores | Full draw | Order of play
No.1 seed Sabalenka and No.3 seed Pliskova are both in need of a form boost after losing their opening matches at Indian Wells and Miami. Sabalenka, who took a wildcard into Charleston, has landed in a section heavy with home players. After receiving a bye, she will face either Caty McNally or Alison Riske in her first match, and is projected to meet No.15 seed Amanda Anisimova in the third round and either No.6 seed Jessica Pegula or No.9 seed Keys in the quarterfinals.
Pliskova, who returned to action in Indian Wells after fracturing her wrist in the off-season, is competing in Charleston for the first time since 2013 and heads the third quarter. She will open against either Yuan Yue or Katarina Zavatska, the 22-year-old Ukrainian whose own six-month hiatus due to health issues only ended in Miami.
Main Draw, here we come! ♨️
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Qualifying spots still to be filled in (tomorrow) but here is our official main draw as it stands right now 👇#CharlestonOpen pic.twitter.com/bfEWF8jXl6
Should Pliskova get off the mark in that match, her section becomes extremely intriguing. No.13 seed Stephens could await in the third round - but the American faces a tough opener herself against fast-rising 19-year-old Zheng Qinwen, who has spoken of her fondness for clay despite her ultra-aggressive game.
Charleston 2022: Five first-round matches to circle
[13] Sloane Stephens (USA) vs. Zheng Qinwen (CHN)
Ana Konjuh (CRO) vs. [WC] Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE)
Shelby Rogers (USA) vs. Kaia Kanepi (EST)
Elena-Gabriela Ruse (ROU) vs. Hailey Baptiste (USA)
Wang Xiyu (CHN) vs. [10] Belinda Bencic (SUI)
Whoever emerges from that section is projected to face either No.7 seed Fernandez or No.11 seed Kvitova in the quarterfinals. However, danger looms in the second round for Kvitova. Hometown heroine Shelby Rogers and Kaia Kanepi own five Top 20 victories between them this year already, and their first-round clash begs the question of how two renowned upset artists will fare against each other.
Interview: Inside the rise of Zheng Qinwen
No.2 seed Badosa is returning to the site of a key breakthrough. Last year, the No.71-ranked Spaniard upset then-World No.1 Ashleigh Barty in the quarterfinals for her first Top 10 win. One year on, she arrives in the week of her own Top 3 debut. Badosa starts against either Anna Bondar or former NCAA champion Arianne Hartono, with No.16 seed Zhang Shuai projected in the third round and No.8 seed Kudermetova in the quarterfinals.
Kudermetova, who captured her maiden title here last year, could resume her rivalry with fellow Generation 1997 talent Belinda Bencic in the third round. The pair have played seven times at pro level, with Kudermetova leading the series 4-3.
In another first round to circle, Ana Konjuh and wildcard Linda Fruhvirtova will square off for the right to take on No.10 seed Bencic in the second round. Fruhvirtova made waves in Miami where the 16-year-old Czech, playing in just her fourth WTA main draw, upset Elise Mertens and Victoria Azarenka to reach the last 16.
Interview: Meet Linda Fruhvirtova, the latest teenager making a splash
No.4 seed Jabeur, a semifinalist last year (and a runner-up at the one-off WTA 250 in Charleston that followed), heads the second quarter. The Tunisian opens against either Madison Brengle or wildcard Emma Navarro, and is projected to face No.5 seed Elena Rybakina in the quarterfinals.
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Allen Wolfe and T.E. McHale had three things in common: They loved newspapering. They loved auto racing. And they were beloved by all who knew them.
It is only fitting, then, that their paths will cross at this year’s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach — though it will be posthumously.
Wolfe, the Press-Telegram’s late, legendary auto racing writer, lived for this time of year, when the Grand Prix started revving up and the deafening roar of race engines could be heard on Long Beach’s downtown streets.
From the first Grand Prix in 1975 and for the next 23 years, Wolfe became known as the “Grand Master of the Grand Prix.” He got so excited about the race that we in the P-T newsroom used to call April, “Allen Wolfe time.”
Unfortunately, Wolfe was working tirelessly as usual on the race in 1999 when his heart gave out and he died at 51, one week before the start of the Grand Prix. Eventually, the Grand Prix and the P-T created an honor bearing his name — the Allen Wolfe Spirit of the Grand Prix Award.
McHale, meanwhile, was a veteran sportswriter for the Mansfield (Ohio) News Journal from 1978 to 1996. But then he changed gears and turned his love of motorsports into a second career as a racing executive with Championship Auto Racing Teams and the Trans-Am Series. In 2003, Honda hired him to be its manager of motorsports communications. He moved to Torrance for the Honda job and became a regular and respected figure at the Grand Prix of Long Beach. He retired in 2019.
He died in December from colon cancer. He was 68.
McHale will posthumously receive the Allen Wolfe Spirit of the Grand Prix Award on Saturday, April 9, at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center. McHale’s brother, Terry, is expected to be at the event to receive the award on his sibling’s behalf, said Jim Michaelian, president and CEO of the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach.
“T.E. was truly a gentle soul who made his greatest impact due to his steady, reasonable approach to life,” Michaelian said. “He had a quiet demeanor, but, when he spoke, his words always commanded everyone’s attention.”
McHale played a valuable role in completing the title sponsorship agreement between Acura and the Grand Prix Association in 2019, Michaelian said. Acura is the luxury car division of Honda.
In Wolfe’s honor, the Press-Telegram (curently part of the Southern California News Group) and Michaelian created spirit award, given each year to a person who made a significant contribution to the race. McHale was richly deserving of the award, Michaelian said.
McHale and Wolfe, the Grand Prix leader said, were “giants in their fields. Both had a strong affinity for the world of motorsports.”
Wolfe had a rocky start in life when he and a twin brother were born prematurely in Honolulu. His brother died two days after birth. Wolfe weighed 4.5 pounds and spent his first month in an incubator. Later, doctors discovered he had a congenital heart defect — but he never let that slow him down. He was an avid golfer and skier.
Wolfe started his career as a writer when he joined the student newspaper at Long Beach’s Millikan High School. When he was 17, he got a part-time job at the Press-Telegram answering phones.
And so began his 33-year career at the newspaper.
Wolfe also wrote for the school papers at Long Beach City College and Cal State Long Beach during his tenure at those campuses.
His love of sports led him into auto race reporting.
Jim McCormack, former sports editor of the Press-Telegram during what he called “the Allen Wolfe era,” said Wolfe was a reliable, professional and quiet editor on the desk during the auto offseason.
“During Grand Prix time, it was like he had received fresh batteries,” McCormack said. “His story output was legendary and his energy endless.
“He would virtually single-handedly put out our Grand Prix special section and, at the same time, would be all over the day-to-day coverage advancing and then covering the race,” McCormack added. “He knew everyone of significance in the Grand Prix racing community, and he was respected by everyone. The Press-Telegram sports department had a remarkable collection of exceptional journalists and, when it came to auto racing, Allen was among the best.”
The American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association recognized Wolfe with a plaque in the Deadline Media Center at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for his dedication to increasing the coverage of motorsports.
McHale had plenty of spirit of his own during his double careers as a sportswriter and racing executive.
He was a beloved figure to drivers, media members and fellow public relations representatives, “who looked to him as the measured, rational voice of reason in an environment that is rarely calm,” according to John Oreovicz, a professional sportswriter specializing in auto racing and based in Indianapolis.
McHale also fostered a welcoming attitude to all, exemplified by the Honda hospitality bus, which traveled to many events.
“The only sticking point for some was the ‘T.E. McHale Brussels Sprouts Rule,’” Oreovicz wrote, “which mandated the consumption of a serving of McHale’s favorite vegetable to qualify for dessert.”
Thomas Eugene McHale was “the personification of calm and class,” wrote Marshall Pruett, at Racer.com, “with a face that was made to smile, he was among the most human and relatable figures in the sport.
“His keen observations on racing, and life, and music,” Pruett added, “shared on pit lane, in media centers, or at his beloved Honda hospitality bus, connected us in communal ways.”
Wolfe would have been embarrassed by having an award named after him, but he would have been pleased by the recipients and their spirit.
McHale would be one of them, high on his list of contributors to auto racing in general — and, particularly, the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach.
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A week after the Oscars set the internet ablaze, the 2022 Grammys are tasked with topping the buzz from the biggest awards-show moment in recent history—if not avoiding the controversy that now surrounds it.
For the second year in a row, The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah will emcee music’s biggest night, hosting from a new locale—the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Jon Batiste leads this year’s nominations with 11 nods, followed by Justin Bieber, Doja Cat, and HER at eight each; and Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo with seven apiece. (The full list of nominations can be found here.)
Questions about the ceremony abound: Who will win best new artist? Will Kanye West attend amid personal turmoil? Want answers to those queries and more? Here’s how to livestream the 64th Grammy Awards.
How to Watch the Grammys
The 2022 Grammys air on Sunday, April 3, on CBS. Those with a cable subscription can watch the ceremony live on television at their local CBS affiliate, or online at cbs.com, or through the CBS app. This year’s telecast will also be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+. Other streaming options include Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV, DirectTV Stream, Sling TV, and FuboTV, most of which have free-trial options.
Where to Watch the Grammys Red Carpet
This year, the Recording Academy will be bestowing honors in a staggering 86 categories. As such, most categories will not be announced during the live telecast. To see many of these trophies presented, tune in to the Premiere Ceremony, hosted by LeVar Burton, at 3:30 p.m. E.T./12:30 p.m. P.T. on the Grammys YouTube channel or website.
Those searching for their pre-show fashion fix can watch the Live From E!: Grammys red carpet coverage at 6 p.m. E.T./3 p.m. P.T., hosted by Laverne Cox and featuring Queer Eye’s Karamo, style correspondent Zanna Roberts Rassi, and pop culture commentator Naz Perez. Live From E! Stream: Grammys, begins at 7 p.m. E.T./4 p.m. P.T. on most of the E! social channels, YouTube, eonline.com, and the E! News app. If you’re eager to get your awards-show Sunday started even earlier, Live From E!: Countdown to the Grammys airs at 4 p.m. E.T./1 p.m. P.T., featuring comedian Nikki Glaser and Grammy-nominated artist Ester Dean.
Who Is Performing at the Grammys?
Let’s be honest: We all view the Grammys as an unofficial concert. Most of the telecast consists of performances from the year’s nominees, and 2022 is no exception. Olivia Rodrigo and newly minted Oscar winner Billie Eilish, each up for seven awards, will perform. Two-time Grammy winner Lil Nas X, nominated in five categories, will take the stage, as will six-time Grammy winner Brandi Carlile, up for five awards of her own, and 12-time winner Lady Gaga, nominated for her latest record with Tony Bennett.
The 2022 Grammys will open with a performance from Silk Sonic—Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak. Other scheduled performers include BTS, Jack Harlow, Brothers Osborne, John Legend, Jon Batiste, HER, Chris Stapleton, Carrie Underwood, J. Balvin, Nas, Aymée Nuviola, Billy Strings, Maria Becerra, and Maverick City Music. (Previously announced performer Kanye West, nominated for five trophies this year, has been barred from performing at the awards show for “concerning online behavior,” his rep confirmed to Variety, although the Recording Academy and CBS have yet to comment.)
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Six people were killed and at least nine others were injured after a shooting in downtown Sacramento early Sunday morning, police said.
"Officers located at least 15 shooting victims, including 6 who are deceased," Sacramento police tweeted.
The shooting happened in the area of 10th and J Streets, Sacramento police spokesperson Sgt. Zach Eaton said.
"9th St to 13th St is closed between L St & J St as officers investigate a shooting with multiple victims," Sacramento police tweeted. "Conditions unknown at this time. Please avoid the area as a large police presence will remain and the scene remains active."
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Desperate to prove Ohio isn't a lost cause, Democratic candidates for governor and an open Senate seat are attempting to steer clear of culture wars and tap into a vein of economic populism that has eluded them in the increasingly red state in recent decades.
It hasn't been long since Democrats last won in Ohio. Former President Barack Obama won the state in both 2008 and 2012. And in 2018, Sen. Sherrod Brown won his third term. However, those high-profile victories obscured a much bleaker reality in the state for the Democratic Party.
No other Democrat has won statewide office here since 2006. In 2020, Joe Biden became the first person to win the presidency without winning Ohio since 1960 -- effectively ending Ohio's bellwether status, though it had been clear for several election cycles that Ohio was no longer the tipping-point state that would push a presidential candidate over 270 electoral votes. Former President Donald Trump's 8-point victories in Ohio in 2016 and 2020 underscored just how far Democrats had slid, particularly in the state's White, rural areas.
This year, the open-seat Senate race created by Republican Sen. Rob Portman's retirement, along with the gubernatorial race, will offer the latest test of whether Democrats can still win in the Buckeye State -- or whether Ohio's battleground status will continue to fade.
Rep. Tim Ryan is the leading candidate to take on whoever emerges from a packed, acrimonious seven-person Republican Senate primary. Meanwhile, two former mayors are competing for the Democratic nomination for a governor's race that would likely pit the primary winner against incumbent Gov. Mike DeWine.
Those candidates have largely honed in on a similar approach: Focus almost exclusively on jobs and wages. Defend workers and union rights, and hammer away at China and free trade deals. Stay out of the culture wars that are animating the Republican base.
It's an economic message that carries unmistakable echoes of both Trump and Brown.
"The Sherrod Brown model is the model to win in Ohio," said Aaron Pickrell, a veteran Ohio Democratic strategist and a leader of Obama's winning 2008 and 2012 efforts in the state. "I will not compare Sherrod Brown to Donald Trump. But tapping into economic anxiety to convey how you're going to help Ohioans address their economic anxiety is the way to win."
But, strategists say, the appeal of Trump and Brown in Ohio isn't just their message.
In their own ways, both strike voters as authentic figures. Brown has survived while other Midwestern Democrats have lost in part because, over decades in public life, he has cultivated a working-class-focused brand that's helped by his raspy voice and rumpled appearance. In 2018, he dramatically outperformed the rest of the Democratic statewide ticket: Brown won reelection by 7 percentage points, while DeWine won the governor's office and down-ballot Republicans won statewide offices by about 4 percentage points.
"There's a lot of reasons that Sherrod wins, and one of them is similar to the reason Donald Trump won Ohio: In states like this where it's a competitive state that has begun to tilt one direction, voters value authenticity more than anything," said Justin Barasky, a Democratic strategist who managed Brown's 2018 campaign and is advising Ryan's gubernatorial bid.
"They know every time they hear from Sherrod Brown that they're getting an authentic person," Barasky said. "They know why he's doing what he's doing, who he's fighting for, that he's in it for the right reasons. For better or worse, they believe it about Trump, too."
'Start cutting workers in on the deal'
That brand is difficult to build in one election cycle. But Ryan, the 10-term congressman from Youngstown who in 2016 challenged Nancy Pelosi for the House speakership and launched a short-lived 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, is trying.
Ryan, 48, was first elected to Congress in 2002. He's a frequent visitor in Ohio's union halls, and has made stories about his family's working-class roots a staple on the campaign trail. He pitches himself as a Democrat in Brown's mold, and tells crowds that while he disagreed with Trump on a number of issues, he supported the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
He has centered his campaign on an argument for policies that would force corporations to "start cutting workers in on the deal."
"Ohio has to lead the way in bringing our supply chain back, taking on China, building the things that will build our future," he said in his opening remarks at a Monday debate at Central State University, a historically Black university in Wilberforce, Ohio, east of Dayton.
Ryan is traveling to rural, heavily Republican areas of the state frequently ignored by Democrats, trying to stop the party's bleeding there after years of Republicans racking up enormous margins of victory in those counties.
Ohio's urban areas favor Democrats, but cities like Cincinnati and Columbus don't provide the huge margins that the party's candidates receive in the urban counties in nearby Pennsylvania and Michigan, where Democrats have consistently won statewide contests in recent years. So chipping away at the GOP's dominance in Ohio's rural counties is critical, Democratic strategists said, to returning the state to competitive status.
"Tim's learning what people care about, people are talking about him being there, he's talking to the press while he's there. Every corner of Ohio, people are going to know Tim's looking out for him," Pickrell said.
Still, Ryan has a primary challenge to overcome in May before he can focus on the winner of a seven-way GOP primary. Morgan Harper, an attorney and former senior adviser to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has challenged Ryan from the left.
In the debate Monday, Harper criticized Ryan for previously receiving an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association and for taking campaign money from defense contractors. She said Congress should cancel student loan debt and expand the Supreme Court -- positions Ryan did not embrace.
Still, Ryan is the clear favorite, with a massive financial advantage: He ended 2021 with $5 million his campaign's bank account, more than 10 times what Harper had on hand.
That allowed Ryan to launch a $3.3 million ad buy this week -- with his first 30-second spot focused solely on China.
"It is us versus China, and instead of taking them on, Washington is wasting our time on stupid fights," Ryan says in the ad.
Democrats seek to latch DeWine to social issues
DeWine, the Republican governor who has been in office for nearly 40 years -- first as a local prosecutor and then state legislator, then as a member of the US House, then Ohio's lieutenant governor, then the US Senate, and finally back to Ohio as attorney general before being elected governor in 2018 -- faces GOP competition in his bid for a second term.
DeWine emerged early in the coronavirus pandemic as among the leading governors advocating public health measures to slow the pandemic. But in his first television ad of the primary season this week, he pushed the other way, highlighting his efforts to re-open Cleveland schools in early 2021. It's a response to the pressure he faces from the right: Former US Rep. Jim Renacci and farmer and business owner Joe Blystone are campaigning on criticism of DeWine's handling of the pandemic, saying the measures he took to close schools and businesses early went too far.
In a gubernatorial debate at Central State University the day after the Senate candidates debated, the two Democratic candidates vying to take on DeWine, former Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley and former Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley, focused on jobs, rather than DeWine's pandemic management.
But they also offered a glimpse at a strategy that could help Democrats win the state's suburban regions, casting DeWine and Republicans as too extreme on social issues -- particularly hammering DeWine's decision to sign into law a measure passed by the Republican-led legislature that allows concealed carry of firearms without a license.
Whaley pointed to DeWine's pledge to "do something" after a 2019 mass shooting left nine dead in Dayton. "Never in my worst nightmare did I think the thing he was going to do was to actually make it worse," she said.
Lambasting Republicans in statehouses for overreaching on social issues is part of Democrats' strategy across the midterm map, with party operatives looking for ways to turn the GOP's focus on issues that animate a base still devoted to Trump against Republicans in the general election.
"Among independents and suburban swing voters, people want the economy to be good and they don't want to live in this really conservative state that is focused on social issues that don't affect their day to day life that much," Pickrell said.
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MUSKEGON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — No injuries were reported after a head on crash in Muskegon Township early Sunday Morning.
The crash happened at Evanston Avenue and Wolf Lake Road in Muskegon Township. Muskegon County Dispatch told FOX 17 that clean up from the crash was underway.
This is a developing story and we will update you with new information as it comes in.
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Sacred land returned to Native American tribe in Virginia
More than 460 acres of land in Virginia has been returned to the Rappahannock Tribe, the Department of Interior announced.
Why it matters: The land, at Fones Cliffs, on the eastern side of the Rappahannock River in Virginia, is the ancestral home of the tribe and has long been considered a sacred site.
The big picture: The push to return the 465 acres is part of the Biden administration's "America the Beautiful" initiative.
- The tribe's reacquisition of the land was formally celebrated at community event on Friday attended by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Martha Williams, the principal deputy director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
- The site marks the place where the Rappahannock Tribe first encountered English settlers in the early 1600s, and also hosts one of the largest nesting bald eagle populations on the Atlantic coast, per the press release.
- The Rappahannock Tribe will own the land, which will be publicly accessible and "held with a permanent conservation easement," per the press release, which added that there are plans to create trails and a replica of a 16th century village, "where Tribal members can educate the public about their history and Indigenous approaches to conservation."
What they're saying: “The Department is honored to join the Rappahannock Tribe in co-stewardship of this portion of their ancestral homeland. We look forward to drawing upon Tribal expertise and Indigenous knowledge in helping manage the area’s wildlife and habitat,” Haaland said in the press release.
- “We have worked for many years to restore this sacred place to the tribe. With eagles being prayer messengers, this area where they gather has always been a place of natural, cultural and spiritual importance,” Rappahannock Tribe Chief Anne Richardson at the event, per National Parks Traveller.
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Taliban bans opium poppy production
The Taliban on Sunday announced a ban on opium poppy production.
Why it matters: Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of opium, which has in the past provided a crucial revenue stream for the Taliban, as it gained territory ahead of the complete takeover.
- A 2017 Afghanistan Opium Survey from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that poppy cultivation covered 320,000 hectares throught the country, an area about the size of Rhode Island.
Details: Any farmers caught continuing with a harvest will be jailed and their crops will be burned, according to Taliban’s spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, who announced the ban during a press conference in Kabul on Sunday.
- Mujahid later shared the decree on Twitter.
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COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – Officials are investigating a Thursday-afternoon rollover crash with entrapment on SC-64.
Colleton County Fire-Rescue responded to a vehicle flipped over just east of Neyles Crossroads.
CCFR said the car flipped after it failed to negotiate a curve at a high speed. The car ran into a ditch and hit a power pole and fence.
The driver, a 34-year-old Charleston man, was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the car. The driver was found trapped under the car when authorities arrived. He was treated at the scene then taken to the MUSC Trauma Center.
The crash is under investigation by SC Highway Patrol.
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RICHMOND -- Jacob Williamson grows, makes and sells hemp-based CBD products through his family’s Hens and Hemp farm. He went through the permitting process to be a hemp farmer when it became legal in 2019, but now he is leaving the industry.
“We can't keep up with the multimillion-dollar cannabis industry coming into the state,” Williamson said. “So, we're just gonna stop because it's too much.”
Williamson represents a group of entrepreneurs concerned about the future of the commercial hemp industry in Virginia, because of what they say is the risk and increased regulation of selling these products.
Industrial hemp definition changes
Sen. Emmett Hanger, R-Augusta, introduced Senate Bill 591 which originally focused on the prohibition of cannabis goods that can be easily confused with everyday treats, and that are “human, animal, vehicle, or fruit” shaped.
“It would restrict the use of products that appeal to children through gummies,” Hanger said in committee.
The Virginia General Assembly allowed farmers to grow industrial hemp starting in 2019.
Lawmakers passed an amended version of Hanger’s bill, which redefines marijuana as any cannabis product with over .3% THC or .25 milligrams of THC per serving. That includes some non-intoxicating CBD products. The bill, however, excludes industrial hemp that is possessed by a person or company who holds a U.S. Department of Agriculture hemp producer license, as long as the THC level remains under .3%.
It is currently legal to possess, but not sell marijuana in the state of Virginia.
The .3% THC threshold comes from the 2018 Federal Farm bill. Anything over .3% THC is still federally defined as marijuana. In 2018, most marijuana used recreationally contained over 15% THC, according to the National Institute for Drug Abuse.
Hemp advocates are upset because they say the bill will limit product sales of items from edibles to salves.
Hanger told a Roanoke Times reporter recently that lawmakers “kind of stirred a hornet’s nest” but there is time to work on the bill before the legislature reconvenes in late April.
“Delta-8” legal loophole
Legislators want to crack down on the sale of Delta-8-THC, which has a similar chemical structure as the main psychoactive compound, or Delta-9, found in marijuana that gets users high. Delta-8 typically comes from hemp-derived CBD, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
Many Delta-8 products, which are low in THC, are made in a lab because additional chemicals are needed to increase the amount of THC, according to industry website Cannabis Tech.
The products get people buzzed, but still fall into a legal loophole. And a few adverse reactions to Delta-8 products have been reported to the FDA.
“I recognize there are a lot of legitimate businesses with legitimate products out there that shouldn't be forced out of the market,” Hanger said. “But I think the broader issue right now is public safety.”
The U.S. Hemp Roundtable, a national advocacy group for hemp cultivators, stated in a press release that it supports regulation for public safety, but that new regulations are too broad.
“Advocates for SB591 provided no scientific basis or public safety justifications for these arbitrary restrictions,” the group stated.
The Virginia Hemp Coalition is an industrial hemp education and advocacy group whose goal is to create new agricultural and manufacturing opportunities for hemp farmers. The group has been involved in campaigns to amend SB 591 and shared a petition that has garnered almost 4,000 signatures. The group also wants Congress to expand the THC threshold to 1% in the next Farm Bill.
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Service issues hemp permits and tests THC concentrations of hemp plants. The THC levels increase as CBD levels increase in the cannabis plant. Growers run the risk of getting higher THC levels in their cannabis plants in order to get a higher amount of CBD.
Henry Watkins, chief of staff for Sen. Adam Ebbins, D-Alexandria, said hemp growers might see a little more regulatory oversight, more testing and enforcement.
“I think folks who are saying this wasn't enforced before are really saying ‘no one enforced it on me before,’” Watkins said.
Nipping the budding market
Many stores throughout Virginia since 2019 began selling a variety of CBD-based, low-THC products for a variety of reasons and ailments.
People who want to buy actual, high quantity THC marijuana can easily find it, despite the risk of prosecution. Some sellers offer delivery options and showcase product menus on social media. Many people began operating in those spaces when marijuana possession was decriminalized and in anticipation of the legal recreational market that many thought was greenlit for 2024.
Both parties mostly agreed a legal recreational marijuana market would generate substantial tax revenue for Virginians, but the session ended without lawmakers adopting a framework for sales.
The bill that passed in 2021 needed to be reenacted in the 2022 session, but a House committee continued the bill to the next session next year, effectively killing the reenactment clause and likely the January 2024 start date for recreational sales. The only way marijuana can be obtained legally is if it is grown or gifted, or if an individual has a state-issued medical marijuana card.
Jay Rooks is co-owner of N-fused Cannabis Boutique in Richmond. The storefront sells everything from CBD gummies to THC flowers, the smokable parts of the plant. Rooks is a part of what cannabis advocates call the legacy market in Virginia, or a group of sellers who have been previously incarcerated for marijuana sales.
“We’ve been trying to keep people that have been deprived of moving forward in life from something that is medically good for people to have,'' Rooks said.
Rooks said he isn’t afraid of legal repercussions for his shop, as he feels the gray area between the decriminalization of marijuana and the establishment of the legal market will protect him.
“You can't walk around being scared,” he said. “If it does happen, I know I can handle the repercussions.”
Rooks also said he takes solace in the fact that Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, is co-owner of a Norfolk shop that sells legal CBD products. Some products sold at the store were over the threshold for allowed THC, according to a report published by the Virginia Mercury. The dispensary could be affected by Hanger’s legislation.
Lucas, who co-patroned the 2021 legislation that decriminalized simple possession of marijuana, voted for Hanger’s original bill but not the final amendment. She did not respond to repeated phone and email requests for comment on the bill.
Michael J. Massie, an attorney and board member of the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority, said there is no gray area for selling marijuana products.
“There is no provision that allows for the legal sales of marijuana at this juncture,” he said. “You sort of put yourself in a very precarious position where you might be prosecuted.”
David Treccariche sells lab-tested CBD products at his boutique dispensary Skooma in Charlottesville. Hanger’s bill was an “absolute death nail in the coffin” for the industry, he said.
Treccariche said he expected small business owners to be more involved in cannabis policy making.
“They’re [Republicans] theoretically, pro-small business, limited government, limited oversight, limited regulations,” Treccariche said. “He's a Republican, he should improve small businesses. Why would he shut me down?”
Treccariche and Rooks say their shops have QR codes for consumer protection, with nutrition information and THC concentrations for their products.
“You can check them out all the way down to the calories,” Rooks said.
Marijuana advocate Dylan Bishop, a lobbyist for the Cannabis Business Association of Virginia, argued in a committee hearing that having a legal market allows consumers to verify a product’s authenticity.
The association doesn’t think limiting the definition of hemp or cracking down on low THC levels in CBD products is the best course. Instead, they suggested stringent testing and labeling requirements, which advise the consumer of any potential psychoactive effect.
The General Assembly will hold its reconvene session on April 27. Hanger said he is open to suggestions about modifying his bill.
“Let's regulate some stuff for safety,” Williamson said. “I can see that. However, they probably didn't realize how far a little law could change a lot for a bunch of farms.”
Capital News Service is a program of Virginia Commonwealth University's Robertson School of Media and Culture. Students in the program provide state government coverage for a variety of media outlets in Virginia.
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H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program seventh-graders Olivia Soldano and Ava Yi placed third in the Junior Group Exhibit category of the annual Virginia History Day District 5 competition.
Their project – “Trail of Tears” – focused on removal of Native Americans from the Southeast in the early 1800s. They were among 29 students from H-B Woodlawn that entered works in the district competiton.
As one of the top three teams in the category, the students will move on to state Virginia History Day competition, to be held at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond April 23-24.
Virginia History Day is an affiliate of the National History Day Contest, founded in 1974 to inspire students to conduct original historical research. Each year, more than a half-million students take part.
“Creating a project for the National History Day contest is challenging. It requires hard work and dedication. But it also provides great reward,” said Cathy Gorn, executive director of the national competition.
The theme for the 2022 competition is “Debate & Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences.”
“The skills of conducting research and recognizing credible sources are crucial to increasing civic engagement in young people,” Gorn said.
* H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program seventh-graders Olivia Soldano and Ava Yi placed third in the Junior Group Exhibit category of the annual Virginia History Day District 5 competition.
Their project – “Trail of Tears” – focused on removal of Native Americans from the Southeast in the early 1800s. They were among 29 students from H-B Woodlawn that entered works in the district competiton.
As one of the top three teams in the category, the students will move on to state Virginia History Day competition, to be held at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond April 23-24.
Virginia History Day is an affiliate of the National History Day Contest, founded in 1974 to inspire students to conduct original historical research. Each year, more than a half-million students take part.
“Creating a project for the National History Day contest is challenging. It requires hard work and dedication. But it also provides great reward,” said Cathy Gorn, executive director of the national competition.
The theme for the 2022 competition is “Debate & Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences.”
“The skills of conducting research and recognizing credible sources are crucial to increasing civic engagement in young people,” Gorn said. For a complete list of Virginia award recipients, see the Website at https://virginiahistory.org/VHD.
[Sun Gazette Newspapers provides content to, but otherwise is unaffiliated with, InsideNoVa or Rappahannock Media LLC.]
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On March 28 at 6:02 p.m., officers responded to the 1000 block of South Hayes Street in Arlington for a report of shoplifting.
During the course of the investigation, the suspect – who had been detained by loss-prevention officers – provided false identifying information, but officers were able to determine his identity, police said.
After being taken to booking, the suspect began to act disorderly, make threatening statements and spit on an officer, police said.
The suspect – 24-year-old Ronald Thomas of Brandywine, Md. – was arrested and charged with assault on law enforcement, trespassing, identity theft and shoplifting. He was held without bond.
The suspect also was served with outstanding warrants from the Arlington County Sheriff’s Office and Fairfax County.
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Police: Dine-and-dash couple speed off, leave mayhem in wake
On March 27 at 11:26 p.m., police responded to a reported hit-and-run in the 300 block of 23rd Street South in Arlington.
According to the investigation, a man and woman left an establishment without paying their bill. A security guard made contact with them outside the establishment and requested that they return to pay. The suspects refused and entered their vehicle, police said.
As the security guard was documenting the license plate, the male suspect allegedly reversed the vehicle, almost striking the security guard and hitting a parked vehicle before fleeing the scene. No injuries or significant property damage were reported. The suspects are described as a black male, in his early 40s, 5’10” or 5’11”, 200 pounds, with mustache and goatee, and a black female, 5’6”, 160 pounds.
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On March 31 at 12:33 p.m., officers were dispatched to a report of a shoplifting incident in the 1400 block of South Hayes Street in Arlington.
Investigation revealed that an individual entered the business, concealed merchandise in his bag and attempted to leave without paying before being confronted by an employee, police said.
The suspect was banned from the property and released on a summons for petty larceny.
At approximately 1:33 p.m., police were dispatched to a report of an assault in the 1200 block of South Hayes Street.
According to police, the same individual entered into another business and attempted to leave without paying for clothing items when two loss-prevention employees confronted him.
A brief struggle ensued, during which time the suspect allegedly pushed and struck both employees, police said.
The suspect – 26-year-old Adrian Chavez Gonzalez of Cheltenham, Md. – was arrested and charged with two counts of robbery, trespassing and shoplifting. He was held on a secure bond.
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Dranesville Elementary School fourth-graders Naya Kwitowski, Capri Swinton and McKell Poulton placed second in the Elementary Group Exhibit category of the annual Virginia History Day District 5 competition.
Their project focused on Harriet Tubman.
As one of the top three teams in the category, the students will move on to state Virginia History Day competition, to be held at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond April 23-24.
Virginia History Day is an affiliate of the National History Day Contest, founded in 1974 to inspire students to conduct original historical research. Each year, more than a half-million students take part.
“Creating a project for the National History Day contest is challenging. It requires hard work and dedication. But it also provides great reward,” said Cathy Gorn, executive director of the national competition.
The theme for the 2022 competition is “Debate & Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences.”
“The skills of conducting research and recognizing credible sources are crucial to increasing civic engagement in young people,” Gorn said.
A total of 280 students representing 27 schools in Northern Virginia competed at the district level. In Northern Virginia, partners to the Virginia Museum of History & Culture in the competition include George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the Office of Historic Alexandria and Fairfax County Public Schools.
For a complete list of Virginia award recipients, see the Website at https://virginiahistory.org/VHD.
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Fairfax County police, who investigate all in-custody deaths at the county’s Adult Detention Center in Fairfax, have had two such cases in recent days.
Detectives from the department’s Major Crimes Bureau are investigating the in-custody death of 65-year-old inmate George Redmond, who was found unresponsive in his single cell at the detention center the morning of March 28.
Fire and Rescue Department personnel transported Redmond to the hospital, where he was pronounced deceased. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will conduct an autopsy, but preliminarily, there are no signs of foul play, officials said.
Redmond had been in the custody of the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office and incarcerated at the detention center since Mar. 25. On that date, he was originally arrested by Alexandria City Police. Authorities transferred custody to Fairfax County police, who took him to the detention center.
Redmond had been arrested for a failure-to-appear warrant related to an original charge of trespassing and destruction of property.
On March 29 at 4:39 p.m., police dispatched officers to the Adult Detention Center after 55-year-old inmate Kyung Pil Chang was found unresponsive in his single cell. Fire and Rescue Department personnel responded and pronounced Chang deceased. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner conducted an autopsy the next day. Preliminarily, there are no signs of foul play, police said.
Authorities on March 25 charged Chang, a Haymarket resident, with three counts of aggravated sexual battery, object sexual penetration and practicing as an unlicensed masseuse at the Annandale Gerontology Clinic, 4216 Evergreen Lane, Suite 121, in Annandale. Chang had been in custody of the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office and incarcerated without bond at the detention center since his arrest.
Detectives are coordinating with the Sheriff’s Office to gather the facts and circumstances surrounding both deaths.
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A woman who was parked in front of her home in the 200 block of Commons Drive, N.W., on March 30 at 11:22 a.m. mistakenly put the vehicle’s gear in reverse instead of park.
When the car began to roll backward, the driver attempted to get back into the vehicle to stop it.
The vehicle pulled her to the ground, down a slope and into a neighbor’s fence, police said. Rescue personnel transported the woman to a hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening injury.
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Maybe some year and somehow, two outstanding girls and boys all-star high-school basketball events could be merged and played the same day at the same venue.
That way, those wanting to see all of the games, three-point shooting and dunk competitions could easily do so. But not now.
On Sunday, March 20, the annual girls Suburban Classic, consisting of an all-star game of senior players and a preceding three-point shooting contest, was held at Madison High School beginning at 12:30 p.m. On the same day, with a 1 p.m. start, the boys Nova Challenge took place at Fairfax High, with three all-star games and three-point and dunk contests.
Both have become popular events that have interest to many. But choices have to be made which to attend, because of the time and venue conflicts.
That’s too bad, because the senior games include the top girls and boys players from different Northern Virginia locales. The Arnolie sisters from Madison High School, Yorktown’s Ana Bournigal, Oakton’s Sophia Zinzi, McLean’s Mia Fitzgerald and Langley’s Annabeth Holsinger and Caitlyn Shumadine were among those who played in the girls game. The boys game included local players, as well.
Maybe the event organizers could get together to at least discuss the possibility of merging and somehow condensing the events into one day-long competition at the same venue. They would have to determine the profit-sharing setup, of course, and some other details.
Or, maybe keep the names of the events and keep them separate. But at least play the games at the same site with different start times. That way, lofty rent prices could be shared.
If that could be worked out and promoted a bit, the basketball day could become quite popular. If not, then the organizers should agree to hold their events on different days.
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Roy Hill has been hired to be the head coach and start the men’s wrestling program at Marymount University. The first season for the Division III Saints will be the 2022-23 winter season.
Hill brings more than 30 years of experience to the Saints.
“Northern Virginia deserves to have a top-notch Division III option for the large number of quality wrestlers who want to get a quality education while being in the business hub of the nation,” Hill said.
A graduate of Virginia Military Institute, Hill has served as the head coach at Hayfield High School since 1992. Hill turned Hayfield into a regional power and has produced multiple public-school state champions.
Hill also founded the Gunston Wrestling Club in Alexandria.
As a coach, Hill developed multiple athletes for the Virginia Wrestling Association National Team and had eight grapplers earn All-American status at national meets.
Hill also has been the president of the Northern Virginia Wrestling Coaches Association since 1996. He was named to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2015.
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NORFOLK, Va. — COVID-19 hospitalization numbers have plunged to their lowest levels since the early days of the pandemic, offering a much needed break to health care workers and patients alike following the omicron surge.
The number of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus has fallen more than 90% in more than two months, and some hospitals are going days without a single COVID-19 patient in the ICU for the first time since early 2020.
The freed up beds are expected to help U.S. hospitals retain exhausted staff, treat non-COVID-19 patients more quickly and cut down on inflated costs. More family members can visit loved ones. And doctors hope to see a correction to the slide in pediatric visits, yearly checkups and cancer screenings.
“We should all be smiling that the number of people sitting in the hospital right now with COVID, and people in intensive care units with COVID, are at this low point,” said University of South Florida epidemiologist Jason Salemi.
But, he said, the nation “paid a steep price to get to this stage. ... A lot of people got sick and a lot of people died.”
Hospitalizations are now at their lowest point since summer 2020, when comprehensive national data first became available. The average number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the last week nationwide dropped to 11,860, the lowest since 2020 and a steep decline from the peak of more than 145,000 set in mid-January. The previous low was 12,041 last June, before the delta variant took hold.
The optimistic trend is also clear in ICU patient numbers, which have dipped to fewer than 2,000, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
“We’re beginning to be able to take a breath,” said Dr. Jeffrey Weinstein, the patient safety officer for the Kettering Health hospital system in western Ohio.
COVID-19 patients had filled 30% of Kettering Health’s nearly 1,600 hospital beds back in January, Weinstein said. Kettering’s eight hospitals now average two to three COVID-19 admissions a day — and sometimes zero.
And while Salemi agreed this is a good time for an exhausted health care system to take a breath, he warned that the public health community needs to keep an eye on the BA.2 subvariant of omicron. It's driving increases in hospitalizations in Britain, and is now estimated to make up more than half of U.S. infections.
“We’re probably under-detecting true infections now more than at any other time during the pandemic,” Salemi said.
For now at least, many hospitals are noting the low numbers.
In California on Thursday, UC Davis Health tweeted that its intensive care unit had no COVID-19 patients for two consecutive days for the first time in two years.
“The first COVID-19 patient to arrive in our ICU did so in February 2020, and the unit treated at least one positive individual every day since, for at least 761 consecutive days,” the hospital system said.
Toby Marsh, the chief nursing and patient care services officer, said in a statement that they hope the numbers "are indicative of a sustained change.”
In Philadelphia, patients are spending less time in the Temple University Health System because there are no longer backlogs for MRIs, CT scans and lab tests, said Dr. Tony Reed, the chief medical officer.
Temple Health's three hospitals had six adult COVID-19 patients on Thursday, likely its lowest patient count since March 2020, Reed said.
During the omicron surge, patients waited as long as 22 hours for a routine MRI, which is normally done within 12 hours. Longer waits affected those who came in with trouble walking — and in a lot of pain — for example, because of a herniated disc pinching their sciatic nerve.
“Nobody wants to stay in the hospital a day longer than they have to,” Reed said.
The emptying of beds is also helping patients in rural areas, said Jay Anderson, the chief operating officer for Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. During the surges, the hospital faced challenges accepting people from community hospitals who needed elevated care for brain tumors, advanced cancer and stroke. That burden is now being lifted.
Visitors also will return in higher numbers, starting Tuesday. Ohio State will no longer restrict patients to two designated guests, who could only stop by separately.
“Patients heal better when they have access to their family and loved ones,” Anderson said.
Doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists are also getting a much needed break in some areas.
In Colorado, Dr. Michelle Barron said the consistently low COVID-19 hospitalizations prompted smiles among staff, even as she double-checks the numbers to make sure they’re actually correct.
“I had one of these moments like, oh this is amazing,” said Barron, medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. “It feels unreal.”
UCHealth loosened some restrictions, including dropping testing requirements for anyone who entered a facility. And while that produced some anxiety among staffers, Barron says the numbers haven’t spiked.
“I think some people have started to take vacations and not feel guilty,” she said. “I had spring break with my kids and it was a level of happiness where I went, oh my god, this is actually normal.”
The omicron surge had stretched staff at work — but also at home, said Dr. Mike Hooper, chief medical officer for Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in southeastern Virginia.
“It was stressful to be at the store ... to visit your family,” Hooper said. “We’re all hoping that some ‘return to normalcy’ will help people deal with the inherent stresses of being part of the health care team.”
But just because hospitalizations are down does not mean hospitals are empty, said Dr. Frank Johnson, chief medical officer for St. Luke’s Health System in Idaho.
Some measures — like wearing masks in certain settings — will remain in place.
“I don’t know when we may go back to old practices regarding mask wearing in our clinical areas,” Johnson said. “We’ve seen some benefits of that in terms of reduction in the number of other viral infections.”
In the meantime, the public health community is keeping an eye on the BA.2 subvariant of omicron.
Salemi, the University of South Florida epidemiologist, said the increase in at-home testing means that more results are not being included in official coronavirus case counts. Therefore, wastewater surveillance will be the early warning signal to watch, he said.
“BA.2 is here,” he said. “We don’t have to look that far in the rear-view mirror to know things can change very rapidly. We saw what happened with delta. We saw what happened with omicron.... We don’t want to wait until we see a lot of people hospitalized before we take action.”
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ATLANTIC OCEAN – U.S. Sailors and Marines from the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group and 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit joined Allied Nations in kicking off the U.S. Sixth Fleet-planned and executed exercise Northern Viking 2022 (NV22) in Keflavik, Iceland, April 2, 2022.
NATO Allied Nations participating in NV22 include France, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the U.S. These combined forces will bring significant capabilities across the air, land and at-sea domains to a Joint and Coalition live exercise.
U.S. Navy and Marine Corps forces include units from the Kearsarge ARG and embarked 22nd MEU under the command and control of Task Force 61/2. The Kearsarge ARG includes the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship and Kearsarge ARG flagship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), the San-Antonio class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24) and the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44) homeported in the U.S. state of Virginia.
“The Kearsarge ARG and 22nd MEU stand together with our NATO partners and Allies committed to a forward naval presence in the Sixth Fleet area of operations,” said Captain David Guluzian, commander of the Keasarge ARG and embarked Amphibious Squadron SIX. “Northern Viking is an opportunity to provide valuable interoperability experience across the NATO Alliance, emphasizing the importance of the Arctic and North Atlantic region through combined training in Iceland, a key NATO Ally critical to collective security.”
Embarked commands with the Kearsarge ARG include Amphibious Squadron SIX, Fleet Surgical Team 2, Tactical Air Control Squadron 22, Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 28, Assault Craft Unit 2, Assault Craft Unit 4, Naval Beach Group 2, Beach Master Unit 2 and the 22nd MEU.
“This exercise will provide critical training for the MEU and is a good opportunity to demonstrate the interoperability and effectiveness of the United States, Iceland and NATO Allied maritime forces,” said Col. Paul Merida, commanding officer, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit.
Col. Merida and his MEU team serve as a sea-based, expeditionary crisis response force capable of conducting amphibious missions across the full range of military operations. The 22nd MEU is based out of the U.S. state of North Carolina and includes the command element; the aviation combat element, Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron, 263 (Reinforced); the ground combat element, Battalion Landing Team 2/6, and the logistics combat element, Combat Logistics Battalion 26.
NV22 seeks to strengthen interoperability and force readiness between the U.S., Iceland and Allied Nations and enables execution of multi-domain command and control of joint and coalition forces in the defense of Iceland and the Sea Lines of Communication in the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom Gap. The exercise includes amphibious landings, expeditionary and construction capability, search and rescue, and humanitarian assistance with forces demonstrating skills in events across multiple domains, climates, and vignettes to enhance interchangeability and interoperability.
The Kearsarge ARG-MEU team is participating in NV22 in support of global maritime operations and security in support of Allied and partner interests in Europe and Africa. Amphibious ready groups and larger amphibious task forces provide military commanders a wide range of flexible capabilities including maritime security operations, expeditionary power projection, strike operations, forward naval presence, crisis response, sea control, deterrence, counter-terrorism, information operations, security cooperation and counter-proliferation, and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
For imagery and other products related to exercise Northern Viking, please visit www.dvidshub.net/feature/northernviking2022.
For additional information on the Kearsarge ARG, please visit official websites at
Amphibious Squadron SIX www.c2f.usff.navy.mil/cpr6
USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) www.c2f.usff.navy.mil/lhd3
USS Arlington (LPD 24) www.c2f.usff.navy.mil/lpd24
USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44) www.c2f.usff.navy.mil/lsd44
For social media updates from the Kearsarge ARG, please visit
Amphibious Squadron SIX www.facebook.com/PHIBRON6/
USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) www.facebook.com/Kearsarge/
USS Arlington (LPD 24) www.facebook.com/USSARLINGTON/
USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44) www.facebook.com/GunstonHall/
For additional information on the 22d MEU, please visit
22d MEU Official Website www.22ndmeu.marines.mil/
22d MEU Facebook www.facebook.com/22ndMEU/
22d MEU Twitter www.twitter.com/22nd_MEU/
22d MEU Instagram www.instagram.com/22MEU/
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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A man was killed and two women were wounded in a shooting at a Virginia mall Saturday evening, police said.
Norfolk police were called to MacArthur Center around 6:25 p.m., the department said in a news release. The women, who were shot in their ankles, were taken to a hospital with injuries that weren’t believed to be life-threatening.
Police Chief Larry Boone told news outlets that the shooting was prompted by an argument over money, and that he believed the male victim and the suspect were related. Boone said he didn’t know if the two women had any relationship to the shooter or the man who was killed.
The the victims’ names weren't immediately released.
Several area roads were blocked off as authorities investigated. Police shared photos later Saturday night of a suspect and a person of interest, asking for the public’s help in identifying them.
The shooting happened on the same day as the funeral for 25-year-old Virginian-Pilot reporter Sierra Jenkins, who was one of two people killed less than two blocks from the shopping center on March. 19. Authorities say Jenkins was caught in a crossfire as she was leaving a bar.
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Hearing the word trapeze conjures images of a circus ring or Cirque Du Soleil.
But in Prosser, trapeze means yoga.
Sara Hazzard owns Free Spirit Yoga & Trapeze in Prosser. She’s been instructing yoga in her downtown studio since 2018.
Trapeze yoga is suspension yoga that reduces back pain, improves core strength, promotes balance and increases flexibility. It is beginner-friendly and accessible for adults of all ages.
Trapeze yoga heals and strengthens the body and mind, Hazzard said.
The trapeze is a tool to help balance yourself through yoga poses. Hammock-like, it is made of parachute material and suspended from the ceiling. There are three sets of handles, each used for different poses.
“You have something to hold on to for balance. It’s going to support you in every way and it’s not very far off the ground. Everything is pretty simple,” Hazzard said.
Students advance at their own pace, but everyone is in sync. The trapezes slightly sway and softly rustle while participants warm up their muscles.
Bodies glide between poses and toes softly tap the floor while people adjust.
Sue Schuetze is retired and is diligent about attending yoga several times a week. Staying healthy by practicing yoga is her job, she says.
Trapeze yoga helps Schuetze do poses she’s unable to do on the floor because of arthritis.
“If you want to become flexible for the rest of your life, it’s just a perfect way to not have a bunch of weight on your joints by being up in the air. It’s the perfect exercise for older people. I was surprised at how many people my age go and do it,” Schuetze said.
Free Spirit is a fun environment, and she loves the camaraderie with everybody there, she said.
Building a community is a big part of Hazzard’s mission. Free Spirit is a place for socialization and encouragement for her students.
Women and men participate in trapeze yoga and get excited when someone inverts in the trapeze for the first time.
“It’s just so much fun to see the progress and see how excited they get to make a little progress,” Hazzard said.
Hazzard appreciates the men who come in regularly for trapeze yoga. Men who work out hard don’t always stretch, leading to back pain she said.
“Men don’t need to be weirded out by yoga. One of our male students has never felt so good in the last 30 years,” Hazzard said.
Trapeze yoga is calm and quiet but it’s a good workout, no matter your skill level.
Joy Lewis feels energetic doing trapeze yoga but can also relax while she practices.
“It all helps me personally, my body. It’s very soothing, mind-clearing and, you know, it’s important to have flexibility at any age of your life,” Lewis said.
Lewis rides a motorcycle and travels around 250 miles a day on trips. Yoga has helped her core and grip strength and balance.
“I think that overall, it’s a good workout of the big muscle groups and smaller muscle groups. I also ride a large motorcycle so it’s important to me to have my balance,” Lewis said.
Hazzard enjoys the range of students in her trapeze yoga class. “I really try to get people to understand that it really is beginner-friendly for any type of body shape,” she said.
When she speaks with potential students, Hazzard reassures them that trapeze yoga is much easier than regular yoga: “I feel like people are very scared by the trapeze and feel like they can’t do it. I just can’t wait for them to take a class and then afterward feel so good.”
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Sunday: Mostly cloudy gradually clearing through the morning to sunny. Breezy. Highs: 61-63° Winds: W 15-20 mph
Sunday night: Mostly clear. Lows: 35-38° Winds: NW 10-16 mph
Monday: Mostly cloudy increasing clouds. Highs: 56-58° Winds: NW 7-9 mph
Monday night: Mostly cloudy. Lows: 44-48° Winds: S 3-5 mph
Tuesday: Mostly cloudy. Rain showers in the evening. Highs: 64-68° Lows: 44-48°
Wednesday: Mostly cloudy. Shower chances in the morning. Highs: 61-69° Lows: 53-56°
Thursday: Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening. Highs: 66-75° Lows: 49-54°
Friday: Partly sunny. Highs: 62-64° Lows: 45-48°
Saturday: Mostly sunny. Highs: 59-61° Lows: 43-44°
Forecast Discussion:
Happy Sunday Delmarva! Today will be slightly warmer than yesterday. We will start mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain this morning and clear through the afternoon. The temperatures for the day will start in the mid to upper 40s and by the afternoon, as the sky begins to clear, the temperatures will make it to the low 60s. It is going to be quite a breezy day as well as the wind will be around 20 mph with the wind gust reaching around 30 mph. This evening will be mainly clear as temperatures fall to the mid-30s overnight bringing in a slightly cooler Monday.
Monday will be a slightly cooler day to start the workweek. High pressures will move offshore and we see an increase in clouds in the afternoon and overnight. The morning temperature will be in the mid to upper 30s and warming only to the mid to upper 50s by the afternoon. Winds will be light and will remain dry for the day.
The rest of the work week will be in an unsettled weather pattern with plenty of clouds and showers chances. There is a warming trend that will begin Monday where the mid week temperatures will be close to the 70s.
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LAS VEGAS — The Grammys might be missing stars like Drake, The Weeknd and Kanye West as a performer, but the biggest night in music could still shine bright on the Las Vegas Strip.
When and where are the Grammys?
The ceremony relocated to Las Vegas for the first-time ever with several artists who could have epic nights including Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and Jon Batiste. The awards shifted from Los Angeles because of the rising COVID-19 cases and omicron variant in January.
Sunday's show will air live beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern on CBS and the Paramount+ streaming service.
Who are the nominees?
Here's a list of nominees in the top categories at the 64th annual Grammy Awards.
— Album of the year: “We Are,” Jon Batiste; “Love For Sale,” Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga; “Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe),” Justin Bieber; “Planet Her (Deluxe Edition),” Doja Cat; “Happier Than Ever,” Billie Eilish; “Back of My Mind,” H.E.R.; “MONTERO,” Lil Nas X; “Sour,” Olivia Rodrigo; “Evermore,” Taylor Swift; “Donda,” Kanye West.
— Record of the year: “I Still Have Faith in You,” ABBA; “I Get a Kick Out of You,” Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga; “Peaches,” Justin Bieber featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon; “Right on Time,” Brandi Carlile; “Kiss Me More,” Doja Cat featuring SZA; “Happier Than Ever,” Billie Eilish; “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name),” Lil Nas X; “Drivers License,” Olivia Rodrigo; “Leave the Door Open,” Silk Sonic.
— Song of the year (songwriter’s award): “Bad Habits,” Johnny McDaid and Ed Sheeran; “A Beautiful Noise,” Ruby Amanfu, Brandi Carlile, Brandy Clark, Alicia Keys, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, Linda Perry and Hailey Whitters; “Drivers License,” Daniel Nigro and Olivia Rodrigo; “Fight For You,” Dernst Emile II, H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas; “Happier Than Ever,” Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas O’Connell; “Kiss Me More,” Rogét Chahayed, Amala Zandile Dlamini, Lukasz Gottwald, Carter Lang, Gerard A. Powell II, Solána Rowe and David Sprecher; “Leave The Door Open,” Brandon Anderson, Christopher Brody Brown, Dernst Emile II and Bruno Mars; “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name),” Denzel Baptiste, David Biral, Omer Fedi, Montero Hill and Roy Lenzo; “Peaches,” Louis Bell, Justin Bieber, Giveon Dezmann Evans, Bernard Harvey, Felisha “Fury” King, Matthew Sean Leon, Luis Manuel Martinez Jr., Aaron Simmonds, Ashton Simmonds, Andrew Wotman and Keavan Yazdani; “Right On Time,” Brandi Carlile, Dave Cobb, Phil Hanseroth and Tim Hanseroth.
— Best new artist: Arooj Aftab; Jimmie Allen; Baby Keem; Finneas; Glass Animals; Japanese Breakfast; The Kid Laroi; Arlo Parks; Olivia Rodrigo; Saweetie.
— Best pop solo performance: “Anyone,” Justin Bieber; “Right on Time,” Brandi Carlile; “Happier Than Ever,” Billie Eilish; “Positions,” Ariana Grande; “Drivers License,” Olivia Rodrigo.
— Best pop duo/group performance: “I Get a Kick Out of You,” Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga; “Lonely,” Justin Bieber and benny blanco; “Butter,” BTS; “Higher Power,” Coldplay; “Kiss Me More,” Doja Cat featuring SZA.
— Best pop vocal album: “Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe),” Justin Bieber; “Planet Her (Deluxe), Doja Cat; “Happier Than Ever,” Billie Eilish; “Positions,” Ariana Grande; “Sour,” Olivia Rodrigo.
— Best traditional pop vocal album: “Love for Sale,” Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga; “’Til We Meet Again (Live),” Norah Jones; “A Tori Kelly Christmas,” Tori Kelly; “Ledisi Sings Nina,” Ledisi; “That’s Life,” Willie Nelson; “A Holly Dolly Christmas,” Dolly Parton.
— Best dance/electronic album: “Subconsciously,” Black Coffee; “Fallen Embers,” Illenium; “Music is the Weapon (Reloaded), Major Lazer; “Shockwave,” Marshmello; “Free Love,” Sylvan Esso; “Judgement,” Ten City.
— Best rock album: “Power Up,” AC/DC; “Capitol Cuts – Live from Studio A,” Black Pumas; “No One Sings Like You Anymore Vol. 1,” Chris Cornell; “Medicine at Midnight,” Foo Fighters; “McCartney III,” Paul McCartney.
— Best alternative music album: “Shore,” Fleet Foxes; “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power,” Halsey; “Jubilee,” Japanese Breakfast; “Collapsed In Sunbeams,” Arlo Parks; “Daddy’s Home,” St. Vincent.
— Best progressive R&B album: “New Light,” Eric Bellinger; “Something to Say,” Cory Henry; “Mood Valiant,” Hiatus Kaiyote; “Table for Two,” Lucky Daye; “Dinner Party: Dessert,” Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder and Kamasi Washington; “Studying Abroad: Extended Stay,” Masego.
— Best R&B album: “Temporary Highs in Violet Skies,” Snoh Aalegra; “We Are,” Jon Batiste; “Gold-Diggers Sound,” Leon Bridges; “Back of My Mind,” H.E.R.; “Heaux Tales,” Jazmine Sullivan.
— Best rap album: “The Off-Season,” J. Cole; “Certified Lover Boy,” Drake; “King’s Disease II,” Nas; “Call Me If You Get Lost,” Tyler, the Creator; “Donda,” Kanye West.
— Best country album: “Skeleton,” Brothers Osborne; “Remember Her Name,” Mickey Guyton; “The Marfa Tapes,” Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall and Jack Ingram; “The Ballad of Dood and Juanita,” Sturgill Simpson; “Starting Over,” Chris Stapleton.
— Best jazz vocal album: “Generations,” The Baylor Project; “Superblue,” Kurt Elling and Charlie Hunter; “Time Traveler,” Nnenna Freelon; “Flor,” Gretchen Parlato; “Songwrights Apothecary Lab,” Esperanza Spalding.
— Best jazz instrumental album: “Jazz Selections: Music From and Inspired by Soul,” Jon Batiste; “Absence,” Terence Blanchard featuring The E Collective and the Turtle Island Quartet; “Skyline,” Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette and Gonzalo Rubalcaba; “Akoustic Band Live,” Chick Corea, John Patitucci and Dave Weckl; “Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV)," Pat Metheny.
— Best gospel album: “Changing Your Story,” Jekalyn Carr; “Royalty: Live at the Ryman,” Tasha Cobbs Leonard; “Jubilee: Juneteenth Edition,” Maverick City Music; “Jonny x Mali: Live in LA,” Jonathan McReynolds and Mali Music; “Believe for It,” CeCe Winans.
— Best contemporary Christian music album: “No Stranger,” Natalie Grant; “Feels Like Home Vol. 2,” Israel and New Breed; “The Blessing (Live),” Kari Jobe; “Citizen of Heaven (Live),” Tauren Wells; “Old Church Basement,” Elevation Worship and Maverick City Music.
— Best Latin pop album: “Vértigo,” Pablo Alborán; “Mis Amores,” Paula Arenas; “Hecho a La Antigua,” Ricardo Arjona; “Mis Manos,” Camilo; “Mendó,” Alex Cuba; “Revelación,” Selena Gomez.
— Best Latin urban album: “Afrodisíaco,” Rauw Alejandro; “El Último Tour del Mundo,” Bad Bunny; “Jose,” J Balvin; “KG0516,” Karol G; “Sin Miedo (Del Amor y Otros Demonios),” Kali Uchis.
— Best Latin rock or alternative album: “Deja,” Bomba Estéreo; “Mira Lo Que Me Hiciste Hacer (Deluxe Edition), Diamante Eléctrico; “Origen,” Juanes; “Calambre,” Nathy Peluso; “El Madrileño, C. Tangana; “Sonidos de Karmática Resonancia,” Zoé.
— Best reggae album: “Pamoja,” Etana; “Positive Vibration,” Gramps Morgan, “Live N Livin,” Sean Paul; “Royal,” Jesse Royal; “Beauty in the Silence,” Soja; “10,” Spice.
— Best spoken word album: “Aftermath,” LeVar Burton, “Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation from John Lewis,” Don Cheadle; “Catching Dreams: Live at Fort Knox Chicago,” “8:46,” Dave Chappelle and Amir Sulaiman; “A Promised Land,” Barack Obama.
— Best comedy album: “The Comedy Vaccine,” Lavell Crawford; “Evolution,” Chelsea Handler; “Sincerely Louis CK,” Louis C.K.; “Thanks for Risking Your Life,” Lewis Black; “The Greatest Average American,” Nate Bargatze; “Zero F---s Given,” Kevin Hart.
— Best compilation soundtrack for visual media: “Cruella”; “Dear Evan Hansen”’ “In the Heights,” “One Night in Miami…”; “Respect”; “Schmigadoon! Episode 1”; “The United States vs. Billie Holliday.”
— Best score soundtrack for visual media: “Bridgerton,” Kris Bowers; “Dune,” Hans Zimmer; “The Mandalorian: Season 2 – Vol. 2,” Ludwig Göransson; “The Queen’s Gambit,” Carlos Rafael Rivera; “Soul,” Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
— Producer of the year, non-classical: Jack Antonoff; Rogét Chahayed; Mike Elizondo; Hit-Boy; Ricky Reed.
— Best music video: “Shot in the Dark,” AC/DC; “Freedom,” Jon Batiste; “I Get a Kick Out of You,” Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga; “Peaches,” Justin Bieber featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon; “Happier Than Ever,” Billie Eilish; “MONTERO (Call Me by Your Name),” Lil Nas X; “Good 4 U,” Olivia Rodrigo.
— Best music film: “Inside”; “David Byrne’s American Utopia”; “Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles”; “Music, Money, Madness…Jimi Hendrix in Maui”; “Summer of Soul.”
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Another day, another blunder.
President Biden in a speech Saturday referred to his wife, first lady Jill Biden, as the vice president in the Obama administration, a post he served in for eight years.
The president, 79, was praising the first lady for her commitment to military families and how she oversaw the development of the USS Delaware, the US Navy’s newest nuclear attack submarine, as he spoke at its commissioning ceremony in Wilmington, Del., on Saturday.
“The daughter of a Navy signalman during World War Two, the mother of a member of the Delaware National Guard, the grandmother of children who experienced having their father deployed away from home for a year at a time,” Biden said in his speech. “She always holds our military and their families in her heart. And that is not hyperbole; that’s real.”
Then came the gaffe.
“I’m deeply proud of the work she is doing as first lady with Joining Forces initiative she started with Michelle Obama when she was vice president and now carries on,” the president said in error, another in a string of mistakes the White House had to correct or walk back recently.
Later Saturday, the White House corrected the president’s blooper.
“And I’m deeply proud of the work she is doing as First Lady with Joining Forces initiative she started with Michelle Obama when she [I] was Vice President and now carries on,” the White House’s official transcript of the remarks said.
The mixup was among a series of snafus Biden has blundered into recently, including comments the president made in Poland that appeared to condone the idea of regime change to oust President Vladimir Putin because of the invasion into Ukraine.
“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden said in Poland last month as he was finishing up a three-day trip to Europe to rally allies to remain unified against the Russian military operation.
Less than an hour after Biden’s remarks, the White House was cleaning up the comments.
“The president’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region,” an administration official said as Biden’s motorcade headed for the Warsaw airport en route back to Washington. “He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.”
The next day, Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in full damage repair.
“I think the president, the White House, made the point last night that, quite simply, President Putin cannot be empowered to wage war or engage in aggression against Ukraine or anyone else,” Blinken said during a visit to Jerusalem last Sunday, insisting that the US does not have a strategy of regime change in Russia.
Biden then came out the next day to say he would make “no apologies” for his remarks about Putin, referring to a printed cheat sheet during an event at the White House.
“It’s more an aspiration than anything. He shouldn’t be in power. There’s no — I mean, people like this shouldn’t be ruling countries, but they do. The fact is they do, but it doesn’t mean I can’t express my outrage about it,” the president said, noting that he was addressing his remarks to the Russian people when he made the comments in Poland.
The gaffes have led some Republican lawmakers to suggest that Biden isn’t up to the rigors of the presidency.
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), who served as the White House physician during the Trump administration, called on the president to step down on Saturday.
“Biden isn’t running the country. He’s lost and confused. He’s TOTALLY out of the loop, and when he opens his mouth, he’s constantly ’corrected’ by his staff. He needs to RESIGN,” Jackson posted on Twitter.
“We deserve a cognitively capable President!,” he continued.
Jackson was among a host of GOP lawmakers who sent a letter to the White House in February asking the president to submit to a cognitive test.
“The American people should have absolute confidence in their President. They deserve to know that he or she can perform the duties of Head of State and Commander-in-Chief. They deserve full transparency on the mental capabilities of their highest elected leader,” the Republicans wrote.
“To achieve this, we urge you to submit to a cognitive test immediately. We implore you to then publish the test results, so the American people know the full mental and intellectual health of their President, and to follow the example set before you,” the letter said.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Residents of Ukraine’s besieged southeastern coast awaited possible evacuation Sunday as the country’s president said Russia’s obsession with capturing a key port city had left its forces weakened and created opportunities for his military.
Two loud explosions were heard in Odesa on the Black Sea, and black smoke was seen rising above the city, which is where Ukraine's navy is headquartered. It is west of Mariupol, a smaller port that has been under attack for almost the entire war and rescuers are desperate to reach.
The Odesa city council said in a brief statement that a morning airstrike set off fires in some areas. The Russian military said hours later that it used ships and aircraft-fired missiles to strike an oil processing plant and fuel depots that were supplying Ukrainian troops.
The city council said Ukraine's air defense shot down some missiles before they hit the city. Ukrainian military spokesman Vladyslav Nazarov said there were no casualties from the attack.
In Mariupol, conditions remained dire and prospects for escape uncertain. The surrounded city, which has been brutalized by some of the war’s worst attacks, reported weeks ago that water, food, fuel and medicine were running out. About 100,000 people are believed to still be there, less than a quarter of the city's prewar population of 430,000.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said it hoped a team it sent to help evacuate residents would reach Mariupol on Sunday. Ukrainian authorities said Russia agreed days ago to allow safe passage from the city, but similar agreements have broken down repeatedly under continued shelling.
Mariupol is in the mostly Russian-speaking Donbas region, where Moscow-backed separatists have fought Ukrainian troops for eight years. Its capture would create an unbroken land corridor from Russia to Crimea, which Moscow seized from Ukraine in 2014.
With Mariupol squarely in Russia’s crosshairs, Ukraine insists it has gained a leg up elsewhere in the country. As his country's troops retook territory north of the capital of Kyiv from departing Russian troops, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on all Ukrainians to do whatever they could "to foil the enemy’s tactics and weaken its capabilities.”
“Peace will not be the result of any decisions the enemy makes somewhere in Moscow. There is no need to entertain empty hopes that they will simply leave our land. We can only have peace by fighting,” Zelenskyy said late Saturday.
Zelenskyy and Ukraine's Western allies believe Russia has shifted its forces from the capital region and the country's north in order to build strength in the east and south. The Ukrainian leader again urged the West to supply his military with warplanes and more anti-missile systems.
"Every Russian missile that hits our cities and every bomb dropped on our people, on our children, only adds black paint to the history that will describe everyone on whom the decision depended - the decision of whether to help Ukraine with modern weapons,” Zelenskyy said.
While the geography of the battlefield morphed, little changed for many Ukrainians more than five weeks into a war that has sent more than 4 million people fleeing the country as refugees and displaced millions more from their homes.
The regional governor in Kharkiv, said Sunday that Russian artillery and tanks performed over 20 strikes on Ukraine’s second-largest city and its outskirts in the country's northeast over the past day. Gov. Oleh Synyehubov said a missile strike on the city of Lozovo wounded four people and that Russian tanks bombarded a hospital in the town of Balakliia.
Zelenskyy alleged Saturday that Russian troops have left mines around homes, abandoned equipment and even the bodies of the dead as they withdraw from around Kyiv. Those claims could not be independently verified, but Ukrainian troops were seen heeding the warning.
In Bucha, northwest of the capital, Associated Press journalists watched as Ukrainian soldiers, backed by a column of tanks and other armored vehicles, used cables to drag bodies off of a street from a distance for fear they may have been booby-trapped. Locals said the dead — AP counted at least six — were civilians killed without provocation by departing Russian soldiers.
In towns and cities surrounding Kyiv, signs of fierce fighting were everywhere in the wake of the Russian redeployment. Destroyed armored vehicles from both armies lay in streets and fields along with scattered military gear.
Ukrainian troops were stationed at the entrance to Antonov Airport in the suburb of Hostomel, demonstrating control of the runway that Russia tried to storm in the first days of the war.
Inside the compound, the Mriya, one of the biggest planes ever built, lay wrecked underneath a hangar pockmarked with holes from the February attack.
The head of Ukraine’s delegation in talks with Russia said Moscow’s negotiators informally agreed to most of a draft proposal discussed during face-to-face talks in Istanbul this week, but no written confirmation has been provided.
The Ukrainian negotiator, Davyd Arakhamia said on Ukrainian TV that he hoped the proposal was developed enough so that the two countries’ presidents can meet to discuss it.
Ukrainian authorities warned that Russia's focus on eastern Ukraine did not mean Kyiv and other cities wouldn't become targets again. In his evening address Saturday, Zelenskyy called for his people to do whatever they can to ensure the country’s survival, even by engaging in acts as simple as showing each other kindness.
“When a nation is defending itself in a war of annihilation, when it is a question of life or death of millions, there are no unimportant things. ... And everyone can contribute to a victory for all,” the president said.
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Karmanau reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Andrea Rosa in Irpin, Ukraine, and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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KENTWOOD, Mich. — Arbor day is coming up on April 29th and the City of Kentwood is getting ready to celebrate the day that's dedicated to trees.
The city, which was named Tree City USA will be hosting an Arbor Day celebration on the 29th at Veterans Memorial Park starting at noon. The event will feature tree planting and a tree identification walk. Complimentary refreshments will also be available.
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Chicago crime: 2 shot at South Side gas station
CHICAGO - Two people were shot at a gas station on Chicago's South Side Sunday morning, according to police.
Police said the victims were standing at the station in the 2800 block of west 59th Street around 4:15 a.m., when someone in a gray-colored sedan began to fire shots.
A 26-year-old man was struck in the right leg, and taken to Holy Cross Hospital in good condition, police said.
A 26-year-old woman was treated and released on scene by the Chicago Fire Department with a graze wound to the right arm, police said.
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Chicago weather: Sunny skies with temps in the 50s, rain to follow much of the week
CHICAGO - Temps will sit in the 50s much of Sunday, with sunny skies across Chicagoland.
Don't get too comfortable. A rainy, chilly week is expected throughout the week.
Clouds will start making a come-back Sunday evening.
Temps will sit in the 50s much of this week, but rainfall will continue to grace the area.
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Alt.Latino's spring playlist explores music from Angola, Brazil, Cuba and more By Felix Contreras Published April 3, 2022 at 5:54 AM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 6:41 The Spring Playlist from NPR Music's Alt.Latino podcast features songs rooted in Angola, Brazil and Cuba. Copyright 2022 NPR
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Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Jenny Tinghui Zhang about her new novel "Four Treasures of the Sky." Set in the late 1800s, it's about a Chinese girl who is kidnapped and brought to the U.S.
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NEW YORK — Estelle Harris, who hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza's short-fused mother on "Seinfeld" and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the "Toy Story" franchise, has died. She was 93.
As middle-class matron Estelle Costanza, Harris put a memorable stamp on her recurring role in the smash 1990s sitcom. With her high-pitched voice and humorously overbearing attitude, she was an archetype of maternal indignation.
Trading insults and absurdities with her on-screen husband, played by Jerry Stiller, Harris helped create a parental pair that would leave even a psychiatrist helpless to do anything but hope they'd move to Florida — as their son, played by Jason Alexander, fruitlessly encouraged them to do.
Harris' agent Michael Eisenstadt confirmed the actor's death in Palm Desert, California, on Saturday evening.
Viewers of all backgrounds would tell her she was just like their own mothers, Harris often said.
"She is the mother that everybody loves, even though she's a pain in the neck," she told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1998.
The career-defining role came after decades on stage and screen. Born April 22, 1928, in New York City, Harris grew up in the city and later in the Pittsburgh suburb of Tarentum, Pennsylvania, where her father owned a candy store. She started tapping her comedic talents in high school productions where she realized she "could make the audience get hysterical," as she told People magazine in 1995.
After the nine-season run of "Seinfeld" ended in 1998, Harris continued to appear on stage and screen. She voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the 1999 animated blockbuster "Toy Story 2" and played the recurring character Muriel in the popular Disney Channel sitcom "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody," among other roles.
She had stopped pursuing show business when she married in the early 1950s but resumed acting in amateur groups, dinner theater and commercials as her three children grew ("I had to get out of diapers and bottles and blah-blah baby talk," she told People). Eventually, she began appearing in guest roles on TV shows including the legal comedy "Night Court," and in films including director Sergio Leone's 1984 gangland epic "Once Upon a Time in America."
Her "Seinfeld" debut came in one of the show's most celebrated episodes: the Emmy Award-winning 1992 "The Contest," in which the four central characters challenge each other to refrain from doing what is artfully described only as "that."
Harris would go on to appear in dozens more episodes of the "show about nothing." She seethed over snubbed paella, screeched about George's hanky-panky in the parental bed and laid out the spread for screen husband Frank's idiosyncratic holiday, Festivus.
"Estelle is a born performer," Stiller told The Record of Bergen County, N.J., in 1998. "I just go with what I got, and she goes back at me the same way."
Still, Harris saw a sympathetic undertone to her character, often saying Estelle fumed out frustration at her bumbling mate and scheming slacker of a son.
Viewers, she told an interviewer in 1998, "just look at her as being funny, cute and a loudmouth. But it's not how I play her. I play her with misery underneath."
She is survived by her three children, three grandsons, and a great grandson.
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The weather gods were kind. Drivers came out swinging. Vehicle limits were pushed. And, most importantly, records were reset.
After a two-year hiatus, finally, the World Time Attack Challenge has been run and won. Over Friday and Saturday, teams from all across Australia battled for their own page in the WTAC history books.
I’ll be back soon with a more rounded collection of cool stories and memorable moments from across the weekend, but after spending 33 of the past 48 hours Speedhunting, I’m going to keep this one short and sweet (like me).
While some records were set early on, the Final Shootout battles saw their fair share of action and drama unfold on Saturday evening under lights at Sydney Motorsport Park. The competition for class wins really did come down to the very last seconds.
Haltech Clubsprint ClassThe Haltech Clubsprint class started as a battle royale of street cars from every corner of the globe in every size and configuration imaginable, but ultimately turned into a good old fashioned throw-down between age-old rivals Mitsubishi and Subaru.
Clubsprint’s five-year record was decimated by Jamal ‘Jimmy’ Assaad in his Evolution Racing Spares Lancer Evo VI, his 1.33:7 best lap shaving more than two seconds off the existing record.
Behind the wheel of his Subaru Impreza WRX STI, Melbournian Idin Ahangar dramatically ran his best lap of the event during the Final Shootout. After battling for the entire event, Idin’s 1:35.228 lap bumped him into second place.
Third went to Trent Grubel in the DC Jap Automotive WRX.
Plazmaman Pro-Am ClassThe Plazmaman Pro-Am class rankings were locked in fairly early on, with Kosta Pohorukov and his Tilton Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX setting the benchmark.
WTAC debutant Jay Davidson’s WRX STI made a solid entrance, securing second position during an amazing lap in the Final Shootout that shaved seconds off his earlier attempts.
After many years of competing, Richard Perini secured his first-ever podium finish. The 991 Racing Nissan VR38DETT-powered Ginetta G50 held on to second spot in the class for most of the weekend, but was bumped into third by Jay’s heroic last-minute steer.
GCG Turbo Open ClassThe GCG Turbo Open Class was the most hotly-contested category of the weekend. Tim Slade in the Xtreme R32 Nissan Skyline GT-R traded positions with Nathan Morcom’s Mitsubishi Lancer Evo, both cars laying laps down in the 1:27 zone.
Morcom’s run in the Final Shootout was wild. He received a hero’s welcome in the garages after managing to drop another four-hundredths off his best lap, edging out the GT-R and stealing the trophy with a 1.27.247 lap.
The Xtreme GT-R had held pole position for most of the weekend with a 1:27.379 lap, but it came at the expense of a dropped valve, forcing the car to retire halfway through its final run.
Benny Tran chased the duo closely, but his BYP Racing Integra’s 1.30.320 best ultimately wasn’t close enough to be a real threat.
Royal Purple Pro ClassThe Royal Purple Pro Class was a smaller field than most years (cough, thanks Covid), but it wasn’t any less exciting. The PR-Tech RP968 team spent all of Friday eliminating mechanical issues, but on Saturday morning Barton Mawer came out all guns blazing for his first timed run.
A sensational 1:20.1 lap, just a fraction off the team’s current 1.19.277 WTAC record, instantly set the pace.
No one was writing off the double-entered Tilton Evo, now driven by Brad Shiels, when it clocked a 1.20.9 early on Saturday. However, luck ultimately ran against the team when during a Pro-Am session Kosta encountered some shattered carbon fibre on track from an earlier incident. The carbon shards blew a tyre out and left the front right side of the Evo in need of repairs a little more intensive than what an hour in pit lane could achieve.
The final podium position was picked up by another WTAC newcomer, the GotItRex team’s Extreme Subaru STI Type R, driven by Nathan Antunes. While the car was a few seconds off the Pro Class pace, they were unquestionably the most consistent team of the event, and possibly the only one to leave the pit garage every session.
The car looked strong early on in its Final Shootout lap, but unfortunately it needed a re-run due to accidental interference from the previous competitor on their cool down lap. While Nathan did get the opportunity for another lap, the first two sectors of Sydney Motorsport Park had already taken their toll on the fresh tyres.
I’m really looking forward to seeing what the new kid on the block can bring to the table next year, but before that happens, I’m looking forward to a (hopefully) long and deep sleep. Stay tuned for more from WTAC 2022 very soon.
Matthew Everingham
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matt@mattheweveringham.com
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...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST MONDAY...
* WHAT...East winds 20 to 25 knots, and seas up to 12 feet.
* WHERE...Big Island Windward Waters, Maui County Leeward
Waters, Kauai Leeward Waters, Kauai Channel, Kauai Northwest
Waters, Kauai Windward Waters, Kaiwi Channel, Maui County
Windward Waters, Oahu Windward Waters and Oahu Leeward Waters.
* WHEN...Through early Monday morning.
* IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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Along with the winds being up, trade wind shower activity will also be up. Most of those will fall over windward and mauka sections, but stronger winds will also carry light showers into leeward sides.
Leeward sides will be partly cloudy with passing showers.
Expect mostly cloudy skies for windward areas, with more numerous trade wind showers.
Afternoon highs should warm up to 80 degrees for cloudier windward sides, with leeward sides seeing more sunshine getting into the low-to-mid 80s.
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